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Timeless Recordings (I, II, III, IV, V, VI)



Ivo Pogolerich's famed performance of Chopin's 3rd Ballade live from the Chopin competition. His elimination from the competition was controversial, and famously led Martha Argerich to resign as a judge.


Cziffra plays Dohnanyi's Etude Op 28 No 6.


A young Yefim Bronfman plays during a masterclass held in Jerusalem, featuring Isaac Stern, Gina Bachauer, and Arie Vardie.

Grieg - Arietta (Leif Ove Andsnes)

Grieg - Notturno (Andsnes)



The amazing Cecil Taylor.


Matsuev plays Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto.

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.2 (excerpt, Horacio Gutierrez)

The famed recording.


Andre Watts plays La Campanella (Paganini-Liszt).

Schubert - Impromptu Op.90 No.4 (Horowitz)

Mendelssohn - Etude in A minor (Horowitz)



Maria Yudina plays Bach's Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue BWV 903.


Sergiu Celibidache conducts Beethoven's Overture to Egmont, in the ruins of the Berlin (1950).

Liszt - Vallee Olbermann (excerpt, Volodos)


Moscheles - Rondo Brilliante (finale, Hamelin)


Field - Piano Concerto No.2, final mvmt (Staier)


Moszkowski - Etincelles (Yuja Wang)

Saint-Saens/Horowitz - Danse Macabre (Yuja Wang)



Glenn Gould plays Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110, 3rd movement (fragment).


Glenn Gould plays Bach's BWV 884.

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.2 (excerpt, Yuja Wang)

Yuja performs one of the hardest concertos in the repetoire.

Cziffra - Tritch Tratch Polka (Volodos)

Mendelsohn-Liszt-Horowitz - Wedding March (Volodos)

Arcadi Volodos outperforming the masters.




Alexei Sultanov's interpretations of Chopin's Waltz no. 1 and Fantasie Impromptu live, Warsaw, 1995. Note the left hand in the Waltz near the end (4:02).

Field - Nocturne No.8 (Rachel Cheung)



Cziffra plays Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu (live, and note the frogs).