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

Liszt – Concerto for Piano No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano 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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Toccata

Schumann – Toccata – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Toccata in C major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1830 and revised in 1833. The piece is in sonata-allegro form. It was originally titled Etude fantastique en double-sons (Fantastic Study in Double Notes),

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Quintet / Viola / Violin

Dvorak – Quintet No. 2 – Wang, Soloists of Berliner Philharmoniker

Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major is a quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello. It was composed between August 18 and October 8, 1887, and was premiered in Prague on January 6, 1888.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana IV (Sehr Langsam) – Grimaud, Piano

Kreisleriana, Op. 16, 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.

Schubert - Fantasia in F Minor - Martha Argerich & Eduardo Delgado, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Fantasy / Piano

Schubert – Fantasia – Argerich & Delgado, Piano

The Fantasia in F Minor by Franz Schubert, D.940 (Op. posth. 103), for piano four-hands (two players at one piano), is one of Schubert’s most important works for more than one pianist and one of his most important piano works altogether.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Cello Sonata – Capuçon, Cello; Wang, Piano

The Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, was written by Frédéric Chopin in 1846. It is one of only nine works of Chopin published during his lifetime that were written for instruments other than piano (although the piano still appears in every work he wrote).

Daniil Trifonov performs Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu for piano in C-sharp minor

Impromptu / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu – Daniil Trifonov, Piano

Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth. 66, is a solo piano composition. It was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece despite Frédéric Chopin’s request not to do so.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Quintet / Viola / Violin

Schumann – Piano Quintet – Grimaud, Capuçon, Shoji, Tomter, Maisky

The Piano Quintet by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year. Noted for its “extroverted, exuberant” character, Schumann’s piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions.

Widmug - Schumann/Liszt - Argerich, Piano

Lied / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Schumann/Liszt: Widmung – Argerich, Piano

Widmung Op. 25 No. 1 is the first song in Myrthen, a song cycles (26 songs) written by Robert Schumann in 1840, as a secret wedding gift for Clara Wieck. This piece was later arranged for piano solo by Franz Liszt.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / CLASSICAL MUSIC / Lied / Piano

Schubert-Liszt – Auf dem Wasser zu Singen – Wang, Piano

Auf dem Wasser zu singen (To sing on the water), D. 774, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert in 1823, based on the poem of the same name by Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg. The text describes a scene on the water from the perspective of the narrator who is in a boat.