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The Piano Maven with Jed Distler — 211 episodes

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1

Volodos plays Schubert and Schumann

2

Marc-André Hamelin's Fabulous 2011 Schwhetzingen Recital

3

Andrei Gavrilov's Complete Warner Recordings

4

Michael Kaykov's Lovely Liszt

5

Behzod Abduraimov's Towering "Inferno"

6

The 2025 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition Four-CD set

7

Backhaus' Beethoven Diabelli Variations Reconsidered

8

Meloclassic's Monumental Walter Gieseking Edition

9

Some Mozart "K. 488s" that I Missed!

10

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488 on Disc

11

Richter at Carnegie Hall, October 1960 - The Back Story

12

Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 2 on disc

13

Maven Chat: Are "AI" recommendations trustworthy?

14

Warner's Maria Tipo Box

15

They Recorded THAT? - Pianists "Playing Against Type"

16

Alicia de Larrocha's 1969 Columbia Ravel Disc

17

Emil Gilels' Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 Reconsidered

18

The Unique Cecil Taylor

19

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 K. 453 on Disc

20

Five Pianists - No Bad Recordings?

21

Five Notable Mozart Pianists

22

Piotr Anderszewski's Late Brahms

23

Boris Giltburg's Ravishing Rachmaninov

24

RIchard Strauss' Burleske on Disc

25

From Deutsche Grammophon - Gallons of Gulda on 84 CDs

26

Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories

27

Claudio Colombo Plays the Complete Piano Repertoire - Really?

28

Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor Op. 58 on Disc

29

The Chopin Etudes on Record (rebroadcast)

30

A Deep Dive into Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (rebroadcast)

31

Yunchan Lim's Goldberg Variations

32

Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus - four recordings

33

Three Recent Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycles Considered

34

Krystian Zimerman's Schubert

35

Ingrid Fliter's Chopin Mazurkas Volume 1

36

Essential All-Liszt Recitals Part 1

37

The Prague Piano Duo Plays Schubert

38

Sviatoslav Richter's 1977 Salzburg Recital Revisited

39

Chopin's Barcarolle on Disc

40

A Vladimir Horowitz Sonata Collection from Sony/BMG

41

Reviews in Retrospect - IPQ's critics pick the best of 1998

42

Cyprien Katsaris' Beethoven Odyssey

43

Ripe for Reissue - Four Out-of-Print Piano Box Sets (rebroadcast of Season Two Episode 60)

44

Arrau at the Ambassador

45

Still Another Box Set Wish List

46

Rachmaninov Concertos Under the Radar

47

Thanksgiving Turkeys (rebroadcast)

48

Volodos in Vienna

49

Malcolm Frager and John Browning - two documentaries

50

The Ideal Debussy Preludes Book 1 (One Pianist for Each Prelude)

51

Jorge Bolet's Best Liszt Transcendental Etudes

52

Paolo Bordoni's Complete Schubert Waltzes

53

Stanislav Knor plays Chopin's Four Scherzos

54

Six Chopin Nocturne Cycles (rebroadcast)

55

Bach Guild's Big Chopin Box (rebroadcast)

56

Eric Lu in Leipzig (rebroadcast)

57

The Chopin Mazurkas with Arthur Rubinstein (rebroadcast)

58

The Ideal Major Chopin Piano Works

59

Live From Warsaw

60

Deutsche Grammophon's Chopin Masters Edition

61

Chopin Mazurka Cycle Madness Part 3

62

Chopin Mazurka Cycle Madness Part 2

63

Bonus Episode - Bruce Liu & Yunchan Lim play Tchaikovsky's The Seasons

64

Bonus Episode - Bruce Liu & Yuncham Lin play Tchaikovsky's The Seasons

65

Chopin Mazurka Cycle Madness Part 1

66

Guilty Pleasures - Boris Berezovsky's Ravel Recital

67

Martin Jones' Debussy Cycle on Nimbus

68

A Starter Guide to Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto Series

69

Claude Loyola Allgén's Fantasia - A Mess or a Masterpiece?

70

Edna Stern's Schumann Carnaval plus

71

Few and Far Between - Six Under-recorded Pianists

72

Kit Armstrong's Magnificent Byrd and Bull Recital

73

Oscar Peterson's Top Ten Albums

74

Annie Fischer's EMI Recordings

75

Grieg's Ballade in G Minor Op. 24 on Disc

76

Lennie Tristano Reconsidered

77

Carlo Grante's Monumental Scarlatti Cycle

78

Angela Hewitt Revisits Bach's Partitas

79

Kreisler & Rachmaninov - The Dynamic Duo

80

Under the Radar - Rudolf Buchbinder's 1986 Chopin Recital

81

The Swagger of Sultanov

82

Chopin's Berceuse on Disc

83

Michelangeli Big Boxes Part 3: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

84

Jorge Bolet's Complete Decca Recordings

85

The "Other" Diabelli Variations

86

Acoustically Perfect - Edouard Risler's 1917 Pathé Recordings

87

The Well-Tempered Rosalyn Tureck

88

Under the Radar - Anton Kuerti's Beethoven Concerto Cycle

89

Cliburn 2025 - Philipp Lynov plays Ravel's Miroirs

90

Steven de Groote plays Schubert

91

Kate Liu plays Beethoven and Brahms

92

Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 on Disc

93

Andrew Tyson - The Willy Wonka of Pianists

94

The Young Sokolov

95

Alfred Brendel Top 10 Recordings

96

Julia Hamos' Distinctive Debut Release "Ellis Island"

97

Claudio Arrau's Confrontational Mozart

98

Ripe for Reissue - Four Out-of-Print Piano Box Sets

99

George Cziffra's Legendary 1964 Tokyo Recital

100

Five Under the Radar Liszt Sonata Recordings

101

Another Box Set Wish List

102

Beatrice Rana at the 2013 Cliburn Competition

103

Akiko Ebi's 2001 Liszt Recital

104

Acoustically Perfect - Josef Hofmann: The Brunswick Recordings

105

John Ogdon plays Chopin and Beethoven - The Pickwick Recordings

106

Daan Vandewalle plays Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum

107

Sonia Rubinsky's Suave Scarlatti

108

Whatever happened to......?

