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Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 1 in C Major - Buniatishvili, Piano

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1 was written in 1795, then revised in 1800. The first performance took place on 18 December 1795 in Vienna with Ludwig van Beethoven himself as soloist.

Liszt - Piano Concerto No 1 in E-Flat Major - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Yuja Wang

Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version is dated 1849.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 9 (Jeunehomme) - Yuja Wang, Piano

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Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 9 – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No 9 “Jenamy” (often incorrectly nicknamed “Jeunehomme”) in E-Flat Major, K. 271, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written in Salzburg in 1777, when Mozart was 21 years old.

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Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83, by Johannes Brahms is separated by a gap of 22 years from his first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near Vienna.

Beethoven - Concerto No. 2 - Argerich, Piano

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Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Argerich; Barenboim

The Concerto No 2 was composed primarily between 1787 and 1789, although it did not attain the form in which it was published until 1795. Beethoven did write a second finale for it in 1798 for performance in Prague, but that is not the finale that was published.

The guitarist John Williams is playing Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez famous second movement, Adagio

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Guitar / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez – Adagio – Williams, Guitar

The Concierto de Aranjuez is a composition for classical guitar and orchestra by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. Written in 1939, it is far and away Rodrigo’s best-known work.

Schumann - Piano Concerto in A Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

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Schumann – Concerto in A Minor – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann. The work was premiered in Dresden on December 4, 1845.

Schumann - Piano Concerto in A Minor - Grimaud, Piano

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Schumann – Concerto in A Minor – Grimaud, Piano

The Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by Robert Schumann who had earlier worked on several piano concerti who were never completed.

Martha Argerich plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15

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Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Martha Argerich

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op. 15, was written in 1795, then revised in 1800. The first performance took place on 18 December 1795 in Vienna with Ludwig van Beethoven himself as soloist.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 23 in A major - Grimaud, Piano

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Mozart – Concerto No. 23 – Hélène Grimaud, 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.