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88 Minutes of Piano Excellence for World Piano Day 2023

A medici.tv greatest-hits compilation

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Mao Fujita — Pianist

Maria João Pires — Pianist

Yuja Wang — Pianist

Alexandre Kantorow — Pianist

Evgeny Kissin — Pianist

Van Cliburn — Pianist

Lucas Debargue — Pianist

Daniel Barenboim — Pianist

Daniil Trifonov — Pianist

Martha Argerich — Pianist

Khatia Buniatishvili — Pianist

Seong-Jin Cho — Pianist

Lahav Shani — Pianist

Grigory Sokolov — Pianist

Mitsuko Uchida — Pianist

Alexander Malofeev — Pianist

Fazıl Say — Pianist

Eric Lu — Pianist

Program notes

In honor of World Piano Day, held on the 88th day of the year to honor the instrument's 88 keys, join us in an 88-minute celebration of legendary pianists and the pieces we love to hear them play! Curated specially for you, this compilation brings together works by Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Brahms, and other favorite composers in the hands of some of the finest interpreters of every recorded era: Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein to Van Cliburn and Emil Gilels, Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim to Maria João Pires and Grigory Sokolov, Yuja Wang and Daniil Trifonov to Alexandra Dovgan and Yunchan Lim… and that's just for starters. Sit back and enjoy this pianistic pantheon!

A closer look: featured composers

Further listening: featured works

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Composer)

Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat Major, Op. 53, "Heroic"

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15

Johannes Brahms (Composer)

Piano Sonata No. 13 in A Major, D. 664

Franz Schubert (Composer)

Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5

Johannes Brahms (Composer)

Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

6 Klavierstücke, Op. 118

Johannes Brahms (Composer)

Preludes, Op. 23

Sergei Rachmaninov (Composer)

Études, Op. 25

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Études, Op. 10

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major, K. 271 "Jenamy" (a.k.a "Jeunehomme")

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125

Franz Liszt (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

Sergei Rachmaninov (Composer)

Liebestraum in A flat, S. 541 No. 3 "Love Dream"

Franz Liszt (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26

Sergei Prokofiev (Composer)

Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, "Pathétique"

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Modest Mussorgsky (Composer)

Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp Minor, Op. Posth.

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Preludes, Op. 32

Sergei Rachmaninov (Composer)

Twelve Etudes, Op. 8

Alexander Scriabin (Composer)

Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer)

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