Lutoslawski – Paganini variations for 2 pianos – Argerich, Kissin
“Lutosławski left Warsaw in July 1944 with his mother, merely a few days before the Warsaw Uprising, salvaging only a few scores and sketches—the rest of his music was lost during …
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Gluck / Sgambati – Dance of the Blessed Spirits – Wang, Piano
Dance of the Blessed Spirits is a melody from Orpheus and Eurydice, an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto …
Mickey – The Opry House (1929) – Rachmaninov, Liszt
The Opry House was the fifth Mickey Mouse cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions and introduced Mickey’s gloves. You can listen some theme from Rachmaninov’s famous C-sharp minor prelude and …
Bach – Concerto For 4 Pianos – Argerich, Levine, Kissin, Pletnev
Bach made a number of transcriptions of Antonio Vivaldi‘s concertos, especially from his Op. 3 set, entitled L’estro armonico. Bach adapted them for solo harpsichord and solo organ, but for the …
Mozart – Piano concerto No 19 – Maurizio Pollini, Karl Böhm
The Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, KV 459 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written at the end of 1784: Mozart’s own catalogue of works records that it was …
Mozart – Sonata four hands in C major K. 521 – Argerich, Kissin, Piano
Mozart has written only six – or even five, the authenticity of some work has been disputed – sonatas for piano four hands. The sonata K 521 in C Major …
Chopin – Introduction and Polonaise brillante – Argerich Piano, Rostropovich Cello
Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3, is a composition for cello and piano by Frédéric Chopin. It was one of Chopin’s first published compositions. Due to the …
Mozart – Turkish March – Horowitz, Piano
The Turkish March is the third movement from Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major (but the Turkish March is in A minor). It is often heard on its …
Chopin – Ballade No. 2 in F major – Zimerman, Piano
Chopin’s Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38, was composed from 1836 to 1839 in Nohant, France, and on the Spanish island of Majorca. Robert Schumann, who had dedicated …
Chopin – Waltz No 6 in D-flat major – Borge and Hambro, Piano
The Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64, No. 1, Valse du petit chien (French for “Waltz of the little dog”), popularly known in English as the “Minute Waltz”, is a …