Sergeiclassica

Cécile Chaminade - 2 Piano Pieces, Op.9 No.1 "Pièce Romantique" Performed by Takashi Sato.

2 Piano Pieces, Op. 9 is a set of two solo piano short works ('Piece Romantique' and 'Gavotte') composed in 1879 by Cécile Chaminade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lasaHp0RyGI&list=PL5qqCR...

Bach - Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka.The Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861, is No. 16 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, keyboard music consisting of 24 preludes and fugues in every major and minor key. Bach's G minor fugue is "insistent and pathetic". The subject also appears in his funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (God's time is the very best time). The subject of the fugue employs a minor 6th leap in the first measure, then resolves it with a more conventional stepwise motion. Overall, the piece has a foreboding and admonishing tone.

Chopin - Polonaise Op.44 F sharp minorPerformed by Olga Gurevich.The Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44, is a piece for solo piano written by Frédéric Chopin in 1841. It is often referred to as the "tragic" polonaise, due to its dark nature. The polonaise is dedicated to Princess Ludmilla de Beauveau, a prominent member of the Polish émigré community in Paris.Despite its title, the polonaise is a composite work in ternary form. The piece opens with a short menacing passage, and soon develops into a dark and often furious polonaise theme. The central section of the piece is a mazurka in A major that provides a romantic contrast. The mazurka soon gives in to darker harmonies and the polonaise returns after two isolated torrents of notes. At length, the reprise seems to lose force and momentum, and Chopin concludes the work with a surprising fortissimo double octave on F#. One of the largest polonaises, a typical performance of the work lasts around eleven minutes.The piece is often considered the first of three "grand polonaises", (the other two being the Polonaise Op. 53 'Heroic', and the Polonaise-Fantaisie Op. 61) in which Chopin largely abandoned the old formula derived directly from dance practice. The time had come for polonaises subjected to free fantasy, for more heroic dance poems. In fact, Chopin was known to have said to the publisher, ‘I have a manuscript for your disposal. It is a kind of fantasy in polonaise form. But I call it a Polonaise’.

F. Chopin - Polonaise B.5 A flat major

The Polonaises Op. posth[umous] include Frédéric Chopin's polonaises that were unpublished during his life.

Chopin's father Nicolas Chopin published these works on behalf of his son. The Polonaises in G minor and B-flat major are among these posthumous pieces and relative.

Polonaise in A-flat major (1821)

This song was dedicated to his teacher, Wojciech Żywny (1756–1842) and is commonly referred to as B.5. It was not first published until 1901.

Performed by Luke Faulkner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx8hXxilcQ&list=PL5qqCR...