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Brahms - Piano Concerto No 2 - Grimaud, Piano

Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Hélène Grimaud

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83, by Johannes Brahms is separated by a gap of 22 years from his first piano concerto. Brahms began work on the piece in 1878 and completed it in 1881 while in Pressbaum near Vienna.

Chopin - Prelude No 4 in E Minor - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 4 – Martha Argerich, Piano

Chopin’s Prelude No 4 in E minor is one of the 24 preludes opus 28 for piano. By Frédéric Chopin’s request, this piece was played at his own funeral, along with Mozart’s Requiem.

Chopin - Sonata No 2 in B-Flat Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, is a piano sonata in four movements. Frédéric Chopin completed the work while living in George Sand’s manor in Nohant, some 250 km (160 mi) south of Paris, a year before it was published in 1840. The third movement of the Piano Sonata No 2 is Chopin’s famous funeral march.

Martha Argerich performs Chopin's Barcarolle for piano in F-sharp major

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Barcarolle / Piano

Chopin – Barcarolle – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60 is a piece for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin, composed between autumn of 1845 and summer 1846, three years before his death. Based on the barcarolle rhythm and mood, it features a sweepingly romantic and slightly wistful tone.

Yuja wang and the Shanghai Quartet play Schumann's Piano Quintett in E-Flat Major

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

Schumann – Piano Quintet – Wang, Shanghai String Quartet

The Piano Quintet by Robert Schumann was composed in 1842 and received its first public performance the following year. Noted for its “extroverted, exuberant” character, Schumann’s piano quintet is considered one of his finest compositions.

Scriabin - Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2 No 1 - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude

Scriabin – Etude in C-Sharp Minor – Buniatishvili, Piano

Scriabin’s Etude in C-Sharp Minor was written in 1887, when the composer was just 15 years old. It was the first of the Three Pieces, Op. 2, and was one of Alexander Scriabin’s earliest successes.

Yuja Wang performs Rachmaninoff's Prelude in B-Minor, Op.32 No 10 for piano.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Rachmaninoff – Prelude No. 10 – Wang, Piano

Rachmaninoff’s Prelude No. 10 in B minor (Op. 32), was written in 1910 along with the other twelve pieces. Sergei Rachmaninoff was inspired by Arnold Böcklin’s painting Die Heimkehr (The Homecoming or The Return).

Saint-Saens/Liszt/Horowitz - Danse Macabre - Horowitz

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Horowitz

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

Ballade / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Chopin – Ballade No. 3 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Chopin’s Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47, dating from 1841, is dedicated to Pauline de Noailles. The inspiration for this Ballade by Frédéric Chopin is usually claimed to be Adam Mickiewicz’s poem Undine, also known as Świtezianka.

Liszt - Grand Galop Chromatique - Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Grand Galop Chromatique – Buniatishvili, Piano

Grand galop chromatique in E-flat major, S.219 is a bravura piece by Franz Liszt, composed in 1838. This gallop was one of Liszt’s favorite encores which he considered a “rouser.” …