23 Greatest Piano Solos
I do a lot of driving for work traveling to different sites. This allows for time to listen to audiobooks. I don’t play the piano; maybe I will when I retire. This was a really interesting audiobook by Robert Greenberg, PhD and part of the Great Courses series. It was available for free through Hoopla. Dr. Greenberg not only provided interesting backstories about each author but also a great history of the technological development of the piano from harpsichord and how this came with development and changes in the composition of pieces for it.
There is an accompanying ebook available from the Internet Archive.
23 Greatest Piano Solos, Great Course by Robert Greenberg
- J.S. Bach—The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book One
- J.S. Bach—Goldberg Variations
- Mozart—Piano Sonata in C Minor, K. 457
- Beethoven—The Appassionata Sonata
- Beethoven—Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
- Schubert—Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major
- Chopin—Préludes, Op. 28
- Chopin—Ballade in G Minor, Op. 23
- Schumann—Kreisleriana
- Liszt—Years of Pilgrimage
- Liszt—Sonata in B Minor
- Brahms—Handel Variations, Op. 24
- Brahms—Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
- Mussorgsky—Pictures at an Exhibition
- Debussy— “The Sunken Cathedral”
- Debussy— Préludes, Book One
- Albéniz—Iberia
- Ravel—Valses nobles et sentimentales
- Scriabin—Piano Sonata No. 5
- Rachmaninoff—Etudes-tableaux
- Prokofiev—Piano Sonata No. 7
- Copland—Piano Variations