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

Liszt - Piano Sonata in B Minor - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Liszt – Piano Sonata in B Minor – Yuja Wang

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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Dreams of Love – Buniatishvili, Piano

Dreams of Love is a set of three solo piano works published in 1850 by Franz Liszt. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Lied / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC / Transcription

Schubert-Liszt – Liebesbotschaft (Message of Love) – Wang, Piano

Liebesbotschaft (Message of love, the singer invites a stream to convey a message to his beloved.) is the first lied from Schwanengesang, a collection of songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously.

Liszt - Transcendental Etude No 5, Feux Follets - Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – Feux Follets – Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Feux Follets (Wills o’ the Wisp) is the fifth étude of the set of twelve Transcendental Études by Franz Liszt. As with the other works in the Études but one, Feux Follets went through three versions.

The German-Japanese pianist performs Liszt's Etude from Paganini, La Campanella

Etude / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Liszt Paganini – La Campanella – Sara Ott, Piano

La campanella (Italian for The little bell) is the nickname given to the third of Franz Liszt‘s Six Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141 (1851). It is in the key …

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Les Jeux d’Eau à la Villa d’Este – Grimaud, Piano

Les Jeux d’Eau à la Villa d’Este (The Fountains of the Villa d’Este) is the fourth piece from Franz Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) troisième année (third year). Written in F-Sharp Major, it was composed in 1877.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / CLASSICAL MUSIC / Lied / Piano

Schubert-Liszt – Erlkönig (Elf King) – Wang, Piano

Erlkönig (Elf King) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlkönig, often half-translated as Erlking, though the eponymous character is clearly some kind of demon.

Saint-Saens/Liszt/Horowitz - Danse Macabre - Horowitz

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Horowitz

Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition.

Liszt - Grand Galop Chromatique - Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Liszt – Grand Galop Chromatique – Buniatishvili, Piano

Grand galop chromatique in E-flat major, S.219 is a bravura piece by Franz Liszt, composed in 1838. This gallop was one of Liszt’s favorite encores which he considered a “rouser.” …