Fantasia Quasi Sonata Op. 127

Beethoven gave this sonata the unusual title ?Sonata quasi una Fantasia ? which it shares along with its opus number with the considerably more famous ?Moonlight? Sonata. Both sonatas along with the preceding sonata with the funeral march op. 26 and the three sonatas op. 31 soon to follow usher in Beethoven?s conquest of new musical territory in this genre. With a complex structure that oscillates between fantasia and sonata op. 27 no. 1 has long presented pianists with great interpretive challenges that once they have been overcome bring to light a true jewel. G. Henle Publishers now also offers this sonata in a new edition with provenfingering and interpretive suggestions by Murray Perahia and edited by the team of Beethoven experts Gertsch and Perahia.

Ed.: Ernst Herttrich, Fing.: Hans-Martin Theopold Details Often referred to by pianists as the “Dante Sonata”, it is the closing piece in the second volume of the “Années de Pèlerinage” (HN 174) and is now finally available as a single edition. In 1839, while under the spell of Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, Liszt had begun work on a “fragment dantesque”. He later incorporated the work in revised form into the volume “Italy” of his “Années de Pèlerinage”. The single-movement sonata is based on the Canto “Inferno” in Dante’s poem. It describes the wild ride of the soul into hell in an effective manner, finally closing with several forgiving chords in a kind of transfiguration – one of the best examples of Liszt’s technical ingenuity and sound artistry.

Moonlight Sonata Op 27 Nos 1 & 2-With an introduction by Misha Donat and notes on performance practice by Jonathan Del Mar and Misha Donat.Scholarly-critical performance edition at the cutting edge of scholarship.Informative introduction and notes on period performance practice (Ger/Eng).Detailed Critical Commentary (Eng).At the dawn of the 19th century Beethoven struck out on new paths with his two opus 27 sonatas each of which he called a ‘sonata quasi una fantasia’. Both of them in particular Sonata no. 2 which was later nicknamed the ‘Moonlight Sonata’ were destined for immortality.Jonathan Del Mar second to none in his knowledge of Beethoven’s music hasobtained new readings in this fastidious scholarly-critical edition of these well-known pieces.Spacious engraving and practical page turns ensure optimum pleasure for every pianist. A meticulously compiled Critical Commentary provides information on alternative readings and editorial decisions.

in E-flat Major Opus 27 No. 1-Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.13 In E Flat Op.27 No.1 'Quasi Fantasia' is now available as an individual edition with a companion CD edited and recorded by noted Beethoven scholar Robert Taub.

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?Sonata quasi una fantasia? was the title given to it by Beethoven and yet the world of music knows it as the ?Moonlight Sonata? an epithet that was already around during the composer?s lifetime. ?The lake rests quiet under thelight of the moon at twilight; the wave thuds against the dark bank? wrote Ludwig Rellstab on the 1st movement in 1823. ?It is as if we catch sight of a colossal grave in the middle of a lonely plain palely lit by the sicklemoon? was what Wilhelm von Lenz wrote. Beethoven might have been influenced by the sound of the Aeolian harp as Murray Perahia and Norbert Gertsch explain in the introductory texts to this edition referring to the latestresearch. Perahia also provided the fingerings.

Published posthumously in 1855 the Fantaisie Impromptu In C# Minor Op. Post.66 is one of Chopin???s most frequently performed and popular compositions.There was initially some mystery surroundingthe piece and why Chopin never published it during his lifetime. James Huneker trying to explain why the piece was not published calls parts of it 'mawkish' and 'without nobility' whilst Ernst Oster writes that atechnical exploration would show why Chopin did not publish the work and that exploration shows that the Fantaisie-Impromptu and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata ('Quasi una fantasia') are related.Themystery may have been solved in 1960 when pianist Arthur Rubinstein acquired the 'Album of the Baroness d'Este' which had been sold at auction in Paris. The album contained a manuscript of the Fantaisie-Impromptu written in Chopin's own hand and dated 1835. The title page for the manuscript states that the piece was 'Composed for the Baroness d'Este by Fr?d?ric Chopin' and from this Rubinstein surmises that the words 'Composedfor' in place of a dedication imply that Chopin received a paid commission for the work.This Henle Urtext Edition for solo Piano has been edited by Ewald Zimmermann and includes fingering by Hans-MartinTheopold.

Berühmte Originalstücke aus Klassik und Romantik / Famous Original Classical and Romantic Pieces-Aniko Drabon the editor of this book of piano masterworks is also the pianist on the accompanying CD recordings. She is known among other things as the author of the successful Tastenzauberei piano tutor method. Contents: Valse Op. 64 No.1 (Chopin) ? 1ère Arabesque (Debussy) ? Alla turca (Mozart) ? Für Elise (Beethoven) ? Doctor gradus ad parnassum (Debussy) ? Von fremden Menschen und Ländern (Schumann) ? Träumerei (Schumann) ? Ah vous dirai-je Maman(Mozart) ? Notturno No. 3 (Liszt) ? Nocturne (Chopin) ? Impromptu (Schubert) ? Prélude (Chopin) ? Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66 (Chopin) ? Sonata quasi una fantasia (Beethoven)