Chopin-An Album

Rosemary Brown (1916 - 2001) was a medium who sensationally claimed that dead composers were dictating new musical works to her. She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by claiming to produce works dictated to her by Franz Liszt Johannes Brahms Johann Sebastian Bach Rachmaninov Franz Schubert Edvard Grieg Claude Debussy Chopin Schumann and Ludwig Beethoven. The opinions of musical critics were varied on the merit of Rosemary's transcriptions but most agreed that in their style they bore a great resemblance to the composers' published works.Opinion is still divided about her claims and although there is scepticism many musicians of note such asRichard Rodney Bennett who said A lot of people can improvise but you couldn't fake music like this without years of training. I couldn't have faked some of the Beethoven myself have shown great interest.In 1969 she was put to a test by the British Broadcasting Corporation who set her at a piano where she waited for the spirit of Liszt to contact her. In due course she produced a piece that she said had been dictated to her by the dead composer. It proved too hard for her to play so another pianist was engaged to play it. The piece was subsequently studied by a Liszt expert who said it had definite similarities to Liszt's work.

Animations is a collection of pieces focusing on lively rhythms and sparkling articulate music – not all of it at faster tempos. There are goblins and grasshoppers gypsies and witches; Grieg and Goldschmidt co-exist with Horne and Hummel; there is entertaining and sometimes unfamiliar music by Scarlatti Schumann and Chopin. There is dance music a plenty as you would expect in an album devoted to movement and as well as a waltz and a mazurka there is a gigue by Reger and a galop by Casella. Piano Moods is an exciting new Piano series from Boosey & Hawkes. Each volume is devoted to a particular mood. The pieces chosen draw on Boosey& Hawkes' extensive collection of wonderful music as well as lesser-known gems from the past - some of them from surprising sources - and newly composed works.

A wonderful collection of some of the most popular (and some less well known) pieces from Frideric Chopin. Arranged for Piano solo.

Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation of classics. Each piece was carefully selected and simplified to help students develop their skills. Many of the greatest composersâ??J. S. Bach Beethoven Brahms Mendelssohn Mozart Rimsky-Korsakov Rachmaninoff Tchaikovsky and othersâ??are represented by several pieces each some newly adapted for the piano. Composers and works not usually featured in beginner's books include pieces by Borodin Gluck Rameau and Tallis.Well-known classics include Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Debussy's Claire de Lune Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition Satie'sGymnopedie No. 1 Schumann's Child Falling Asleep and 'Spring' from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Several orchestral pieces have been newly adapted for the piano including 'Dance of the Swan' from Swan Lake 'Aquarium' from Carnival of the Animals 'Largo' from Xerxes and 'Waltz of the Flowers' from The Nutcracker.Dover Original.

An exciting collection of forty short classical masterpieces for Piano. Including work by J.S. Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Vivaldi, Handel, Beethoven and Mozart, this fabulous assortment of pieces offer ideal repertoire for concert performances or to learn and play from memory. Each of these classical pieces has been written or specially arranged for pianists working at Grade 2 to Grade 3 level. / Classique / Partition /

Compilations regroupant les plus grands titres d'un genre musical spécialement regravées en piano, voix et diagrammes d'accord guitare ou en piano solo en format A4 spiralé afin qu'il reste plat sur le support du piano. / Classique / Partition / Wiro /

Debussy confidently wrote to his publisher Jacques Durand in August 1905:?I believe without unwarranted vanity that these three pieces will prove to be good and that they will take a prominent place in the literature of piano music ? to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ? as you like it?. Debussy?s ?Images? already popular during Debussy?s lifetime delight with their iridescent tone colour and dazzling harmonies ?which reflect the newest discoveries in harmonic chemistry?. The virtuosic second series is notated throughout on three staves.In commemoration of Debussy?s 150th birthday Bärenreiter is publishing an Urtext edition of these piecesreflecting the most recent scholarship and source analysis. Clear presentation fingering by Tamara Stefanovich and valuable information on performance practice all offer optimal conditions for the study of the work.Urtext edition based on the most recent researchIncludes fingering by Tamara StefanovichWith a detailed foreword (Eng/Ger) and critical commentary (Eng)Tamara Stefanovich studied at the University of Belgrade at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the ?Hochschule für Musik und Tanz? in Cologne. She has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra the London Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen Vladimir Jurowski and Pierre Boulez and has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. She performed Debussy?s ?Images I? and ?II? in 2011 for the ?Klavier-Festival Ruhr?. Together with Pierre- Laurent Aimard she prepared the fingering for the ?Klavier-Festival Ruhr? Bärenreiter Piano Album (BA 9659).

