Beethoven Piano Your resource for the piano music of Ludwig van Beethoven

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Fun-to-play, pedagogically sound piano arrangements include themes from Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata and Haydn's Surprise Symphony, along with such favorites as Schumann's "Träumerei," Brahms's "Lullaby," Chopin's "Prelude," Tchaikovsky's "Marche Slave," Moussorgsky's "Promenade" (from Pictures at an Exhibition), and many more. Includes 20 piano arrangements.

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This live Appassionata, from a Moscow recital of 1960, is one of the most thrilling piano performances ever recorded. Sviatoslav Richter fills every moment of the first movement with intense drama, creates the illusion of total repose in the central variations, and then takes off in the finale with an exhibition of musical virtuosity and ever-increasing tension that becomes almost unbearably intense (and unbelievably fast and accurate). The studio Pathétique is quite fine, and the Fantasy (sung in Russian!) well performed by all but still rather quaint in its effect. But don't miss that Appassionata! --Leslie Gerber

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Fur Elise (3:01)
Traumerel (2:50)
Mazurka in Bb major op. 7 no. 1 (1:49)
Nocturne in Eb major op. 9 no. 2 (4:00)
Musical Snuffbox, op. 32 (2:12)
Hut on Hen's LegsGreat Gate of Kiev (8:23)
Arabeske (6:25)
Grand valse brillante, op. 18 (4:45)
Nocturne in B major op. 32 no. 1 ((5:04)
Pavane pour une infante defunte (5:59)
Waltz in Bm op. 69 no. 2 (3:40)
Polonaise in Ab major op. 53 (6:16)
Moonlight Sonate (15:16)