Par GRAINGER PERCY ALDRIDGE. Between 1920 and 1940 Grainger published a loose series of piano transcriptions under the title of 'Free Settings of Favourite Melodies' in order to make a wide audience acquainted with the music of great composers. Five pieces that prove his feel of tone colours and his highly developed understanding of the piano and its possibilities, have been included in this volume: 'Hornpipe' from George Frideric Handel's Water Music, 'Cradle Song' (Wiegenlied) Op. 49/4 by Johannes Brahms, a song by John Dowland: 'Now, O now I need must part', and two songs by Gabriel Fauré who was one of Grainger's examples in music: 'Nell' Op. 18/1, and 'Après un Rêve' Op. 7/1./ Répertoire / Piano

With the new Urtext Primo series, the Wiener Urtext Edition wants to close the gap arising at the point of transition to additional lessons after having studied a piano method. Beginning with a performance level which is outlined by pieces such as Bach's Minuet in G (BWV Anh. 116), Mozart's Minuet in F (KV 5) or Schumann's Wilder Reiter (Op. 68/8), works by three different composers are selected for each volume of the Urtext Primo series, with the aim of offering piano pupils (or even adults who want to resume piano playing) a wide range of repertoire pieces on the basis of which they can enhance their technical and musical skills. The pieces' range of levels of difficulty is relatively narrow so that the volume can be used continuously over a period of about two years. This is what distinguishes the Urtext Primo approach from almost all common anthologies. The selected repertoire takes into account not only pieces of the classic canon of lessons, but also lesser known works which are in no way of less importance for piano lessons. The Urtext Primo volumes are published in the internationally recognised standard of the Wiener Urtext editions. The explanations included in each volume shall help to deepen the knowledge of musical styles, music history and piano playing. A repertoire chart at the end of each volume gives a rough overview of the levels of difficulty of the selected pieces.Volume 4 combines works of the German Romanticism by Schumann, Brahms and Theodor Kirchner. Apart from well known pieces from Schumann's 'Album for the Youth' and the easiest waltzes from opus 39 (in the easier version) by Brahms, the selection contains the attractive set of variations from Schumann's first Youth Sonata Op. 118/1 and Brahms' Saraband in A minor WoO 5/1 as well as a number of pleasant pieces by Theodor Kirchner which continue the tonal air of Schumann and Brahms in easy playable pieces. / Piano

for Intermediate Piano. BACH: Air on the G String - Badinerie, BWV 1067 - Allegro, BWV 1048 - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Sheep May Safely Graze - Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565 · BEETHOVEN: Theme from Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) - Theme from Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) - Theme from Symphony No. 5 - Theme from Symphony No. 7 - Theme from Symphony No. 9 · BIZET: Habanera from Carmen · BOCCHERINI: Minuet from String Quintet, Op. 11, No. 5 · BORODIN: Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 · BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1, No. 5 - Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4 · CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary · DVORÁK: Theme from Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) · ELGAR: Nimrod from Enigma Variations - Pomp and Circumstance · FAURÉ: Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 - Pavane, Op. 50 · FRANCK: Panis angelicus · GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice · GOUNOD: Ave Maria adapted from Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 by JS Bach · GREIG: Anitra's Dance from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - Morning from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - Norwegian Dance, Op. 35, No. 2 · HANDEL: Air from Water Music, HWV 348 - Allegro from Water Music, HWV 349 - Allegro from Water Music, HWV 348 - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon - Bourrée from Flute Sonata, HWV 363b - Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah - Largo from Serses · HAYDN: Theme from String Quartet, Op. 3, No. 5 - Theme from Symphony No. 94, Hob I:94 (Surprise) · LEHAR: Waltz from The Merry Widow · MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs · MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream · MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus - Theme from Clarinet Concerto - Theme from Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Lacrimosa from Requiem - Theme from Piano Concerto No. 21 - Theme from Symphony No. 40 - Theme from Symphony No. 41 · Offenbach: Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann - Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld · PACHELBEL: Canon in D · PARRY: Jerusalem · PUCCINI: Musetta's Waltz from La bohème - Un bel dì vedremo from Madame Butterfly - Vissi d'arte from Tosca · RACHMANINOFF: Theme from Piano Concerto No. 2 · RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumblebee - Song of India - The Young Prince and the Young Prince from Scheherazade · SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre - The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals · SCHUBERT: Ave Maria - Serenade · SOUSA: The Stars and Stripes

