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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerRemembering Stephen Kovacevich - Ten Essential Recordings
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerJonathan Ferrucci's Excellent Bach English Suites
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerReviewing the Reviewer: High Fidelity's 1956 Record Annual Revisited
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerThe Bach-Busoni Chaconne on Disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerAntoine Préat's distinctive Haydn and Prokofiev
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerVladimir Feltsman's Superb Bach Partitas
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerJulius Katchen at 100
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerRipe for Reissue - Four Box Sets (rebroadcast)
Sorry, folks! My USB mixer died a few days ago, and I had to order a new one, which is why you didn't get a new episode this week. So I'm posting this episode…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerAlexis Weissenberg - The Complete Warner Classics Edition
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor K. 466 - an overly selective guide
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerFrancesco Piemontesi's Stellar Liszt Sonata & Etudes
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerChopin's Introduction & Rondo Op. 16 on Disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerHans Otte's The Book of Sounds
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMaximianno Cobra: Slower than slow, and even slower!
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerVolodos plays Schubert and Schumann
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMarc-André Hamelin's Fabulous 2011 Schwhetzingen Recital
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerAndrei Gavrilov's Complete Warner Recordings
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMichael Kaykov's Lovely Liszt
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerBehzod Abduraimov's Towering "Inferno"
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerThe 2025 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition Four-CD set
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerBackhaus' Beethoven Diabelli Variations Reconsidered
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMeloclassic's Monumental Walter Gieseking Edition
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerSome Mozart "K. 488s" that I Missed!
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488 on Disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerRichter at Carnegie Hall, October 1960 - The Back Story
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerBeethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 2 on disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMaven Chat: Are "AI" recommendations trustworthy?
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerWarner's Maria Tipo Box
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerThey Recorded THAT? - Pianists "Playing Against Type"
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerAlicia de Larrocha's 1969 Columbia Ravel Disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerEmil Gilels' Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 Reconsidered
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerThe Unique Cecil Taylor
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 K. 453 on Disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerFive Pianists - No Bad Recordings?
Here’s a challenge - name a pianist who never made a bad recording. Jed comes up with five pianists who possibly qualify. Here are links to selected recordings…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerFive Notable Mozart Pianists
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerPiotr Anderszewski's Late Brahms
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerBoris Giltburg's Ravishing Rachmaninov
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerRIchard Strauss' Burleske on Disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerFrom Deutsche Grammophon - Gallons of Gulda on 84 CDs
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMorton Feldman's Triadic Memories
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerClaudio Colombo Plays the Complete Piano Repertoire - Really?
If you search for piano recordings via downloading and streaming platforms, you may encounter the name Claudio Colombo, who has seemingly recorded everything…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerChopin's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor Op. 58 on Disc
Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor Op. 58 may be the most frequently recorded among all of the Romantic piano sonatas, and Jed has his hands full on a…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerThe Chopin Etudes on Record (rebroadcast)
A rebroadcast of Episode 20 from Season 1, where Jed discusses complete cycles of the Chopin Etudes on record. If you enjoy this rebroadcast, please consider…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerA Deep Dive into Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (rebroadcast)
A rebroadcast of Episode 23 from Season 2, where Jed discusses fifteen favorite recordings of Beethoven's last and largest piano work, the Variations on a…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerYunchan Lim's Goldberg Variations
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerMessiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus - four recordings
I;m launching a multi-episode discographical exploration of Messiaen's monumental piano cycle Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus, starting with four recordings…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerThree Recent Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycles Considered
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerKrystian Zimerman's Schubert
Jed talks about Krystian Zimerman’s Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Schubert's Piano Sonatas in A Major D. 959 and B-Flat Major D. 960 Links to selected…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerIngrid Fliter's Chopin Mazurkas Volume 1
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerEssential All-Liszt Recitals Part 1
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerThe Prague Piano Duo Plays Schubert
Jed discusses a terrific all-Schubert release from the Prague Piano Duo. YouTube link…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerSviatoslav Richter's 1977 Salzburg Recital Revisited
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerChopin's Barcarolle on Disc
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The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerA Vladimir Horowitz Sonata Collection from Sony/BMG
"Vladimir Horowitz Plays Great Sonatas" is culled from the legendary virtuoso's Columbia Masterworks and RCA Victor catalogs, and features selections ranging…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerReviews in Retrospect - IPQ's critics pick the best of 1998
A look back at the Winter 1999 issue of International Piano Quarterly (now International Piano), when twelve critics were asked to pick their top piano…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerCyprien Katsaris' Beethoven Odyssey
An adventurous six-CD box set containing original piano works by Beethoven, plus chamber and orchestral repertoire in rare solo piano transcriptions, all…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerRipe for Reissue - Four Out-of-Print Piano Box Sets (rebroadcast of Season Two Episode 60)
Here's a rebroadcast of Season Two Episode 60 :Jed discusses four out-of-print piano box sets that are ripe for reissue: Milosz Magin plays Chopin (Accord, 10…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerArrau at the Ambassador
Jed discusses Claudio Arrau: The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals, Pasadena, California, USA, 1977, 1981 and 1986 - a five CD set containing previously…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerStill Another Box Set Wish List
Here is yet another list of ten piano box sets that Jed would like to see released in the future, although whether or not his wish will come true is an open…
The Piano Maven with Jed DistlerRachmaninov Concertos Under the Radar
Jed talks about recordings of Rachmaninov’s Four Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody that fall “under the radar" according to him, yet have great value and…