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This performance of Anitra's Dance elevates the piece to a new dimension, where every note resonates with an ethereal grace, surpassing the original’s enchantment and leaving the listener immersed in pure beauty.🩷

A recording of J.S. Bach's 'Preludie in C' played by Neil Balfour.

When J.S. Bach began working on his epic Well-Tempered Clavier in 1722, chances are he wasn't thinking that it would become one of the defining musical texts in keyboard history. But, somehow, it has - and the Prelude No. 1 in C Major is where it all starts.

The Well-Tempered Clavier (there are two volumes of it, each containing a prelude and a fugue in each musical key) kicks off in C Major, the most 'natural' musical key, so he obviously made sure that the first entry is a good one. Few pieces of keyboard music sound so delicate and fragile, but there's a very Bach-ian stability to it as well. 

It's a strikingly simple piece to begin with, gently phasing through different chords and registers, but it's one of those pieces that demands to be tinkered with. Consequently, you'll hear plenty of different interpretations of this much-loved work.

Prelude No. 1 In C Major | Bach

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Some of you may think that it's too daring on my side to re-interpret this classical piece, but to me it is a pure sentimental thing, a tribute to two Masters... The first one is the author of the original, of course, I bet you have heard of him.. and his story... and another Master - my mom. She wasn't playing or singing herself, but she surely inspired my dad and me to keep playing no matter what. And I used to dare and hoped that she is listening and loves my playing and my daring. Every time I hear the original composition, I think of her.

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improvisation on Bach´s cantata Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring, check download button for wav format

Another happy Dance by Norwegian composer Edward Grieg (1843-1907)

Piano: Carlos Márquez

Edward Grieg: Anitras Dance (Peer Gynt, Op. 46)

Live Piano Recording. A notable and well-known piano solo composition by virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt. 

Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Hugh Wolff leads the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a performance of Beethoven's Egmont Overture. Recorded live in Symphony Hall, Boston April 23, 2014.

Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, op. 84

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, first movement. Wayne Lee, violin; Emely Phelps, piano. Recorded Fall 2010 in New York.

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, first movement

This is one of the most uplifting of my Songs without Words project, and the first one composed in 2025. With its main melody based on a rising scale ending in a plummeting drop, it has a singing quality, and becomes quite expansive at times. The middle section maintains the idea, though starting in the relative minor and frequently visiting other keys. Here's to the year ahead being similarly uplifting and cheerful...!

SWW 34.3

Frederic Chopin -Fantaisie Impromptu

This track is from the album Saint-Saens violin Concerto, Beethoven Triple Concerto and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/allaa

Camille Saint-Saens, violin concerto N.3 in B minor op 61, 3rd m

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Chopin: Balladen

Fantaisie-Impromtu in C Sharp Minor, Op. 66

Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor op. 66

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Edward Grieg: Anitras Dance (Peer Gynt, Op. 46)

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