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

Chopin – Prelude No. 4 – Sokolov, Piano

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

Rachmaninoff - Sonata for Cello & Piano in G Minor - Capuçon Cello, Wang Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Sonata

Rachmaninoff – Sonata for Cello and Piano – Wang; Capuçon

Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19 was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. Sergei Rachmaninoff regarded the role of the piano as not just an accompaniment but equal to the cello.

Schumann - Kreisleriana VI (Sehr Langsam) - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana VI (Sehr Langsam) – Grimaud, Piano

Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Mendelssohn – Songs Without Words Op. 67 No. 2 – Wang, Piano

Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano pieces by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. His sister Fanny Mendelssohn and other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre.

Chopin - Prelude No. 15 (Raindrop) - Horwitz, piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

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

The Prelude No 15 in D-Flat Major, nicknamed “Raindrop”, 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.

The guitarist Julian Bream and John Williams play The Spanish Dance from Manuel de Falla's opera, La Vida Breve

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Dance / Duet / Guitar / Opera

Falla – La Vida Breve, Spanish Dance – Bream & Williams, Guitar

La vida breve (Life is Short or The Brief Life) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla. It was written between August 1904 and March 1905, but not produced until 1913.

Chopin - Ballade No 1 in G Minor - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Ballade / Piano

Chopin – Ballade No. 1 – Grimaud, Piano

Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23, dates to sketches Chopin made in 1831 during his eight-month stay in Vienna. It was completed in 1835 after his move to Paris, where he dedicated it to Baron Nathaniel von Stockhausen, the Hanoverian ambassador to France.