The Keyboard Connection
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The interior of a modern grand piano.
The piano was destined for success. It gave the musical world something it had wanted for centuries—a keyboard that allowed a full range of musical and emotional expression.
But its triumph didn’t happen overnight.
In this hour, music written for—and performed on—instruments that preceded the piano—as well as the first—and quite different sounding—pianos of Mozart and Beethoven.
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FEATURED RECORDINGS
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Beethoven – Bagatelles |
Steven Osborne |
Hyperion CDA67879 |
034571178790 |
| Instruments from the Russell Collection |
John Kitchen |
Delphian DCD 34001 |
801918340017 |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonatas |
Linda Nicholson |
Phoenix Edition Phoenix 451 |
811691014517 |
| J.S. Bach: Orchestral Works & Concertos |
La Petite Bande |
Harmonia Mundi 886976838522 |
886976838522 |
| Handel: Water Music |
English Concert, Trevor Pinnock |
Archiv Produktion 410525 |
028941052520 |
| Bach: Harpsichord Concertos |
Bob Van Asperen & Melante Amsterdam. |
Warner Classics |
5099952200120 |
| Francois Couperin |
Mitzi Meyerson |
Glossa GCD 921802 |
8424562218024 |
| Mozart: Keyboard Works |
Guy Penson |
Brilliant Classics 99725 |
5028421997254 |
| Couperin, Mozart, etc. |
Hilbrand Borkent |
Attacca Babel 8843-1 |
[Dutch CD: No barcode] |
| CPE Bach: Complete Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 7 |
Miklos Spanyi |
BIS BIS-CD-857 |
7318590008577 |
| Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 22 and 23 |
Robert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood |
L'Oiseau-Lyre 452 052-2 |
028945205229
[only available new from Arkiv Music] |
| Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 4 |
Ronald Brautigam |
BIS BIS-CD-152 |
789368551521 |
| Beethoven - Piano Concertos |
Steven Lubin (solo) |
Decca 475 7297 |
028947572978 |
| Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas, Vol. IV |
András Schiff |
ECM New Series ECM 1944 |
028947658757 |
| Beethoven - The Five Piano Concertos, |
Murray Perahia, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink |
Sony S3K 44575 |
0886971029024 |
