Concerto for Two Pianos Piano Duet

Special Arrangements for 2 Advanced Pianists. 10 brilliant arrangements of Rachmaninoff's piano concertos, vocalise and Paganini variation.

This volume contains two of Beethoven's most loved and widely performed piano concertos printed in the traditional format for two pianos: Piano I is the solo part; Piano II a piano reduction of the orchestral score. Edited by Franz Kullak.

La grande sonate en Ré majeur pour deux pianos K. 448 est bien entendu le fleuron absolu de cette édition «Urtext». Le premier mouvement s?élance comme une ouverture d?opéra avec tambours et trompettes l?Andante est un superbe et unique dialogue entre les deux pianos et le grandiose rondo final sonne comme un concerto pour piano sans orchestre. Dans cette édition Henle se trouve encore une autre ?uvre importante en l?occurrence sous sa forme originale de 1783 la fugue grave en Ut mineur pour deux pianos K. 426 sur laquelle plane encore l?esprit de Händel ou de Bach. Mozart la publia peu de temps après dans une version à quatre voix pour cordes en lui ajoutant une magnifiqueintroduction adagio composée pour l?occasion. Pour la présente édition cette dernière a été retranscrite à son tour pour deux pianos par le formidable musicien Franz Beyer qui a en outre produit une version exécutable pour deux pianos du «Larghetto et Allegro» en Mi bémol majeur (absent au catalogue Köchel) dont on ne possède que des fragments. L?exécution de toutes les ?uvres réunies dans ce volume requiert l?acquisition de deux éditions.

Cyril Scott was an English composer writer and poet. He was essentially a late romantic composer whose style was at the same time strongly influenced by impressionism. His harmony was notably exotic. Scott wrote around four hundred works which include two mature symphonies three operas three Piano concertos concertos for Violin Cello Oboe and Harpsichord several overtures four oratorios as well as a mass of chamber music.Scott is undoubtedly best known for the solo Piano piece Lotus Land which is transcribed here for two Pianos. LotusLand seems impossibly modern for 1905 and additionally possesses a preternatural sense of jazziness. It has been recorded over fifty times both in its original form for Piano and in a wide variety of arrangements from vocals to jazz groups and from Brass bands to Synthesizer. Later Scott also wrote a poem with the same name.

Piano Reduction-A talented pianist and composer it stood to reason that Camille Saint-Saëns would engage with the Piano concerto genre early on particularly as in France the 'concerto brilliant' was very popular at that time.Saint-Saëns did indeed begin to compose his own concertos however; he gave a clear renunciation of the 'concerto brilliant' declaring instead that 'the solo part of a concerto must be set out and treated like adramatic role'. He realised this concept of a 'symphonic concerto'; in his Piano Concerto No.2 In G Minor composed in 1868.The solo part is technically very challenging and at the same time closely boundup with the Orchestra. Johannes Umbreit is responsible for the Piano reduction based on the composer's own version for Two Pianos; Pascal Rogé supplies the fingerings for the solo part.

Piano reduction-According to Mozart?s own catalogue K. 491 was completed on 24 March 1786 it was Mozart?s only Piano concerto aside from K. 466 that was in a minor key. It was probably first performed two weeks later aspart of an ?academy? at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Mozart was extremely pressed for time while composing this work a fact that is shown both by the cursory way in which the autograph was written and by therepeated corrections. Unlike earlier publications this edition contains the definitive version as in Mozart?s manuscript. The Piano reduction of this edition was undertaken by the celebrated pianist AndrásSchiff to whom we also already owe our reductions of the concertos K. 453 467 488 and 503 (HN 765 766 767 and 825). He also supplied the fingerings for the solo part the cadenzas and the lead-ins.

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart?s Piano concertos. His Piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings forMozart?s solo part have been exquisitely fine-tuned and are inspiring; and where Mozart?s original cadenzas are missing Schiff?s stylistically perfected ones have been included. In so doing we aspire to set anew precedent. First and foremost Mozart?s handwritten scores have been consulted being the most important sources. Moreover we know today that in addition to Mozart?s own manuscripts early copies in parts andprints also contain important information regarding the musical text. A co-production with Breitkopf & Härtel Mozart?s Piano concertos are not only available as attractive and affordable Piano reductions there are alsoan accompanying Urtext conductor?s score orchestral parts and a study score.

The Bärenreiter Urtext edition of Ludwig Van Beethoven's Concerto No.1 In C Major Op.15 For Piano features a detailed commentary by Bärenreiter editor and Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar.In Beethoven?s autograph for Concerto No.1 In C Major Op.15 For Piano Del Mar found no less than 17 corrections which were made after the work was published. These have been brought to light in this volume and all the sources and findings made by the editor have been documented.This critical edition reflects the latest musicological research and sets the highest scholarly standards without losing sight of the needs of modernperformers. This is a reduction for two Pianos. The full score can be found here .

Réduction pour deux pianos-Maurice Ravel's 1931 composition Concerto For The Left Hand originally for Piano and Orchestra. This version for Two Pianos with a reduction of the Orchestral material by the composer.

Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G for Two Pianos with the second Piano being a reduction of the original orchestral material transcribed by Lucien Garban.

Frederic Chopin: Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op.11 for Piano and Orchestra.The Complete Chopin: New Critical Edition. Edited by Rink.Edition for Solo Piano and Piano reduction.