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20 - Kawamura

Sony BMG  SICC-19080

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Instrumental

Hisako Kawamura (piano)

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Works (19)

• Béla Bartók: Hungarian Peasant Songs (15), Sz. 71 BB 79 No. 5 Scherzo
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 'Für Elise'
• Nadia Boulanger: Vers la vie nouvelle (1917)
• Johannes Brahms: Klavierstücke (4), Op. 119 No. 3 in C major
• Frederic Chopin: Impromptu No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 51
• Claude Debussy: Rêverie, L 68
• Gabriel Fauré: Pièces brèves (8), Op. 84 No. 5 Improvisation
• Franz Liszt: Liebesträume (3), S. 541 No. 3 in A flat major
• Olivier Messiaen: Préludes (8) (1928-29, rev. 1945) No. 5
• Francis Poulenc: Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach, FP 62
• Serge Prokofiev: Pieces (10), Op. 12 No. 7 Prelude
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Romances (6), Op. 4 No. 1 Oh No, I Beg You, Forsake Me Not!
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Sultan (1899-1900) Flight of the Bumblebee
• Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in B minor, K. 27
• Franz Schubert: Moments musicaux (6), D 780 No. 3 in F minor
• Clara Schumann: Schumann, Robert: Widmung
• Richard Strauss: Stimmungsbilder, TrV 128 No. 2 An einsamer Quelle
• Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II (1982)