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Liszt - Piano Sonata in B Minor - Wang, Piano

Liszt – Piano Sonata in B Minor – Yuja Wang

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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Dreams of Love – Buniatishvili, Piano

Dreams of Love is a set of three solo piano works published in 1850 by Franz Liszt. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.

Rachmaninoff, Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor - Hélène Grimaud

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Rachmaninoff – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Hélène Grimaud

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36, in B-Flat Minor, was composed by Sergei Rachmaninov in 1913. Rachmaninoff revised it in 1931, with the note, “The new version, revised and reduced by author.”

Chopin - Prelude No 24 in D Minor - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 24 – Martha Argerich, Piano

Prelude No. 24 is the last one of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839. Frédéric Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839.

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Lied / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC / Transcription

Schubert-Liszt – Liebesbotschaft (Message of Love) – Wang, Piano

Liebesbotschaft (Message of love, the singer invites a stream to convey a message to his beloved.) is the first lied from Schwanengesang, a collection of songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously.

Liszt - Transcendental Etude No 5, Feux Follets - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – Feux Follets – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Feux Follets (Wills o’ the Wisp) is the fifth étude of the set of twelve Transcendental Études by Franz Liszt. As with the other works in the Études but one, Feux Follets went through three versions.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Variation

Chopin – Berceuse in D-Flat Major – Grimaud, Piano

Chopin’s Berceuse, Op. 57, is a lullaby to be played on the piano. He composed it in 1843/44 as variations in D-flat major. Frédéric Chopin originally called his work Variantes.

Maisky and Argerich play Grieg's Cello sonata in A minor

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Sonata

Grieg – Cello Sonata – Maisky, Cello; Argerich, Piano

Edvard Grieg composed the Cello Sonata in 1882–83, marking a return to composition following a period when he had been preoccupied with his conducting duties at the Bergen Symphony Orchestra as well as illness.

Yuja Wang is playing Cziffra's transcription for piano of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee

ROMANTIC MUSIC / CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Rimsky-Korsakov (Cziffra) – Flight of the Bumblebee – Wang, 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.

Mendelssohns - Piano Concerto No 1 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Yuja Wang

Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 was written in 1830–31, around the same time as his fourth symphony (“Italian”), and premiered in Munich in October 1831. This concerto was composed in Rome during a travel in Italy after the composer met a pianist in Munich.