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Beethoven - Concerto No. 2 - Argerich, Piano

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Argerich; Barenboim

The Concerto No 2 was composed primarily between 1787 and 1789, although it did not attain the form in which it was published until 1795. Beethoven did write a second finale for it in 1798 for performance in Prague, but that is not the finale that was published.

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No 1 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888.

Martha Argerich plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Martha Argerich

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1 in C major, Op. 15, was written in 1795, then revised in 1800. The first performance took place on 18 December 1795 in Vienna with Ludwig van Beethoven himself as soloist.

Chopin - Piano Concerto No 2 in F Minor - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No. 2 was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1829. Chopin wrote the piece before he had finished his formal education, at around 20 years of age. It was first performed on 17 March 1830, in Warsaw, Poland, with the composer as soloist.

Martha Argerich plays Bartok's piano concerto No. 3 in E Major

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Bartok – Piano Concerto No. 3 – Martha Argerich

Bartók’s Piano Concerto No 3 in E Major, was composed in 1945 during the final months of his life, as a surprise birthday present for his second wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók. Béla Bartók died on September 26, 1945, with the concerto unfinished.

Martha Argerich performs Haydn's piano concerto No. 11 in D Major

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Haydn – Piano Concerto No. 11 – Martha Argerich

Joseph Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No 11 in D major (Hob. XVIII/11) was written between 1780 and 1783, and published in 1784. It was originally composed for harpsichord or fortepiano and scored for an orchestra in a relatively undeveloped galant style.

Liszt - Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Khatia Buniatishvili

Franz Liszt wrote drafts for his Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S.125, during his virtuoso period, in 1839 to 1840. He then put away the manuscript for a decade. When he returned to the concerto, he revised and scrutinized it repeatedly.

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 3 in C Major - Argerich, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev) – Martha Argerich

Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op 26, was completed in 1921. Sergei Prokofiev began his work on the concerto as early as 1913 when he wrote a theme with variations which he then set aside.

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1912 and completed it in 1913. But that version of the concerto is lost; the score was destroyed in a fire following the Russian Revolution.

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major - Hélène Grimaud, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4 – Hélène Grimaud

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op. 58, was composed in 1805–1806. Ludwig van Beethoven was the soloist in the public premiere as part of the concert on 22 December 1808 at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.