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Yuja Wang performs The Smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) from Robert Schumann, arranged for piano solo by Carl Tausig.

Schumann-Tausig – The Smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) – Wang,Piano

The smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) is a piece from Robert Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel op. 74. The transcription for piano solo is from Carl Tausig, a Polish composer, pianist and arranger considered by some critics to be the greatest of Liszt’s pupils.

Chopin - Scherzo No 3 in C-Sharp Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Scherzo

Chopin – Scherzo No. 3 – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

The Scherzo No 3 Op. 39 in C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain.

Martha Argerich plays Mozart's Sonata for piano No. 8 in A minor

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 8 – Martha Argerich

Mozart’s Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor, K. 310 / 300d, was written in 1778. The sonata is the first of only two Mozart piano sonatas in a minor key. It was composed in the summer of 1778 around the time of his mother’s death, one of the most tragic times of his life.

Chopin - 24 Preludes for Piano Op 28 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 15 (Raindrop) – Wang, Piano

One of Frédéric Chopin most famous masterpiece, the Raindrop prelude strikes one at first as an oasis of peace and calm. However, the transition from the bright key of D-Flat Major to the tenebrous C-Sharp Minor brings dark, gloomy, disturbing sonorities.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Waltz

Ravel – La Valse – Buniatishvili, Piano

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris.

Argerich, Bashmet, Maisky, Kraggerud, Bell play Shostakovich's Quintet

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / Piano / Quintet

Shostakovich – Piano Quintet – Argerich, Bashmet, Maisky, Kraggerud, Bell

The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best-known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Wang, Piano

Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It is in the key of G minor. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition.