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"