Romantic Discoveries Recordings

Purchasing

Please browse our Catalogue and Archive to see the CDs available for purchase.

From April 2025, our CDs will be available by special order only. Prices to customers in Great Britain excluding Northern Ireland are £18.99 for each CD in the main Catalogue and £12.99 for each CD in the Archive series. These prices include standard (non-tracked) postage.

To order CDs, please send an email to contact@pianocds.com stating which CDs you would like to order and giving your full mailing address. We will send you a PayPal invoice which can be paid using a credit or debit card.

Because of legal restrictions, we can no longer supply CDs to the European Union or to Northern Ireland. Other countries will carry different prices to reflect mailing costs and tariffs. Please email us for a quotation.

All Romantic Discoveries Recordings CD sales are transacted online via this website. We do not supply shops or other online outlets. We can only accept credit cards via PayPal.

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Audio samples

Audio samples of many our CDs as well as some non-catalogue recordings can be listened to online here.

Rediscovering significant piano music of the past

We live in an age of mysteries. The omnipresence of today’s recordings of classical music, many of which are of little-known repertoire, might lead us to believe that there is little left of the past to discover. Yet we have only to move back in time by a little over a hundred years to find the ghosts of a forgotten Romanticism waiting to be reanimated and to present to us an aesthetic very different from that of our own age. This was the era when the piano was at the centre of musical life; at the heart of the home and at the crux of the conception of the Romantic as artist.

Romantic Discoveries Recordings seeks to present innovative world première CD recordings of piano music of the Romantic era by award-winning pianist John Kersey, informed by his extensive research into the performance history of the Romantic era, and recorded in a natural ambience evoking the acoustic of the typical Romantic salon. These recordings are not intended to be comparable to audiophile CD releases; they are edited by the pianist himself and aim at an honest, direct and sympathetic portrayal of music that is often being introduced to the listener for the first time.

“A great feast for the Beethoven connoisseur” (of CD19)
James Green, author, The New Hess Catalog of Beethoven’s Works

“A true and nowadays unique artist, a pianist who has discovered a quantity of really unsung and memorable piano music…In my view, it is at the moment the most remarkable serial of unsung piano music of a high level, so not “lovely pieces” from days gone by, but the ambitious search for original and lasting works.”
Dr. Klaus Tischendorf, Burgmueller.com

From 2023 onwards, the Romantic Discoveries catalogue has been expanded to include a number of recordings of standard repertoire with which John Kersey feels a particular affinity. Beginning in 2023, over forty new CDs have been released, including recordings made during the national lockdown of 2021 and the series of twenty-eight CDs of the piano music of Walter Niemann.

All compositions recorded and released by Romantic Discoveries Recordings, and all artworks used on the CD covers, are in the public domain in the United Kingdom, from where all CDs are made and sent. For copyright reasons, our recordings are not available to purchase in Mexico and certain other countries which have a copyright term that differs from that of the United Kingdom.

Affiliations

Romantic Discoveries Recordings is an affiliated research centre of European-American University.