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PAGE 30: Lodovico Giustini, Preludio from Sonata No. 6 in B flat major, composed in 1732-1732. Played on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Cristofori Piano, by Dongsok Shin | read more
PAGE 34: Mozart, Sonata no. 8 in A minor, K. 310, 1778, two examples
Example 1: played by Daniel Barenboim
Example 2: played by Dinu Lipatti in his final concert in Besançon, September 16, 1950
PAGE 44: Chopin, Nocturne in D flat major, op. 27, no. 2, 1833-1836, | read more | three examples
Example 1: played by Raoul Koczalski on Chopin’s Pleyel at Belweder Palace, Warsaw, 1948
Example 2: Stephen Malinowski’s Music Animation Machine, showing interval types in colored graphics
Example 3: by Valentina Lisitsa on a modern grand piano
Page 45: Chopin, Prelude in D flat major, op. 28, no. 15 | read more | two examples
Example 1: played by Yuan Sheng on the 1845 Pleyel at the Frederick Collection. Starts at 1:14:30. Listen to the 2-CD collection on Spotify.
Example 2: played by Hélène Grimaud on a modern grand piano
Page 48: Chopin, Étude op. 10, no. 12, three examples:
Example 1: played by Ewa Tytman-Csiba on an 1837 Érard. Begins at 31:00.
Example 2: played by Murray Perahia.
Example 3: played by Andre Watts
Page 48: Dmitry Ablogin preluding at the First Int’l Chopin Competition on Period Instruments on a modern copy of an 1825 Buchholtz piano made by Paul McMulty. Begins at 39:27, before he plays the Bach Prelude and Fugue in F# minor
Page 48: Chopin, Mazurka in G major op. 50, no. 1, Dmitry Ablogin on an 1842 Pleyel, again after a brief bit of preluding. Begins at 1:35:55 | read more
Page 49: Chopin, Piano concerto in F minor, op. 21, 1839/1830 | read more
Played by the Orchestra of the 18th Century; Aleksandra Świgut, Tomasz Ritter, Naruhiko Kawaguchi playing on an 1842 Pleyel | begins at 1:54:00 | read more
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Mozart, Sonata no. 8 in A minor, Barenboim
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Chopin, Nocturne op. 27, no. 2, Koczalski
Chopin, Nocturne op. 27, no. 2, Lisitsa
Chopin, Nocturne op. 27, no. 2, Biesemans
Chopin, Nocturne op. 27, no. 2, Lisitsa
Chopin, Prelude op. 28, no. 15, Sheng
Chopin, Prelude op. 28 no. 15, Grimaud
Chopin, Étude op. 10, no. 2, Tytman-Csiba
Chopin, Étude op. 10, no. 2, Perahia