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Argerich, Bashmet, Maisky, Kraggerud, Bell play Shostakovich's Quintet

Shostakovich – Piano Quintet – Argerich, Bashmet, Maisky, Kraggerud, Bell

The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best-known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Wang, Piano

Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It is in the key of G minor. 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.

Glenn Gould, piano, and Leonard Bernstein, conductor, perform Bach first harpsichord concerto in D minor

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Concerto / Piano

Bach – Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 – Gould; Bernstein

The Harpsichord Concerto No. 1, is Johannes Sebastian Bach first harpsichord concerto. Like the other harpsichord concertos, BWV 1052 is generally believed to be a transcription of a violin concerto.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano

Ravel – Scarbo – Martha Argerich, Piano

Scarbo is the third and last movement from Gaspard de la Nuit, Trois poèmes pour piano d’après Aloysius Bertrand, a suite of piano pieces by Maurice Ravel, written in 1908. The work was premiered in Paris, on January 9, 1909, by Ricardo Viñes.

Prokofiev - Toccata in D minor - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Toccata

Prokofiev – Toccata in D Minor – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Toccata in D Minor Op. 11 for solo piano was written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1912 and debuted by the composer on December 10, 1916 in Petrograd.

Liszt - Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major - Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Liszt – Concerto for Piano No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Concerto for Piano No. 2 in A Major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it repeatedly.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Toccata

Schumann – Toccata – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Toccata in C major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1830 and revised in 1833. The piece is in sonata-allegro form. It was originally titled Etude fantastique en double-sons (Fantastic Study in Double Notes),

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

Dvorak – Quintet No. 2 – Wang, Soloists of Berliner Philharmoniker

Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major is a quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello. It was composed between August 18 and October 8, 1887, and was premiered in Prague on January 6, 1888.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana IV (Sehr Langsam) – Grimaud, Piano

Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850.

Schubert - Fantasia in F Minor - Martha Argerich & Eduardo Delgado, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Fantasy / Piano

Schubert – Fantasia – Argerich & Delgado, Piano

The Fantasia in F Minor by Franz Schubert, D.940 (Op. posth. 103), for piano four-hands (two players at one piano), is one of Schubert’s most important works for more than one pianist and one of his most important piano works altogether.