Pachelbel’s Hexachordum Apollinis (1699) comprises six arias with variations on original themes. It is widely regarded as one of the highlights of Pachelbel’s oeuvre and demonstrates his mastery of the art of variation. The work is explicitly designed …

PIANOVERSAL will soon release the album “JÁNOS TAMÁS – PIANO MUSIC” with pianist Magdaléna Bajuszová. It is the first comprehensive portrait of the piano music of the Swiss-Hungarian composer János Tamás (1936–1995): three sonatas, the Sonatine …

PIANOVERSAL releases the new album "BASEL KOMPONIERT" featuring Spanish saxophonist ELISA URRESTARAZU and Swiss pianist CORNELIA LENZIN. The duo presents works by Basel-based composers Jost Meier, Balz Trümpy, Jacques Wildberger and Marcelo Nisinman. Most of the works …

PIANOVERSAL concerts in collaboration with phkultur - musik+ (FHNW) PIANORAMA ARGENTINO DANIEL GOLDSTEIN (Buenos Aires) - piano TOMAS DRATVA (Basel) - piano A musical perspective from Argentina - Music for the soul Concert with conversation and film Brugg-Windisch, Friday, 21 October 2022, 7pm Ca…

The next PIANOVERSAL album features the Spanish-Swiss Duo Urrestarazu-Lenzin. Saxophonist Elisa Urrestarazu and pianist Cornelia Lenzin have recorded music by Jacques Wildberger, Jost Meier, Balz Trümpy and Marcelo Nisinman. The album will be released this summer. BASE…

In the PIANOVERSAL interview, Esther Flückiger provides insight into her creative process and compositional world. She describes the creation of Verso Nikà and explains the sound sculptures and electronic sound compositions used in interplay with the piano.

New release: PIANOVERSAL publishes the complete studio recordings of Trio Animæ on 9 digital albums. Trio Animæ was active from 1993 to 2010 as one of the most prolific and successful Swiss chamber music ensembles of its time. Albums 1-8 are re-releases, while album …

The PIANOVERSAL REGISTER continues to grow! It now contains 10,102 compositions by 550 composers. Among the newest entries are works by Zosha di Castri, Kati Agócs, Alice ping Yee Ho, Alexina Louie, Jocelyn Morlock, Marjan Mozetich, Vivian Fung and Elena Kats-Chern…

Visit the newly created PIANOVERSAL YouTube channel! We have just published spectacular videos from the world premiere of Verso Nikà by composer and pianist Esther Flückiger. Visit us on YouTube and subscribe to our channel to stay informed about future releases…

Mojca Vedernjak - mezzo-soprano & Stefka Perifanova - piano Songs by Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot, Luise Greger, Dora Pejačević, Alma Mahler The latest PIANOVERSAL production has been available on all streaming/download services worldwide since 20 June. For their 25th anniversary…

INTOXICATION is dedicated to songs by 6 female composers. The song duo Mojca Vedernjak, mezzo-soprano and Stefka Perifanova, piano have recorded songs by Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot, Luise Greger, Dora Pejačević and Alma Mahler for the next PIANOVERSAL album. The production wi…

The digital albums «Verso Nikà» and «Luminescence» are now also available as a Double CD. PIANOVERSAL publishes this «Artist Limited Edition» with the music of Esther Flückiger for all customers who prefer a physical recording. The Double CD is available in the PIANOVERSAL SHOP. Here you can find…

PIANOVERSAL releases its second album in 2019 with music by Esther Flückiger, celebrating the 60th birthday of the Swiss artist living in Milan. In «LUMINESCENCE», Esther Flückiger and her musician friends take us on a journey through sound and space - from track to track …

Esther Flückiger's composition «Guarda i lumi - 5 migrating sound images for violin and piano» (2017) was selected for the ISCM World Music Days in New Zealand. Esther Flückiger represents Switzerland at the ISCM World Music Days 2020 with this work. The composition will be released on 20.11.2019 on the…

PIANOVERSAL is pleased to announce that the next production «LUMINESCENCE» with chamber music & piano music by Esther Flückiger will be released on 20 November 2019. The album was recorded by several musicians: Ludovic Van Hellemont - piano, Jiří Němeček - violin, Massimo Mazzon…