Le séjour de Johannes Brahms à Bad Ischl durant l'été 1893 fut fructueux. Hormis les pièces op. 118, il composa également son dernier cycle pour piano, l'opus 119. Il écrit à Clara Schumann que la pièce d'introduction fourmille de dissonances et indique plus loin que 'chaque mesure et chaque note doit sonner en ritardando, comme si on voulait extraire de ses dissonances de la mélancolie avec volupté et délectation!' Que l'on se rassure, l'op. 119 contient des morceaux pour tous les états d'âme: le #3 surprend par sa tonalité d'Ut majeur, légère et enjouée, la dernière pièce est une rapsodie rétive en Mi bémol majeur. Grâce à notre édition révisée d'après l'édition complète des oeuvres de Brahms, nous invitons les pianistes à redécouvrir le monde complexe de Brahms. / Piano

Christian Köhn is a pianist with a deep understanding of Brahms' piano music. Now he has edited a new Urtext edition of Brahms' variations (1861) on an eight-bar theme from Handel's 'Keyboard Suite #1? ('Suite de pièces de Clavecin?, Vol. 2).Köhn has drawn on every available source and incorporated the most recent musicological discoveries. With his fingering, a well-presented layout and optimum page turns, the volume meets all the demands of a practical performing edition.A detailed foreword illuminates the work's genesis and sources while presenting valuable information on contemporary performance practice. This scholarly-critical edition of the 'Handel Variations? adds a central work to Bärenreiter's comprehensive series of Brahms' piano music in Urtext editions.- Urtext edition based on all known sources and the latest musicological findings- With optimum page turns- Informative foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)- Includes fingering and suggestions on performance practice (Ger/Eng) / Piano

Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto #1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound different?. Nevertheless, a good 20 years elapsed before that second concerto finally took form, and only in 1881 was he able to announce: 'I wanted to tell you that I have written a very small Piano concerto with a tiny little delicate Scherzo?.This Piano reduction of this anything-but-little symphonic concerto presents the solo part as it appears in the respective, recently published volume of the Brahms Complete Edition (HN 6020). Lars Vogt has succeeded in taming the opulent Piano writing with his fingerings. The refined arrangement of the complex orchestral part for the accompanying second piano stems from Johannes Umbreit. / Piano Duo

100 pièces divertissantes pour piano du classique au pop arrangées par HG Heumann.

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100 leichte Weihnachts-Hits von Händel bis Mariah Carey. Tout ce que je veux pour Noël, c'est... Pianotainment ! Après le grand succès des deux volumes de chansons réguliers, l'auteur renommé Hans-Günter Heumann présente dans ce volume les pièces pour piano les plus connues et les plus populaires autour de Noël. Une fois de plus, il se sert habilement de tous les genres connus de la musique pour piano - des airs classiques, pop et rock aux airs de Noël jazzy pour piano. Tous les arrangements sont faciles, sonnent bien et peuvent être joués sans problème par tout débutant au piano. / Niveau : très facile à facile / Recueil / Piano

A Romantic Sketchbook For Piano explores the wealth of piano music from the Romantic period in five carefully graded albums. Mostly composed between 1830 and 1930 the pieces in these albums have been selected to introduce players to a wide range of music from works by some of the leading Romantic composers (such as Schumann Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky) to unfamiliar pieces by lesser-known figures.Each volume presents a variety of keys time signatures and textures within a comprehensive range of tempi which will be invaluable to students in the development of their musical skills. Players will also respond imaginatively to the varying styles and moods offeredin these colourful sketchbooks from the lively dances and mood pictures to the tender songs and gentle serenades.The five books in this series are graded in terms of difficulty Book 1 being relatively easy and Book 5 advanced.

