The Piano Maven with Jed Distler

By Jed Distler

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Your friendly podcast guide to piano recordings.


Episode Date
Alicia de Larrocha's 1969 Columbia Ravel Disc
Apr 02, 2026
Emil Gilels' Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 Reconsidered
Mar 30, 2026
The Unique Cecil Taylor
Mar 26, 2026
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 K. 453 on Disc
Mar 23, 2026
Five Pianists - No Bad Recordings?
Mar 19, 2026
Five Notable Mozart Pianists
Mar 12, 2026
Piotr Anderszewski's Late Brahms
Mar 09, 2026
Boris Giltburg's Ravishing Rachmaninov
Mar 05, 2026
RIchard Strauss' Burleske on Disc
Mar 02, 2026
From Deutsche Grammophon - Gallons of Gulda on 84 CDs
Feb 26, 2026
Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories
Feb 23, 2026
Claudio Colombo Plays the Complete Piano Repertoire - Really?
Feb 19, 2026
Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor Op. 58 on Disc
Feb 17, 2026
The Chopin Etudes on Record (rebroadcast)
Feb 12, 2026
A Deep Dive into Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (rebroadcast)
Feb 09, 2026
Yunchan Lim's Goldberg Variations
Feb 05, 2026
Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus - four recordings
Feb 03, 2026
Three Recent Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycles Considered
Jan 29, 2026
Krystian Zimerman's Schubert
Jan 25, 2026
Ingrid Fliter's Chopin Mazurkas Volume 1
Jan 19, 2026
Essential All-Liszt Recitals Part 1
Jan 15, 2026
The Prague Piano Duo Plays Schubert
Jan 12, 2026
Sviatoslav Richter's 1977 Salzburg Recital Revisited
Jan 08, 2026
Chopin's Barcarolle on Disc
Jan 05, 2026
A Vladimir Horowitz Sonata Collection from Sony/BMG
Dec 29, 2025
Reviews in Retrospect - IPQ's critics pick the best of 1998
Dec 18, 2025
Cyprien Katsaris' Beethoven Odyssey
Dec 15, 2025
Ripe for Reissue - Four Out-of-Print Piano Box Sets (rebroadcast of Season Two Episode 60)
Dec 11, 2025
Arrau at the Ambassador
Dec 08, 2025
Still Another Box Set Wish List
Dec 04, 2025
Rachmaninov Concertos Under the Radar
Dec 01, 2025
Thanksgiving Turkeys (rebroadcast)
Nov 27, 2025
Volodos in Vienna
Nov 24, 2025
Malcolm Frager and John Browning - two documentaries
Nov 20, 2025
The Ideal Debussy Preludes Book 1 (One Pianist for Each Prelude)
Nov 17, 2025
Jorge Bolet's Best Liszt Transcendental Etudes
Nov 13, 2025
Paolo Bordoni's Complete Schubert Waltzes
Nov 10, 2025
Stanislav Knor plays Chopin's Four Scherzos
Nov 06, 2025
Six Chopin Nocturne Cycles (rebroadcast)
Nov 03, 2025
Bach Guild's Big Chopin Box (rebroadcast)
Oct 30, 2025
Eric Lu in Leipzig (rebroadcast)
Oct 27, 2025
The Chopin Mazurkas with Arthur Rubinstein (rebroadcast)
Oct 23, 2025
The Ideal Major Chopin Piano Works
Oct 21, 2025
Live From Warsaw
Oct 16, 2025
Deutsche Grammophon's Chopin Masters Edition
Oct 13, 2025
Chopin Mazurka Cycle Madness Part 3
Oct 09, 2025
Chopin Mazurka Cycle Madness Part 2
Oct 06, 2025
Bonus Episode - Bruce Liu & Yunchan Lim play Tchaikovsky's The Seasons
Oct 03, 2025
Bonus Episode - Bruce Liu & Yuncham Lin play Tchaikovsky's The Seasons
Oct 03, 2025
Chopin Mazurka Cycle Madness Part 1
Oct 01, 2025
Guilty Pleasures - Boris Berezovsky's Ravel Recital
Sep 29, 2025
Martin Jones' Debussy Cycle on Nimbus
Sep 25, 2025
A Starter Guide to Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto Series
Sep 22, 2025
Claude Loyola Allgén's Fantasia - A Mess or a Masterpiece?
