Romantic Piano Music Essentials

Romantic Piano Music Essentials

Apple Music Classical

Something about the percussive and lyrical nature of the piano makes it particularly strong for conveying deep emotion. A lot of the great melodies and pieces in the piano literature—from composers as diverse as Frédéric Chopin and Ludovico Einaudi—deal with matters of love and romance, with two paramount examples in Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata" and Liszt's “Love Dream." This playlist is the soundtrack to an unabashedly romantic evening.

No. 3 in A-Flat Major. Andante moderato

2:03

Liebeslied (Widmung), S. 566

3:38

III. Lento placido

Mariam Batsashvili

3:40

IV. La Valse d'Amélie

2:50

II. Adagio

Víkingur Ólafsson

4:10

II. Adagio

5:05

No. 3 in G-Flat Major

Khatia Buniatishvili

6:17

I. Andante

2:14

I Giorni

Ludovico Einaudi

5:57

Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1

Maurizio Pollini

4:37

VI. Méditation

4:36

Liebestraum - Notturno No. 3, S 541/3

Khatia Buniatishvili

5:28

Rêverie (On a Theme by V. Loginov)

François Dumont

3:57

Peace Piece

6:13

Auf Flügeln Des Gesanges

Bertrand Chamayou

3:46

No. 4, Morgen! (Arr. M. Reger for Piano)

3:59

Bagatelle I

Hélène Grimaud

3:20

Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"

3:26

II. Adagio

François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Vanessa Wagner

7:13

No. 4, Notturno

3:52

II. Adagio sostenuto

Khatia Buniatishvili, Paavo Järvi, Czech Philharmonic

10:55

I. Des Abends

3:54

Variation 9. Valse

Daniil Trifonov

1:48

Shifted

Georgia Boyd, Ben Burnley, Rachel Davis, Alison Lawrance, Craig Armstrong, Jonathan Morton, Duncan Lyall, Cheryl Crockett, Daniel Pioro

2:11

Love’s First Call

Dinos Hadjiiordanou, Eleni Karaindrou

2:05

Do It Again

Alexandre Tharaud

1:36

Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

4:44

No. 9, Romance

Leif Ove Andsnes

3:57

Adagio (after the Second Movement from Bach's "Violin Concerto No. 2", BWV 1042)

Gabriela Montero

5:01

A la manière de... Borodine, M. 63

Bertrand Chamayou

1:45

Solitary Highland Song

3:18

No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Andantino

Valentina Lisitsa

6:33

I. Adagio sostenuto

5:16

III. Clair de lune

Khatia Buniatishvili

5:37

Unsent Love Letters

Tamara-Anna Cislowska

4:43

IV. Chant d’amour

Abdel Rahman El Bacha

3:35

No. 3, Un sospiro (Allegro affettuoso)

Daniil Trifonov

5:19

II. Adagio assai

Berlin Philharmonic, Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado

9:02

No. 1 in B-Flat Minor

Arthur Rubinstein

5:26

II. Larghetto

Orchestre De Paris, Paavo Järvi, Khatia Buniatishvili

8:54

Together at Last

3:11

Valse de Frantz (Arr. Tharaud for Piano)

Alexandre Tharaud

1:54

Variation 18. Andante cantabile

Daniil Trifonov, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, The Philadelphia Orchestra

2:54