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Yuja Wang performs Chopin's Polonaise Fantaisie in A-flat major

Chopin – Polonaise Fantaisie – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Polonaise Fantaisie in A-flat major, Op. 61, from Frédéric Chopin, dedicated to Mme A. Veyret, was written and published in 1846. This work was slow to gain favor with musicians, due to its harmonic complexity and intricate form.

The Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin is playing Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumblebee from his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan in Rachmaninov's transcription for piano

Transcription / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Rimsky-Korsakov (Rachmaninov) – Flight of the Bumblebee – Kissin, Piano

Flight of the Bumblebee is an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. Its composition is intended to musically evoke …

Beethoven - Concerto No. 2 - Argerich, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Argerich; Barenboim

The Concerto No 2 was composed primarily between 1787 and 1789, although it did not attain the form in which it was published until 1795. Beethoven did write a second finale for it in 1798 for performance in Prague, but that is not the finale that was published.

Chopin – Prelude No 25 in C-Sharp Minor – Pogorelich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 25 – Ivo Pogorelich, Piano

Chopin’s Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45 (sometimes listed as Prelude No. 25), was composed in 1841. It was dedicated to Princess E. Czernicheff (Elisaweta Tschernyschewa).

Martha Argerich plays Brahms' rhapsody No. 1

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Rhapsody

Brahms – Rhapsody No. 1 – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Rhapsodies, Op. 79, for piano were written by Johannes Brahms in 1879 during his summer stay in Pörtschach, when he had reached the maturity of his career.

Scarlatti - Sonata K. 466 in F Minor - Wang, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonata K. 466 – Yuja Wang

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K. 466 in F minor was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. Today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

Beethoven - Sonata No 17 in D minor, Allegretto - Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Beethoven – Sonata No. 17 – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

The Piano Sonata No 17 in D Minor, was composed in 1801–02 by Ludwig van Beethoven. It 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.

Liszt - Piano Sonata in B Minor - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Liszt – Sonata in B Minor – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Piano Sonata in B minor is a sonata for solo piano by Franz Liszt. It was completed in 1853 and published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann in return for his dedication of his Fantasie in C major, Op. 17 (published 1839) to Liszt.

The pianist Yuja Wang and Khatia Buniatishvilli are performing Brahms' first Hungarian Dance.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Dance / Duet / Piano

Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 1 – Wang & Buniatishvili, Piano

The Hungarian Dance No. 1 is the first of the 21 Hungarian Dances (German: Ungarische Tänze) composed by Johannes Brahms, based mostly on Hungarian themes and completed in 1869.

Chopin – Étude Revolutionary No 12 in C Minor, - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Chopin – Revolutionary Etude – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Known as Étude Revolutionary, Chopin Étude Op 10, No 12 in C minor is dedicated “à son ami Franz Liszt” (“to his friend Franz Liszt”). The 12th Étude appeared around the same time as the November Uprising in 1831 and its first chord sounds like a gunshot.