Hilary Hahn kicks off Deutsche Grammophon’s celebration of Mozart Year 2006 with her first-ever Mozart studio recording, a selection of violin sonatas by the Austrian master.

Yundi Li, winner of the 14th International Chopin Competition. Half year has passed from his vivid debut recording, and now he brings us this great collection of piano pieces. In this work he offers us a beautiful sensitiveness and a pianism overflowing with young bravura, bringing us works of Chopin and Schumman's Traumerei.

This quick collection (20 minutes!) shows us the popularity Mr. Li had gained in Japan (maybe because of his La Campanella interpratation?). This is an old CD (back when Mr. Li was on DG), it can be easily found on Japanese sites but is unavailable in the international Deutsche Grammophon listing. Works of Chopin and Schumman are well accompanied by Wang's beautiful Sunflower, in a Chinese folk song spirit, and Moskovsky's Etude de Virtuosity Op72 No 6.

from the publisher (link)

The disc features new recordings of the Chopin concertos performed on period instruments, documenting two outstanding artistic moments in the festival Chopin and his Europe. Dang Thai Son, winner of the Tenth Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, is accompanied by Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century—a legendary ensemble restoring to music its authentic sound.

The Concerto in E minor was recorded during a concert held on 8 September 2005 in the Concert Hall of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw,

The Concerto in F minor was recorded during a concert held on 31 August 2006 at the Grand Theatre – National Opera.