Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 31
As the nineteenth century began, Beethoven produced vast amounts of music, much of it involving the piano. A string of piano sonatas, all highly original compositions, were published between 1801 and 1803. The Three Sonatas, Op. 31, the culmination ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Handel: Miscellaneous Keyboard Works
Georg Friedrich Handel was born 1685 in Halle, Germany, and worked in Germany, Italy and England. In 1720 Handel became Musical Director of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and in 1727 a naturalized English Citizen. When he died in 1759 he was recognized as one of the most ...
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
This organ is one that is little known in France. Built by Puget this thrilling instrument produces a magnificent sound in its ample acoustics with stunning performances of works by Guilmant, Franck and Vierne. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4, 9 & 10
With the Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 7, published by Artaria “for harpsichord and piano” in 1797, Beethoven expands the scope of keyboard technique and structural proportions. Indeed, some of the passagework in the outer movements must have been prohibitive to most amateur ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 7, 8 & 32
Sonata No. 7, Op. 10 No. 3 in D major (1796-8). Often referred to as Beethoven's first completely realised masterpiece among the piano sonatas, this fine work - despite having no nickname - has remained a firm favourite with pianists and audiences and a staple of the repertoire. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Waltzes are perhaps Chopin's lighter works, even though they remain distant from the world of dance-music written for the ball room. Just as his mazurkas, Chopin’s waltzes were not conceived for dancing. Chopin’s first waltz dates to 1824, when he was fourteen; the last he wrote was the ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
In 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." While most sonatas with ....
Composer: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Clementi: Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 40 No. 2
Composer: Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2 – Op. 12
Dedicated to Antonio Salieri, the Three Sonatas for Piano and Violin, Op. 12 were published in 1798, and part of an extremely prolific period in which Beethoven wrote and published feverishly. It was a matter of establishing himself as a prolific composer of genius, and he somehow managed to maintain ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest"
I love playing piano; I want to play music the way the composers intended their pieces to be, involving my heart, my creativity and talent...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Haydn: Divertimento in A Major, Hob. XVI:12
Born in Astrakhan. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory studying piano under Prof. Yuri Slesarev and also composition (2013). She is continuing studies at the Royal College of Music in London under Prof. Norma Fisher and at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot ...
Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 4 - Opp. 47 & 23
Beethoven opened the new century with the publication of his first symphony, but also with that of other important works, such as four piano sonatas (Opp. 26, 27, and 28) and two sonatas for piano and violin – in A Minor, Op. 23, and F Major, Op. 24. Originally, the two sonatas were published in 1801 as a set, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 959 & D. 537
It is hard to fathom how Franz Schubert’s career as a composer lasted only a decade when we consider how extraordinarily prolific it was. And it is ever more astonishing that the evolution of his language would be so immense, guided by harmonic and structural explorations that would have continued well into the ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 53, 54 & 57
Completed in the summer of 1804, the Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 known as “Waldstein” (the work was dedicated to Count Ferdinand von Waldstein) represents an extraordinary step toward sheer virtuosity. Particularly in the third movement, Rondo, new technical advances are introduced, such as melodies ...
Composer: Ludwig Von Beethoven
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Schubert: Impromptus Opp. 90 & 142
What’s in a title? When a composer sets out to compose, very often inspiration comes in the form of works of various length that do not have a specific designation. It was the case for Bach’s preludes from the Well-tempered Clavier, Beethoven’s bagatelles, or Chopin’s preludes – all works that were perhaps too short as ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3 – Op. 30
Beethoven opened the new century with the publication of his first symphony, but also with that of other important works, such as four piano sonatas (Opp. 26, 27, and 28) and two sonatas for piano and violin – in A Minor, Op. 23, and F Major, Op. 24. Originally, the two sonatas were published in 1801 as a set, under the opus number 23. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Yann Tiersen: Amélie & Other Piano Works
French composer Yann Tiersen has written music for various instruments, including guitar, piano, synthetizer, violin, accordion, xylophone, and melodica. Some of his compositions have been used in film scoring, such as “Amélie”, whose soundtrack primarily features excerpts from his first three ...
Composer: Yann Tiersen
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 11, Op. 22 & Other Works
The two albums OC19040B and OC19041B introduce Beethoven’s more intimate works that appropriately trace his evolution: from the four Sonatinas, WoO 50 and 51, Anh. 5/1, 5/2, composed in the late 1780s or early 1790s and published posthumously; exploring the four sonatas of the first-period (the Three Sonatas, Op. 10 and ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 13 & 27 & Other Works
In the first decade of his career as a published composer, Ludwig van Beethoven completed an enormous amount of music. Some of the most beloved sonatas for piano belong to this prolific period, marked not only by the desire to be acknowledged as an emerging composer of his time, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Chopin: 4 Scherzos & Minor Works
The 4 Scherzi were composed within a span of less than a decade, from 1835 to 1843. They are recognized as some of the most important works by Chopin, and understandably so when we evaluate their contribution to pianism and to the genre (Chopin is the inventor of the large-scale scherzo for piano). ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
