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Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major - Wang, Piano

Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major – Yuja Wang

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.

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

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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

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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.