2026 Pieces List

Here is the full list of pieces in the 2026 tournament, organized by composer and with selected recordings/performances.

Albéniz - Triana (Iberia Suite Book II no. 3), Alicia de Larrocha

Albéniz - Lavapiés (Iberia Suite Book III no. 3), Alicia de Larrocha

Alkan - Op. 17 "Le Preux," Huang Yi-Chung

Alkan - Op. 34 Scherzo Focoso, Yui Morishita

Alkan - Étude Op. 39 no. 1 "Comme le Vent," Vincenzo Maltempo

Alkan - Étude Op. 39 no. 10 Concerto for Solo Piano mvt. 3, Jack Gibbons

Alkan - Étude Op. 39 no. 12 "Le Festin d'Ésope," Jack Gibbons

Balakirev - Op. 18 Islamey, Ivo Pogorelić

Bartók - Étude Op. 18 no. 3, Zoltán Kocsis

Beethoven - Op. 106 Sonata no. 29 "Hammerklavier" (mvt. 4), Maurizio Pollini

Brahms - Op. 35 Variations on a Theme of Paganini (Book I), György Cziffra

Brahms - Study no. 1, Idil Biret

Chopin - Op. 22 Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Evgeny Kissin

Chopin - Op. 23 Ballade no. 1, Vladimir Horowitz

Chopin - Op. 38 Ballade no. 2, Krystian Zimerman

Chopin - Op. 52 Ballade no. 4, Seong-Jin Cho

Chopin/Godowsky - Study no. 47 "Badinage," Susanne Anatchkova

Cziffra - Fantasy on William Tell, György Cziffra

Cziffra - On the Beautiful Blue Danube, György Cziffra

Cziffra - La Fantaisie Roumaine, György Cziffra

Debussy - Étude no. 12 "Pour les Accords," Mitsuko Uchida

Fauré - Op. 19 Ballade, Ayaka Watanabe

Hummel - Op. 81 Sonata no. 5 (mvt. 3), Stephen Hough

Liszt - S. 140 Études d'Exécution Transcendante d'Après Paganini no. 3 "La Campanella," Sung Chang

Liszt - S. 140 Études d'Exécution Transcendante d'Après Paganini no. 6 "Theme and Variations," Elisa Tomellini

Liszt - S. 218 Galop in A Minor, France Clidat

Liszt - S. 219 Grand Galop Chromatique, György Cziffra

Liszt - S. 252 Rondeau Fantastique "El Contrabandista," Valentina Listisa

Liszt - S. 254 Rhapsodie Espagnole (Spanish Rhapsody), Sung Chang

Liszt - S. 420 Grande Fantaisie de Bravoure sur La Clochette, Sergio Fiorentino

Liszt - S. 434 Paraphrase on Verdi's Rigoletto, György Cziffra

Liszt - S. 442 Tannhäuser Overture, György Cziffra

Medtner - Op. 25 no. 2 "Night Wind" Sonata (mvt. 2 "Allegro" ONLY), Severin Von Eckardstein

Medtner - Op. 25 no. 2 "Night Wind" Sonata (mvt. 5 "Quasi Cadenza" ONLY), Severin Von Eckardstein

Mendelssohn - Étude Op. 104b no. 1, Peter Shannon

Messiaen - Vingt Regards no. 6 "Par Lui tout a été fait," Yvonne Loriod

Mozart - K. 576 Sonata no. 18, Daniel Barenboim

Mussorgsky - Baba Yaga (from Pictures at an Exhibition), Khatia Buniatishvili

Price - Sonata (mvt. 3), Michelle Cann

Prokofiev - Op. 83 Sonata no. 7 (mvt. 3), Sviatoslav Richter

Prokofiev - Op. 84 Sonata no. 8 (mvt. 3), Sviatoslav Richter

Rachmaninoff - Prelude Op. 23 no. 9, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Rachmaninoff - Op. 36 Sonata no. 2 (mvt. 1) (1913 version), Zoltán Kocsis

Ravel - Alborada del Gracioso (from Miroirs), Sviatoslav Richter

Ravel - Ondine (from Gaspard de la Nuit), Martha Argerich

Ravel - Scarbo (from Gaspard de la Nuit), Martha Argerich

Ravel - La Valse, Sung Chang

Saariaho - Arabesques et Adages, Tuija Hakkila

Saint-Saëns - Op. 111 no. 1 "Tierces Majeures et Mineures," Marylene Dosse

Saint-Saëns - Étude Op. 111 No. 6 "Toccata d'Après le Cinquième Concerto," François-René Duchâble

Scarlatti - K. 141 Sonata, HJ Lim

Schubert - D. 958 Sonata (mvt. 4), Grigory Sokolov

C. Schumann - Sonata (mvt. 1), Jozef De Beenhouwer

C. Schumann - Sonata (mvt. 4), Jozef De Beenhouwer

R. Schumann - Op. 17 Fantaisie (mvt. 2), Alicia de Larrocha

Scriabin - Étude Op. 8 no. 12, Sung Chang

Scriabin - Op. 53 Sonata no. 5, Peter Laul

Scriabin - Op. 66 Sonata no. 8, Vladimir Sofronitsky

Stravinsky - Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka, Maurizio Pollini

Stravinsky/Agosti - The Firebird, Francesco Piemontesi

Additionally, here are the pieces in each of the Play-in matches.

Brahms/Cziffra - Hungarian Dance no. 5

Rimsky-Korsakov/Cziffra - Flight of the Bumblebee

Chopin - Étude Op. 10 no. 7 "Toccata"

Chopin - Étude Op. 25 no. 4 "Paganini"

Liszt - S. 400 Reminiscences de Lucrezia Borgia (Trio du Seconde Acte ONLY)

Liszt - S. 418 Reminiscences de Don Juan

Liszt - S. 137 Douze Grandes Études no. 2 "Fusées"

Liszt - S. 137 Douze Grandes Études no. 5 "Feux Follets"