At The Piano With Ravel

Ravel's 'Valses nobles et sentimentales? created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris's Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie, or even Kodály!For our new Urtext edition of this work, the famed musicologist Nicolas Southon, a co-editor of the 'oeuvres Complètes de Gabriel Fauré?, has examined a large body of sources to present a musical text with many new readings.The edition contains fingering and performance notes by the French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, one of today's leading interpreters of Ravel's music. Commentaries by pianists closely associated with Ravel, such as Lucian Garban, Vlado Perlemuter, Robert Casadesus and Jacques Février are also included.- Detailed trilingual preface (Fr/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng)- Optimum page turns- Includes a glossary (Fr/Ger/Eng) / Piano

A superb collection of over 70 favourite Christmas carols and songs arranged for Piano, with lyrics and Guitar chord symbols, guaranteed to get you in the festive mood! Including popular songs such as A Spaceman Came Travelling and Happy Xmas (War Is Over), as well as traditional carols, such as Away In A Manger and Once In Royal David's City. / Célébrations / Partition /

Learn to play the piano parts for your favourite Christmas hits! Featuring nine of the most popular Christmas songs ever, including Step Into Christmas , I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day and Wonderful Christmastime , this fantastic book provides the ultimate Yuletide entertainment. With fantastic sound-alike backing tracks on the accompanying CD and complete lyrics, this is the ideal stocking filler this Christmas! / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

This collection of sheet music by the great French composer Maurice Ravel features 19 of his greatest pieces, all newly-arranged especially for this volume. The subtle melodies and achingly beautiful harmonies of these lush Impressionist pieces truly do illustrate the sheer Joy Of Ravel.The pieces by Ravel included in this collection rank alongside Debussy as some of the prettiest Piano music ever composed. Ravel himself categorically refused the term 'Impressionist', believing it to be reserved for paintings only, but his music so closely resembles the colourful flourishing and affective beauty of those works of art that it is difficult to resist such a description. Featuring works like Boléro, Jeux D'Eau, Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte as well as excerpts from La Valse, The Joy Of Ravel for solo Piano sound utterly divine.Pieces like Menuet Antique, Prélude and the selections from Le Tombeau De Couperin perfectly encapsulate what makes Ravel's compositions so incredible. His perfectionist methods resulted in extended harmonies, complexly musical modulations and masterful melodies that make these 19 works of art an unabashed joy to play and to hear. One of the great things about this sheet music book is the visual beauty of the music. With lilting notes and extensive ties, this is not only a work full of aural pleasure but it's some of the nicest-looking notation out there. Certainly in this case, what you see is what you get, simply The Joy Of Ravel.The Joy Of... series is a constantly growing collection of musical editions that is now recognised and loved throughout the world. Originally compiled by the editorial hand of renowned teacher, arranger and musicologist Denes Agay, the series continues to reflect his influence and covers a wide variety of musical genres including the classics, folk, jazz, blues, ragtime and children's music. New titles are constantly being added to an already extensive range, ensuring that The Joy Of... series continues to be a vital growing treasury of the world's best music.if you're a fan of the genius that is Maurice Ravel and his beautifully-crafted works, you are guaranteed to love the 19 pieces included in The Joy Of Ravel. Equally, if you just want a beautiful collection of solo Piano sheet music, this book will suit you perfectly. / Piano

The melodies of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) span the entire chronology of his creative output, from his earliest song BALLADE DE LA REINE MORTE DAIMER (1893), written during his student years at the Paris Conservatory, to the cycle DON QUICHOTTE À DULCINEE (1932-33), his last compositions in any genre. In his songs, Ravel's text settings display a meticulous attention to detail. Ravel´s melodies are elegant and refined, classical in their phrase structure. In his treatment of rhythm, Ravel finds subtlety within traditional meters, and dance forms-minuet, waltz, folk dances (especially Spanish dances)-also shape the rhythm in many of his songs. / Voix Haute(s) Et Piano

The Phillip Keveren Series-15 beautiful arrangements of classic American folk songs including: Arkansas Traveler - Beautiful Dreamer - Down in the Valley - Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Oh! Susanna - The Red River Valley - She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain - Shenandoah - Simple Gifts - When the Saints Go Marching In - and more.

Edited By Franco Concina. FIRST STEPS ON MY PIANO is a collection of easy transcriptions for piano beginners, each volume dealing with a specific repertoire with an international appeal. Contents: Adagio (Albinoni) - Adagio (Beethoven) - Alla turca (Mozart) - Andante (Mozart) - Aria (Bach) - Bolero (Ravel) - Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms) - Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Bach) - Largo (Händel) - Lullaby (Brahms) - Minuet (Boccherini) - Morning (Grieg) - Ode To Joy (Beethoven) - Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) - Serenade (Schubert) - Tristesse (Chopin) / Niveau : Facile / Date parution : 1905-07-03/ Recueil / Piano

Left Alone for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 2014-15. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and co-commissioned by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Premiered by the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Alexandre Tharaud (piano) concducted by Ilan Volkov on January 29 2016 Cologne. Programme Note: I was born with a right hand that is not fully functional and though it never prevented me from loving playing the piano as well as I could with this physical limitation it hasobviously given me an alternative focus on the whole piano literature and has given me a close relationship with the works written for the left hand by Ravel and others. This repertoire has been with me since my youth. My very first public performance of one of my own works was in autumn 1969. The piece was called October and I played the piano with my left hand and the horn my principal instrument (the only instrument that can be played with only the left hand). Part of the piece requires the performer to play natural harmonics of the horn directly into the open strings of the grand piano to create resonance. The pedal was kept down by an assistant lying on the floor. Through decades the idea of writing a larger work for piano left hand has been in my mind. This new work is not written for a pianist with only one hand but rather by a composer who can only play with the left hand. The title Left alone contains all kinds of references not only to the obvious fact that the left hand is playing alone. Left alone is divided into two large parts each consisting of three smaller movements – in effect six in total. The work was commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and co-commissioned by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic and written for Alexandre Tharaud. Hans

1 Piano 4 Hands-12 lower intermediate duets with performance notes and composer biographies. CONTENTS: Cradle Song and Ariette from Miniatures (Godowsky) Three Little Pieces (Bruckner) Cradle Song from Four Little Hands (Smith) Little Lullaby and On the Rocking Horse from The Children's Colorful World (Schlegel) ABC from The Morning (Volkmann) Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty in the Forest from Mother Goose (Ravel) Piano Duet from Twelve Progressive Pieces (André) Immortelle in G Major from Immortellen (Spindler).