Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A compilation of famous conductors' piano playing.

00:00 Pierre Boulez
Boulez playing the first movement of his own "Douze Notations".

01:00 Bruno Walter
Walter playing The First-Movement Cadenzas for Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466.

03:08 Wilhelm Furtwängler
Furtwangler playing The First-Movement Cadenzas for J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050.

07:43 Arthur Nikisch
Nikisch as a piano accompanist to the singer Elena Gerhardt, Robert Schumann's Ich Grolle Nicht.

10:23 Dimitri Mitropoulos
Mitropoulos playing Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

12:38 Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein playing Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major

14:50 Herbert von Karajan
Karajan playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21.

17:22 Richard Strauss
Strauss's Piano Roll (Welte-Mignon). Strauss's Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome.

19:40 Felix Mottl
Mottl's Piano Roll. Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Prelude (Arr. for Piano).

22:57 Gustav Mahler
Mahler's Piano Roll. Mahler's Fourth Symphony.