FREDERICK PIANO COLLECTION DISCOGRAPHY
COMPACT DISC RECORDINGS
Now Available
The following CD recordings are currently available directly from The Frederick Collection. To purchase simply call or email us. At this time we are able to accept checks, PayPal, or credit cards (through Paypal).
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Northern Lights Finnish Favorites Gail Olszewski, piano 32 songs and dances by six Finnish composers, Selem Palmgren, Ilmari Hannikainen, Oskar Merikanto, Leevi Madetoja, Jean Sibelius, and Erkki Melartin Centaur Records CRC 3732 $15 (or $20 by mail) |
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Ludwig van Beethoven The Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin on Historic Instruments Jerilyn Jorgensen, violin, and Cullan Bryant, piano The ten piano-violin sonatas were recorded on five of our pianos: the Unsigned piano, ca. 1795; the Joseph Brodmann piano, ca.1800-1805; the Casper Katholnig piano, ca. 1805-1810; the Ignaz Bosendorfer piano, ca.1830 - all made in Vienna - and the Johann Nepomuk Trondlin piano, ca. 1830, made in Leipzig. Jerilyn Jorgensen's violin was made by Andrea Carolus Leeb, Vienna, 1797. She employed four different bows. The four-disc album is on the Albany label, No. Troy1825-28, ©2020. $35 plus postage and handling |
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Ludwig van Beethoven Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vita Wallace, violin, and Ishmael Wallace, piano This is our first recording on our own label, Frederick Historical Piano #1001, featuring all ten Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano played on period instruments and recorded in unedited complete takes. Vita's violin is by Matthias Albani, working in Bolzano, Italy, in 1706, and the piano is our own, by Caspar Katholnig, Vienna, ca. 1805-1810. This is a four-CD set recorded by our own sound engineer, Christopher Greenleaf, recorded in 2009-2010 in the Ashburnham Community Church. This set is available from the Orfeo Duo at their concerts,at any of our concerts, or while visiting us at the Historical Piano Study Center, or from us by mail. FHP 1001 $25 (or $30 by mail) |
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Beethoven and His Teachers — Music for Piano, Four Hands Dmitry Rachmanov and Cullan Bryant, piano, four hands A two-CD set issued by Naxos in March, 2011. Pianos by Katholnig, Vienna, c. 1805-1810, and by Tröndlin, Leipzig, c.1830, from The Frederick Collection Naxos Records, 8.572519-20 $20 |
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French Piano Four-Hands with the Elegant Erard The Transcontinental Piano Duo, Elaine Greenfield and Janice Meyer Thompson Petite Suite and Six épigraphes antiques by Debussy; Jeux d’enfants by Bizet; Ma mère l’Oye by Ravel, and Dolly Suite by Fauré Piano, “Extra-grand modèle de concert” by Erard, Paris, 1877, from The Frederick Collection Centaur Records, CRC 3071, © 2010 $15 |
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Robert and Clara Schumann: Trios for piano, violin and cello The Castle Trio of the Smithsonian Institution: Marilyn MacDonald, violin, Kenneth Slowik, cello, Lambert Orkis, piano Piano by J.B. Streicher, Vienna, 1846, from The Frederick Collection Smithsonian Chamber Music Society $15 Read a review of this recording by John Puccio on his blog, Classical Candor. |
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Johannes Brahms: The Late Piano Music Short Piano Pieces, Op. 76, 116, 117, 118, and 119 Ira Braus, piano Piano by J.B. Streicher & Son, Vienna, 1871, from The Frederick Collection Centaur Records, CRC 2850, © 2007 $15 |
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Schubert: Winterreise Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, Malcolm Halliday, piano Piano by Conrad Graf, Vienna, c.1828/29, from The Frederick Collection Privately issued recording $15 |
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Claude Debussy: The Preludes, Books I and II Elaine Greenfield, piano Piano by Blüthner, Leipzig, 1907, from The Frederick Collection Centaur Records No. CRC 2693/2694, a 2-disc set, © 2004 $20 |
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Wanderings: Fantasies of Schubert & Mendelssohn Daniel Paul Horn, Fortepiano Piano by Conrad Graf, Vienna, c.1828/29, from the Frederick Collection Titanic Records No.Ti-236 © 1998 $15 |
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Alexander Reinagle The Philadelphia Sonatas, and Variations on Scottish Folk Tunes Stephen Siek, Piano and Fortepiano Pianos by Schiedmayer, Stuttgart, 1978, from the collection of Donald Hageman, and by Clementi, London, 1805, from The Frederick Collection Titanic Records No. Ti-235 © 1998 $15 |
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Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.54 Also, selections from Schumann's Op.15, Op.28, Op.12, & Op.133. Thomas Lorango, Pianist, with the New Brandenburg Collegium, Anthony Newman, Conductor. Piano by Streicher, Vienna, 1871, from the Frederick Collection. Newport Classic No. NCD 60034 © 1991 $15 Read a review of this recording by John Puccio on his blog, Classical Candor. |
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Out of Print
The following out-of-print CD recordings are no longer available from us, but you may still find them on the secondary market.
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Frédéric Chopin Complete Ballades, Impromptus, Préludes and Nocturnes Yuan Sheng, piano Piano by Ignace Pleyel, Paris, 1845, from the Frederick Collection A three CD set of Yuan Sheng playing the complete Ballades, Impromptus, the Nocturnes, and the 24 Préludes (Op. 28) of Frédéric Chopin on our piano by Ignace Pleyel, Paris, 1845. It has been noted that Sheng "plays with exquisite taste, poetry and power, fully exploring the instrument's unique possibilities." An accompanying booklet contains extensive background information on the instrument and its place in history. Piano Classics PCL0049 |
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Ray Dudley 1878 Erard Piano Selections by Ravel, Debussy, Chopin, and Liszt Ray Dudley, pianist Piano by Erard, Paris, 1878, from the Frederick Collection Titanic Records No.Ti-209 © 1992 |
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Schubert Lieder Bethany Beardslee, Soprano, Lois Shapiro, fortepiano Piano by Conrad Graf, Vienna, c.1828-1829, from the Frederick Collection Pierrot Records © 1996 |
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Robert Schumann: The Three Violin-Piano Sonatas The Orfeo Duo: Vita Wallace, violin, Ishmael Wallace, piano Piano by Johann Baptist Streicher, Vienna, 1846, from the Frederick Collection Unacorda Records No. UCR0032002 © 2002 |
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