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Chopin - Étude Op. 10 No. 2 in A Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

Chopin – Étude Op. 10 No. 2 – Wang, Piano

Étude Op 10 No 2 in A Minor, is a technical study written by Frédéric Chopin for the piano. Composed in 1829, it was first published in 1833.

Horowitz plays Rachmaninov's Prelude Op. 32 No 12 in G sol minor

Piano / Prelude / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Rachmaninoff – Prelude No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor – Horowitz, Piano

Thirteen Preludes Op. 32, is a set of thirteen preludes for solo piano, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1910. The prelude No 12 in G-sharp minor is one of the most famous, especially under Horowitz fingers.

Martha Argerich plays Chopin's Scherzo No 3 in C-sharp minor at Chopin competition in Warsaw, 1965

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Scherzo

Chopin – Scherzo No. 3 – Martha Argerich, Piano

The Scherzo No. 3 Op. 39, in C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain.

Yuja Wang performs The Smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) from Robert Schumann, arranged for piano solo by Carl Tausig.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Schumann-Tausig – The Smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) – Wang,Piano

The smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) is a piece from Robert Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel op. 74. The transcription for piano solo is from Carl Tausig, a Polish composer, pianist and arranger considered by some critics to be the greatest of Liszt’s pupils.

Chopin - Scherzo No 3 in C-Sharp Minor - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Scherzo

Chopin – Scherzo No. 3 – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

The Scherzo No 3 Op. 39 in C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain.

Chopin - 24 Preludes for Piano Op 28 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 15 (Raindrop) – Wang, Piano

One of Frédéric Chopin most famous masterpiece, the Raindrop prelude strikes one at first as an oasis of peace and calm. However, the transition from the bright key of D-Flat Major to the tenebrous C-Sharp Minor brings dark, gloomy, disturbing sonorities.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Wang, Piano

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