With the beginning of autumn, PIANOVERSAL continues the «Composer of the Week» features! Discover piano music by well-known and lesser-known composers with the popular PIANOVERSAL listening tips. Newly featured is a portrait of Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) and Finnish com…

The new album is here! PIANOVERSAL dedicates two albums in 2019 to Swiss composer, pianist and improviser Esther Flückiger, who lives in Milan. In «Verso Nikà» for piano, electronics, sound sculptures and conch horn, Flückiger explores the theme of migration. «Verso Nikà» was created f…

The PIANOVERSALRegister continues to grow. As of June 2019, the knowledge base contains a total of 9,419 piano works by 536 composers. Among the newest entries are works by Marita A. Niederberger, Sylvie Courvoisier, Albert Moeschinger, Miroslav Srnka, Chaya Czernowin, Philipp…

Words become music with the sounds of surrounding nature: an immense connection between thought and freedom, a journey reflecting the tragic situation of migration between two continents. PIANOVERSAL is pleased to dedicate our next production «Verso Nikà» to a gre…

"I am interested in music that imitates and in a certain sense describes the wonderful phenomenon at the heart of every language: sound becomes meaning." – Luciano Berio For Luciano Berio, music is an idea that becomes physically tangible. His view of music is always uncompromising in d…

An important mission of PIANOVERSAL is the promotion and dissemination of contemporary piano music. This is achieved through the release of recordings of new music. With the PIANOVERSALRegister, PIANOVERSAL also works tirelessly to build the most comprehensive knowledge base on contempor…

"The substance, the form, the shape must be a unity! If you try to divide them, you are out." – Anders Eliasson In his music, Anders Eliasson (1947-2013) found his own personal alphabet. His music is characterized by a consistent coherence and a penetrating…

PIANOVERSAL wishes all our visitors a happy 2019! In the New Year as well, PIANOVERSAL will continue striving to be a unique place for piano music with rich, well-researched knowledge and original recording productions. There is always something to discover - we look forward to…

Since 17.12.18, we have noticed that the PIANOVERSAL GmbH in Switzerland is being misused as the sender of fraudulent invoices in various spam emails. If you have received such an email, please delete it immediately and do not open any links contained there…

Take advantage of direct sales of all PIANOVERSAL recordings in our popular PIANOVERSALSHOP! All albums are available for immediate digital download in 24bit (high resolution), 16bit (CD quality) and affordable Mp3 format. For CD lovers, there is a free…

With the PIANOVERSALRegister, PIANOVERSAL maintains an up-to-date knowledge database on piano music from 1880 to the present. Newly added composers include Jannik Giger, Carolina Bauckholt, Unsuk Chin, Annette Schmucki, Erich Schmid and Georg Kröll.…

"I have written music for piano throughout my entire creative life." – Rodion Shchedrin Rodion Shchedrin is a dazzling musical personality with a vast oeuvre for piano. Full of charm, irony and a spirit of experimentation, his music defies all categorization. …

Jean-Jacques Dünki - piano, fortepiano, clavichord All compositions by Jean-Jacques Dünki The new PIANOVERSAL album Jean-Jacques Dünki – POUR LE CLAVIER has been released and is now available digitally and on CD in the PIANOVERSAL Shop. Since 1 July 2018, the album has been available on all major str…

The PIANOVERSALRegister continues to grow. It now contains 7,750 works by 517 composers. Recently added are piano works and piano chamber music by Rolf Hind, Jesús Torres, Malcolm Arnold and Unsuk Chin. Substantial additions have also been made to the…

16 April 1893 Barcelona – 30 June 1987 Barcelona "What interests me about the piano is the sound that arises on the way from one note to the next. Timing is crucial - there is always one right moment to continue playing." – Federico Mompou Mompou was a pianist and compo…

* 6.10.1959, Bern Composer, pianist and improviser Esther Flückiger often extends her piano works with electronics, preparations or additional instruments. Each of Flückiger's compositions reveals its own imaginative and energetic cosmos. In the Composer of…

born on 28 May 1947 in Baku "Every time, music helps me to drive away the problems of life... every time I compose I feel so much stronger, so much more creative." – Frangis Ali-Sade In the Composer of the Week section, you can find this week a brief portrait of the remarkabl…

Joaquín Turina and Germaine Tailleferre: Composers of the Week. With the popular PIANOVERSAL listening tips, you get a direct insight into the world of these two great musical personalities! All works for piano can be found in the PIANOVERSALRegister.

