The Piano Concerto #1 by Tchaikovsky is a giant in the piano literature. Equally a giant is the beloved pianist Martha Argerich who performs this music for you today. Enjoy!
Written about children, but not written for children, the collection of short piano pieces entitled Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) by Robert Schumann was a gift to Clara Wieck in 1838, two years before they were …
Mozart’s piano sonata KV 521 is one amazing composition. Two pianists sit at a single keyboard and they seemingly perform for each other’s pleasure. One pianist plays a theme. The partner responds; then later they …
Music for more than one piano and orchestra was rare in Mozart’s day, although the form would seem to be natural for a composer whose youthful career featured his own keyboard virtuosity combined with that …
Cesar Franck dedicated his violin Sonata as a wedding present to Eugène Ysaÿe, a young Belgian who was in the process of establishing himself as one of the premier violinists in the world. The opening …