On this page you will find information about my various recordings with details of label, serial numbers, repertoire and colleagues.

There are also links to the two primary recording companies and general information about how to go about finding the recordings.

Also, you can now download some of my recent recordings!

 

* * MUSIC DOWNLOADS * *

Bandcamp, excellent music hosting site, are now limiting free downloads to 200 per month. After that the Paypal system will kick in. This is a totally secure system - your credit card details will not be harvested and used for nefarious purposes. A percentage of the charge will go to Bandcamp, a percentage to Paypal and the rest to the pianist to invest in further online recording :) If you don't wish to pay for any downloads you can wait until the following month when they are free again, at least initially. BTW the Bandcamp month seems to start on the 3rd or 4th. MH

 

Hear tell that, despite the well-known fears of the recording industry, people aren’t actually downloading classical music.

Is it true?

I hope not, because here are some new recordings which will only be available by downloading. They were recorded on 24 and 25 August, 2009, in the Gallagher Theatre on the University of Waikato campus, and they can only be found at the links here (at least until the pathetic degenerates start their piracy).

All tracks are available in highest quality audio as well as compact mp3, from the wonderful online music hosts, Bandcamp!

• Claude Debussy - Suite bergamasque
  (The recording of the third movement of this beautiful suite, the immortal Clair de lune, was filmed by Keith Hill and can be viewed on YouTube - just click here.)
  
  
• Sergei Prokofiev - Sonata No.8 in B flat, Op.84
  
  
• Johannes Brahms - Variations on an Original Theme in D, Op.21 No.1
  
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach - French Suite No.5 in G, BWV 816
  
  
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Thirteen Preludes, Op.32
  
  
• Frédéric Chopin - Sonata in B flat minor, Op.35; Two Nocturnes, Op.37
  
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach - Italian Concerto, BWV 971
  
  
• Nikolai Kapustin - Sonata No.2 in E, Op.54
  
  
• Nikolai Kapustin - 3 Bagatelles, Op.59 and 2 Preludes, Op.53
  
  
• Franz Liszt - Three Petrarch Sonnets
  
  
• Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin
  
  
• Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana, Op.16
  
  

 

 

Michael Houstoun Performs Beethoven ~ The Last Three Piano Sonatas

This DVD of a live concert performance of the last three Beethoven sonatas is now available.

It is a Trust Records release - MMT4001.

Hassle Marbeck’s or your local record store to get you one (or more), and if they aren’t up to it get in touch directly with Charley Davenport

He’ll see you right.

See details here...

 

 

Inland

NZ Solo piano music by Kenneth Young, Douglas Lilburn, Mike Nock, John Psathas, Gao Ping and Victoria Kelly.

See details here...

 

 

TRUST CDs

 

The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas in four boxed sets

Michael Houstoun performs Beethoven Piano Sonatas from the Middle Period

CD1
Sonata in C, Op.53 (‘Waldstein’)
Sonata in e minor, Op.90
Sonata in c sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 (‘Moonlight’)
Sonata in E flat, Op.27 No.1

CD2
Sonata in f minor, Op.57 (‘Appassionata’)
Sonata in A flat, Op.26
Sonata in F, Op.54

CD3
Sonata in D, Op.28 (‘Pastoral’)
Sonata in E flat, Op.81a (‘Das Lebewohl’)
Sonata in F sharp, Op.78
Sonata in G, Op.79

MMT 2001-2003 (3 discs)

 

Michael Houstoun Performs Beethoven the Last Five Piano Sonatas

CD1
Sonata in A, Op.101
Sonata in B flat, Op.106 (‘Hammerklavier’)

CD2
Sonata in E, Op.109
Sonata in A flat, Op.110
Sonata in c minor, Op.111

MMT 2004-2005 (2 discs)

 

Michael Houstoun performs Beethoven The Early Sonatas

CD1
Sonata in f minor, Op.2 No.1
Sonata in A, Op.2 No.2
Sonata in C, Op.2 No.3

CD2
Sonata in c minor, Op.10 No.1
Sonata in F, Op.10 No.2
Sonata in D, Op.10 No.3

