The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, is a concertante work for solo piano and symphony orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It closely resembling a piano concerto, albeit …
Wolfgant Amadeus Mozart has written six trios with piano. During his lifetime, this kind was extremely popular in Vienna, violin often being replaced by a wind instrument like the clarinet or the flute.
The Partitas, BWV 825–830, are a set of six harpsichord suites written by Johann Sebastian Bach, published individually beginning in 1726, then together as Clavier-Übung I in 1731, the first of his works to be published under his own direction.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Sonata No 8 in A Minor, K. 310 / 300d, was written in 1778. The sonata is the first of only two Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart piano sonatas in a minor key (the other being No. 14 in C minor, K. 457).
Franz Schubert composed his Lied Erlkönig for solo voice and piano at the age of 17 or 18 in 1815, setting text from Goethe’s poem. Schubert revised the song three times before publishing his fourth version in 1821 as his Opus 1.
Trois mouvements de Petrouchka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Stravinsky is very explicit in stating that …
Vladimir Horowitz, Martha Argerich, Maurizio Pollini, Yuja Wang, Daniil Trifonov, Hélène Grimaud, Khatia Buniatishvili, Glenn Gould, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Lang Lang… they all play a Steinway & Sons piano. Why?
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor was written in Dresden and completed on September 23, 1909. The concerto was first performed on Sunday afternoon, November 28, 1909, by Sergei Rachmaninoff himself.
The Chorale Prelude in F-minor is part of the Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) BWV 599−644, a collection of 46 chorale preludes for organ written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
