This is one of Rachmaninoff’s most popular transcriptions based on a violin piece by Fritz Kreisler of the same name. It has been used by many pianists since its publication but its popularity on p...
Based on JS Bach’s Cantata No. 156, the Arioso, due to its popularity and beautiful melody, has been arranged for many instrument combinations and the piano was destined to have such an an arrangem...
“Widmung,” which translates to “Dedication,” is a song from a collection entitled “Myrthen” written by Robert Schumann as a wedding gift for his wife, Clara, and in this recording, it was the piani...
Serge Rachmaninoff wrote this song originally for voice and piano and, like many composers of his era and earlier, rearranged his own original music for solo piano. So convinced of the charm of thi...
Jacques Offenbach composed one of the most popular operas of the 19th century based on three short stories from a literary collection by one of the century’s most popular writers, ETA Hoffmann, ent...
This haunting piece was originally written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as “Lullaby” - but composed as a song for voice and piano - and then twice recast by Tchaikovsky in his own arrangements of th...