CD3
Sonata in g minor, Op.49 No.1
Sonata in G, Op.49 No2
Sonata in E flat, Op.7
Sonata in c minor, Op.13 (‘Pathétique’)

MMT 2011-2013 (3 discs)

 

Michael Houstoun performs Beethoven The Op.14, 22 and 31 Sonatas

CD1
Sonata in E, Op.14 No.1
Sonata in G, Op.14 No.2
Sonata in B flat, Op.22

CD2
Sonata in G, Op.31 No.1
Sonata in d minor, Op.31 No.2 (‘Tempest’)
Sonata in E flat, Op.31 No.3 (‘La Chasse’)

MMT 2017-2018 (2 discs)

 

Michael Houstoun Plays Great Piano Sonatas of Beethoven

Sonata in c sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 (‘Moonlight’)
Sonata in D, Op.28 (‘Pastoral’)
Sonata in f minor, Op.57 (‘Appassionata’)

MMT 2015

 

Keith Lewis (tenor) and Michael Houstoun in Recital

Songs by Mozart, Schubert, Fauré, de Falla, Prokofiev and Irish Folk Songs

MMT 2006

 

Michael Houstoun performs Piano Works of Franz Liszt

Sonata in b minor
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Consolation No.3 in D flat
Première valse oubliée
En rêve

MMT 2008

 

Elusive Dreams
Michael Houstoun live at the 1996 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts

(‘Sepuluh jari’ can also be found on MMT 2020 Gareth Farr Chamber Music)

MMT 2010

 

Michael Houstoun Piano Recital ‘99

Schumann Fantasie in C, Op.17
Prokofiev Sonata No.3 in a minor, Op.28
Scriabin Sonata No.9, Op.68
Rachmaninoff Etudes-tableaux Op.39 Nos.1, 2 and 9

MMT 2028

 

Michael Houstoun with the NZSO (live recordings)

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3 in C, Op.26
(Conductor James Judd)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat, Op.73 (‘Emperor’)
(Conductor Janos Furst)

MMT 2035

 

TRUST website: http://www.trustcds.com
to send an email

 

RATTLE

 

Rhythm Spike

Works by John Psathas

Includes ‘Motet’ for piano 4-hands
Michael Houstoun and Diedre Irons (piano)

RAT D008

 

View From Olympus

Concertos by John Psathas
With the NZSO conductor Marc Taddei

‘View from Olympus’ Double concerto for percussion, piano and orchestra
Pedro Carneiro (percussion) Michael Houstoun (piano)

‘Three Psalms’ Concerto for piano and orchestra
Michael Houstoun (piano)

(Also ‘Omnifex’ for saxophone and orchestra, with Joshua Redman

RAT DV015 (CD and DVD)

 

RATTLE website: http://www.rattle.co.nz
to send an email

 

NAXOS

Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concertos Nos.1 and 2
NZSO/ Christopher Lyndon-Gee

Also ‘The Age of Gold’ Ballet Suite Op.22a

Naxos 8.553126

 

AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

Ribbonwood RCD 1003 APO/ conductor John Hopkins

Christopher Blake ‘The Coming of Tane Mahuta’

Atoll ACD 102 APO/ conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Ravel Concerto in D for the Left Hand
(live recording)

also Prokofiev ‘Romeo and Juliet’ selection

 

KIWI-PACIFIC RECORDS

Kiwi-Pacific Records TRL-069

Scriabin Piano Sonata No.3 in f sharp minor, Op.23
Chopin Nocturne in D flat, Op.27 No.2
Ballade in A flat, Op.47
3 Mazurkas, Op.63
Scherzo in c sharp minor, Op.39

 

MANU

Manu 1478 New Zealand Composers

includes Kenneth Young ‘Fantasy’ for 2 pianos
Michael Houstoun and Diedre Irons (pianos)

 

RETAIL OUTLETS

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