Chopin F. - Waltzes

Chopin's Waltzes have been a source of delight for both listeners and performers through the ages but most are quite difficult to play. However this easy Piano edition opens up the world of the Waltzes to beginning pianists. All the intricate melodies harmonies and rhythms are here but newly arranged so that virtually all pianists can experience the thrill of playing 15 Chopin waltzes at the piano.

Chopin's special gift was his remarkable ability to transform conventional musical forms into unique and memorable works of art for solo piano. Some are as compact as his fifteen waltzes; some as extended and complex as his four scherzos.Edited by Carl Mikuli

Parmi les compositions les plus populaires de Chopin, les valses ont été conçues non pas pour danser, mais pour une performance de concert. On y trouve aussi un enregistrement de CD en circulation à partir de l'étiquette Naxos par le pianiste de renommée internationale Dil Biret. / Piano

Nocturnes-Time and again Chopin succeeded in giving different Piano music genres their own individual characters whether etudes preludes waltzes scherzi or Nocturnes. The Irishman John Field had alreadycomposed over 20 nocturnes which presumably greatly influenced Chopin. The latter continued to develop the light song-like Piano writing and created works whose dreamy longing atmosphere came to embodyChopin???s music. Our volume contains the works that were published during Chopin???s lifetime as well as ones which were only published posthumously including the famous Lento con gran espressione in c sharpminor in two authentic versions.

This Alfred Masterwork Edition boasts the complete Piano Waltzes of Frederic Chopin edited from the original sources by Willard A. Palmer. Like his world-famous Mazurkas Polonaises and Etudes Chopin's Waltzes have become an integral part of the serious Piano repertoire offering some of the most warm and delightful melodies you could ever wish to play. Chopin's ingenuity inventiveness and imagination allowed him to craft works that today still sound refreshing and vital.

10 Waltzes And Nocturnes. Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. World-renowned flutist, Robert Stallman says, 'Chopin transports us into a realm of mystery, of peace, and celestial beauty.' Robert Stallman has long made it his mission to expand the flute repertoire with apt transcriptions, gratifying flutists everywhere, and has emerged as the preeminent editor and arranger of flute music active today. Stallman's The Romantic Flutist draws from Chopin's piano music in a unique compilation of Waltzes and Nocturnes arranged for flute and piano./ Répertoire / Flûte Traversière et Piano

Par LERDAHL FRED. Waltzes, a cycle of twelve virtuoso waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass, was commissioned by the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, where the first nine waltzes were premiered in 1981. Soon thereafter I composed the final three waltzes. The violinist Rolf Schulte led the first performance of the complete work in New York City in 1983. Waltzes lasts about 22 minutes and is dedicated to the violist Scott Nickrenz, who directed the chamber music series at Spoleto. In arranging the commission, Mr. Nickrenz made three stipulations: make my modernist idiom accessible for summer-festival listening, provide a challenge for brilliant string players accustomed to 19th-century repertory, and give the piece a loud ending. The idea of composing a set of waltzes came from the pleasure I took in playing waltzes by Schubert and Chopin at the piano. Waltzes incorporates occasional references to the music of past composers, but always in ways that fit within my own musical language. Its instrumentation for “low” string quartet is reminiscent of Schubert’s Vienna./ Répertoire / Violon, Alto, Violoncelle et Contrebasse