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Brahms - Piano Concerto No 2 - Grimaud, Piano

Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Hélène Grimaud

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.

Chopin - Prelude No 4 in E Minor - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 4 – Martha Argerich, Piano

Chopin’s Prelude No 4 in E minor is one of the 24 preludes opus 28 for piano. By Frédéric Chopin’s request, this piece was played at his own funeral, along with Mozart’s Requiem.

Chopin - Sonata No 2 in B-Flat Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, is a piano sonata in four movements. Frédéric Chopin completed the work while living in George Sand’s manor in Nohant, some 250 km (160 mi) south of Paris, a year before it was published in 1840. The third movement of the Piano Sonata No 2 is Chopin’s famous funeral march.

Beethoven - Sonata No. 28 - Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 28 – Vladimir Horowitz

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 28 in A major, Op. 101, was written in 1816 and was dedicated to the pianist Baroness Dorothea Ertmann, née Graumen. This sonata marks the beginning of what is generally regarded as Ludwig van Beethoven’s final period.

Martha Argerich performs Chopin's Barcarolle for piano in F-sharp major

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Barcarolle / Piano

Chopin – Barcarolle – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60 is a piece for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin, composed between autumn of 1845 and summer 1846, three years before his death. Based on the barcarolle rhythm and mood, it features a sweepingly romantic and slightly wistful tone.

Yuja wang and the Shanghai Quartet play Schumann's Piano Quintett in E-Flat Major

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Quintet / Viola / Violin

Schumann – Piano Quintet – Wang, Shanghai String Quartet

The Piano Quintet by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year. Noted for its “extroverted, exuberant” character, Schumann’s piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions.

Beethoven - Sonata No 31 in A-Flat Major - Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31 – Hélène Grimaud

The Piano Sonata No 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1821. It is the central piano sonata in the group of three (Op 109, 110, 111) which he wrote between 1820 and 1822, and the thirty-first of his published piano sonatas.

Martha Argerich plays as encore Gavottes I and II from English Suite No. 3 in G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Suite

Bach – Gavottes from English Suite No. 3 – Argerich, Piano

The English Suites, BWV 806–811, are a set of six suites written by Johann Sebastian Bach for harpsichord (or clavichord) and generally thought to be the earliest of his 19 suites for keyboard.

Yuja Wang performs Rachmaninoff's Prelude in B-Minor, Op.32 No 10 for piano.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Rachmaninoff – Prelude No. 10 – Wang, Piano

Rachmaninoff’s Prelude No. 10 in B minor (Op. 32), was written in 1910 along with the other twelve pieces. Sergei Rachmaninoff was inspired by Arnold Böcklin’s painting Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming or The Return).

Saint-Saens/Liszt/Horowitz - Danse Macabre - Horowitz

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Horowitz

Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition.