The Piano Concerto No 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888.
Bagatelle No 25 in A minor (WoO 59 and Bia 515) for solo piano, commonly known as For Elise is one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most popular compositions. It was not published during his lifetime, only being discovered forty years after his death.
Chopin’s Waltz No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, Valse du petit chien (French for “Waltz of the little dog”), is popularly known in English as the “Minute Waltz”, is a piano waltz. Far before Arthur Rubinstein and Dinu Lipatti, this is the best performance for this waltz.
The Waltz No 7 in C-sharp minor was composed in 1847 and have three themes with different speeds. It is the second work of Frédéric Chopin’s opus 64 and the companion to the Minute Waltz (Op. 64, No. 1).
Beethoven’s most popular composition for piano was not published during his lifetime, only being discovered (by Ludwig Nohl) forty years after his death.
Étude Op. 25, No. 1 in A-flat major is a solo piano work composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836, and published in 1837. The work consists entirely of rapid arpeggios and harmonic modulations based on A-flat major.
Marked ‘Presto’, Chopin’s Étude Op. 25, No. 2, in F minor is based on a polyrhythm, with pairs of eighth-note (quaver) triplets in the right hand against quarter-note (crotchet) triplets in the left.
