Chopin: Waltz in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2

I almost forgot about this one! The tenth in Burgmuller's set of 25 etudes for piano - I forgot I had recorded this one along with the previous nine and just came across it. This etude (exercise) is intended to provide technique for repeated notes played by independant fingers. I ...  Show more

I've finally completed the last Sonatina in Clementi's Opus 36! I actually recorded this over a year ago and am just barely getting around to releasing it. I apologize for the long delay. I hope that you will enjoy my recording of this work! 

Chaque samedi, Laure Dautriche nous fait (re)découvrir un morceau qui a marqué l'histoire de la musique classique. Aujourd'hui, elle revient sur le nouvel enregistrement des nocturnes de Chopin, sur un instrument d'époque : un piano Pleyel de 1836. Un voyage dans le temps à ne pa ...  Show more

Imagine writing a concerto that prompted Beethoven to remark to a friend: "we'll never be able to write anything like that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Or a piece that prompted Brahms to call it: "a masterpiece of art, full of inspiration and ideas." ...

The cycle is complete! Would it surprise you to find out that Beethoven's 9th Symphony wasn't his last piece? Would it surprise you that he was actually considering an all instrumental movement for the last movement? Or how about that the second performance of the piece was gi ...

This week we're diving into one of the great movements ever written in Western Music with the slow movement of Beethoven's Op. 132 quartet. This is a movement that explores Beethoven's contradictory religious beliefs, his core optimism despite all that happened to him during his ...  Show more