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard De La Nuit is one of the most important Piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites which was already begun by Chopin and Liszt in the 19th century. The three movements Ondine Le Gibet and Scarbo are based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand which Ravel put in front of each of the three pieces. Thus too the work is in a tradition represented by composers such as Schumann and Liszt in the 19th century that combines instrumental music with literary models. For the new edition published by the Wiener Urtext Edition the editorsconsulted not only the first edition used almost exclusively up to now but also Ravel's autograph as well as his personal copy of the first edition on the basis of which numerous passages in the musical text could be corrected and brought closer to Ravel's original intention. In addition the editors included corrections from personal copies of various students of Ravel. Entries of the composer going well beyond mere text corrections and practical performance tips handed down by his students are analysed in the Notes of Interpretation. The reader-friendly large-format Wiener Urtext edition is completed by a trilingual glossary of the French performance instructions used by Ravel as well as English and German translations of Bertrand's three poems.

Pavana Capricho is one of the last pieces from Isaac Albeniz’s early period before he turned to Spanish influences a style that would characterise the rest of his compositions. In this earlier period Albeniz who was a child prodigy on the Piano composed ‘salon style’ music and experimented with traditional styles in the manner of Rameau Bach Beethoven Chopin and Liszt. His shift towards Spanish music occurred after meeting the teacher and composer Felipe Pedrell a leading figure in the development of nationalist Spanish music.Pavana-Capricho is graceful and light-hearted at the same time. Theplayfulness that arises from the alternating moods is best achieved when the proper technique and articulation is applied. Arranged for the solo Piano and with a performance time of ca. 3:30 this piece of Romantic solo music is a perfect addition to any concert programme.

A sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the early Romantic era by composers ranging from Schubert to Chopin and beyond all presented in one superb volume for the solo Piano.The music of the Romantic erais characterised by progressive innovations in both tonal and formal expression both in the compositions of the salons and concert halls and of the church. The works of Chopin Liszt and Schubert have become absolutely essentialrepertoire for any serious Piano student forever pushing the boundaries of diatonic harmony timing and texture into evermore complex worlds of emotion. Every piece in this anthology is rich in heritage and familiar tothe ears of music lovers the world over. Take this opportunity to transform your repertoire - the music has been expertly adapted to appeal to the intermediate soloist whilst retaining all the beauty and character of the originalworks. There's simply no better way to discover the music of the masters.

A selection of original Piano music by the master composers of the past four centuries the New Classics To Moderns series provides the pianist with a repertoire which is enjoyable for the player and listener alike.Inspired by the popular series by Denes Agay each of the six books in the New Classics To Moderns collection contains pieces by a wide range of composers from the old masters to contemporary writers with works from recent decades.Students teachers indeed all pianists will find the pieces in New Classics To Moderns a priceless source of study material recital pieces sight reading exercises — orjust relaxing musical entertainment.This volume includes works by Abel Berkeley Poulenc Chopin and Rameau amongst others.In the European Piano Teachers Association Journal Nadia Lasserson writes that this series is '[e]xcellent value for money the books offer students of ever level a well-balanced musical diet covering over four hundred years of wonderful music as well as offering a wide range of sight-reading material to advanced students.'

Chopin's piano works renowned for their technical brilliance also invariably project the composer's mercurial moods. Their complex emotional content often lies close to the surface: a sparkling and graceful passage may be tinged with melancholy a dark moment may be crowned with a note of triumph. This superb collection of fifteen of Chopin's works for piano reflects these compelling qualities in some of the greatest piano compositions of the Romantic period.

Fr?d?ric Chopin???s 4 Scherzi are high points in the Romantic piano repertoire. Chopin here takes a traditional genre and fills it with radically new content. They are wild demonic in tone and there is little about them that isjoke-like despite the original meaning of their title. Referring to the 1st Scherzo Robert Schumann asked: ???how should seriousness be attired when even a ???joke??? is veiled in black'???. Now that the Scherzi nos. 1 4 have beenpublished in revised stand-alone editions G. Henle Publishers is now offering all four in paperback and hardback in an edition that reflects the current state of Chopin research. Both the footnotes and the extensive CriticalReport on the Internet offer detailed information on the familiar topic of ???Chopin variants??? and on all the textual problems they raise. This is Chopin in top form!