Trois mouvements de Petrouchka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Stravinsky is very explicit in stating that …
Vladimir Horowitz, Martha Argerich, Maurizio Pollini, Yuja Wang, Daniil Trifonov, Hélène Grimaud, Khatia Buniatishvili, Glenn Gould, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Lang Lang… they all play a Steinway & Sons piano. Why?
The Partita No. 3 in E Major BWV 1006 by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo violin is the last work in the set of Six Sonatas and Partitas. It consists of six movements.
Madamina, il catalogo è questo (also known as the Catalogue Aria) is a bass catalogue aria from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, and is one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most famous and popular arias.
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor was written in Dresden and completed on September 23, 1909. The concerto was first performed on Sunday afternoon, November 28, 1909, by Sergei Rachmaninoff himself.
The Chorale Prelude in F-minor is part of the Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) BWV 599−644, a collection of 46 chorale preludes for organ written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major (K. 488) is a composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart’s own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, two months prior to the premiere of his opera, Le nozze di Figaro
Villa-Lobos etude No. 1 in E minor for guitar is an arpeggio study focusing on right-hand technique, but includes challenging left hand chord patterns.
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life), BWV 147, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. The music of the chorale movements is now best known for the piano transcription.
