Editor: Katrin Eich Fingering: Andreas Boyde Brahms mainly composed the eight Piano Pieces op. 76 in summer 1878 in the summer resort of Pörtschach at Lake Wörth. Theodor Billroth, a close friend, was enthusiastic about the new works: 'These are magnificent pieces, beautiful and interesting to play. They lie so well under the hand for those who are a little used to Schumann's and Chopin's technique that it is a pleasure to practise them.' As the volume 'Piano Pieces' was published in 2011 as part of the Johannes Brahms Complete Edition (HN 6014), we are now replacing the previous volume HN 118 with this new one, presenting these 'magnificent pieces' in the musical text of the Complete Edition, accompanied by revealing commentaries detailing their genesis and publication.

Eight pieces for Piano written between 1871 and 1878. Edited and annotated for the ABRSM by Howard Ferguson.

1. Basic Elements 2. Exercises 3. Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé) 4. Prelude and Waltz in C 5. Palm Stroke (1) 6. Palm Stroke (2) 7. Wrong Notes Allowed (1) 8. Wrong Notes Allowed (2) 9. Flowers We Are, Frail Flovers... (1a) 10. Dot-strumming 11. Flowers We Are, Frail Flowers... (1b) 12. ...flowers also the stars... 13. Out and In (1) 14. Objet trouvé (2) 15. Elbows 16. Hommage a Verdi (sopra: Caro nome che il mio cor) 17. Walking 18. C's Night Song 19. Little Chorale (1) 20. Toddling 21. Staggering 22. Staggering 23. Bored 24. Rocking 25. Hommage a Bartók 26. Let's Be Silly 27. (silent palms) 28. Hommage a Kocsis Zoltán - Playing with Overtones (1) 29. Sound Eclipse 30. Hommage a Máriássy István - (detecting chords) 31. The Bunny and The Fox 32. Legato 33. Waltz (1) 34. Hommage a Farkas (1) The Stone-frog Crawled Along... 35. Hot Cockles 36. Flowers We Are... (2) 37. Fifths (2) 38. (the young boxer's lighter moments) 39. (sleepily) 40. Portrait (1) 41. (five little piano pieces) 42. Three-finger Play 43. Gallop 44. Boisterous Csárdás 45. Jerking 46. Sound and Sound-ball (1) 47. Melancholic Overtones 48. Little Chorale (2) 49. Flowers We Are... (3) 50. Sound and Sound-ball (2) 51. Sarabande 52. Out and In (2) 53. (scherzando) 54. Fifths and Fourths and Palm Strokes 55. (Hommage a Beethoven) 56. Playing with Overtones (2) 57. Falling Asleep 58. Scale from One to Eight 59. Knots (1) 60. Flowers We Are... (4a) 61. Flowers We Are... (4b) 62. Meandering Tune 63. Twittering 64. Quarrelling (1) 65. Dumb-show (Quarrelling 2) 66. Mikro-rondo 67. Hommage a Ligeti 68. Sidling Palms 69. Beating (3x3 - 3 tones, 3 rhythm patterns) 70. Hommage a Tchaikovsky 71. Hommage a Eötvös Péter 72. Hommage a Paganini (la nuova campanella) 73. Preliminary Exercises to the Hoquetus 74. Hoquetus 75. Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé) 76. ...and once more: Flowers We Are...

Here for the first time in a popularly accessible edition are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Handelgesellschaft edition including eight 'Great Suites' and 'Fugue In A Minor'. For this new edition the pieces have been rearranged and retitled according to the latest scholarly sequences found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Students and scholars will find many of the ideas Handel sketched here expanded and reworked in later chamber and orchestral works and in the opera dance movements; musicians and every Baroque music lover will see in these neglected pieces 'a Protean Fluidity' (New Grove) worthyof the great composer and more than worthy of any musical library.