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Yuja Wang performs Brahms' Intermezzo No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor

Brahms – Intermezzo Op. 117 No. 3 – Wang, Piano

Intermezzo Op 117 No 3 in C-Sharp Minor is the third of the three Intermezzi for piano composed by Johannes Brahms in 1892 for solo piano.

Schumann - Piano Concerto in A Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Schumann – Concerto in A Minor – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann. The work was premiered in Dresden on December 4, 1845.

Schumann - Piano Concerto in A Minor - Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Schumann – Concerto in A Minor – Grimaud, Piano

The Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by Robert Schumann who had earlier worked on several piano concerti who were never completed.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Mazurka / Piano

Chopin – Mazurka Op. 59 No. 1 – Argerich, Piano

Mazurka Op. 59 No. 1 in A Minor is the opening piece of Mazurkas Op. 59, a set of three Mazurkas for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin. The set was composed and published in 1845.

Chopin - Ballade No 1 in G minor - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Ballade / Piano

Chopin – Ballade No. 1 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, dates to sketches Chopin made in 1831 during his eight-month stay in Vienna. It was completed in 1835 after his move to Paris.

Schumann - Kinderszenen - Horowitz, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kinderszenen – Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. Schumann wrote 30 movements for this work but chose 13 for the final version.

Renaud Capuçon and Martha Argerich play Beethoven's Violin and Piano Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata / Violin

Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 8 – Capuçon; Argerich

The Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3, by Ludwig van Beethoven, the third of his Opus 30 set, was written between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia.

Scarlatti - Sonata K. 455 in G Major - Yuja Wang,

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K. 455 – Wang, Piano

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K. 455 in G Major was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He was born in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.

The pianist Arthur Rubinstein performs Liszt's Dream Love

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Dreams of Love – Rubinstein, Piano

Dreams of Love is a set of three solo piano works published in 1850 and composed by Franz Liszt. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.

IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC / Suite

Debussy – Clair de Lune (Moonlight) – Grimaud, Piano

Clair de Lune (Moonlight) in D-Flat Major is the third and most famous movement from Claude Debussy’s Suite bergamasque. Its name comes from Verlaine’s poem “Clair de lune”, which means “moonlight” in French.