 | Schubert: Impromptus, D 899 & D 935; Allegretto, D 915; Klavierstucke, D 946 by Maria João Pires
Buy new: £17.98 / Used from: £10.77 The most beautiful and haunting piano music - ever - in a silky and melancholy rendition.
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 | Schubert: Piano Works
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.46 Schubert again. This time the last three sonatas - pure, undiluted beauty.
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 | Einaudi: Le Onde
Buy new: £7.58 / Used from: £6.32 Dreamy, more modern melodies. Quiet and soothing.
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 | Jeremiades by Wim Mertens
A fascinating and harrowing combination of music and ululations - lamentations, truly. Profound and sad and too little known.
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 | Complete Nocturnes (Leonskaia) by Fryderyk Chopin
Buy new: £6.79 The ultimate music for the night
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 | Schumann Piano Works
Buy used from: £8.00 A mellow sonata - one of my 'surprise' favourites.
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 | Beethoven: Favourite Piano Sonatas by Alfred Brendel
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.55 Rather than go the whole hog and buy all of Beethoven's sonatas, a selection like this is great (you also don't have to change CDs so often)
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| Antonín Dvorák: Complete Works For Piano 4 Hand, Vol. I
Buy used from: £41.69 Dvorak being one of my favourite composers, this is obviously a disc to include. More temperamental and in parts faster than the other offerings and melodious throughout
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 | Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano)
Buy new: £10.78 / Used from: £7.95 Played on Grieg's own (over 100 year old) piano, the tone is somewhat darker than modern instruments - perfect for the darkness curling in.
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