CLASSICAL PIANO AND KEYBOARD VINYL RECORD COLLECTION
178 catalogued albums, boxed sets and other record entries
Collection featuring solo piano, piano concertos, two-piano and four-hand recordings, plus organ, harpsichord and synthesizer performances. Composers include Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Scriabin and others.
The numbers below match the numbered album-cover collage. Each album or boxed set counts as one entry; 178 is not a verified count of individual discs. Identifications are based on the photographed covers and catalogue information. Individual disc counts, completeness and playing condition have not been verified from the photographs. Uncertain identifications are noted below.
ALBUM LIST
#5: Handel; Ralph Downes; London Chamber Orchestra; Anthony Bernard — Concertos for Organ and Orchestra.
#10: Beethoven; Clifford Curzon; Vienna Philharmonic; Hans Knappertsbusch — Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, “Emperor,” Op. 73.
#11: Beethoven / Mozart; Vladimir Horowitz — Moonlight Sonata; Mozart Sonata No. 12 in F, K. 332.
#17: Beethoven; Solomon — Tempest and Appassionata Sonatas.
#21: Franz Lehrndorfer and Hedwig Bilgram, organ — München: Glocken · Orgeln · Glockenspiel.
#27: Beethoven; Jörg Demus — Sonatas: Op. 109 in E major; Op. 110 in A-flat major.
#29: Chopin; Peter Katin — Nocturnes, Volume One.
#47: Peter Nero; Boston Pops; Arthur Fiedler — Nero: Fantasy and Improvisations; Gershwin: Concerto in F.
#48: Haydn; Alexis Weissenberg — Haydn Sonatas: No. 62 in E-flat; No. 50 in D; No. 33 in C minor.
#50: Artur Rubinstein; Liszt — Rubinstein Plays Liszt.
#51: Jorge Bolet; Liszt — A Liszt Recital: Sonata in B minor; Funérailles; Mephisto Waltz.
#53: Earl Wild; Arthur Fiedler; London Symphony Orchestra — Paderewski: Piano Concerto; Fantaisie polonaise.
#57: Arnold Schoenberg; Maurizio Pollini — Das Klavierwerk / The Piano Music.
#58: Schumann; Walter Gieseking; Philharmonia Orchestra; Herbert von Karajan — Piano Concerto; Kinderszenen.
#64: Walter and Beatriz Klien, piano duet; Brahms / Dvořák / Schubert / Grieg — Brahms: Waltzes; Dvořák: 3 Legends; Schubert: 3 Marches militaires; Grieg: 4 Norwegian Dances.
#65: Geneviève Joy; Jacqueline Robin-Bonneau; Debussy / Chabrier / Ravel / Françaix / Fauré — French Music for Two Pianos and for Piano, Four Hands.
#66: Whittemore and Lowe — The Personal Touch of Whittemore and Lowe.
#67: Bracha Eden; Alexander Tamir; Brahms / Saint-Saëns — Brahms: Sonata for Two Pianos; Saint-Saëns: Variations for Two Pianos on a Theme of Beethoven.
#68: Beri & J. L. Sammis; Gershwin / Milhaud / Chabrier / Bizet — Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Milhaud: Scaramouche; Chabrier: Trois valses romantiques; Bizet: Jeux d’enfants.
#71: John Ogdon; Liszt — The Mephisto Waltz & Other Satanic Piano Music of Liszt.
#73: Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Eugene List — Music for Piano, Four Hands and Two Pianos. Additional pianist credits unconfirmed.
#74: John Bayless — Happy Birthday Bach!.
#78: Glenn Gould; Bach — Glenn Gould Plays Bach: The Six Partitas; The Two and Three Part Inventions.
#79: Glenn Gould; Bach — The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Complete Preludes and Fugues 1–24.
#81: Beethoven; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Sonatas No. 2 in A major and No. 3 in C major.
#82: Bach; Wendy Carlos — Switched-On Bach.
#83: Bach; Paul Badura-Skoda; Jörg Demus — Keyboard Concerti, Volume 2.
#85: Lazar Berman; Liszt — The Legendary Lazar Berman Plays Liszt.
