SKU: HL.49030417
ISBN 9790220119231. UPC: 884088052997. 9.0x12.0x0.521 inches.
SKU: HL.49033177
ISBN 9790001134385. UPC: 073999928334. 9.0x12.0x0.136 inches.
The two pianos introduce the bass motif one after another. Every new entry brings an increase in tempo. Only when they play together, though, is the real 'Vivace unleashed. From then on, it is only in the 'largamente' sections and a lyrical middle section (cantabile) that the racing bass figure pauses for a while. The motif weaves its way through the course of the 'Toccata' like a 'perpetuum mobile', bringing ever more complex layering to the structure of the movement. The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks has described himself as a 'musician from the periphery' on account of his geographical and cultural background. His music full of emotional rigour continues to bring him towards the centre of contemporary composition, as is evident in his instrumental chamber works.
SKU: HL.49004433
ISBN 9790001046046. UPC: 073999860832. 9.0x12.0x0.326 inches.
SKU: HL.49018337
ISBN 9790001171236. UPC: 884088586904. 9.0x12.0x0.22 inches.
On her 34th birthday, Clara Schumann was not only given a grand piano by her husband, but the latest music material as well. Among them was the one-movement Concert-Allegro with Introduction for Pianoforte and Orchestra Op. 134 in which the dominance of the solo instrument is even stronger than in the previous composition Introduction and Allegro appassionato Op. 92 which also consists of one movement only. With both works, Schumann continued the reformation of the solo concerto genre as intended.
SKU: HL.49005580
ISBN 9790001060103. UPC: 884088048556. 9.0x12.0x0.161 inches.
SKU: HL.49004649
ISBN 9790001048767. UPC: 073999699548. 9.25x12.0x0.263 inches.
SKU: HL.49013049
ISBN 9790001134064. UPC: 073999351798. 9.0x12.0x0.191 inches.
This work by Kodaly's pupil Szelenyi, published here for the first time, might be seen as something approaching the Romantic piano concerto without orchestra. Even the Fugato in this work seems to point to the Romantic tradition, recalling as it does Liszt's Sonata in B minor. The varied interplay between dramatic and lyrical moods is richly inventive. This Concertino offers (young) piano soloists the opportunity to mount the podium as an aspiring virtuoso, accompanying a second part that demonstrates symphonic pretensions. The two players are evenly matched in musical terms in the dialogue between the two pianos.
SKU: HL.49014185
ISBN 9790220104909. UPC: 073999915884. 8.75x11.5x0.233 inches.
SKU: HL.49005685
ISBN 9790001061254. UPC: 884088072452. 12.5x8.75x0.428 inches.
In January 1964 Bernd Alois Zimmermann interrupted the completion of his opera Die Soldaten [The Soldiers] in order to rearrange his orchestral work Dialoge for two pianos. Monologe takes up the original material but develops it towards a different direction: Zimmermann's collage technique based on quotations extends over the entire musical setting so that it is not only Mozart (Piano Concerto in C major KV 467) who has his say but Beethoven, Messiaen and Bach as well. Monologe is a piece for two pianists; real monologues of these pianists who, though simultaneously, [...] do not always play at the same time; [...] losing themselves in their own thoughts, as it were. -Zimmermann.
SKU: HL.49045284
ISBN 9790001161268. UPC: 841886029767. 9.0x12.0x0.232 inches.
Suite No. 1 is a hymn to the divinity of the dance. The piece explores all possibilities of extreme rhythm, harmony and orchestration in order to place special emphasis on the piano as a solo instrument with all its possibilities: from percussion instrument to lyric simplicity. At the end, the composer quotes the style of his scores together with the ancient tragedies in an epilogue with prominent signals from the wind section.
SKU: HL.49044938
ISBN 9790220126758.
Exhilarating and celebratory, the rhythmic demands of Dance Works as well as its physical nature are closer to rock, jazz and even medieval music.'Dance works' was written specifically for dance theatre and originally scored for the Steve Martland band. Martland's own arrangement for 2 pianos retains all the rhythmic power of the ensemble version but opens up new possibilities for concert performance or small scale or touring dance companies.
SKU: HL.49004763
ISBN 9790001050494. UPC: 073999861679. 9.0x12.0x0.096 inches.
SKU: HL.49004103
ISBN 9790001042215. UPC: 073999562934. 9.0x12.0x0.179 inches.
SKU: HL.49019554
ISBN 9790001176033. UPC: 884088924362. 9.0x12.0x0.439 inches.
Advanced Level. Includes 2 copies of score.
SKU: HL.49003223
ISBN 9790220118067. UPC: 073999366136. 9.0x11.75x0.073 inches.
SKU: HL.49018499
ISBN 9790001175357. UPC: 884088657161. 9.0x12.0x0.109 inches.
SKU: HL.244240
UPC: 888680753894. 9x12 inches.
Includes two player's scores.Nico Muhly's Fast Patterns for two Pianos, adapted from the fourth movement of Patterns for solo organ. Commissioned by the London Piano Festival and premiered on 8th October 2016 at King's Place, London, by Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva.Duration approximately: 5 minutes.
SKU: HL.49002570
ISBN 9790220105852. UPC: 073999373080. 8.5x11.5x0.125 inches.
Reduction for two pianos.
SKU: HL.49046416
ISBN 9781540090546. UPC: 842819108849. 9.0x12.0x0.329 inches.
Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece Jeu de Cartes is now one of the standard works in the ballet repertoire and is also played more often as a purely concertante orchestral piece. Richard Rijnvos now transcribed the virtuoso piece for 2 pianos, keeping the individual orchestral parts and octaves precisely to maintain the complexity and expressiveness of the neoclassical original.
