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Prokofiev's 'Theme from the Apprentice' :) Was filmed at Steinway Hall in London for Channel 4. Catch the video of me playing it here: http://www.channel4.com/jamesrhodes

Prokofiev Dance of the Knights

Arguably Chopin's greatest composition. If you can offer a description using words you're much smarter than I am...

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Chopin Ballade No 4 In F Minor Op 52

My take on Chopin's saddest little prelude.  Two and a half minutes of ache.


Chopin Prelude No. 4 In E Minor, Op. 28

Ravel's stupidly beautiful Pavane for a Dead Princess. He wrote it in 1899, this is my interpretation of it 115 years later.

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Ravel Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

Grieg meets Jimi Hendrix in this slightly bonkers transcription. Live recording. 

Grieg  In The Hall Of The Mountain King

LVB's weirdly underplayed Op.90 sonata in E minor. Here's the second movement played by me. Gentle, bi-polar, inward-looking, darker than it first appears...

Beethoven Piano Sonata OP 90, 2nd movement

Chopin's rather mental study in C minor. This from a supposedly asexual, sickly, man-child of a composer...

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Christine Toffolo