#87: Francis Poulenc; Jacques Février — Les Soirées de Nazelles; Improvisations; Thème varié; Napoli.
#88: Francis Poulenc; Gabriel Tacchino; Georges Prêtre; Paris Conservatoire Orchestra — Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Aubade for Piano and 18 Instruments.
#93: Beethoven; Clifford Curzon; London Philharmonic Orchestra; George Szell — Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, ‘Emperor’.
#108: Chopin; Edward Kilenyi — 12 Études.
#109: Van Cliburn; Chopin — My Favorite Chopin.
#117: Glenn Gould; Beethoven — Beethoven Variations: Eroica Variations; Thirty-two Variations in C minor; Variations in F on an Original Theme.
#119: Mozart; Walter Klien; Pro Musica Orchestra, Vienna; Paul Angerer — Piano Concertos No. 14 in E-flat, K. 449, and No. 16 in D, K. 451.
#123: Rachmaninoff / Tchaikovsky; Peter Katin; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Adrian Boult — Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1; Tchaikovsky: Concert Fantasia.
#125: Rachmaninoff; Vronsky and Babin — Suites Nos. 1 and 2 for Two Pianos.
#126: Ernst von Dohnányi — A Memorial Album: Ernst von Dohnányi Plays His Own Music for Piano.
#127: Sviatoslav Richter; Schumann / Franck — Richter Plays Schumann and Franck.
#129: Vladimir Horowitz; Prokofiev / Barber / Scriabin — The Horowitz Collection.
#140: George Gershwin; William Bolcom — Piano Music by George Gershwin.
#142: J. S. Bach; Glenn Gould — The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (complete).
#143: Percy Grainger — Percy Grainger Plays Grainger.
#144: Paul Jacobs; William Bolcom / Aaron Copland / Frederic Rzewski — Blues, Ballads & Rags: American Music for Piano.
#146: Rachmaninoff; Vladimir Horowitz; Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra — Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30.
#147: Schumann; Sviatoslav Richter — Richter in Italy: Papillons; Sonata in G minor; Carnival of Vienna.
#151: Vladimir Horowitz — Vladimir Horowitz Collection: The Young Horowitz, Volume 1.
#155: Franz Liszt; Alfred Brendel — Brendel Plays Liszt: Paganini Études; Petrarch Sonnet; Tarantella.
#157: Various pianists — Keyboard Giants of the Past.
#159: Stravinsky / Ravel; Alexis Weissenberg — Three Movements from Petrushka; Valses nobles et sentimentales.
#166: Scriabin; Mikhail Sheyne — Sonatas Nos. 5 and 10; Études, Op. 42 Nos. 4 & 5 and Op. 8 No. 12; Poème, Op. 32 No. 1.
#173: Shostakovich; Sviatoslav Richter — Preludes & Fugues.
#174: Scriabin; Vladimir Sofronitsky — Sonatas Nos. 3 and 9; Flammes sombres; Guirlandes; Vers la flamme.
#178: Sergei Rachmaninoff; Rachmaninoff / Chopin — Sergei Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff and Chopin.
#179: Rachmaninoff; Philippe Entremont; Leonard Bernstein; New York Philharmonic — Piano Concerto No. 2; Three Preludes for Piano.
#180: Chopin; Vladimir Horowitz — New Recordings of Chopin.
#181: Chopin; Artur Rubinstein — Waltzes.
#182: Chopin; Guiomar Novaes — Études, Op. 10 and Op. 25.
#183: Chopin; Artur Rubinstein — The Chopin Scherzos.
#184: Brahms; Dmitri Alexeev — The Piano Pieces, Opp. 117, 118 & 119.
#185: Chopin; Artur Rubinstein — Preludes, Op. 28.
#186: Brahms / Schumann; Wilhelm Kempff — Brahms: Balladen, Op. 10; Schumann: Romanzen.
#188: Brahms; Artur Rubinstein — The Brahms I Love.
#193: Maurice Ravel — Maurice Ravel Plays Ravel.
#194: Camille Saint-Saëns; Josef Hofmann — Camille Saint-Saëns Plays Saint-Saëns; Josef Hofmann Plays Hofmann.
#195: Chopin; Witold Małcużyński — 6 Polonaises.
