Bisaccia on Television

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Filmed at Steinway Hall in New York City and venues throughout New England, here are almost 2 hours worth of great piano performances from Paul Bisaccia's PBS television shows. Chopin, Liszt, Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff and "Great American Piano" composers Gershwin, Joplin, Gottschalk, Eubie Blake, and Sousa. Also included is the world premiere of a major piano work by 19th century composer Dudley Buck. Bisaccia plays Chopin on a gorgeous and rare 1896 Rosewood Steinway including Chopin's celebrated "Heroic" Polonaise. Steinway Hall, New York City 1. Inside the Rachmaninoff Room 2. Rimsky-Korsakoff/Rachmaninoff, Flight of the Bumble Bee 3. Frederic Chopin, Waltz in E minor Op. posth. 4. Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude in E-flat Major Op. 23 No.6 5. Mussorgsky/Rachmaninoff, Hopak Frederic Chopin 6. Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 31 7. Fantasie- Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor Op. 66 8. Prelude in F-sharp Major Op. 28 no.13 9. Waltz in C-Sharp minor Op.64 no. 2 10. Polonaise in A-flat "Heroic" Op. 53 11. Franz Liszt, Czardas Obstine 12. Sergei Prokofiev, March from "The Love for Three Oranges" 13. Frederic Chopin, Preludes in G major and D minor Op. 28 14. Dudley Buck, Introduction and Rondo Brillante Op. 7 The Great American Piano Revisited 15. Eubie Blake, Troublesome Ivories 16. John Philip Sousa, Semper Fidelis March 17. Gottschalk, Tournament Galop 18. The Great American Piano Promo 19. Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag 20. George Gershwin, Rialto Ripples Rag 21.George Gershwin, Swanee 22.George Gershwin, I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise 23. Louis Moreau Gottschalk , Union 24. John Philip Sousa, Stars and Stripes Forever Bonus tracks with David Giardina, vocalist 25. Paul and Dave's Simply Chopin Promo 26. Stephen Foster, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 27. E. Burnett, G. Norton, Melancholy Baby 28. Zez Confrey, Dizzy Fingers 29. Frederic Chopin, The Minute Waltz