Piano

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K 467

Joy and optimism flows through the fingers

Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto

Raw emotion from Russia

Record Review Podcast - Proms Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya

Summer Record Review explores recordings of music by Galina Ustvolskaya

Mendelssohn: Easter Sonata

Lost for 150 years, and worth finding!

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op 30

A real test of technique, power and fitness levels!

Composer of the Week - Rachmaninov

Donald Macleod explores Rachmaninov the pianist-composer

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op 15

A piano virtuoso's calling card

Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 1

Music as a shield

Composer of the Week - Bacewicz

Donald Macleod explores the life and work of composer and violinist Grazyna Bacewicz

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Anything you can do, I can do better

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

Punchy French jazz

BBC Proms Music Guide - Ravel's Piano Concerto

Tom Service talks about Ravel's Piano Concerto

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (Prelude and fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 870)

Simply keyboard perfection

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major, Op 10

Student composer gets an A++

Music and Culture of WWI - Postcard from St. Petersburg

An exploration of pre-WWI music, particularly Prokofiev

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op 11

Polish pianistic perfection

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

"...you have the harmonious silence of Heaven"

Composer of the Week - Messiaen

Donald Macleod explores the organ music of Olivier Messiaen

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K 595

Mozart's last will and testament

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op 102

Happy birthday Maxim!

Composer of the Week - Shostakovich

Donald Macleod explores Shostakovich's brilliant youth

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op 26

Exuberant, sarcastic vitality

Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in E flat major, Op 7

A piece that looks both forward and back in different styles

The Listening Service - Beethoven Unleashed: Getting to grips with Beethoven

Tom Service goes in search of the essence of what makes Beethoven Beethoven

Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S 178

A powerful, assertive, fiercely demanding work

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op 49

Simple beauty from "the Mozart of the 19th Century"

Record Review Podcast - Mendelssohn's Piano Trio Op. 49

Harriet Smith compares and recommends recordings of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54

Schumann's only - but widely performed and recorded - piano concerto

Joplin: Magnetic Rag

Riches from the king of ragtime

The Story of Music in Fifty Pieces - Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

Howard Goodall and Suzy Klein discuss Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

Bach: Partita No. 2 in C minor for keyboard, BWV 826

Strap in for some thrilling runs and leaps

Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op 81

Feel good with this happy and optimistic music

Record Review Podcast - Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op 81

Richard Morrison recommends recordings of Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op 81

Schumann: Arabeske in C major, Op 18

Beautiful, winding and free-spirited

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op 37

A demonstration of the piano's potential

Discovering Music - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3

Schubert: Trio in E flat major, D 929

Spirited, large and dramatic

Debussy: Preludes, book 1

Proof of a prodigy's correct career choice

Record Review Podcast - Debussy: Piano Preludes Book 1

Iain Burnside recommends a recorded version of Debussy's Piano Preludes Book 1

Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op 35

A piece with a well known and widely performed funeral march

Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op 16

A demanding piece, written with love

The Story of Music in Fifty Pieces - Schumann's Kreisleriana

Howard Goodall and Suzy Klein discuss the fourth movement of Schumann's Kreisleriana

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major, K 493

A riot of ideas and breathtaking harmonies

Ravel: La Valse, arr. for Piano

A colourful, romantic tribute to the waltz

Discovering Music - Ravel's La Valse

Stephen Johnson on the dark underbelly of Ravel's ode to the Viennese waltz, La valse

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op 15

Impassioned and tumultuous yet caring and sensitive

Debussy: Images, Set 1

"Well, he's only gone and changed the course of music"

Record Review Podcast - Debussy Images for Piano

Stephen Walsh makes recommendations from available recordings of Debussy's Images for Piano

Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux, Op 39

Give this one a big hand

Schumann: Trio in G minor, Op 17

Soulful trio haunted by shadows of personal turmoil

Record Review Podcast - Clara Schumann Piano Trio

David Owen Norris recommends recordings from available versions of Clara Schumann’s Piano Trio

Janáček: On an overgrown path, Book 1

Tread into the darkness towards the sorrowful owl

Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 4, Op 90, 'Dumky'

How can music be happy and sad?

