There is a very famous recording of this Prelude by Horowitz produced in Moscow Conservatory in 1986. I urge you to use the best speakers or headphones to compare sound of this piano with that...

I will tell you the story of this remarcable instrument nobody knows anything about anymore, or even wants to remember that it existed. I reveal the full story of this instrument in the follow...

Chopin s Fantasie Impromptu. In this video you can see and hear the predecessors of our "mystery" piano. Concert Grand by Schroeder Muhlbach Upright piano Alexander Meybom Royalino (aka small...

Rehearsing February 14th at 国家大剧院 National Centre for the Arts hours before my debut recital in China 🇨🇳💖💖💖😍😻 Tchaikovsky "The Nutcracker" Spanish Dance Chinese Dance Russian Dance Maman Gigogne et les polichinelles The new album of the complete Tchaikovsky piano works on Decca is available now! https://www.universalmusic.it/musica-classica/album/tchaikovsky-the-complete-solo-piano-works_32839832200/

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Rachmaninoff Prelude in c # minor Op. 3 No.2 by Valentina Lisitsa Copyright (C) 2020 Rachmaninoff Prelude C# minor Op. 3 No.2. --- Powered by http://www.vydia.com http://vevo.ly/dwiALX

Alexander Warenberg s transcription of the 2nd Symphony for piano and (missing) orchestra

The complete concert recording,Valentina Lisitsa: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, is available now: iTunes - http://smarturl.it/LisitsaiTunes Amazon - http://smarturl.it/LisitsaCD In addition, today marks the release of Valentina Lisitsa: Live at the Royal Albert Hall on DVD. Amazon: http://smarturl.it/LisitsaDVD The ground breaking concert, for which fans were offered the chance to decide the repertoire by voting online, was streamed live on Valentina s YouTube channel. With more than 45 million views on her YouTube channel, the young pianist is not only one of the fastest rising stars of the international concert scene but one of the most watched classical musicians, having rapidly overtaken long established giants of the piano world in terms of global online viewing figures. http://www.valentinalisitsa.com http://www.facebook.com/ValentinaLisitsa http://twitter.com/vallisitsa

Anybody who says Rachmaninoff is nothing but a 19th century dinosaur, a relic - living in 20th Century but writing hopelessly Romantic and old-fashioned music, anybody who says it - never heard this piece. Move over Prokofiev & Co. :-) To hear the remaining 99% of music ( I mean, the orchestra:-))) download new Decca release with London Symphony Orchestra today! iTunes: http://smarturl.it/Rach4Lisitsa And Amazon : http://smarturl.it/LisitsaRach4

First encore from the performance with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Poole UK, October 1 , BBC radio broadcast. "Ave Maria" is also the first track on new Liszt CD ! you can download on iTunes too :)

This is NOT some sweet Chopin-like Scriabin, this is definitely a worthy heir to Liszt Mephisto pieces. You can hear it all - the whirlwind waltz, Devil s trills, seduction of Marguerite....in less than 5 minutes and 10 million notes:) My favorite piece now:-) Today is 150 years since birth of A. Scriabin, one of the greatest Russian composers! This album is finally available! https://bfan.link/valentina-lisitsa-scriabin Recorded September 5-9 2015 at the wonderful http://www.schaubuehne.com/ My heartfelt thanks to ©MDR Klassik Symphony Orchestra http://www.mdr.de/konzerte/artikel111... and personally to Franziska Simon for letting me use their great piano. And to Echoschall Verleih http://www.echoschall.de/ for best-sounding microphones.

Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 in B♭ minor 00:00 - I. Allegro agitato (B♭ minor) 08:53 - II. Non allegro—Lento (E minor—E major) 16:14 - III. Allegro molto (B♭ major) Three years after his third piano concerto was finished, Rachmaninoff moved with his family to a house in Rome that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had used. It was during this time in Rome that Rachmaninoff started working on his second piano sonata. However, because both of his daughters contracted typhoid fever, he was unable to finish the composition in Rome. Instead, Rachmaninoff moved his family on to Berlin in order to consult with doctors. When the girls were well enough, Rachmaninoff traveled with his family back to his Ivanovka country estate, where he finished the second piano sonata. Its premiere took place in Kursk on 18 October 1913 (5 October in the Julian calendar). Composition The sonata is in three interrelated movements: Allegro agitato (B-flat minor) Non allegro—Lento (E minor—E major) Allegro molto (B-flat major) It is unified by two Non allegro bridges between the movements. The outer movements follow Original edition First Movement (Allegro agitato) The first movement of the second piano sonata is in sonata allegro form. The exposition begins with the first theme, which has a descending arpeggio that ends with a low B-flat octave followed by a B-flat minor chord. The first theme area lasts until a cadenza-like passage creates a bridge into the second theme area. The second theme is in D-flat major, with a chorale-like texture that contrasts with the brilliance of the first theme. In the development section, which is split into three parts, there is much tonal instability with constantly changing key centers. Parts of this section use the left hand to imitate bells, with chromatic descending, alternating sevenths and thirds. The recapitulation restates the first two themes in B-flat minor. The final section of an extension to the recapitulation alternates between B-flat major and B-flat minor, leaving the tonic unclear until the coda. The coda, clearly in B-flat minor, repeats two themes seen earlier in the movement. Second Movement (Non allegro) The second movement of the Piano Sonata is in two-part ternary form. A seven-measure interlude in G major links the first and second movements, after which there is a relative minor key area (E minor). The second movement s main theme is based on a motive of a sequentially repeated falling third. WIKI. The second movement references material from the first movement, which is the first instance of cyclic unity in the sonata. For example, in the middle-section of this movement, the bell texture from the first movement is reestablished. Third Movement (Allegro molto) The third movement begins with a repetition of the interlude to the second movement, with the meter shifted from 4/4 to 3/4. This movement, again in sonata-allegro form, further utilizes cyclic unity by using themes from the first movement. The transition to the second theme area of the exposition introduces a new theme (in D major), unusual in sonata-allegro form. The development section, as in the first movement, is also split into three sub-sections. Similar to the exposition, it uses themes from the first movement in addition to the new themes introduced in the exposition. The recapitulation is in B-flat major, and states the first theme from the third movement only once. It utilizes another past theme expansively to lead toward the coda. The coda utilizes themes from the first movement and is highly chromatic and brilliant. *Wiki source

I can t believe this old recording was not available until now on YouTube. The best Grieg Concerto ever. And I don t make such statements often :) Enjoy!

Prelude g sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12 ...traditionally described as a sleigh ride, but this is not a joy ride. This is unmistakably a departure, and a very sad one - the feeling of loosing something forever, the feeling which painfully pinches your heart. Is it a foreboding of his last sleigh ride through flowing snow that pricked the face with a myriad of tiny needles -- never to see his beloved country again?

Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39, in C♯ minor by Frédéric Chopin. He began composing it 1838 in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain, and completed it back in France by the end of 1839.[1] This is the most terse, ironic, and tightly constructed of the four scherzi, with an almost Beethovenian grandeur.

Alexander Warenberg s transcription of the 2nd Symphony for piano and (missing) orchestra

It was supposed to be a very serious and proper event - my first videotaped OFFICIAL interview for Royal Albert Hall recital promotion. Judge for yourself what came out of it :-) I hope I don t get arrested for misbehaving ...getting into locked rooms, disrupting organ tuning, climbing over box seats, taking over information booth.... But give me a break please : it is very hard to behave at 8 o clock in the morning when one gets to wear evening gown ,gets a make-up artist ( thank you, Gemma !!!!) put HUUUUUGE fake eyelashes - and to take it all seriously and in stride. Slowing down traffic while hanging up my own poster was fun :-) Starbucks coffee helps to be hyper:-)

Live from Yellow Lounge in Amsterdam Get yours on iTunes http://po.st/ChasingPianosiTuFB

Today is 150 years since birth of A. Scriabin, one of the greatest Russian composers! This album is finally available! https://bfan.link/valentina-lisitsa-scriabin It is quite often said that Scriabin was a reincarnation of Chopin. Judging by this Polonaise, perhaps? Written in 1897. If Chopin hadn t die young , he would have been 87. Scriabin wrote this piece when he was 26. Free sheet music of this piece here, on IMSLP Library page : http://tinyurl.com/oyzabfq Recorded September 5-9 2015 at the wonderful http://www.schaubuehne.com/ My heartfelt thanks to ©MDR Klassik Symphony Orchestra http://www.mdr.de/konzerte/artikel111... and personally to Franziska Simon for letting me use their great piano. And to Echoschall Verleih http://www.echoschall.de/ for best-sounding microphones.