FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Scherzi Norbert Müllemann (Editeur) Hans-Martin Theopold (Doigtés) Edition Urtext, reliure paperback édition révisée
SKU: HL.51480886
ISBN 9790201808864. UPC: 888680924942. 9.25x12.25x0.399 inches.
Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there is little about them that is joke-like, despite the original meaning of their title. Referring to the 1st Scherzo, Robert Schumann asked: “how should seriousness be attired, when even a 'joke' is veiled in black?” Now that the Scherzi nos. 1-4 have been published in revised stand-alone editions, G. Henle Publishers is now offering all four in paperback and hardback, in an edition that reflects the current state of Chopin research. Both the footnotes and the extensive Critical Report on the Internet offer detailed information on the familiar topic of “Chopin variants” and on all the textual problems they raise. This is Chopin in top form!
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SKU: HL.51480887
ISBN 9790201808871. UPC: 888680924928. 9.25x12.5x0.553 inches.
Frédéric Chopin's 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild, demonic in tone, and there is little about them that is joke-like, despite the original meaning of their title. Referring to the 1st Scherzo, Robert Schumann asked: “how should seriousness be attired, when even a 'joke' is veiled in black?”. Now that the Scherzi nos. 1-4 have been published in revised stand-alone editions, G. Henle Publishers is now offering all four in paperback and hardback, in an edition that reflects the current state of Chopin research. Both the footnotes and the extensive Critical Report on the Internet offer detailed information on the familiar topic of “Chopin variants” and on all the textual problems they raise. This is Chopin in top form!
SKU: B7.B770
8.5x11 inches.
Scherzi for Piano by Allen Molineux - These miniatures are 6 different ways of looking at the scherzo genre. The first deals with allowing the performer to freely play the material. The second, at times, hints at a jazz-like swing style. The third is a special kind of quodlibet in that it uses snippets of well-known scherzi for piano and also for orchestra with numerous appearances of the Chopin Scherzo No. 2 holding it all together, while some actually interact with each other. For example, Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann do get in a bit of a tangle and Bruckner seems to be at odds with the early Romantics of Beethoven and Schubert. The fourth is a conversational contrast between herky-jerky and groove motion. The fifth, which is the briefest, is a contest between a short staccato figure and an ever-expanding legato one. The final scherzo is a distorted ragtime piece where the left hand avoids the typical march-like accompaniment pattern. (9'50) Grade V.
SKU: CU.EC4577
ISBN 9790215900189.
SKU: HL.51481343
ISBN 9790201813431. UPC: 888680924911. 9.0x12.0x0.144 inches.
Chopin published his Scherzi nos. 1 3 at more-or-less regular intervals, in 1835, 1837 and 1840 almost as if he'd planned them in advance. He published his fourth and final work in this genre after a further three years, in 1843. When compared with its predecessors, which were largely bleak in mood, this Scherzo no. 4 is surprisingly cheerful. With its sparkling runs and its chains of chords like dappled brush strokes, this work seems to summon up the fairy-like spirit of Mendelssohn's scherzi. In editorial terms, however, it is problematical. Three parallel first editions were published in Germany, France and England and the many variants between them have to be investigated one at a time to determine their authenticity. This is a task that has been solved meticulously in this revised, stand-alone Urtext edition, which explains the transmission of this work in an exemplary, transparent manner for today's pianists.
SKU: HL.49000516
ISBN 9783254001986. German.
Der angesehene Klavierpadagoge Konrad Wolff charakterisiert die ganz personliche musikalische Sprache von grossen Meistern der Klaviermusik. Durch den Umstand, dass Wolff seit seiner Emigration in den USA lebte, aber eine europaische Ausbildung genossen hatte, ergibt sich eine Konstellation, die einen ausserst lebendigen Schreibstil mit oft verbluffenden Wendungen und gedanklichen Assoziationen hervorbringt. Anhand der wesentlichen Klavierkompositionen von Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin und Brahms macht der Autor deren charakteristische kompositorische Stilmerkmale fest, indem er bedeutsame musikalische Faktoren, wie Tonalitat, Tonartenkonstellationen, Form und Proportion, instrumentalen und vokalen Stil, Phrasenbildung und thematische Disposition, Tempo, Rhythmus und Dynamik beleuchtet. Neben diesen Parametern widmet Wolff seine Aufmerksamkeit freilich auch dem Aspekt der spezifischen Behandlung des Klaviers durch den jeweiligen Komponisten.Insgesamt gelingt Konrad Wolff eine anschauliche, jederzeit nachvollziehbare und anregende Darstellung der individuellen Besonderheiten in der Klaviermusik dieser sieben bedeutenden Komponisten - eine ansprechende Lekture fur den Klavier Studierenden, wie den Lehrenden.
