First Hand Records

  • Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 / Rabinovich

    $26.99

    This release is the first volume in a series of new recordings in which the illustrious pianist Roman Rabinovich will record all of the piano sonatas written by Haydn for FHR. Haydn was a prominent...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 16, 2018

  • Cynthia's Revels

    $21.99

    This album gives a fascinating glimpse into courtly life during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It features music by the great William Byrd, Anthony Holborne and Alfonso Ferrabosco II, the beautiful Lachrym� pavane by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 02, 2015

  • Curci: Violin Concertos / Gulli, Capuana, Studio Orchestra

    $21.99

    This reissue brings together for the first time, in newly remastered hi-resolution transfers from the source tapes, the Edizioni Curci stereo recordings of Italian composer Alberto Curci's four works for violin an dorchestra. These four...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 07, 2017

  • Busoni: Piano Concerto / Scarpini, Kubelik, Bavarian Radio Choir & Symphony Orchestra

    $21.99

    Claimed to be the longest piano concerto ever written, this mammoth concerto lasts 70 minutes in this recording. With immense demands required of the soloist and the large forces needed, the Busoni Piano Concerto is...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 07, 2018

  • 1991 Grange De Meslay Recital

    $18.99

    Gyorgy Sebok (1922-1999) was a Hungarian-born American pianist who was also renowned as a teacher and giver of masterclasses. He made more than 16 recordings for the Erato label as a soloist early on in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2017

  • Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9 / Lloyd-Gonzalez, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    $17.99

    British Conductor Steven Lloyd-Gonzalez makes his debut recording for First Hand Records with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the 6th & 9th Symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich; two of the composer’s more enigmatic and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 15, 2022

  • Bartók, Bach, Schneeberger: Works for Solo Violin / Smirnov

    $17.99

    Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov’s début recording on FHR features works by master baroque composer (J.S. Bach), a leading figure of 20th century music (Béla Bartók) and a wonderful newly discovered work by influential Swiss violinist...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 20, 2021

  • Violin Odyssey / Zorman

    $17.99

    The worldwide lockdowns of 2020/21 proved highly fruitful for US-based violinist Itamar Zorman in his quest to seek out new repertoire. A virtual voyage around the world yielded a discovery of many lesser known and...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 03, 2022

  • Granados, Janacek, Scriabin: Arc 1 / Weiss

    $17.99

    Arc I is the first of a three-album series and features three important works for solo piano from the frantic years 1911–1913, the precipice before World War I. Weiss explains about his Arc series: “The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 01, 2022

  • Cabinet Of Wonders, Vol. 1 / Kinga Ujszaszi, Tom Foster

    $17.99

    The present recording consists of 6 fantastic, beautiful, sometimes a little bizarre, rare violin sonatas from the early 18th century including 3 première recordings. This release is the first of a new FHR series in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 02, 2020

  • John Mayer: Violin Concerto No. 2 - Jonathan Mayer: Sitar Concerto No. 2

    $17.99

    The first true cross cultural fusion of Indian and western music was back in 1957 with John Mayer’s Raga Music for Solo Clarinet and through the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties his musical output reflected...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 05, 2021

  • The Mendelssohns: Complete Works for Cello and Piano / Marosi, Walker

    $17.99

    This is the first time the complete works for cello and piano by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn appear on a single album performed on modern instruments. There is little of Fanny Mendelssohn's music and it...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2021

  • Sunless Loves / Safiropoulou, Hovrin

    $21.99

    Though diverse in character and style, all the works on this album speak of love, as a state where everyone fathoms the vertiginous depths of their loneliness. All eight poems of Brahm’s Op. 57, with...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 07, 2017

  • Skempton: Man & Bat, Piano Concerto, The Moon Is Flashing, Eternity's Sunrise / Ensemble 360

    $21.99

    Howard Skempton was born in Chester in 1947 and has worked as a composer, accordionist and music publisher. He studied in London with Cornelius Cardew which helped him to discover a musical language of great...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 18, 2019

  • Schumann: 1839 - Year of Piano / Alexandra Papstefanou

    $19.99

    1839 was Schumann’s most productive year of writing for solo piano, and the last year he wrote a major work for piano solo. The following year, Schumann wrote no works for solo piano, focusing a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 12, 2021

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