Isabelle Faust (violin), Sol Gabetta (Cello), and Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) perform Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 929, one of the last compositions completed by the composer. This performance was recorded…
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,…
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…
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,…
Dutch musicians violinist Charlotte Spruit and pianist Yang Yang Cai perform Claude Debussy‘s Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano, L. 140.
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…
Hungarian-born British pianist Sir András Schiff plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat major, Op. 81a, also known as the Les Adieux sonata. This performance was recorded in Japan in 2020.
South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim plays Frédéric Chopin’s second set of Études, “Études Op. 25”. This performance was recorded during the 2019 Isang Yun Competition (an international music competition, held annually in Tongyeong, South Korea. It commemorates Isang Yun, 1917-1995,…
Accompanied by the Polish-based early music orchestra {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna, the legendary Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15. Conductor: Václav Luks. Both the orchestra and Argerich play on period…
Accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Recorded in 2012.
Accompanied by the SWR Symphonieorchester Stuttgart, the German-Korean pianist Christopher Park performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488). Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. This performance was recorded at the Liederhalle Stuttgart, in November 2017.