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This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
"La campanella" is a revision of an earlier version from 1838, the Études d'exécution transcendente d'après Paganini, S. 140, and is widely considered one of the most technically challenging piano pieces ever written.
The Toccata in C major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1830 and revised in 1833.The piece is in sonata-allegro form. [1]The work was originally titled Etude fantastique en double-sons (Fantastic Study in Double Notes), and was infamously referred to by Schumann as the "hardest piece ever written"—to this day it remains as "one of the most ferociously difficult pieces in the piano ...
Piece Composer Approximate duration Page count Page size Notes Beatus Vir: Jacob Mashak 11 hours 53 (in proportional notation) [1]: A work for two pianos. Premiered by three pianists (including the composer), who played in rotation.
In addition, the three movements of the Third Concerto, in terms of motives and theme, resemble the cyclic form of the classical symphony, unlike his Second. It is generally agreed that the melodic density and complexity found in the concerto, namely the ossia cadenza of the first movement, is among the most challenging in all of Rachmaninoff's ...
Being his last published ballade, the piece is commonly considered one of the masterpieces of 19th-century piano music. [2] [3] Of the four ballades, it is considered by many pianists to be the most difficult, both technically and musically. [4] [5] It is also the longest, taking around ten to twelve minutes to perform.
In Flames – the introduction of the song Foregone, Pt. 2 from the album Foregone; Angra – used the main theme for an interlude on electric guitar on the song Angels Cry, from the album of same name; Aria – used as a basis for the main riff in the song Igra's Ognyom (Playing with Fire) from the 1989 album of the same name. The plot of the ...
The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music is a compilation of classical works recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor David Parry. [2] Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London, the compilation was released in digital formats in November, 2009 and as a 4-CD set in 2011. [3]