The career of pianist Peter Rösel began in the middle of the Communist era in what was then East Germany and the pianist remains active as of the early 2020s. He has a large recording catalog that includes the complete piano works of Brahms and the complete sonatas of Beethoven. By the late '60s, Rösel was recording frequently, and many of those releases have been reissued in the 21st century. In 1970, Rösel made the first of what would become more than 200 appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. A 1979 complete set of Rachmaninov's piano concertos, with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Kurt Sanderling, was reissued on that label in 2023. By that time, his recording catalog comprised at least 65 items.