Category Archives: Romantic Era

Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), the great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. This performance was recorded at the Wiener Musikverein, Goldener Saal on September 18, 2022.

Božo Paradžik (double bass) and Mira Wollmann (piano) perform Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, also known as the “Arpeggione Sonata”. The sonata is originally written for arpeggione, a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass …

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Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin plays Frédéric Chopin’s Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64, No. 1, sometimes known as “Valse du petit chien” (French for “Waltz of the puppy”), and popularly known in English as the Minute Waltz.

Accompanied by the Pan-European Philharmonia, the Cypriot-born British pianist Marios Papadopoulos performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15. Conductor: Peter Tiboris. Recorded at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio on March 23, 2023. Encore: Für Elise.

Ukrainian classical pianist Anna Fedorova plays Frédéric Chopin’s Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2, the second work of his opus 64, and the companion to the more famous “Minute Waltz” (Op. 64, No. 1). An excerpt from the concert recorded in public at studio 106 of the Maison de la Radio on November …

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