Discovering Music - Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 4 'Dumky Trio'

Stephen Johnson explores Dvorak's Piano Trio No 4. in E minor - the Dumky Trio

Chaminade: Thème varié for piano, Op 89

Charming and original work by an international star

Mendelssohn: Songs without words, Book 1 Op 19

How can wordless music speak to us? Here are six ways

Handel: Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV427

Harpsichord pick-and-mix

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op 18

The cinematic sound of romance

Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op 15

Sincere scenes from childhood

Schumann: Toccata in C major, Op 7

A touch too much? It's wild, unrelenting, exhausting and… wonderful

Chopin: 3 Mazurkas, No. 1 in A minor, Op 59/1

Three Polish dances in triple time

Bach: Partita No. 1 in B flat major for keyboard, BWV 825

Daring, tuneful and exciting

Brahms: 25 Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel, Op 24

Ferocious and exhilarating variations

Wild: 7 Virtuoso Etudes After Gershwin (No. 4, Embraceable You)

Gershwin castoff gets spun into piano gold

Schubert: 6 Moments musicaux, D 780

Piano songs perfect for home entertaining

Beethoven: Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op 31 No. 2, 'Tempest'

Music inspired by Shakespeare's island tale

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

An upbeat and hopeful elegy to fallen comrades

Scarlatti: Sonata in B minor, Kk 27

Serene, poised and tranquil

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit

Difficult to play, thrilling to hear

Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op 27 No. 2, 'Moonlight'

Envelop yourself in a mysterious dreamlike fog

Debussy: L'Isle joyeuse

"There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law!"

Haydn: Piano Sonata in C major, H16 50

Breaking the classical shackles

Liszt: Années de pèlerinage - Deuxième année, Italie (No. 7, Apres un lecture de Dante)

A journey of exploration that will eventually lead to a Catholic abbey

Liszt: Fantasia on themes from 'Le Nozze de Figaro' and 'Don Giovanni', S 697

A potted history of Mozart's two best operas

Busoni: Chaconne in D minor, transc. for Piano [from Bach's Partita for violin solo, BWV 1004]

Bach to the future

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K 488

Beautiful flavours combine for a taste sensation

Mozart: Rondo in A minor, K 511

Even geniuses get the blues

Beethoven: Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op 129, 'Rage over a lost penny'

Here comes a classical earworm!

Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op 40

Nostalgia for the great outdoors

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major, K 493

A riot of ideas and breathtaking harmonies

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K 475

Interval training for piano and audience: it's workout time

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op 21

Inspiration from an infatuation

Bach: Keyboard Sonata in A major, Wq 55-4

Superstar's son pushes the newly-perfected piano to the limit

Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, Op 117 (ii)

Autumnal reflections

Schubert: Allegretto in C minor, D 915

Music that manages to conjure up melancholy gondoliers

Beethoven: 7 Bagatelles, Op 33

Melodies that could have come from a modern pop song

Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op 54

Wild fluctuating mood swings set to music

Boulanger: 3 Morceaux

Three tasty treats

Schumann: Carnaval

A sparkling piano epic with 21 story sections

Haydn: Sonata in E flat major, Hob XVI No. 52

Beethoven's influence points towards a bright future

Ravel: Jeux d'eau

Water, water everywhere

Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op 26

Oh, Vienna!

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44

An exuberant, glittering work of contrasting themes and moods

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 34

Passionate, urgent and angry

Beethoven: Quintet in E flat major, Op 16

A graceful and elegant work with bouncy, dance rhythms

Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op 114

A final burst of imagination in twilight years

Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

A frenzied farewell to civilian life

Beethoven: Trio in D major, Op 70 No. 1, 'Ghost'

Rumbling piano creates spooky sounds

Schumann: Trio No. 2 in F major, Op 80

A light-hearted work, like three friends chatting

Schubert: Piano Trio, D 898

Is this music that can make all the world fresh and bright again?

Brahms: Trio No. 1 in B major, Op 8

The embrace of youthful passions

Haydn: Trio Gypsy Rondo, H15 25

Wickedly fast, it’s a hoot!

Tchaikovsky: Trio in A minor, Op 50

A composer cries in public

Beethoven: Trio in G major, Op 1 No. 2

Music for practising your gentle prancing

Mahler: Piano Quartet movement in A minor

The only surviving piece of chamber music that Mahler wrote

Brahms: Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op 51 No. 2

Music of loneliness and longing

Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op 2

A minor-key rollercoaster of joyful emotion

Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat major, Op 40

Nostalgia for the great outdoors