World Piano Day 2020 YouTube Play List

The 88th day of the year has become known as World Piano Day, which falls on 3/28/2020 this year. Concerts are held around the world to celebrate the amazing and rich array of music created on 88 keys! This year, of course, all live events are cancelled. You can head to https://www.pianoday.org to grab playlists on Spotify or Soundcloud. Betsy also curated a playlist just for her musicians on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uhbGoD907IibTBFlA4IFRQfejLwgW1M

Weekly Listening List

Week of June 15, 2020

Claude Debussy - Reflets dans l’eau from Images 1 https://youtu.be/ZZE9vGSfcO4 performed by Minnesota pianist Reed Tetzloff, recently named a Yamaha Pianist!

Lili Boulanger - Nocturne for Violin and Piano https://youtu.be/7u_LiRw7EEI
Week of June 8, 2020

Robert Schumann - Abendlied https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5f5aYzopB0

Richard Wagner (arr for piano by Franz Liszt) - Isolde's Liebestod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5zP0hjg-Lk

Teresa Carreno - La Falsa Nota (Op. 39) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPhcHSjjUo

Benjamin Britten - The Salley Gardens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpSR56Wq3f8

Nikolai Kapustin - 8 Concert Etudes, op. 40 Prelude: Allegro assai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_S45qeL4E

Week of June 1, 2020

John Dowland - The Frog Gailliard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx6PWnpSyOk

Cesar Franck - Violin Sonata in A major, No. 4: Allegretto poco mosso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLhQhRc9mZk

Carl Friedrich Abel - 27 Pieces for Viola da Gamba, Prelude WKO205 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd52QMZLQ2s

Max Richter - Mercy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tacddJKKSw

JS Bach/Charles Gounod - Ave Maria (this arrangement by piano and cello) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyUhEjtlDLA

Week of May 25, 2020

Jorge Cardoso - Milonga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jds7ZPQgkXI

William Bolcom - 'Waitin' from Cabaret Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b3iNwDaxiE

Igor Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps - The Rite of Spring, Part 1: 'The Adoration of the Earth' - Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1BNZCDhKJ4

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major, 2: Adagio assai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRTWLQ4nI6Q

Pablo de Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmV2hj-I7Xo

Week of May 18, 2020

Pablo de Sarasate - Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmV2hj-I7Xo

Alice Mary Smith - Allegretto amorevole aus der Sinfonie c-moll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZ42kk7B9E

Ruggiero Leoncavallo - 'Vesti la giubba' - 'Put on your costume' from Pagliacci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PMq4XGtZ4

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Alexander Borodin - Quartet No. 2 in D major for Strings, III. Notturno: Andante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKsCxvT8e8Y

Week of May 11, 2020

James P. Johnson - Harlem Symphony 3: 'Night Club' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcYiB8BUluo

Gaetano Donizetti - 'Una furtiva lagrima' - ' A furtive tear' from L'elisir d'amore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTAKQOIGI8

Fanny Mendelssohn - 6 Melodies, op. 5, No. 3 in E flat major: Andante soave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34FJSHBcw7w

Gabriel Faure - Cantique de Jean, op. 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB_3rG7KZyU

Andrea Falconieri - Chaconne in G major https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1cQoF11Ck

Week of May 4, 2020

Peter Maxwell Davies - The Yellow Cake Revue 3: 'Farewell to Stromness' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DW2PY9QncA

Alexander von Zemlinsky - Mayflowers are Blooming Everywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36ohfc46aUk

William Walton - Spitfire Prelude and Fugue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_41jp8XxI

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Act 1 'letter scene' from Eugene Onegin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d56MMagyMXs

Paul Hindemith - Acht Stucke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHDPj5174g

Week of April 27, 2020

Peter Sculthorpe - String Quartet with Didjeridu, no. 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5y1TUFiG18 This is a longer piece, but please at least listen to the first movement, about 3 1/2 minutes long, called Loneliness.

Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64, Movement 3: Allegretto non troppo - Allegro molto vivace which begins at 20:50 in this recording. I encourage you to listen to a couple minutes of the beginning - or even better - the whole piece! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPi7LrQ1rNg

Claude Debussy - 'Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum' (Children's Corner, L119, No. 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0rApPwATew

Dmitri Kabalevsky - Comedian's Galop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovpnw_pynBs I have fond memories of playing the marimba part with the LSH band in high school for our spring concert!

Robert Starer - Sketches in Color play list. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq1xhPBlaL4&list=PLIvoenCYkd_iKb5NBRfeyvTniLE3oBF5G&index=2 This is a collection of very short pieces. Does the color you hear match the title of each piece?

Week of April 20, 2020

Modest Mussorgsky - Prelude to the opera Kovanshchina, "Dawn Over the Moscow River" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDquWRuskVI

Paul Hindemith - Flute Sonata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pgujH8D3xQ

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia sung by Cantus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXrFZBforA Cantus is an all-men's a capella group originally formed 25 years ago by St. Olaf graduates. I can listen to them all day long! Learn more about this fabulous group at https://www.cantussings.org/

Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2RPKMJmSp0

Bedrich Smetana - Ma vlast (My homeland) 2. 'Vlatava' (The Moldau) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kqu2mk-Kw

Week of April 13, 2020

Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor, op. 21 Movement 2: Larghetto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_dSI0gVbp0

Meredith Monk - Ellis Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-27QaUl0D8

Germaine Tailleferre - Pastorale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4792xUCrqU

Henry Purcell - 'Music for a while' from Oedipushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AbCG1ZXh4w That many-stringed instrument is called a thoerbe!

Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, 4: Mambo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp33WX9xIGs

Week of April 6, 2020

Aaron Copland - Fanfare of the Common Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdqjcMmjeaA

Franz Joseph Haydn - 'Surprise' Symphony No. 94 in G Major Second Movement: Andante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOLy6JxEDLw

Darius Milhaud - Le Printemps - Spring, op. 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4J3ABcTKLM

Alberto Ginastera - Tres piezas, op. 6, No. 1: 'Cuyana' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi_G-taVhME

Richard Wagner - Overture from Tannhauser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTM7E4-DN0o

Week of March 30, 2020

See the World Piano Day Play List above!

Week of March 23, 2020

Antonio Vivaldi - Spring 2 - Itzhak Perlman Conducting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKthRw4KjEg

Max Richter - Spring 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pafDNPu06g

Georg Philip Telemann - Viola Concerto in G Major, Mvmt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYs4eBPP6U beginning at 0:28-4:02

Bela Bartok - Sash Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DscctOyPzh8 whole recording is short, but the Sash Dance begins at 1:02-1:30

This is a recording of Bartok playing three of his compositions with the sheet music to follow along!

Nils Frahm - Ambre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmaTLbVAmzI

This is a video of the composer performing his piece. Nils Frahm developed the National Piano Day celebration on the 88th day of the year. This year Piano Day is on March 28th. Visit www.PianoDay.orgto take in the festivities!