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.49005580

ISBN 9790001060103. UPC: 884088048556. 9.0x12.0x0.161 inches.

SKU: HL.49004649

ISBN 9790001048767. UPC: 073999699548. 9.25x12.0x0.263 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.