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Chopin - Ballade No 1 in G Minor - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

Chopin – Ballade No. 1 – Grimaud, Piano

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, where he dedicated it to Baron Nathaniel von Stockhausen, the Hanoverian ambassador to France.

Chopin - Mazurka in C major Op. 24 No. 2 - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Mazurka / Piano

Chopin – Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2 – Argerich, Piano

Mazurkas, Op 24 are a set of four Mazurkas for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin. The set was composed and published in 1836. Mazurka in C major is essentially a kind of folkloric cliché: a folk provenance can be found in all its themes.

Rachmaninoff- Concerto No. 2 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, was composed between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with Sergei Rachmaninoff as soloist on 2 December 1900.

Liszt - Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it repeatedly.

Chopin - Mazurka in A Minor, Op 17 No 4 - Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Mazurka / Piano

Chopin – Mazurka Op. 17 No. 4 – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

Mazurka in A Minor is the last one from Op 17, a set of four mazurkas composed by Frédéric Chopin between 1832 and 1833. It is a real masterpiece, in the form of a dance poem. Written in A minor, it is in 3/4 and is marked Lento, ma non troppo.

Mendelssohn - Double Concerto - Kremer, Argerich

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano / Violin

Mendelssohn – Double Concerto – Kremer, Violin; Argerich, Piano

The Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Strings in D minor, MWV O4, also known as the Double Concerto in D minor, was written in 1823 by Felix Mendelssohn when he was 14 years old.

Rachmaninoff - Sonata for Cello & Piano in G Minor - Capuçon Cello, Wang Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Sonata

Rachmaninoff – Sonata for Cello and Piano – Capuçon, Wang

Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19 was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. Sergei Rachmaninoff regarded the role of the piano as not just an accompaniment but equal to the cello.

Piano / Prelude / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Chopin – Prelude No. 8 – Trifonov, Piano

Chopin Prelude No 8, in F sharp minor, counters the calm simplicity of the seventh with a broad stream of sonority of peculiar beauty, diffused in rising and falling waves of airy figuration. Among its admirers was Witold Lutosławski, who called it a ‘wonder’.

Debussy - Jardin Sous la Pluie (Estampes) - Argerich, Piano

IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC / Piano

Debussy – Jardins Sous la Pluie (Estampes) – Argerich, Piano

Jardins sous la pluie, the third ans last piece from Estampes, a composition for piano written by Claude Debussy, describes a garden in the Normandy town of Orbec during an extremely violent rainstorm.

JAZZ / Piano

Youmans-Tatum – Tea for Two – Wang, Piano

Tea for Two is a song composed by Vincent Youmans with lyrics by Irving Caesar and written in 1924. It was introduced by Louise Groody and John Barker in the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette.