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Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

The Well-Tempered Clavier is a two-book collection by Johann Sebastian Bach for keyboard, with Book I compiled in 1722 a...

Baroque Keyboard Piano Bach

9.89 Brilliant

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Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Originally written as a ballet score, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring premiered in 1913 and became a central work o...

Music Modern Ballet Modernist

9.83 Brilliant

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Winterreise, D. 911

Composed by Franz Schubert in 1827, "Winterreise" (D. 911) is a cycle of 24 songs setting poetry by Wilhelm Müller. The...

Romantic Voice Vocal Piano

9.70 Brilliant

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Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178

Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178, is a large solo piano work completed in 1853 and dedicated to Robert Schu...

Romantic Solo Piano Liszt

9.63 Brilliant

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Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52

Completed in 1842, Frédéric Chopin's Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52, is a single-movement composition for solo piano....

Romantic Solo Piano Ballade

9.62 Brilliant

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Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Béla Bartók’s *Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta* is a landmark composition from 1911. It showcases innovative u...

Music Modern Modernist 20TH Century

9.53 Brilliant

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 (Hammerklavier)

Beethoven completed Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106, in 1818 and dedicated it to Archduke Rudolf of Austria...

Classical Piano Beethoven Sonata

9.51 Brilliant

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Ligeti: Piano Etudes

György Ligeti's Piano Études are a set of solo piano compositions written in the late 20th century, organized into three...

Virtuoso Hungarian Modernist Piano

9.20 Excellent

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Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit

Gaspard de la nuit is a three-movement piano suite completed by Maurice Ravel in 1908, based on poems from Aloysius Bert...

Virtuoso French Suite Modernist

9.12 Excellent

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Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116

Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, completed in 1943, showcases innovative orchestration techniques. The work feature...

Music Hungarian Modernist 20TH Century

9.10 Excellent

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Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle

Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera composed by Béla Bartók with a Hungarian libretto by Béla Balázs, premiering in 19...

Opera Hungarian Modernist Vocal

9.02 Excellent

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Ligeti - Études for Piano

György Ligeti’s Études for Piano are a set of solo compositions created between 1985 and his death. These works are nota...

Solo Modernist 20TH Century Piano

9.00 Excellent

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Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jesus

Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus is a massive solo piano cycle composed in 1944 by French composer Olivier Messiaen. The...

French Modernist Cycle Piano

8.94 Great

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Ligeti: Atmospheres

Atmospheres is a 1961 orchestral composition by Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti. It is built from dense cluste...

Music Hungarian Avant Garde Modernist

8.82 Great

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Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 2, Sz. 95

Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2, completed in 1931, is a significant work within modernist classical composition. The piec...

Modernist 20TH Century Concerto Piano

8.80 Great

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Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz. 119

Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3, completed in 1945, is a significant work within the composer's modernist output. Noted fo...

Music Modernist 20TH Century Lyrical

8.70 Great

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Ligeti: Requiem

György Ligeti's "Requiem," composed between 1963 and 1965, is a large-scale choral and orchestral work for soloists, dou...

Hungarian Avant Garde Modernist Choral

8.58 Great

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Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2, is the most famous of his nineteen Hungarian Rhapsodies for solo piano, compl...

Romantic Virtuoso Hungarian Piano

8.28 Great

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Liszt: Totentanz, S. 126

Totentanz (Dance of the Dead), S. 126, is a work for piano and orchestra by Franz Liszt, based on the medieval Dies irae...

Music Hungarian Concerto Orchestral

8.05 Great

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Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor is a virtuoso piano work by Franz Liszt, published in 1851 as part of his Hung...

Romantic Virtuoso Hungarian Piano

7.95 Good