#196: Alfred Cortot — Alfred Cortot Concert.
#197: Chopin; Josef Hofmann — Josef Hofmann Plays Chopin.
#198: Leopold Godowsky — Leopold Godowsky Concert.
#200: Vladimir Horowitz — The Horowitz Collection: Concert Encores.
#202: John Ogdon — Popular Piano Favourites.
#203: Leonard Pennario; Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra; Carmen Dragon — Concertos under the Stars.
#207: Eileen Joyce — My Favourite Encores.
#220: Rachmaninoff / Weber / Mendelssohn; Alexander Brailowsky; San Francisco Symphony; Jordá — Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2; Weber: Invitation to the Dance; Mendelssohn: Spinning Song, Scherzo, Andante and Rondo capriccioso.
#221: Edward MacDowell; Marjorie Mitchell; American Arts Orchestra; William Strickland — Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23; Piano Sonata No. 4 (Keltic), Op. 59; Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 (selections).
#223: Weber; Munich Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra; Gustav Goehrich; String Quartet of Radio Munich — Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 11; Clarinet Quintet in B-flat, Op. 34. Piano soloist credit unconfirmed.
#236: Mozart; Christoph Eschenbach — Sonaten (complete piano sonatas).
#238: Mozart; Yaltah Menuhin; Joel Ryce — The Complete Works for Piano Four Hands.
#239: Gershwin; Earl Wild — Wild About Gershwin.
#240: Vronsky & Babin; Rachmaninoff / Bizet / Lutosławski — Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances; Bizet: Jeux d’enfants Suite; Lutosławski: Variations on a Theme of Paganini.
#241: Beethoven; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 in E-flat major, 9 in E major and 10 in G major.
#243: Francis Poulenc; Gabriel Tacchino — Piano Music of Francis Poulenc.
#245: J. S. Bach; Jörg Demus — Partitas 1, 2 & 4, Volume I.
#246: Jorge Bolet — Bolet at Carnegie Hall.
#248: Grieg; Liv Glaser — 15 Favorite Lyric Pieces.
#249: Gabriel Fauré; Evelyne Crochet — Piano Music, Volume II.
#253: Gina Bachauer; Stephen Bishop; Jorge Bolet; Victor Borge; Shura Cherkassky; Jeanne-Marie Darré; Alicia de Larrocha; John Lill; Radu Lupu; John Ogdon; Garrick Ohlsson; Tamás Vásáry; Bálint Vázsonyi — Gala Concert: International Piano Library.
#254: Rossini; Aldo Ciccolini — Pleasures and Peccadillos: Humorous Piano Music of Rossini.
#256: Chopin; Alexis Weissenberg — Fourteen Waltzes.
#257: Aaron Copland; Robert Silverman — Piano Sonata and Other Works.
#261: Louis Moreau Gottschalk; Leonard Pennario — The Union: Music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
#262: Parsons & Poole; Brahms / Mozart / Poulenc — Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Mozart: Sonata in B-flat major and Three Waltzes; Poulenc: Sonata.
#264: Chopin; Claudio Arrau; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Eliahu Inbal — Variations on Là ci darem, Op. 2; Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op. 13; Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise in E-flat, Op. 22.
#265: Eden & Tamir — Two Pianos: Encore!.
#266: Liszt; Bálint Vázsonyi — Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 2, 6 & 15; Marche Rákóczi and others.
#270: Anton Kuerti; Liszt / Glazunov — Kuerti: Liszt / Glazunov.
#271: George Gershwin; Leonard Bernstein; New York Philharmonic; Columbia Symphony — Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris.
#273: Mozart; Glenn Gould — The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4.
#274: Rachmaninoff; Earl Wild — Earl Wild Plays Rachmaninov Songs.
#276: Mendelssohn; Guiomar Novaes — Songs Without Words.
#277: Melvin Stecher; Norman Horowitz; Brahms / Chopin / Milhaud — Duo Piano Recital.
#278: Rachmaninoff; Vladimir Ashkenazy; André Previn — Suites for Two Pianos: No. 1, Op. 5; No. 2, Op. 17.