109

Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words on Disc

110

Leonard Pennario in Three Concertos

111

Ten Over-Recorded Piano Works

112

Nikolai Demidenko's Schubert Revisited

113

Eloquence Piano Library - Deutsche Grammophon Edition

114

Eloquence Piano Library - Westminster and American Decca Edition

115

Ten Cult Pianists

116

Youri Egorov's Slow Motion Bach

117

Five "Under the Radar" Beethoven Sonata Cycles

118

The Fiorentino Saga

119

Invitation to the Dance

120

Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Clifford Curzon and George Szell

121

Bach Guild's Big Chopin Box

122

Martin Helmchen in Schwetzingen

123

The Best of Idil Biret

124

The Legendary Radio Program "Concert Grande"

125

Ravel at 150: Pavane pour une infante défunte

126

Severin von Eckardstein's remarkable "Vers la flamme"

127

Nine Live Liszt Sonata Performances

128

Bill Evans: Alone and Alone-ish

129

Brahms' Ballades Op. 10 on Disc

130

The Joyce Hatto Scandal Revisited

131

A Look at Some Schumann Cycles

132

Eric Lu in Leipzig

133

Three Messy Discographies

134

Vladimir Ashkenazy's Best "Rach 3?"

135

A Deep Dive into Beethoven's Diabelli Variations

136

Beethoven Meets Liszt

137

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 Pianists: Op. 109, 110 & 111

138

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier")

139

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 101

140

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 81a ("Les Adieux") and Op. 90

141

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 78 and Op. 79

142

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 Pianists: Op. 57 ("Appassionata")

143

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 54

144

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 53 ("Waldstein")

145

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 49 Nos. 1 & 2

146

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 31 No. 3

147

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 31. No. 2 ("Tempest")

148

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 31 No. 1

149

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 28 ("Pastoral")

150

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 27 No. 1 and No. 2 ("Moonlight")

151

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 26 ("Funeral March")

152

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 22

153

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 14 Nos. 1 & 2

154

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 13 ("Pathetique")

155

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 10 Nos. 1, 2 & 3

156

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 7

157

Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 2 Nos. 1, 2 & 3

158

The Best of 2024

159

Jed's Piano Box Set Wish List

160

Bach Guild's Big Piano Concertos Box

161

Art Tatum's 1949 Capitol Recordings

162

Five Beethoven Fourths

163

Michelangeli Big Boxes Part 2: Aura's "Hommage" Edition

164

Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano

165

Stocking Stuffers

166

Five Underrated Emperors

167

Thanksgiving Turkeys

168

The Marvelous Moszkowski Concerto

169

Michelangeli Big Boxes Part 1: The Complete Warner Recordings

170

Little Brother Montgomery's "Farro Street Jive"

171

Sergei Kvitkos' Brilliant Ad Libitum

172

The "Best" Ravel Gaspard de la nuit?

173

Radu Lupu Rarities

174

Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!"

175

Schumann's Fantasy in C Major in 15 Recordings

176

Murray Perahia Summits Beethoven's Everest

177

A Legendary Pogorelich Recital

178

VAI's Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies Compilation

179

Geza Anda's Live Tchaikovsky and Brahms Concertos

180

Six Chopin Nocturne Cycles

181

Françoise Chaffiaud Plays Bach

182

Hanren Zhang's Dances and Dreams

183

Bud Powell at 100

184

The 2005 Van Cliburn Competition Revisited

185

Donald Berman Plays Ives' Concord Sonata

186

Earl Wild at 88, on the 88s

187

Yuja Wang's Vienna Recital

188

Matthew Shipp's 1990 Trio Debut

189

Solace with Risto-Matti Marin

190

Wojciech Kocyan Aces Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7

191

The Chopin Etudes on Record

192

Janina Fialkowska's Enchanting Schubert

193

Piano Music of Jan Levoslav Bella

194

Brilliant Classics' Virtuoso Etudes Box

195

Maria Perrotta Plays Chopin

196

Andre Laplante's Under the Radar Brahms Sonata No. 3

197

The Art of Lelia Gousseau

198

Van Cliburn's Tchaikovsky - A Million Seller Reconsidered

199

Dimitri Malignan Plays Bach

200

Five Piano Goldberg Variations Recordings on DG

201

André Watts' Best Liszt

202

Debussy's Preludes on an 1873 Pleyel

203

A 2010 Schumann Compilation from EMI

204

Jean Barraqué's Piano Sonata on disc

205

The Chopin Mazurkas with Arthur Rubinstein

206

Arthur Rubinstein's Milestone Moscow Recital

207

Alexis Weissenberg's Rockin' Rachmaninov Third Concerto

208

Surveying Scarlatti

209

A Howard Shelley Concerto Trifecta

210

The Art of Aldo Ciccolini

211

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