Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in A-flat major D 557 was composed in May 1817. The work is relatively short and a performance takes somewhat between 10 and 15 minutes. The sonata is cheerful and uncomplicated, and carries remembrances of Mozart and the Baroque era. The fact that the last movement is in the key of E-flat major rather than ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 81a, 101 & 106 Hammerklavier
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his 32+4 Piano Sonatas - including 4 Sonatinas (doubtfull) - between 1782 and 1822. Although originally not intended to be a meaningful whole, as a set they comprise one of the most important collections of works in the history of music. Hans von Bulow called them "The New Testament" of the piano literature ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 7, 14 & 22
Beethoven's early sonatas were highly influenced by those of Haydn and Mozart. The first three sonatas, written in 1782-3 are usually not acknowledged as part of the complete set of piano sonatas, due to the fact that he was 13 when they were published. His Piano Sonatas No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, and 15 are four movements long, which ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
J.S. Bach: Inventions, Duets & Sinfonias, BWVV 772-805
The Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are two-part contrapuntal pieces, and 15 Sinfonias, which are three-part contrapuntal pieces. They were originally written ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Chopin: Waltz in E Major, B. 44, Waltz in A Minor, B. 150 & Waltz in E Minor, B. 56
Waltz in E major, B. 44 is one of his lesser known waltzes, discovered in his folder containing musical works that he did not want to be published. Waltz No. 19 in A minor, B. 150, KK IVb/11, P. 2/11, is a waltz for solo piano. The waltz was written sometime between 1843 and 1848, but was not published until 1860, after the composer's death, by Jacques Maho. ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Nannerl Notenbuch, Pt. 1
The early Mozart's compositions, penned by his father Leopold, were inserted in the "Nannerl Notenbuch", a music book destinated to the Mozart' sister Maria Anna Mozart, known as "Nannerl". The catalog numbers of these pieces starts from K. 1 to K. 5. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: Early Works from the Nannerl’ Book [part 2]
The early Mozart's compositions, penned by his father Leopold, were inserted in the "Nannerl Notenbuch", a music book destinated to the Mozart' sister Maria Anna Mozart, known as "Nannerl". The catalog numbers of these pieces starts from K. 6 to K. 8 and includes the piano transcriptions from the early violin sonatas. ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
J.S. Bach: Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach [1722]
The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks Bach presented to his second wife, Anna Magdalena. Keyboard music (minuets, rondeaux, polonaises, chorales, sonatas, preludes, musettes, marches, gavottes) makes up most of both notebooks, and a few pieces for voice (songs, and arias) are included. ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, B. 155 & Other Works (Live)
This live performance took place during the AEVEA IPC (II/2020, onclassical.com/app/) and was recorded as HD/24-bits by producer and engineer Alessandro Simonetto by using 8 (eight) Bruel & Kjaeer and Neumann microphones. These recordings are part of the Aevea Piano Prize, and ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Chopin: Waltzes, Op. Posth. 70
The three Waltzes (Trois Valses), Op. 70, were composed by Frederic Chopin in very different epochs. The older "valse" is the "third", formally Op. 70 No. 3, composed in 1829, when Chopin was 19 y.o. Three years later he composed the No. 1 in G-flat major: the simpler and at the same time, probably, the harder ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Vol. 2
Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano pieces by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. The eight volumes of "Songs Without Words", each consisting of six pieces (songs, lieder), were written at various points throughout Mendelssohn's ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Brahms: Piano Pieces, Opp. 116-119
Johannes Brahms in 1893. The collection is the last composition for solo piano by Brahms. Together with the six pieces from Op. 118, Op. 119 was premiered in London in January 1894. The Four Pieces for Piano were published in 1892 and 1893 along with three other collections of smaller piano pieces: Seven Fantasias Op. 116, Three Intermezzos Op. 117, and Six Pieces for Piano Op. 118. ...
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 5
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is one of the most original italian composers of the first half of the eighteenth century. Born in Naples the same year as two other icons, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Scarlatti's enormous output includes 555 surviving keyboard sonatas, and can be considered an encyclopedia of literature of all time for its vastness, ...
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
D. Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 4
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is one of the most original italian composers of the first half of the eighteenth century. Born in Naples the same year as two other icons, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Scarlatti's enormous output includes 555 surviving keyboard sonatas, and can be considered an encyclopedia of literature of all time for its vastness, invention, and variety of writing. ...
Composer: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846–869, is a set of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys written for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time clavier, meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of instruments, ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Chopin: Polonaises, Mazurkas & Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, B. 155
We are proud to present this live recording, captured at the historical Sala Maffeiana in Verona - a hall with extraordinary natural acoustics, visited 250 years ago by Mozart. There, Russian pianist Alexander Lubyantsev performed two entire recitals behind closed doors, with only the recording personnel present (the second recital, ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words
Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano pieces by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. The eight volumes of "Songs Without Words", each consisting of six pieces (songs, lieder), were written at various points throughout Mendelssohn's life, and were published separately. ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas & Variations
The early 19th century and earlier, the instrumental sonata for ensemble that included piano was usually called "piano sonata with instrumental accompaniment". Beethoven's first violin sonatas, for instance, were published as "sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment." ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Debussy: Piano Works, Vol. 5 – 6 Épigraphes antiques & La boîte à joujoux (Version for Piano)
This album features pieces written during Claude Debussy’s last years of activity. Six épigraphes antiques (1914), composed originally for two pianos and here in the piano solo version by the author, blends together Debussy’s late stylistic devices with the aesthetics ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, B. 128 & Other Works
The Aevea Piano Prize (APP) is an innovative International Piano & Chamber Music Competition, founded by the Associazione Culturale Aevea and supported by OnClassical. The purpose of the competition is to promote selected participants through relevant performance opportunities and worldwide distribution of ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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