Hugh Wood's Ballade Op.57 for Piano was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed by Joanna MacGregor on 7th June 2012 at the Guildhall Bath as part of the Bath International Music Festival.'The music of Chopinis a revelation which came disgracefully late in my life. To admire is one thing; to try to emulate is quite another: and all that I have borrowed here is a title. Perhaps memories of Joanna MacGregor performing the FourthBallade very beautifully long ago played a part in the naming. But to define what a Ballade should or should not be is quite beyond me: after all Chopin and Brahms both came to quite different conclusions. I just like theold rather poetic word.A fanfarish beginning ends in a falling arpeggionic cascade which will recur in varied form at turning points throughout the piece. A major third emerges to become the accompaniment to the mainlyrical melody which becomes more and more decorated until it ends with a second cascade. The tune resumes more urgently against an undulating semiquaver accompaniment. A bigger climax suddenly gives way to a reminiscence of oneof the opening figures and then introduces alla recit. a new motif. But immediately the main melody continues this time getting gradually calmer quieter and sweeter until the new motif takes over in a passage of 6 and ismore fully worked out.From very high up the opening fanfares are heard in the distance and a faster tempo brings a more vigorous passage culminating in the biggest and most climactic of the cascades. This might be theend of the piece but it is not. A sequence of soft velvety chords rises up eventually to reveal the original major third. Four phrases of the opening melody are then heard over it in their plainest form.' - H.W.

Faisant parti de la série Beginning ce livre comprend une sélection de solos pour Piano de l'ère Romantique très inspirant. Ce superbe folio mixe inclus les chansons de composeurs tels que Elgar, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky, et Chopin. Ce livre de musique est unique et comprend une introduction historique de l'ère Romantique - ajoutant un élément intéressant à ce folio d'ores-et-déjà incroyable ! Ces morceaux sont idéals pour l'étudiant débutant - de tout âge! / Piano / 32 pages / Partition

Avec la nouvelle série Urtext Primo, Wiener Edition Urtext l'intention de combler le fossé entre l'étude d'une méthode de piano et de prendre des leçons supplémentaires. À partir d'un niveau de performance qui est décrite par des morceaux tels que le Menuet de Bach G (BWV Anh. 116), le menuet de Mozart à F (KV 5) ou Wilder Reiter de Schumann (Op. 68/8), fonctionne par trois compositeurs différents sont sélectionnés pour chaque volume de la série, avec l'objectif d'offrir aux élèves de piano (ou même des adultes qui veulent reprendre le jeu de piano) une large gamme de pièces de répertoire sur la base de laquelle ils peuvent améliorer leurs compétences techniques et musicales. La gamme de niveaux de difficulté des pièces de relativement étroit de telle sorte que le volume peut être utilisé en continu sur une période d'environ deux ans. C'est ce qui distingue l'approche Urtext Primo de presque toutes les anthologies communs. Le répertoire sélectionné prend en compte non seulement les pièces du canon classique des leçons, mais aussi des oeuvres moins connues qui sont en aucune façon moins importante pour des leçons de piano. Les volumes Primo Urtext sont publiés dans la norme internationalement reconnue des éditions Wiener Urtext. Les explications contenues dans chaque volume sont contribuera à approfondir la connaissance des styles musicaux, histoire de la musique et jouer du piano. Un tableau de répertoire à la fin de chaque volume donne un aperçu approximatif des niveaux de difficulté des morceaux choisis.Le volume 1 contient deux oeuvres éducatives fréquemment joué par Bach et moindres morceaux les plus connus de Haendel et Scarlatti, Volume 2 compositions de Haydn et de Mozart ainsi que musicalement et culturellement morceaux attrayants par Cimarosa. Volume 3 (publication prévue à l'été 2013) contient des morceaux de Beethoven, Schubert et Hummel, Volume 4 (publication prévue au début de 2014) des oeuvres de Schumann, Brahms et Theodor Kirchner. D'autres volumes sont prévus. / Piano