Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, (1930–31) is the second of three piano concerti written by Béla Bartók, and is notorious for being one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire. In approaching the composition, Bartók wanted the music to be more contrapuntal.
La Soirée dans Grenade, the second piece from Estampes, a composition for piano written by Claude Debussy, uses the Arabic scale and mimics guitar strumming to evoke images of Granada, Spain.
The Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, is a work for piano and orchestra completed by Johannes Brahms in 1858. The composer gave the work’s public debut in Hanover, the following year.
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.
Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), Op. 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. Schumann wrote 30 movements for this work but chose 13 for the final version.
The Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best-known compositions, and is considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written.
Les Cyclopes from the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau is the eighth piece from his Suite in D major, RCT 3 (Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, 1706). The sujet of the work is …
The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann. The work was premiered in Dresden on December 4, 1845.
Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, was written in 1830. It was first performed on 11 October of that year, at the Teatr Narodowy (the National Theatre) in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist, during one of his “farewell” concerts before leaving Poland.
