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 …
This is a crazy version with 8 pianos and big classical music stars (Levine, Lang Lang, Kissin…) of The Ride of the Valkyries, the so famous beginning of Die Walküre Act III.
From the movie “The Big Store”, Chico and Harpo play in piano duet “Mamãe Eu Quero” (Mom, I want it), a very famous Brazilian song composed in 1937 by Vicente Paiva and Jararaca.
The Mephisto Waltzes are four waltzes composed by Franz Liszt from 1859 to 1862, from 1880 to 1881, and in 1883 and 1885. Of the four, the first is the most popular.
The Polka Italienne (Italian Polka) is an original composition for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninov. It was composed in 1906 and published in his Suite No. 2.
Robert Schumann wrote his Arabesque in C major, Op. 18 in 1839 when he was 29 years old, dedicating it to Frau Majorin Friederike Serre auf Maxen, to whom he …
The Piano Sonata No. 17 is usually referred to as “The Tempest” (or Der Sturm in his native German), but the sonata was not given this title by Beethoven, or indeed referred to as such during his lifetime.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his series of preserved piano concertos with four that he wrote at the age of 11, in Salzburg: K. 37 and 39–41. Although these works were long considered to be original, they are now known to be orchestrations of sonatas by various German virtuosi.
