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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: J S Bach From The Well-Tempered Clavier - BWV 857, BWV 859, BWV 861, BWV 874, BWV 878, BWV 880, BWV 885, BWV 886
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Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 & 2
Century's recording: Edwin Fischer, piano
Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 & 2
Sviatoslav Richter (recorded in 1970 on a Bösendorfer piano)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: J S Bach Toccata no. 3 in D BWV 912 and Toccata no. 5 in E minor BWV 914
J.S. Bach - Toccatas BWV 910-916
Glenn Gould, piano
J.S. Bach - The Seven Toccatas, BWV 910-916
Peter Watchhorn, pedal harpsichord (Hubbard & Broekman after Ruckers/Blanchet/Taskin,
1990/after J.A. Hass, 1734)
J.S. Bach - 7 Toccatas BWV 910-916
Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord
Bach - Complete Toccatas
Jean-Bernard Pommier, piano (1977)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Bartók Two or more of the ‘6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm’, from ‘Mikrokosmos’, Vol. 6 (Boosey & Hawkes)
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György Sándor, piano
Maria Yudina, piano
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in F minor, Op.2 no.1
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Friedrich Gulda, piano
Artur Schnabel, piano (1934)
Sviatoslav Richter, piano (1976)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op.10 no.1
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Daniel Barenboim, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano (1951)
Alfred Brendel, piano
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Friedrich Fulda, piano
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Andras Schiff - Lecture on Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1 (2004)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in F, Op.10 no.2
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Artur Schnabel, piano (1933)
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Alfred Brendel, piano
Annie Fischer, piano
Claudio Arrau, piano
Emil Gilels, piano (1980)
Friedrich Gulda, piano
Moisei Halfin, piano
Maurizio Pollini, piano
András Schiff - Beethoven Lecture-Recitals (Op. 10/2)
Wigmore Hall (London, UK), 2004–06
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in C minor (‘Pathétique’), Op.13
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Daniel Barenboim, piano
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in E, Op.14 no.1
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Artur Schnabel, piano
Sviatoslav Richter, piano (recorded live in 1963)
Murray Perahia, piano (2008)
Grigory Sokolov, piano (recorded live in 2003)
Annie Fischer, piano (studio recording in 1977-78)
Alfred Brendel, piano
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Yves Nat, piano
Walter Gieseking, piano
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
András Schiff - Beethoven Lecture-Recitals
Wigmore Hall (London, UK), 2004–06
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in G, Op.14 no.2
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Wilhelm Backhaus, Bösendorfer piano
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in Ab, Op.26
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in C# minor (‘Moonlight’), Op.27 no.2
π "Une fleur entre deux abîmes.
A flower between two abysses."
Franz Liszt,
On the middle movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, quoted in Tovey Beethoven (1944)
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in F, Op.54
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven Sonata in E minor, Op.90
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven 6 Variations in F, Op.34
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: L. Berkeley Concert Study in Eb, Op. 48 no. 2
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Howard Blake Chaconne and Toccatina: from ‘8 Character Pieces’. Blake Lifecycle
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Brahms Capriccio in F# minor, Op. 76 no. 1 from 8 Piano Pieces, Op. 76
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A Comparison - Heinrich Neuhaus, Walter Gieseking (rec. 1955), Wilhelm Kempff, Julius Katchen, Stephen Bishop Kovacevich, Peter Rösel
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 no. 2 from 2 Rhapsodies, Op.79
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Brahms Intermezzo in A minor, Op. 116 no.2 from 7 Fantasies, Op. 116
Artur Schnabel, piano (1947)
Wilhelm Kempff, piano (1964)
Emil Gilels, piano (1976)
Paul Lewis, piano (2022)
Walter Gieseking, piano (1951)
Grigory Sokolov, piano (2011)
Stephen Kovacevich, piano (1985)
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Peter Katin, piano
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Brahms Intermezzo in A, Op. 118 no. 2 or Ballade in G minor, Op. 118 no. 3 or Romance in F, Op. 118 no. 5 from Piano Pieces, Op. 118
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Diana Burrell Constellations I and II. Spectrum
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Chopin Berceuse in Db, Op. 57
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10 Great Pianists play Chopin's Berceuse
Benno Moiseiwitsch (1916), Josef Hofmann (1918), Wilhelm Backhaus (1925), Alfred Cortot (1926), Ignaz Friedman (1928), Mark Hambourg (1928), Eileen Joyce (1939) , Mieczyslaw Horszowski (1940), Solomon (1945), Arthur Rubinstein (1958)
Walter Gieseking, piano
Julian von Karolyi, piano (1959)
Heinrich Neuhaus, piano
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Jorge Bolet, piano
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, piano
Raoul Pugno, piano (1903)
Josef Hofmann, piano (live, 1938)
Alfred Reisenauer, piano, Welte-Mignon recording (1905)
Emil von Sauer, piano (1925)
Marguerite Long, piano (1937)
Grigory Ginzburg, piano (live in 1959)
György Cziffra, piano
Moritz Rosenthal, piano (1930)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Chopin Impromptu no. 3 in Gb, Op. 51
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Chopin Introduction and Variations in Bb on a theme from Hérold’s‘Ludovic’, Op. 12
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Chopin Mazurka in C# minor, Op. 50 no. 3
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Chopin Nocturne in E, Op. 62 no. 2