#279: Leonid Hambro; Jascha Zayde; Debussy / Poulenc / Franck / Saint-Saëns — Magnificent Two-Piano Performances.
#293: Rachmaninoff; Sondra Bianca — Six Pieces, Op. 11, for Piano Four Hands.
#294: Leonid Hambro; Jascha Zayde — Piano Pops Promenade.
#307: Sylvia Marlowe; Scarlatti / Bach / Couperin — Scarlatti Sonatas; Bach; Couperin.
#310: J. S. Bach / Schumann; Sviatoslav Richter; Alexander Gauk; Kurt Sanderling — Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D minor; Schumann: Concerto in A minor.
#317: J. S. Bach; Jörg Demus — Partitas 3, 5 & 6, Volume II.
#321: Vincent d’Indy / Saint-Saëns; Fabienne Jacquinot; Westminster Symphony Orchestra — Symphony on a French Mountain Air; Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 103 (The Egyptian).
#323: Beethoven; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 (Waldstein), 25 in G major, 15 (Pastorale) and 24 in F-sharp major.
#324: Beethoven; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Sonatas Nos. 5 in C minor, 6 in F major and 7 in D major.
#325: Beethoven; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Sonatas Nos. 31 in A-flat major and 32 in C minor.
#326: Beethoven; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Sonatas Nos. 29 (Hammerklavier) and 30 in E major.
#327: Beethoven; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Sonatas Nos. 17 (The Tempest), 26 (Les Adieux) and 28 in A major.
#328: Beethoven; Alfred Brendel — Bagatelles, Opp. 33, 119 & 126.
#329: Beethoven; Maurizio Pollini — Piano Sonatas, Opp. 109 & 110.
#330: Debussy; Philippe Entremont — Clair de lune: A Debussy Piano Recital.
#331: Beethoven; performers unconfirmed — Piano Concerto No. 5.
#333: Debussy; Ivan Moravec — Debussy: Piano Music.
#334: Beethoven; Alfred Brendel — Beethoven: Piano Music (programme unconfirmed).
#335: Grieg; Artur Rubinstein — Rubinstein Plays Grieg.
#338: Debussy; Tamás Vásáry — Klaviermusik / Piano Music.
#340: Chopin; Tamás Vásáry — 4 Impromptus; 4 Ballades.
#341: Chopin / Liszt; Vladimir Ashkenazy — Chopin Études, Nocturne and Ballade; Liszt Mephisto Waltz.
#342: William Byrd / Orlando Gibbons; Glenn Gould — A Consort of Musicke by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons.
#343: J. S. Bach; Anatole Kitain — Partita No. 1; Sheep May Safely Graze.
#346: Chopin; Wilhelm Kempff — Piano Music of Chopin, Volume 3.
#347: Chopin–Godowsky; Jorge Bolet — Études & Waltzes.
#348: Chopin; Artur Rubinstein — Fantasie in F minor; Barcarolle; Berceuse; 3 Nouvelles Études; Bolero; Tarantella.
#349: Chopin; Dinu Lipatti — Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor.
#350: Chopin; Artur Rubinstein — The Mazurkas.
#351: Chopin; Artur Rubinstein — The Nocturnes.
#352: Liszt / Chopin; André Watts; New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein; Thomas Schippers — Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor.
#353: Chopin; Artur Rubinstein — Piano Sonatas in B-flat minor and B minor.
#354: Chopin; Maurizio Pollini; Philharmonia Orchestra; Paul Kletzki — Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor.
#355: Chopin; Maurizio Pollini — Études, Op. 10 & Op. 25.
#356: Chopin; Adam Harasiewicz; Vladimir Ashkenazy — Mazurkas; Ballades; Studies; Scherzo in E major; Nocturne in B major.
#357: Brahms; Artur Rubinstein; Boston Symphony; Erich Leinsdorf — Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor.
#358: Brahms; Leon Fleisher; Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell — Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor.
#359: Brahms; Leon Fleisher; Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell — Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat.
#360: Beethoven; Artur Rubinstein — Appassionata and Pathétique Sonatas.
#365: Ravel; Frieda Valenzi — Le Tombeau de Couperin.
