We probably know them best for their symphonies, chamber music, or operas, but each of them also wrote works on a much smaller scale that deserve to be better known.
In this hour, piano pieces from the delightful to the dramatic, by Haydn, Rossini, Bizet, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos and more.
RECORDINGS USED
| Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
| Bizet: Jeux d’Enfants |
Katia & Marielle Labèque |
Philips 420 159-2 |
028942015920 |
| Haydn/Ligeti: Concertos & Capriccios [for Haydn Capriccio in C Major] |
Shai Wosner |
ONYX 4174 |
880040417422 |
| Rossini: Sins of Old Age & The Cottage Album [for Petite Valse De Boudoir] |
Alessandro Marangoni |
Naxos 8.570590-91 |
747313059072 |
| Borodin: Complete Piano Music [for Scherzo in E, for piano 4 hands] |
Marco Rapetti and Daniela de Santis |
Brilliant Classics 93894 |
5028421938943 |
| Offenbach Piano Works 1 [for Roses of Bengal: Allegretto Maestoso] |
Marco Sollini |
CPO 777 079-2 |
761203707928 |
| Bizet: Roma, etc. [for Petite Suite] |
RET National Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud |
Naxos 8.573344 |
747313334476 |
| Tchaikovsky: The Seasons |
Pavel Kolesnikov |
Hyper6ion CDA68028 |
034571280288 |
| Massenet: Piano Concerto & Solo Works [for Two Impromptus] |
Aldo Ciccolini |
EMI CDM 7642772 |
077776427720 |
| Sibelius: Piano Album [for “The Oarsman” and “Eyelet”] |
Annette Servadei |
Regis RRC1281 |
5055031312818 |
| Copland: American Piano Music [for Blues No. 1] |
Eugenie Russo |
Campio RRCD 1336 n |
739574133622 |
| Villa-Lobos: Piano Music [for “The Little White Porcelain Doll”] |
Marc-André Hamelin |
HyperioCDA67176n |
034571171760 |
| Britten Resonances [for Five Waltzes] |
Anthony Goldstone |
Diversion 24118 s |
809730411823 |
| Glass: Piano Works [for Etude No. 9] |
Vikingur Olafsson |
Deutsche Grammophon 4796918 |
028947969181 |
