Both Leonard Bernstein and Chinese-born American composer Tan Dun have used the piano for collections of shorter and/or occasional pieces, along with larger works that were written to exploit particular aspects of piano technique. Bernstein’s piano output is mainly comprised of characterful, subtle miniatures written, over four decades, as groups of ‘anniversaries’. Touches was composed as a test piece for the Sixth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Tan Dun’s piano music was composed at key junctures in his career and is both evocative and propulsive, Dew-Drop-Falls being one of his most intricate and ethereal sound pictures.

Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 'Pathetique'
Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major, Op. 22
Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat major, Op. 26 'March Funebre'
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 'Quasi una fantasia'
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight'
Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata'
Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78
Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a 'Les Adieux'
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 80
Westminster Choir, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 80
Marlboro Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Peter Serkin
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Alexander Schneider
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello in C major, Op. 56
Jaime Laredo (violin), Leslie Parnas (cello)
Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Alexander Schneider
Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
Bagatelles (11), Op. 119
Fantasia in G minor, Op. 77