On this episode of The Piano Maven, Jed Distler reconsiders the legacy of jazz pianist, bandleader and educator Lennie Tristano (1919-1978).

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Links to recordings cited in this episode:

“Wow” Lennie Tristano Sextet (1949) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSjkYnpvYM

“C Minor Complex” (1961) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1s3OWXxZg

“Descent into the Maelstrom” (1953) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99UTNVHLgEk

Links to TV documentary - Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw0WO3YCDZA&t=1475s; Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7lncPiaW4&t=572s

Lennie Tristano live at the Half Note in 1964 with Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh on television - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznqGjyYuRk&t=72s

Carlo Grante is the first pianist to have recorded Domenico Scarlatti's complete keyboard sonatas on a modern concert grand piano. Issued by Music & Arts in six volumes totaling 34 CDs, Jed explores Grante's monumental achievement on this episode of The Piano Maven.

Here's a link to Volume 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WWSLwOjjqY&list=PLhQbBbPdSZ2wycF4j85kfeNYL7sPNFHuS

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Jed discusses Angela Hewitt's 2018 remake of the Six Keyboard Partitas by J.S. Bach.

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Partita No. 5: Preambulum (recorded 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c1yNfGVM2E&list=PLPXd6_jpWSlfkR9JT-aCF-MxovL5gwr08&index=30

Partita No. 5: Preambulum (recorded 2018) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHcLr_XPXw

Partita No. 4: Sarabande (recorded 2018) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWe-SnPu7ys&list=PLrhvjDLG-KHCDdSXL_g5WFB7aTZ5R3ksF&index=5

Partita No. 4: Sarabande (recorded 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHs4MHzG16s

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Schubert Duo 1st Mvt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1eK9WDenQA

Beethoven Op. 30 No. 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxv9mac01c

Grieg Sonata No. 3 Op. 45 Mvt. 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCxvH9mRXvs

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Link to purchase Rudolf Buchbinder's 1986 EMI Chopin disc - https://www.amazon.com/Chopin-Piano-Works-Rudolf-Buchbinder/dp/B000239B96

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Here’s Jed’s Gramophone Cliburn Competition Blog about Alexei Sultanov - https://www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/article/jed-distler-s-cliburn-blog-no-16-alexei-sultanov-reconsidered

Link to purchase Sultanov’s Rachmaninov Sonata No. 2, Prokofiev SOnata No. 7 and Scriabin Sonata No. 5 - https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7948204--rachmaninov-prokofiev-scriabin-piano-sonatas

Chopin's uniquely hypnotic Berceuse has been lucky on disc, and Jed discusses seventeen pianists who've made memorable recorded versions. Here are links to some of them:

Josef Hofmann - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzqGLmLlMHY&t=3s

Alfred Cortot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqSDOLmfk30

Solomon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O8rbQ6Hi2M

Wilhelm Kempff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKxP_4byAk

Walter Gieseking (both versions) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccf2FSvkzWA

Vladimir Ashkenazy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dhVzkZk7xc

Maurizio Pollini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zqEHYlrmjc

Marc-André Hamelin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMZjygExZ3I

Ruth Slenczynska - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txR_P7TUf2I

Leon Fleisher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMs5gdORZnA

Evgeny Kissin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRQsDTvxgi8

Lesson with Garrick Ohlsson - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=garrick+chopin+berceuse

Tatiana Shebanova (period instrument recording) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogcn2JqJSak

Murray Perahia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OizkT4wRjdo

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The third and arguably final of three episodes discussing big box sets featuring pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli is devoted to his Deutsche Grammophon recordings.

You can find some of these on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@arturobenedettimichelangel8450

And while this box set may be hard to source, all of the individual recordings are readily available from the usual outlets.