Sep 18, 2025
Edna Stern's Schumann Carnaval plus
Sep 15, 2025
Few and Far Between - Six Under-recorded Pianists
Sep 11, 2025
Kit Armstrong's Magnificent Byrd and Bull Recital
Sep 08, 2025
Oscar Peterson's Top Ten Albums
Sep 04, 2025
Annie Fischer's EMI Recordings
Sep 01, 2025
Grieg's Ballade in G Minor Op. 24 on Disc
Aug 28, 2025
Lennie Tristano Reconsidered
Aug 25, 2025
Carlo Grante's Monumental Scarlatti Cycle
Aug 21, 2025
Angela Hewitt Revisits Bach's Partitas
Aug 18, 2025
Kreisler & Rachmaninov - The Dynamic Duo
Aug 14, 2025
Under the Radar - Rudolf Buchbinder's 1986 Chopin Recital
Aug 11, 2025
The Swagger of Sultanov
Aug 07, 2025
Chopin's Berceuse on Disc
Aug 04, 2025
Michelangeli Big Boxes Part 3: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Jul 31, 2025
Jorge Bolet's Complete Decca Recordings
Jul 28, 2025
The "Other" Diabelli Variations
Jul 23, 2025
Acoustically Perfect - Edouard Risler's 1917 Pathé Recordings
Jul 20, 2025
The Well-Tempered Rosalyn Tureck
Jul 16, 2025
Under the Radar - Anton Kuerti's Beethoven Concerto Cycle
Jul 14, 2025
Cliburn 2025 - Philipp Lynov plays Ravel's Miroirs
Jul 10, 2025
Steven de Groote plays Schubert
Jul 07, 2025
Kate Liu plays Beethoven and Brahms
Jul 03, 2025
Chopin's Preludes Op. 28 on Disc
Jun 29, 2025
Andrew Tyson - The Willy Wonka of Pianists
Jun 26, 2025
The Young Sokolov
Jun 23, 2025
Alfred Brendel Top 10 Recordings
Jun 19, 2025
Julia Hamos' Distinctive Debut Release "Ellis Island"
Jun 16, 2025
Claudio Arrau's Confrontational Mozart
Jun 12, 2025
Ripe for Reissue - Four Out-of-Print Piano Box Sets
Jun 09, 2025
George Cziffra's Legendary 1964 Tokyo Recital
Jun 05, 2025
Five Under the Radar Liszt Sonata Recordings
Jun 01, 2025
Another Box Set Wish List
May 29, 2025
Beatrice Rana at the 2013 Cliburn Competition
May 26, 2025
Akiko Ebi's 2001 Liszt Recital
May 22, 2025
Acoustically Perfect - Josef Hofmann: The Brunswick Recordings
May 19, 2025
John Ogdon plays Chopin and Beethoven - The Pickwick Recordings
May 15, 2025
Daan Vandewalle plays Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum
May 12, 2025
Sonia Rubinsky's Suave Scarlatti
May 08, 2025
Whatever happened to......?
May 05, 2025
Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words on Disc
May 01, 2025
Leonard Pennario in Three Concertos
Apr 28, 2025
Ten Over-Recorded Piano Works
Apr 24, 2025
Nikolai Demidenko's Schubert Revisited
Apr 21, 2025
Eloquence Piano Library - Deutsche Grammophon Edition
Apr 17, 2025
Eloquence Piano Library - Westminster and American Decca Edition
Apr 14, 2025
Ten Cult Pianists
Apr 10, 2025
Youri Egorov's Slow Motion Bach
Apr 07, 2025
Five "Under the Radar" Beethoven Sonata Cycles
Apr 03, 2025
The Fiorentino Saga
Mar 31, 2025
Invitation to the Dance
Mar 27, 2025
Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Clifford Curzon and George Szell
Mar 24, 2025
Bach Guild's Big Chopin Box
Mar 20, 2025
Martin Helmchen in Schwetzingen
Mar 17, 2025
The Best of Idil Biret
Mar 13, 2025
The Legendary Radio Program "Concert Grande"
Mar 10, 2025
Ravel at 150: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Mar 06, 2025
Severin von Eckardstein's remarkable "Vers la flamme"
Mar 03, 2025
Nine Live Liszt Sonata Performances
Feb 27, 2025
Bill Evans: Alone and Alone-ish
Feb 24, 2025
Brahms' Ballades Op. 10 on Disc
Feb 20, 2025
The Joyce Hatto Scandal Revisited
Feb 17, 2025
A Look at Some Schumann Cycles
Feb 13, 2025
Eric Lu in Leipzig
Feb 10, 2025
Three Messy Discographies
Feb 06, 2025
Vladimir Ashkenazy's Best "Rach 3?"
