Antonio Soler enjoyed high prestige at Spain’s royal palace, the Escorial, where his contributions to keyboard technique, harmonic innovation and his Spanish musical identity served to bridge the stylistic gap between the late Baroque and early Classicism. Soler’s innovations have often been overlooked but the intricate modulations and rhythmic vitality found in his sonatas offer compelling evidence of their importance. Sonatas nos. 99–111 offer a wealth of entrancing features, which include sophisticated ornamentation, a synthesis of contrapuntal and Iberian folkloric traditions, and humorous cadences.

Twenty-five-year-old Canadian pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko was Winner of the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition and recipient of the Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medal. A few months before that major win he became the first Canadian Grand Prize Laureate in an instrumental edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal in May 2024.

Vol.11 is on 8574418 played by Daumants Liepiņš who recently topped Pianist Magazine’s list of ‘Four pianists to look out for in 2020’: ‘Liepiņš conveys enthusiasm without sacrificing refinement. He also stands out in the finale, delivering crisp, effervescent passagework even in the most intricately figured gestures’, wrote Fanfare.