Recordings

Frankly, many of these are not very good. Making CDs is an incentive to polish pieces off and to improve by self-criticism. That is really the purpose of this page

The pieces are in MP3 format, made on Yamaha digital pianos. The CLP-170 model is a top of range stage instrument sporting technology that synthesizes sympathetic resonance and spatial reverberations quite convincingly. The P-80 model is a portable instrument with a great piano sound and authentic action but lacking in dynamic range and timbre compared to an acoustic grand, and missing a soft pedal. The recordings were mastered on an Apple Mac using Spark, by TC Works. The list is arranged in order of composers' births.

To hear these, you can get a free MP3 player, QuickTime, from Apple.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Toccata in D major, BWV 912 (note): Complete (?MB)
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue (4 voices) No. 18 in G# minor (1.1+2MB); Prelude and Fugue (stretto, 5 voices) No. 22 in Bb minor (2.5+2.3MB); Prelude and Fugue (4 voices) No. 24 in B minor (3.5+5MB) (note)
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2: Prelude and Fugue (double, 3 voices) No. 18 in G# minor (3+4MB)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

Keyboard sonatas: Sonata in E major, K. 380 (clip) (2.1MB) (note)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

various: Solfegietto (0.9MB)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2(Sonata quasi una Fantasia)"Moonlight": i Adagio sostenuto (that immortal haunt) (5.7MB) (note); ii Allegretto (1.7MB) (note); iii Presto agitato
various: Für Elise (2.5MB)

John Field (1782-1837)

various: Nocturne in E minor (clip) (3.1MB); 12 O'Clock Rondo (clip) (4MB)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

6 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35: Prelude (midi) and Fugue (midi) (3 voices) No. 5 in F minor (note)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

various: Arabesque, Op. 18 (4.5MB)

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Nocturnes: Op. 37 No. 2 in G major (5.1MB)
Mazurkas: Op.33 No. 3 in D major

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Lyric Pieces, Book 8 Op. 65: No. 6 Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (5.8MB) (note)

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)

various: Étude Op. 2 No. 1; Waltz in Db major, Op. posth. (1.9MB)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Sonatine (note): i Modéré; ii Mouvement de menuet; iii Animé

Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

Mikrokosmos: No. 142 From the Diary of a Fly (1.2MB) (note)

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

various: Over The Hills and Far Away (0.8MB)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Sarcasms, Op. 17: No. 3 Allego precipitato (1.7MB)
Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 (note): No. 3 Allegretto (0.7MB); No. 8 Commodo (note); No. 10 Ridicolosamente (1MB); No. 14 Feroce (note); No. 19 Presto agitatissimo e molto accentuato (note); No. 20 Lento irrealmente (note)
Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31 (note): No. 1 Moderato (2MB); No. 2 Andantino (1.3MB); No. 3 Andante assai (2.7MB); No. 4 Sostenuto-Pocchissimo più animato-molto andante (2.3MB)

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

various: Mouvements Perpetuels No. 1 (1.2MB); Novelette in C major (2.6MB) (note); Pastourelle from L'Eventail de Jeanne (1.8MB) (note)
15 Improvisations for Piano (note): No. 11 in G minor; No. 15 (dedicated to Edith Piaf) (clip) (2.6MB)

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1990)

Six Preludes, Op. 23: No. 2 Andante (1.6MB); No. 5 Allegro (1.3MB)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Five Preludes for Piano (from 24 Preludes in collaboration with Klements and Feldt) (note): No. 1 Allegro moderato e scherzando (0.8MB); No. 5 Andantino (1.6MB)
24 Preludes, Op. 34 (note): No. 6 Allegretto; No. 7 Andante (1.4MB); No. 9 Presto; No. 10 Moderato non troppo (1.9MB); No. 12 Allego non troppo (1.2MB); No. 18 Allegretto
24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude and Fugue (3 voices) No. 5 in D major (1.8+1.6MB); Prelude and Fugue (3 voices) No. 22 in G minor (2.1+2.7MB)

Dave Brubeck (1920-)