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 |
