Klassische Klavierstücke

The piece begins with an intense, repeated-note figure. The composer runs through the same material twice, varying it the second time around and closing on E major.

Felix Mendelssohn wrote the Praeludium In E Minor fourteen years after writing the Fugue which is its partner. The piece opens out from a four-bar unharmonised theme into a dramatic piece with a fast...

Variations on a Duet from Giovanni Paisiello's opera, 'La Molinara'.

Work for piano solo.

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin's Nocturne for the Left Hand is one of the most popular pieces in the left-hand piano repertoire. Lush harmonies arise out of the patterns in the bass and middle regist...

A dazzling work for piano, whose inventiveness and harmonic ingenuity opened a whole new era in sound.

Edited by Hans von Bulow.

Bach's Concerto In The Italian Style in the key of F, edited by Hans von Bulow.

The Scotch Poem is from a set of pieces known as Six Poems of Heinrich Heine. In this case the image is of a beautiful woman singing and playing her harp sadly as she wastes away in a tower in Scotlan...

Dedicated to Franz Liszt, this Opus comprising 12 Etudes was written during the period of 1829-32. No. 12 is a study in arpeggios, famously nicknamed Revolutionary Study, and the mood of this piece is...

Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata In A Op. 120 as edited and fingered by Giuseppe Buonamici. Composed by Franz Schubert in 1825.

Work for Solo Piano edited and fingered by Albert von Doenhoff.

This work is No. 2 of a set of three tone pictures that Charles Griffes wrote for piano in 1910.

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920) was an American composer, whose life was tragically cut short by influenza at the age of 35. He was born in New York and studied in Berlin before returning to t...

Premiere Ballade in G Minor by Chopin (1810-1849). Revised, edited and fingered by Rafael Joseffy.

Of Chopin's Four Ballades, this is the lightest in mood. It is said to have been inspired by the poem 'Undine' by Adam Mickiewicz.

Chopin's Scherzo in B flat minor was composed and published in 1837. It is, by far, the most popular of Chopin's scherzos, and as a result, has lost some of its most wonderful moments to the double ed...

This work was composed in 1839 while the composer was on his travels in Majorca. Creating tonal ambiguity is the intention of Chopin's Scherzo in C sharp minor Scherzo. Several repetitions of the open...

Work for Piano Solo composed in 1841. It is one of Chopin's largest compositions for Piano, and is sometimes labelled the 'Fifth Ballade'.

A late work in Chopin's oeuvre, composed during a period of declining health.

A work similar in style to the Nocturnes. The melody, however, is more advanced, appearing in double-notes or chords. The undulating nature of the left hand accompaniment persists.