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The Sound of Music – Do-Re-Mi

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 3 in D Minor- Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3 – Yuja Wang

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor was written in Dresden and completed on September 23, 1909. The concerto was first performed on Sunday afternoon, November 28, 1909, by Sergei Rachmaninoff himself.

Khatia Buniatishvili perfomrs Chopin's Mazurka Op. 17 No. 4 in A Minor

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Mazurka / Piano

Chopin – Mazurka Op. 17 No. 4 – Buniatishvili, Piano

Mazurka in A Minor is the last one from Op 17, a set of four mazurkas composed by Frédéric Chopin between 1832 and 1833. It is a real masterpiece, in the form of a dance poem. Written in A minor, it is in 3/4 and is marked Lento, ma non troppo.

Mozart - Piano Sonata No 8 - Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 8 – Hélène Grimaud

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor, K. 310 / 300d, was written in 1778. The sonata is the first of only two Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart piano sonatas in a minor key (the other being No. 14 in C minor, K. 457).

Chopin - Mazurka in C major Op. 24 No. 2 - Argerich, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Mazurka / Piano

Chopin – Mazurka Op. 24 No. 2 – Argerich, Piano

Mazurkas, Op 24 are a set of four Mazurkas for solo piano by Frédéric Chopin. The set was composed and published in 1836. Mazurka in C major is essentially a kind of folkloric cliché: a folk provenance can be found in all its themes.

Scriabin - Sonata No 10 - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Scriabin – Sonata No. 10 – Wang, Piano

The Piano Sonata No 10, Op. 70, was written by Alexander Scriabin in 1913. It was his final work in this form. The piece is highly chromatic and atonal like Scriabin’s other late works.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Waltz

Ravel – La Valse – Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili, Piano

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920.

Hélène Grimaud performs Schumann's piano concerto in A minor.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Schumann – Piano Concerto – Hélène Grimaud

The Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by Robert Schumann who had earlier worked on several piano concerti who were never completed.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Polonaise

Chopin – Grande Polonaise Brillante – Argerich, Piano

In 1834, Frédéric Chopin wrote an Andante Spianato in G Major, for piano solo, which he added to the start of the Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat Major and joined the two parts with a fanfare-like sequence.

George Gershwin – Piano Concerto in F Major - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

George Gershwin – Concerto in F – Wang, Piano

Concerto in F is a composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and orchestra which is closer in form to a traditional concerto than the earlier jazz-influenced Rhapsody in Blue.