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Johann Sebastian Bach – Italian Concerto, BWV 971
In 1735, Bach composed and published his Italian Concerto as part of his Clavier-Ubung II. Although originally written for dual-manual harpsichord, this work is also widely performed by pianists.
The Italian Concerto is reminiscent of concerti composed by Bach’s Italian contemporaries, in particular Antonio Vivaldi, many of whose violin concerti have been transcribed by him for harpsichord and organ.
Bach differentiates the hypothetical soloist and orchestra in this concerto using antiphony and contrasting dynamics (i.e. assigning forte to the soloist and piano to the accompaniment and vice versa).
Both the vivid first movement and the perpetual-motioned third movement are in F major and in ritornello (theme and episode) form. The solemn second movement, …show more content…

Franz Schubert – Impromptu in E-flat major, Op. 90 No. 2
Among Schubert’s most popular works for piano are his two sets of Impromptus: Op. 90 and Op. posth. 142, both composed in 1827, a year before his death. An impromptu is a free-form composition as if improvisational– a significant feature of the Classicism-to-Romanticism transition in Schubert’s time.
Op. 90 No. 2 begins with a lyrical E-flat major A section which dives into a murky, melodic E-flat minor subsection, before restating the initial E-flat major theme and ending in the key of E-flat minor. Following this is the B section in B minor, whose turbulence is characterised by the sudden dynamic changes and “rocky” rhythm. Listeners are then bridged back to the A section by an elongated version of a previously heard oscillating figure. The piece concludes with a fiery coda – a variant of the B section, beginning in B minor and ending strongly in E-flat

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