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. This is the most terse, ironic, difficult and tightly constructed of the four scherzi, with an almost Beethovenian grandeur. Chopin dedicated this composition to one of his closest pupils, Adolphe Gutmann. – Khatia Buniatishvili
Christmas
Santa Claus (Bizet, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Rossini)
Santa Claus is hungry for some delicious cookies!
Christmas Oratorio
Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Chopin by Buniatishvili
Scherzo No. 2
Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor
Prelude No. 4
Prelude No. 4 in E Minor
Waltz No. 7
Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor
Scherzo No. 3: Other Performances
Daniil Trifonov
Ivo Pogorelich
Martha Argerich
