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Beethoven - Sonata No 31 in A-Flat Major - Grimaud, Piano

Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31 – Hélène Grimaud

The Piano Sonata No 31 in A-Flat Major, Op. 110, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1821. It is the central piano sonata in the group of three (Op 109, 110, 111) which he wrote between 1820 and 1822, and the thirty-first of his published piano sonatas.

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

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin) – 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.

Scarlatti - Sonata K. 427 in G Major - Wang, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K. 427 – Wang, Piano

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K. 427 in G Major 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.

Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang play Grieg's Cello sonata in A minor

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Sonata

Grieg – Cello Sonata – Capuçon, Cello; Wang, 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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 – Hélène Grimaud

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.

Prokofiev - Sonata No 7, 3rd movement - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Piano Sonata No. 7, Precipitato – Yuja Wang

Piano Sonata No. 7 (occasionally called the “Stalingrad”) is the second of the three “War Sonatas” written by Sergei Prokofiev. The sonata was first performed on 18 January 1943 in Moscow by Sviatoslav Richter.

Scarlatti - Sonata K. 455 in G Major - Yuja Wang,

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K. 455 – Wang, Piano

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K. 455 in G Major was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He was born in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.