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Release Date: 02 October 2026
Label: Outhere / Alpha
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3701624512814
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Schonberg
Description
The French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a leading figure in contemporary classical music and an insightful interpreter of the core piano repertoire, has joined Alpha Classics and launches the partnership with an album that has long been close to his heart: Schonberg's piano works. He has waited more than forty years to record them - a journey that began in 1973 when, as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, he performed Schonberg's Opus 11 live on TV after winning the Olivier Messiaen Competition. At a time when the composer's music was often misunderstood, Aimard developed a lasting connection to its originality and expressive power. In this long-awaited recording, he traces the composer's artistic evolution through five landmark piano works, from the Expressionism of Op. 11 (1909) to Op. 33b (1931), written on the eve of Schonberg's emigration to the United States and reflecting both Brahmsian tradition and a world in transition.
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
La Tempete; Simon-Pierre Bestion
Cyrille Dubois; Pierre Dumoussaud; Brussels Philharmonic
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Alena Baeva; Vadym Kholodenko
Thomas Dunford
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich; Paavo Jarvi
Frankfurt Radio Symphony; Alain Altinoglu
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Harrison Birtwistle