The album Leoš Janáček – Piano Music with Tomas Dratva reached the Top 50 best-selling classical albums on iTunes Classical in Japan in March. You can listen to the album on all common streaming services or purchase it in the PIANOVERSALShop. Streaming links: AMAZON | iTunes/APPLE MUSIC | DEE…

"When I write music I feel like a power plant." – Pascal Dusapin Discover Dusapin's piano music in the Composer of the Week section!

"Art in itself is the expression of heightened human longing, the work of art as such the explosion of intensified feeling. Absolute art is revolution." – Ervín (Erwin) Schulhoff Check out the PIANOVERSAL listening tips featuring music by Ervín Schulhoff!

Trenton, 8 July 1900 – New York City, 12 February 1959 "Time is the canvas of music, far more than the planes of tonality, atonality, or no tonality at all." – George Antheil, 1950 Check out the Composer of the Week feature with the PIANOVERSAL listening tips on George Antheil, the «Bad…

Do you prefer CDs over digital streaming or downloading? In response to popular demand, PIANOVERSAL has now also released the album «Leoš Janáček – Piano Music» with pianist Tomas Dratva in a limited CD edition. The double CD is now available in the PIANOVERS…

* 21.5.1950 Leningrad "Usually, however, composing means for me self-immersion, contact with beauty, connection to the immaterial world. Composers – not all of them, of course – have much in common with priests and gardeners." – Elena Firsova Check out the Composer of the Week fe…

21 August 1927, Munich – 20 August 2017, Starnberg "Music has nothing to do with external life, but with inner life. It is not the intended that is reflected, but what the creator himself is." – Wilhelm Killmayer Check out the «Composer of the Week» feature with the PIANOVERSAL list…

The PIANOVERSALRegister has today surpassed 7,000 piano compositions! Piano music since 1880: Visit our unique knowledge base! You can contribute your own knowledge – it's easy! The PIANOVERSALRegister catalogues piano compositions from 1880 to the pre…

Vítězslava Kaprálová 24.01.1915 Brno – 16.06.1940 Montpellier Kaprálová was a significant composer of the interwar period whose creative work was unfortunately cut short by her early death. Discover the PIANOVERSAL listening tips on Kaprálová in the «Composer of the Week» feature. In the PIANOVERSALRegist…

Francis Poulenc 07.01.1899, Paris – 30.01.1963, Paris Read the full article and discover all PIANOVERSAL listening tips in the «Composer of the Week» section. In the PIANOVERSALRegister you can see the complete list of all piano works by Francis Poulenc.

Discover five extraordinary composers from three generations, newly featured in the PIANOVERSALRegister: Ursula Mamlok (1923-2016), Felix Huber (b. 1952), Jörg Widmann (b. 1973), Alf Hurum (1882-1972), Georgia Spiropoulos (b. 1965) Ursula Mamlok (1923 Berl…

Five exciting personalities from three generations with very different compositional styles are newly featured in the PIANOVERSALRegister: Vincent Ho (b.1975), Anna Appleby (b.1993), Kit Powell (b.1937), Charlotte Bray (b.1982), Stacy Garrop (b.1969) Vincent Ho (Ottawa, 1975): incl. Kickin' it fü…

With the addition of composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji today, the PIANOVERSALRegister now covers 6,569 piano works by 500 composers. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote an extraordinary amount of piano music in a uniquely imaginative, dazzling language. Some…

By popular demand, PIANOVERSAL now offers its recordings for purchase on its own website. Check out the PIANOVERSAL Shop. PIANOVERSAL publishes exclusively in digital format. The recordings are available in CD quality (16 bit) or – exclusively in the PIANOVERSAL Shop – also in High Resolution quality…

The first production of the digital music label PIANOVERSAL is online! Pianist Tomas Dratva dedicates himself to well-known and lesser-known piano works by the Moravian composer Leoš Janáček. The album features the enchanting piano cycles «In the Mists» and «On an Overgrown Path», some miniatures an…

The PIANOVERSALRegister is now online! Discover the unique knowledge base of piano music! You can contribute your own knowledge – it's easy! The PIANOVERSALRegister catalogues piano compositions from 1880 to the present and is dedicated to the artistic work of all compo…