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Ligeti - Etude No 4, Fanfares - Yuja Wang, Piano

Ligeti – Etude No 4, Fanfares – Wang, Piano

4th piece from Book I, Fanfares is Ligeti’s Etude No 4 for piano and is dedicated to the German pianist Volker Banfield. György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001.

Bartok - Piano Concerto No 2 - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Bartok – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, (1930–31) is the second of three piano concerti written by Béla Bartók, and is notorious for being one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire. In approaching the composition, Bartók wanted the music to be more contrapuntal.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Toccata

Prokofiev – Toccata in D Minor – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Toccata in D minor Op. 11 for solo piano was written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1912 and debuted by the composer on December 10, 1916 in Petrograd.

Prokofiev - Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Piano Sonata No. 8 – Yuja Wang

Piano Sonata No 8 in B-Flat Major, Op. 84 (1944) is a sonata for solo piano composed by Sergei Prokofiev, the third of the Three War Sonatas. The sonata was first performed on 30 December 1944 in Moscow by the Russian pianist Emil Gilels.

Prokofiev - Sonata No 6 in A Major - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Sonata No. 6 – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Piano Sonata No 6 in A Major, Op. 82 (1940) is a sonata in four movements for solo piano by Sergei Prokofiev, the first of the Three War Sonatas.

Stravinsky - Trois Mouvements de Petrushka - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Stravinsky – Trois Mouvements de Petrushka – Wang, Piano

Trois mouvements de Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

Grigory Sokolov performs the third and last movement from Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Sonata No 7, 3rd movement – Sokolov, Piano

Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 (1942) (occasionally called the “Stalingrad”) is the second of the three “War Sonatas”. The sonata was first performed on 18 January …

Martha Argerich plays Bartok's piano concerto No. 3 in E Major

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3 – Martha Argerich

Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op 26, was completed in 1921. Sergei Prokofiev began his work on the concerto as early as 1913 when he wrote a theme with variations which he then set aside.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Toccata

Prokofiev – Toccata in D Minor – Horowitz, Piano

The Toccata in D minor Op 11 for solo piano was written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1912 and debuted by the composer on December 10, 1916 in Petrograd. It is a further development …

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Ravel – Concerto in G Major – Grimaud, Piano

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto is in three movements and was deeply infused with jazz idioms and harmonies, which, at the time, were highly popular in Paris as well as the United States.