Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), Lang Lang plays Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. This performance was recorded at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on June 28, 2008.
German pianist, teacher, and composer Wilhelm Kempff plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano sonatas No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, nicknamed the “Moonlight Sonata”, and No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90, nicknamed “Les…
Accompanied by the Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim plays Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. This performance was recorded at the Philharmonie Berlin in 2014.
Accompanied by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang plays Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. This performance was recorded at the Tokyo NHK Hall on November 22,…
A long-lost waltz by the great Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin has been unearthed in the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, sparking widespread enthusiasm in the classical music community. Robinson McClellan, while examining a collection of cultural artifacts,…
Turkish pianist İlyun Bürkev plays Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39. This performance was recorded at the Musikakademie in Liechtenstein in April 2024, when Bürkev was 16 years old.
The great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich and the French violinist Renaud Capuçon perform the French romantic composer César Franck’s Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano. This performance was recorded on June 25, 2020.
Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (popularly known as the Appassionata, meaning “passionate” in Italian), one of the composer’s greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas. This performance was…
Accompanied by the French pianist François Daudet, the French cellist David Louwerse plays Sicilienne, Op. 78, a short work by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1893. It was originally an orchestral piece, written for a theatrical production that was abandoned. In 1898, Fauré arranged…
Martha Argerich (piano), Dora Schwarzberg (violin), and Jing Zhao (cello) perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50.
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), the Japanese pianist Mao Fujita performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488). Conductor: Dalia Stasevska. This performance was recorded at the hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on April 19,…
Grigory Sokolov plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s Gigue from Partita No. 1, BWV 825. This performance was recorded during the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron 2015 by the French filmmaker, writer, and violinist Bruno Monsaingeon.