#371: Artur Rubinstein; Ravel / Poulenc / Fauré / Chabrier — A French Program.
#372: Rachmaninoff; Alexis Weissenberg; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Georges Prêtre — Piano Concerto No. 3.
#373: Rachmaninoff; Vladimir Horowitz — Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff: Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 36.
#376: Sergei Rachmaninoff — The Complete Rachmaninoff, Vol. 1: Acoustic Recordings.
#377: Rachmaninoff; John Ogdon — Piano Sonatas. Album title partly obscured; identification requires confirmation.
#378: Rachmaninoff; Alexis Weissenberg — Weissenberg's Complete Rachmaninoff Preludes.
#379: Various performers; Yamaha Music Foundation — Junior Original Concert 1978. Mixed young-performer concert; exact programme and placement in this category require confirmation.
#380: Various composers; performer unidentified — 50 Greatest Piano Themes.
#381: Erik Satie; Aldo Ciccolini — Piano Music of Erik Satie, Vol. 1.
#382: Sergei Rachmaninoff — The Complete Rachmaninoff, Vol. 2.
#384: Ravel / Prokofiev; Alexis Weissenberg; Orchestre de Paris; Seiji Ozawa — Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3.
#385: Rachmaninoff; Michael Ponti — Piano Music, Volume 1.
#386: Falla / Rodrigo; Gonzalo Soriano; Narciso Yepes; National Orchestra of Spain; Ataúlfo Argenta — Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Concierto de Aranjuez.
#387: Ravel / Prokofiev; John Browning; Philharmonia Orchestra; Erich Leinsdorf — Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3.
#389: Liszt; Jorge Bolet — Franz Liszt's Greatest Hits of the 1850s.
#390: Mussorgsky; Vladimir Ashkenazy; Zubin Mehta — Pictures at an Exhibition: Two Complete Performances.
#391: Mozart; Alfred Brendel — A Mozart Piano Recital.
#393: Turina; Alicia de Larrocha — Piano Music of Turina.
#394: Claudio Arrau; Wilhelm Backhaus; Alexander Brailowsky; Robert Casadesus; Byron Janis; Wilhelm Kempff — International Piano Festival: A Benefit Concert.
#396: Tchaikovsky; Hans Bessler; Vienna Tonkünstler Symphony Orchestra — Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23.
#397: Schumann; Vladimir Horowitz — Kreisleriana; Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck.
#398: Schumann; Walter Klien — Faschingsschwank; Papillons; Scenes from Childhood.
#399: Schubert; Lili Kraus — Four Impromptus, Op. 90; Four Impromptus, Op. 142.
#400: Cyril Scott; Martha Anne Verbit — The Piano Music of Cyril Scott.
#401: Scarlatti; Anthony di Bonaventura — 23 Sonatas.
#403: Rachmaninoff; Van Cliburn; Symphony of the Air; Kirill Kondrashin — Piano Concerto No. 3.
#404: Rachmaninoff; Philippe Entremont; Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy — Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4.
#405: Scriabin; Morton Estrin — 12 Études, Op. 8.
#406: Rachmaninoff / Liszt; Artur Rubinstein; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra; Alfred Wallenstein — Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2; Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1.
#407: Moritz Rosenthal; Sergei Rachmaninoff — The Golden Age of Piano Virtuosi, Record 2.
#408: Sergei Rachmaninoff — Sergei Rachmaninoff Plays Concert II.
#409: Rachmaninoff / Poulenc; Elly Kassman — Six Moments musicaux; Twelve Improvisations.
#410: Grieg; Artur Rubinstein; Alfred Wallenstein — Grieg Piano Concerto.
#411: Rachmaninoff (attributed); performer unidentified — Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2; Études-tableaux, Opp. 33 and 39 (handwritten label). Generic Columbia album with handwritten work list. Composer attribution, actual contents and performer are unconfirmed.
#413: Liszt; Shura Cherkassky; Philharmonia Orchestra; Anatole Fistoulari — Piano Concerto No. 1; Consolation No. 3 in D-flat; Don Juan Fantasy.
#415: Béla Bartók; Kornél Zempléni; Loránt Szűcs — Mikrokosmos: Progressive Piano Pieces, Vols. I–VI.
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