4th piece from Book I, Fanfares is Ligeti’s Etude No 4 for piano and is dedicated to the German pianist Volker Banfield. György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001.
Yuja Wang, born February 10, 1987, is widely regarded as one of the finest living pianists. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
The Carnival of the Animals (Le carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The work was written for private performance by an ad hoc ensemble of two pianos and other instruments.
Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl is a 1950 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 52nd Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby.
The Symphony No 5 in C minor composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, was written between 1804 and 1808. First performed in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work …
Robert Schumann wrote his Arabesque in C major, Op. 18 in 1839 when he was 29 years old, dedicating it to Frau Majorin Friederike Serre auf Maxen, to whom he …
The Opry House was the fifth Mickey Mouse cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions and introduced Mickey’s gloves. You can listen some theme from Rachmaninov’s famous C-sharp minor prelude and Liszt’s 2nd rhapsody.
Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour (Beautiful night, oh night of love) often referred to as the Barcarolle is a piece opening Offenbach’s final opera third act set in Venice, The Tales of Hoffmann.
Le tic-toc-choc, or Les maillotins is a piece from Couperin’s volume three of harpsichord music. Couperin’s four volumes of harpsichord music, published in Paris in 1713, 1717, 1722, and 1730, contain over 230 individual pieces.
Pigs in a Polka is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 2, 1943 by Warner Bros. …
