SKU: HL.645164
ISBN 9781629060767. UPC: 008148017614. 9.0x12.0x0.09 inches. Hungarian. Wesley Schaum Intermediate Level.
Contains enjoyable pieces for reading experience and repertoire building. Designed to supplement any Level 4 method. Musical styles represent many composers, both classic and contemporary. Titles: Ave Verum (Mozart) * Beethoven's Fifth Symphony * The Entertainer * Funeral March of a Marionette * Gliding * Horsin' Around * Minuet in G Major (Bach) * Scarborough Fair * Tarantella * Trumpet Concerto Theme (Haydn) * Water Music (Handel).
SKU: BT.PBBESTPIA1
ISBN 9782824400433.
HAENDEL : Rigaudon - GRIEG : Arietta, extr. des Pièces lyriques Op.12 - MOZART : Valse favorite KV606 - Mc DOWELL : Pour une rose sauvage, extr. des Woodland Sketches - MA KAPAR : Berceuse - GLINKA : Polka - COUPERIN : L'Epineuse, extr. du VIe Ordre - BACH : Musette en ré majeur BWV anh.126 - ANONYME : Marche du Petit Livre d'Anna Magdalena Bach - FUCHS : Douce Consolation Op.47 n°11 - SCHUMANN : Premier Chagrin, extr. de l'Album pour la jeunesse Op.68 - GURLITT : Petites Fleurs Op.205 - SPINDLER : Chanson sans paroles - HUMMEL : Ecossaise Op.52 n°5 - MOUSSORGSKI : Une larme - CHOPIN : Mazurka Op.67 n°2 - SCHUBERT : Valse n°6 Op.18 D145 - BEETHOVEN : Bagatelle Op.119 n°1 - SATIE :Gymnopédie n°1 - MENDELSSOHN : Chant du gondolier Op.30 n°6 - BACH : Invention 2 voix n°4 BWV 775 - FAURE : Pièce brève Op.84 n°5 - MOZART : Fantaisie en ré mineur K.397 - CHOPIN : Prélude Op.28 n°6 - DEBUSSY : Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, extr. des Children's Corner - SCRIABINE : Prélude Op.22 n°3 - SCHUMANN : L'Enfant s'endort, extr. des Scènes d'enfants Op.15 - LISZT : Consolation n°3 - DEBUSSY : Première Arabesque - BACH : Concerto italien BWV971, 2e mouvement.
SKU: BT.EMBZ1765
'This music, moving even in its bleakness, is characterised by the complete absence of ornamentation. The arc of all four pieces [1. Adagio, 2. Andante, 3. Poco lento, 4. Assai andante] is similar: after beginning softly they reach a fortissimo climax, then sink back into numbing grief. Only the decidedly important melodic and harmonic elements are heard, pared down, occasionally reinforced with octave doubling. In the Adagio of the Second Piano Concerto Bartók was to return to this peculiar piano instrumentation. The lyricism and Hungarian turns of phrase of the second movement differ a little from the series: he orchestrated it with the title 'Melody' in 1931 as thecentral piece of the five-movement 'Hungarian Sketches'.' (HCD 32525 Bartók New Series Vol. 25, Somfai László).
SKU: PA.H07988
ISBN 9790260104471. 31 x 23.5 cm inches.
Piano Sonata No. 4 from the years 1962-1964 is dedicated to the memory of Fiser's friend, the pianist Antonin Jemelik, who died tragically. As a tribute to their friendship the composer incorporated into the introduction a quotation from their favourite work, Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70, by Alexander Scriabin. The tragedy of the death of the composer's friend pervades the emotionally intense passage of unison octaves which follows the three-bar quotation. From a compositional point of view this work is a masterpiece of the mid-Sixties. Written as one movement, the piece is divided into numerous mutually contrasting segments which themselves are clearly grouped into two sections, exposition and development. The individual themes are introduced in the first section and thematically expanded in the second section. The motif treatment lies almost exclusively in the fragmenting or curtailing of the theme, or in the use of a combination of several themes, for the most part brief and eloquent. This compositional method, together with a clear-cut manner of execution, mainly semitonal melody and sharply contrastive dynamics, lends force and transparency to the piece. Piano Sonata No. 4 was completed in 1964 together with Symphonic Fresco, Concerto da camera for piano and orchestra and Fifteen Prints after Durer's Apocalypse and has earned its rightful place alongside them as masterpieces of Fiser's oeuvre.The work was first performed by Pavel Stepan in Prague's Rudolfinum in 1965. The new setting for this piece is based on the single edition to date (Panton, 1969); only with regard to a few inconsistencies in the score was it necessary to consult the composer's manuscript (kept at the National Museum - Czech Museum of Music).