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Chopin Any two of the 3 Nouvelles Études
LRSM Piano Repertoire: Copland Scherzo Humoristique ‘The Cat and the Mouse’
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Debussy La plus que lente: Valse
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Debussy plays Debussy, piano roll (1913)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Debussy One of the preludes: Book 1: no.4 ‘Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir’, no.10 ‘La Cathédrale engloutie’ or Book 2: no.3 ‘La Puerta del Vino’
Claude Debussy plays Debussy (piano rolls 1904-1913)
Clair de Lune, Préludes, Images, Estampes, Arabesques, Rêverie - among them the relevant Préludes
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Debussy Suite ‘Pour le Piano’: 2nd movement, Sarabande
Vlado Perlemuter, piano (1968)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Fauré Barcarolle no. 1 in A minor, Op. 26 or Barcarolle no. 6 in Eb, Op. 70
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Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) - L’oeuvre pour piano / Complete Piano Works - Germaine Thissens-Valentin (Century's Recording) - among them the Barcarolles
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Fauré Impromptu no. 2 in F minor, Op. 31
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) - L’oeuvre pour piano / Complete Piano Works - Germaine Thissens-Valentin (Century's Recording) - among them the Impromptu
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Gershwin ‘The Man I Love’ and ‘I Got Rhythm’
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Haydn Andante con Variazioni in F minor, Hob. XVII/6
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Haydn Sonata in Ab, Hob. XVI/46
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Haydn Sonata in C, Hob. XVI/48
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Haydn Sonata in Eb, Hob. XVI/49
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Hindemith Interludium (Pastorale) and Fuga no. 3, from ‘Ludus Tonalis
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Janácek Any two of the 4 pieces from ‘In the Mists
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Liszt Liebestraum no.2 (‘Seliger Tod’) from Liebesträume: 3 Notturnos
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Liszt Sonetto 123 del Petrarca: no. 6 from ‘Années de Pèlerinage, 2ème Année, Italie’
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: John McCabe 5 Bagatelles
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Joseph Makholm Any two of the ‘3 Impressions’
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in F minor: no. 5 from ‘6 Preludes and Fugues’, Op. 35
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Messiaen Regard de l’Étoile: no. 2 or Regard de la Vierge: no. 4 from ‘Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus’
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Messiaen Rondeau
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mozart Adagio in B minor, K. 540
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mozart Sonata in D, K. 284
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mozart Sonata in C, K. 309
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mozart Sonata in D, K. 311
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mozart Sonata in Bb, K. 570
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mozart 10 Variations on ‘Les hommes pieusement’(‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’), K. 455
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Mozart 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K. 573
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Poulenc Toccata: no. 3 from ‘Trois Pièces’
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Prokofiev Visions Fugitives nos. 8, 14, 19 and 20, from ‘Visions Fugitives’, Op. 22
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Rachmaninov One of the Preludes Prelude in Eb, Op. 23 no. 6 or Prelude in C minor, Op. 23 no. 7 or Prelude in G, Op. 32 no. 5 or Prelude in G# minor, Op. 32 no. 12
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Ravel Sonatine
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Edwin Roxburgh Moonscape. Spectrum
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Scarlatti Any one of the following pairs of Sonatas: 2 Sonatas in A, Kp. 208 (L. 238) and Kp. 209 (L. 428)
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Scarlatti 2 Sonatas in G, Kp. 259 (L. 103) and Kp. 260 (L. 124)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Scarlatti Sonata in E minor, Kp. 263 (L. 321) and Sonata in E, Kp. 264 (L. 466)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Scarlatti 2 Sonatas in C, Kp. 308 (L. 359) and Kp. 309 (L. 454)
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Schoenberg 6 Little Pieces, Op. 19
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Schubert Impromptu in Gb, Op. 90 no. 3, D899/3
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Schubert - Four Impromptus, D 899
Alfred Brendel, piano
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Schubert Sonata in A minor, Op. 164, D. 537
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Schubert Sonata in A, Op. 120, D. 664
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Schumann Des Abends (At Evening) and Aufschwung (Soaring): nos. 1 and 2 from ‘Phantasiestücke’, Op. 12
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Schumann Novellette in F: no. 1 from ‘8 Novelletten’, Op. 21
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Schumann Romanze in B: no. 3 from ‘3 Romanzen’, Op. 28
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Scriabin Impromptu in Bb minor, Op. 12 no. 2
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Scriabin Any two of the ‘24 Preludes’, Op. 11
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Peter Sculthorpe Night Pieces
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Shostakovich Preludes nos. 3 in G and 11 in B or Preludes nos. 5 in D and 19 in Eb, from ‘24 Preludes’, Op. 34
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DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Stravinsky Tango
DipABRSM Piano Repertoire: Szymanowski Etude in Bb minor, no. 3 from ‘4 Etudes’, Op. 4
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