SKU: BR.EB-4323
ISBN 9790004162774. 9 x 12 inches.
Busoni's Bach Advanced SchoolIn October 1909, Breitkopf & Hartel succeeded in winning Ferruccio Busoni for the edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's piano works. Busoni had studied the music of Bach more intensively than almost any other artist of his time had. As a pianist, arranger, theorist and pedagogue, Busoni was instrumental in bringing Bach out of the 19th century and into the 20th century. That same year, Busoni and two collaborators, Bruno Mugellini and Egon Petri, began work on the instructive edition, which was to comprise 25 volumes. The first volumes were published in the spring of 1916, and in May 1923, the Bach Advanced School project was finally completed. This also marked the end of Busoni's thirty-year-long creative involvement with Bach's works, the impact of which still reaches far beyond the Bach-Busoni formula.All alterations and additions pursue the educational intent of affording the student insight into the mechanism of the composition. Moreover, they illustrate and supplement the views presented only in a sketchy manner in the introductions. In several cases, it takes the sum of the comments on the various pieces to constitute the all-encompassing opinion on one and the same question. (Ferruccio Busoni).
SKU: BT.EMBZ12402
English-German.
Series I of the complete edition, launched in 1970 (original two-hands piano works, volumes 1-18), was completed in 1985, and with the publication of this volume Series II (transcriptions of works by other composers, volumes 1-24) has come to an end. The works contained in this volume are from Liszt's so-called 'late' period. This publication is available in two versions: bound in blue linen, or in grey boards. Only the former version contains the descriptions of sources and the critical notes.Die erste Reihe der 1970 begonnen Gesamtausgabe (originale Klavierwerke zu 2 Händen, Band 1.18) wurde 1985 vervollständigt, während mit dem Erscheinen des vorliegenden Bandes (Übertragungen von Werken anderer Komponisten, Band 1.24.) die II. Reihe zum Abschluss gebracht wird. Die Werke dieses Bandes stammen aus der sogenannten späten Epoche Liszts: Es finden sich hier das 1867 entstandene Finale de Don Carlos sowie die 1878 komponierte, ebenfalls auf der Verdi-Oper basierende Aida-Übertragung und weitere fünfzehn Übertragungen, die zwischen den genannten Zeitpunkten entstanden. Von den letzt-genannten greifen Am stillen Herd, die Ballade und Walhall Wagner-Themen auf. AufUngarn bezogen sind Die schöne Ilonka (Mihály Mosonyi), Einleitung und Ungarischer Marsch (Graf Imre Széchényi) und die 5 ungarischen Volkslieder.
SKU: BR.EB-8855
ISBN 9790004184455. 9 x 12 inches.
In the meantime, piano experts tend to confirm Glenn Gould's view that Sibelius made an important contribution to the slim piano repertoire of the late romantic period. With the anthology Jean Sibelius: Piano Pieces compiled for the Sibelius Year 2015 (150th birthday), the Finnish composer has finally made it into the ranks of the piano composers. Kari Kilpelainen and Anna Pulkkis, the editors of the Complete Edition, have selected the most important pieces from all creative periods.The altogether four volumes of the Sibelius Complete Edition impressively refute the composer's self-doubts about the significance of his piano works.
SKU: BT.EMBZ12402A
SKU: BR.SON-623
ISBN 9790004803257. 9 x 12 inches.
Three volumes of the Complete Edition and many single publications derived from them featuring piano music by Jean Sibelius have brought this weighty work group to center stage once again. The fourth volume, Piano Works Without Opus Number, rounds off this enjoyable collection. The sheer number of the pieces is enough to contradict the familiar prejudice that the piano played a subordinate role in Sibelius oeuvre. The Finnish composer repeatedly returned to this instrument for a variety of reasons, and in the wealth of small piano forms, one finds many a musical idea that was later elaborated and bore fruits for the large orchestral works.
SKU: HL.49012015
ISBN 9783795792459. UPC: 073999726176. 11.0x15.0x0.818 inches.
The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to make Wagner's work more accessible for research and performance, but the edition only reached 10 volumes - some with grave shortcomings - and was discontinued after Balling's death in 1925. A further attempt at a complete edition by Otto Strobel was abandoned at the preliminary stages.This third attempt at a complete edition will be the first scholarly, critical edition, based on an evaluation of all the accessible source materials and the latest findings of serious Wagner research. As the edition is also intended for practical performance, the musical text has been kept free of philological insertions; these are listed in the appendices of each volume in the Critical Commentary. Numerous, partly unpublished works - some relatively unknown - and variant versions are published here for the first time. The edition presents authentic texts for Wagner specialists and researchers and critically based performing materials. Contrary to widely held opinions, even the well-known works of Wagner are not necessarily available in reliable editions. The genesis, history and performances directed by Wagner himself are extensively documented so as to present as complete an image as possible of Wagner's compositional intentions.
