sonatas Archive

Using period instruments, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov bring us more sonatas for keyboard with violin by Mozart in Volume two of this series. The first volume of all the Mozart sonatas was widely praised: …

With this new volume, pianist Alexander Melnikov shows us three distinct periods of Prokofiev’s career, ranging from the dazzling though seldom-heard Sonata No. 4, to the magisterial Sonata No. 9. In between those two, the …

Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the fifth child and second surviving son of JS Bach and his first wife Maria Barbara. By his own account he had no other teacher for composition and keyboard except …

The second volume of the Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle performed by James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong follows the earlier release of sonatas nos. 6 &9 ‘Kreutzer’. This new album contains the three early op.12 sonatas …

With this new CD, Alexander Melnikov has chosen to delve into three distinct periods of Prokofiev’s career, ranging from the dazzling though seldom-heard No. 4 to the magisterial No. 9. In between those two, the …