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

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.

BAROQUE MUSIC / Guitar / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K. 11 in E Minor – Bream, Guitar

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who composed the Sonata in E Minor K.11 was an Italian composer. His music was influential in the development of the Classical style and today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

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

BAROQUE MUSIC / 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.

Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor - Martha Argerich

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 3 – Martha Argerich

Chopin’s Piano Sonata No 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, is the last of the composer’s piano sonatas. Completed in 1844 and dedicated to Countess Émilie de Perthuis, the work is considered to be one of Frédéric Chopin’s most difficult compositions, both technically and musically.

Liszt - Sonata in B Minor - Horowitz, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Liszt – Piano Sonata in B Minor – Vladimir Horowitz, Piano

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.

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

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

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

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. 466 in F Minor - Wang, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonata K. 466 – Yuja Wang

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K. 466 in F minor 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.

Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 10 - Horowitz, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Sonata

Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 10 – Vladimir Horowitz

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330 / 300h, is one of the three works in the cycle of piano sonatas K.330-331-332. The work is one of Mozart’s most popular piano sonatas.

Beethoven - Sonata No 17 in D minor, Allegretto - Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Beethoven – Sonata No. 17 – Hélène Grimaud, Piano

The Piano Sonata No 17 in D Minor, was composed in 1801–02 by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is usually referred to as “The Tempest” (or Der Sturm in his native German), but the sonata was not given this title by Beethoven, or indeed referred to as such during his lifetime.