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Vladimir Horowitz plays the first movement of Mozart's piano concerto No. 23 in A major

Mozart – Concerto No. 23 – Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 23 in A major (K. 488) was finished on March 2, 1786, two months prior to the premiere of the opera, Le nozze di Figaro and some three weeks prior to the completion of his next piano concerto.

Satie - Gymnopédie No 1 - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1 – Grimaud, Piano

The Gymnopédie No. 1 is part of Gymnopédies, three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie and published in Paris starting in 1888.

Schumann - Kreisleriana - Argerich (live)

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana – Argerich, Piano (live)

Kreisleriana is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850. In 1839, soon after publishing it, Schumann called it in a letter my favorite work.

Liszt - Piano Sonata in B Minor - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Liszt – Piano Sonata in B Minor – Yuja Wang

The Piano Sonata in B minor is a sonata for solo piano by Franz Liszt. It was completed in 1853 and published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann in return for his dedication of his Fantasie in C major, Op. 17 (published 1839) to Liszt.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Dreams of Love – Buniatishvili, Piano

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

Rachmaninoff, Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor - Hélène Grimaud

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Rachmaninoff – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Hélène Grimaud

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36, in B-Flat Minor, was composed by Sergei Rachmaninov in 1913. Rachmaninoff revised it in 1931, with the note, “The new version, revised and reduced by author.”

Chopin - Prelude No 24 in D Minor - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 24 – Martha Argerich, Piano

Prelude No. 24 is the last one of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839. Frédéric Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839.

Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel) – Wang, Piano

The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand was composed by Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G. It was commissioned by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm during World War I.

The guitarist Julian Bream plays Villa Lobos' preludes 3 and 4

Guitar / Prelude

Villa-Lobos – Prelude No. 3 – Julian Bream, Guitar

Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Prelude No. 3 is a guitar piece subtitled “Homenagem a Bach” (Homage to Bach). It is in the key of A minor, and is the third of the Five Preludes, written in 1940.

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Choral / Fantasy / Piano

Beethoven – Choral Fantasy – Argerich, Piano; Ozawa, Conductor

The Fantasy (Fantasia) for piano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, was composed in 1808 by Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven intended the Fantasy to serve as the concluding work for the benefit concert he put on for himself on 22 December 1808.