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unusual facts about Solo Piano


Solo Piano

Piano Solo, code name for an envisaged plot for an Italian coup in 1964



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Alfred De Sève

His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H. Ditson.

Ayşedeniz Gökçin

She is known for recording an EP of her arrangements for solo piano of the music of the rock band Pink Floyd in the style of Franz Liszt, Pink Floyd Lisztified.

Gerald Moore

This famed concert at London's Royal Festival Hall concluded with Moore playing alone—an arrangement for solo piano of Schubert's An die Musik.

Ginette Martenot

She gave the first performance (and subsequently made recordings) as solo ondist in Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, with Yvonne Loriod taking the solo piano part.

Heather O'Donnell

She gave premieres of solo piano works (including pieces by Luciano Berio, Walter Zimmermann, James Tenney, Michael Finnissy, Frederic Rzewski, Hauke Harder, and Oliver Schneller).

Images pour orchestre

Debussy had originally intended this set of Images as a two-piano sequel to the first set of Images (solo piano), in a letter to his publisher Durand as of September 1905.

Irène Schweizer

She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie Born and Sally Potter.

John Lill

He has also recorded the complete Rachmaninoff Concertos and major solo piano works for Nimbus Records.

Joseph Breinl

The younger Breinl continued his studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam working on solo piano and song accompaniment with Willelm Brons and Rudolf Jansen.

Kenneth Leighton

The solo piano music, which ranges from charming miniatures for younger players to demandingly virtuosic works, has been recorded by various artists (Eric Parkin, Peter Wallfisch, Margaret Fingerhut, Angela Brownridge, Stephen Hough), as also the works for organ, and cello (notably by Raphael Wallfisch).

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Children's Corner, a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy completed in 1908

Nat Jaffe

Three solo piano pieces (Body And Soul, Liza and I Can't Get Started) were recorded on January 31, 1938 and released by Onyx Records in 1974 on 52nd Street; Volume 2, which also features performances by Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Don Byas.

Navah Perlman

In addition to her solo piano career, she performs in the Perlman/Quint/Bailey Trio with cellist Zuill Bailey and violinist Philippe Quint.

Paris / London: Testament

Paris / London: Testament is a live solo piano album by American pianist Keith Jarrett, recorded at the Salle Pleyel, Paris and the Royal Festival Hall, London in 2008.

Pavane pour une infante défunte

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a well-known piece written for solo piano by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré.

Piano symphony

Niels Viggo Bentzon described his Partita for Piano, Op. 38 (1945), as a "symphony for solo piano".

Romola Costantino

Romola Costantino gave the first solo piano recital in the Sydney Opera House (10 April 1973; to an invited audience), and she participated in the first public performance in the Opera House's Music Room (with the Carl Pini Quartet and Walter Sutcliffe, under the auspices of Musica Viva Australia).

Siciliana

In the Romantic era Brahms wrote a siciliana as the nineteenth variation in his Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel for solo piano (1861).

Simon Hale

He co-wrote (with Andrew Hale) the soundtrack of L.A. Noire as well as playing solo piano, orchestrating and conducting the recordings.

Văn Cao

In 1991 the American composer Robert Ashley composed the solo piano piece Van Cao's Meditation, which is based on the image of Văn Cao playing his piano.

Vision Towards Essence

Vision Towards Essence is a live album of solo piano by Muhal Richard Abrams released on the Pi Recordings label in 2007.

Walensee

The lake provided the inspiration for a solo piano piece by Hungarian romantic composer Franz Liszt, called Au lac de Wallenstadt.

We Are Glass

The B-side was one of Numan's few non-original pieces, the first movement of Erik Satie's "Trois Gymnopedies," in an arrangement that added guitar, bass and synthesizer to the original's solo piano part.

Yesnaby

The Orkney composer Peter Maxwell Davies has immortalised Yesnaby through "Yesnaby Ground", an Interlude for solo piano.