Feb 03, 2025
A Deep Dive into Beethoven's Diabelli Variations
Jan 31, 2025
Beethoven Meets Liszt
Jan 30, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 Pianists: Op. 109, 110 & 111
Jan 29, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier")
Jan 28, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 101
Jan 27, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 81a ("Les Adieux") and Op. 90
Jan 24, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 78 and Op. 79
Jan 23, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 Pianists: Op. 57 ("Appassionata")
Jan 22, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 54
Jan 21, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 53 ("Waldstein")
Jan 20, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 49 Nos. 1 & 2
Jan 17, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 31 No. 3
Jan 16, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 31. No. 2 ("Tempest")
Jan 15, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 31 No. 1
Jan 14, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 28 ("Pastoral")
Jan 13, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 27 No. 1 and No. 2 ("Moonlight")
Jan 10, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 26 ("Funeral March")
Jan 09, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 22
Jan 08, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 14 Nos. 1 & 2
Jan 07, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 13 ("Pathetique")
Jan 06, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 10 Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Jan 03, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 7
Jan 02, 2025
Beethoven's 32 Sonatas with 64 pianists: Op. 2 Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Jan 01, 2025
The Best of 2024
Dec 30, 2024
Jed's Piano Box Set Wish List
Dec 26, 2024
Bach Guild's Big Piano Concertos Box
Dec 23, 2024
Art Tatum's 1949 Capitol Recordings
Dec 19, 2024
Five Beethoven Fourths
Dec 16, 2024
Michelangeli Big Boxes Part 2: Aura's "Hommage" Edition
Dec 12, 2024
Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano
Dec 09, 2024
Stocking Stuffers
Dec 05, 2024
Five Underrated Emperors
Dec 02, 2024
Thanksgiving Turkeys
Nov 28, 2024
The Marvelous Moszkowski Concerto
Nov 25, 2024
Michelangeli Big Boxes Part 1: The Complete Warner Recordings
Nov 21, 2024
Little Brother Montgomery's "Farro Street Jive"
Nov 18, 2024
Sergei Kvitkos' Brilliant Ad Libitum
Nov 14, 2024
The "Best" Ravel Gaspard de la nuit?
Nov 11, 2024
Radu Lupu Rarities
Nov 07, 2024
Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!"
Nov 04, 2024
Schumann's Fantasy in C Major in 15 Recordings
Oct 31, 2024
Murray Perahia Summits Beethoven's Everest
Oct 28, 2024
A Legendary Pogorelich Recital
Oct 24, 2024
VAI's Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies Compilation
Oct 21, 2024
Geza Anda's Live Tchaikovsky and Brahms Concertos
Oct 17, 2024
Six Chopin Nocturne Cycles
Oct 10, 2024
Françoise Chaffiaud Plays Bach
Oct 10, 2024
Hanren Zhang's Dances and Dreams
Oct 07, 2024
Bud Powell at 100
Oct 03, 2024
The 2005 Van Cliburn Competition Revisited
Sep 30, 2024
Donald Berman Plays Ives' Concord Sonata
Sep 26, 2024
Earl Wild at 88, on the 88s
Sep 23, 2024
Yuja Wang's Vienna Recital
Sep 19, 2024
Matthew Shipp's 1990 Trio Debut
Sep 16, 2024
Solace with Risto-Matti Marin
Sep 12, 2024
Wojciech Kocyan Aces Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7
Sep 09, 2024
The Chopin Etudes on Record
Sep 04, 2024
Janina Fialkowska's Enchanting Schubert
Sep 02, 2024
Piano Music of Jan Levoslav Bella
Aug 29, 2024
Brilliant Classics' Virtuoso Etudes Box
Aug 26, 2024
Maria Perrotta Plays Chopin
Aug 22, 2024
Andre Laplante's Under the Radar Brahms Sonata No. 3
Aug 19, 2024
The Art of Lelia Gousseau
Aug 15, 2024
Van Cliburn's Tchaikovsky - A Million Seller Reconsidered
Aug 12, 2024
Dimitri Malignan Plays Bach
Aug 08, 2024
Five Piano Goldberg Variations Recordings on DG
Aug 05, 2024
André Watts' Best Liszt
Aug 01, 2024
Debussy's Preludes on an 1873 Pleyel
Jul 29, 2024
A 2010 Schumann Compilation from EMI
Jul 25, 2024
Jean Barraqué's Piano Sonata on disc
Jul 22, 2024
The Chopin Mazurkas with Arthur Rubinstein
Jul 18, 2024
Arthur Rubinstein's Milestone Moscow Recital
Jul 15, 2024
Alexis Weissenberg's Rockin' Rachmaninov Third Concerto
Jul 11, 2024
Surveying Scarlatti
Jul 08, 2024
A Howard Shelley Concerto Trifecta
Jul 04, 2024
The Art of Aldo Ciccolini
Jul 01, 2024
Coming Soon - The Piano Maven with Jed Distler
May 27, 2024