Benjamin Britten: Variations: Piano: Instrumental Album

Selected Music For Solo Piano is a vast collection of pieces by English composer and violinist Frank Bridge.Bridge is mostly remembered for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.

Purcell a composé ce thème brillant pour la musique de scène de la pièce Abdelazer ou la revanche du Maure (1693) d?Aphra Behn. Presque trois siècles plus tard Benjamin Britten l?introduisit dans son œuvre symphonique The Young Person?s Guide to the Orchestra (désignée souvent par son sous-titre Variation & Fugue sur un Thème de Purcell) une partition pour un film documentaire sorte de visite guidée des instruments de l?orchestre.

Revised edition and Organ accompaniment.The fair copy was completed on 31 May 1933. The first edition included a piano part for rehearsal only. OUP sought an estimate for printing offprints of all theindividual movements in 1933 though only the theme and variations 3-5 were issued separately (see below). However in 1938 230 copies of variation 1 were produced especially for the Cambridge University Music Society. [OUP file251] The work was revised in October 1955 for the performance by the Purcell Singers; [see notes to original Decca recording and BB to OUP 16.07.1957 and date on 1958 edition] the optional organ part (edited by Ralph Downes) wasadded in 1957-58 and replaced the piano part in the score. [It was probably completed in late 1958: see IH to OUP: 13.02.1958 (OUP Archive)]