Beethoven Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op 67, transcribed for piano solo by Franz Liszt. 1st movement: Allegro con brio Performed by Robin Zebaida, opening a concert at City Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong in 2018. www.pianistUK.com

Described by the composer as "perhaps among the most difficult works", Schumann's Toccata was completed in 1836. Unstoppable and effervescent, some of its harmonies and syncopated rhythms verge on the jazzy. Discover, uniquely in this performance by a still very young Robin Zebaida, in Hong Kong in 1988, the only way to play the last chord as Schumann wrote it!

i. Andante ii. Andante iii. Allegretto iv. Andantino

A charming musical conversation by a member of the five Russian nationalist composers who came to be known as the The Mighty Handful. Cesar Cui was by profession a military engineer with the rank of Lieutenant General.

Anatol Liadov, who died 100 years ago in 1914, was born in 1855, roughly halfway between Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. The sweeping gestures and extravagant scale of his more illustrious compatriots were largely alien to Liadov, a miniaturist par excellence. Simplicity is the hallmark of Liadov's compositions, and the vast majority of his works last for just a few minutes.

Robin Zebaida pianist plays Scriabin prelude op. 37 no.1. Part of an evening recital at the Emmanuel Church in West Hampstead, London, on 29th November 2014.