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88 Minutes of Piano Excellence for World Piano Day 2024

The world's greatest pianists are all on medici.tv

Concert

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Cast

Yuja Wang — Pianist

Alexander Malofeev — Pianist

Khatia Buniatishvili — Pianist

Mao Fujita — Pianist

Lise de la Salle — Pianist

Daniel Barenboim — Pianist

Maria João Pires — Pianist

Alexandre Kantorow — Pianist

Program notes

Since 2016, artists and music aficionados all over the world have celebrated World Piano Day on the 88th day of the year, an homage to the piano's endlessly adaptable 88 keys. To mark the occasion in 2024, we've curated a special medici.tv video compilation for all you piano lovers out there: 88 incredible minutes in the company of history's most celebrated pianists! Revisit timeless works by the likes of Chopin, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Bach, Beethoven, performed by legendary names: Vladimir Horowitz, Martha Argerich, Glenn Gould, Yefim Bronfman, Yuja Wang, Igor Levit, Maria João Pires, Yunchan Lim, and dozens more…

A closer look: featured composers

Ludwig van Beethoven

Frédéric Chopin

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Franz Schubert

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sergei Rachmaninov

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Johannes Brahms

Franz Liszt

Maurice Ravel

Igor Stravinsky

Alexander Scriabin

Jean Sibelius

Béla Bartók

Fazıl Say

Camille Saint-Saëns

Clara Schumann

Tsotne Zedginidze

Further listening: featured works

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)

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

Franz Schubert (Composer)

Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer)

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Sergei Rachmaninov (Composer)

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83

Johannes Brahms (Composer)

Nocturnes, Op. 9

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, S. 124

Franz Liszt (Composer)

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

Sergei Rachmaninov (Composer)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

Sergei Rachmaninov (Composer)

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

Franz Liszt (Composer)

Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55

Maurice Ravel (Composer)

Grandes Études de Paganini, S. 141

Franz Liszt (Composer)

Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101

Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer)

The Firebird Suite (Piano Transcription)

Igor Stravinsky (Composer) · Guido Agosti (Transcriber)

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

Frédéric Chopin (Composer)

Twelve Etudes, Op. 8

Alexander Scriabin (Composer)

Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 "The Egyptian"

Camille Saint-Saëns (Composer)