Franz Schubert: Impromptu Op. 90 No. 2 in Eb Major: Piano: Instrumental Work

Beloved for his wonderfully lyrical gift as well as for the innovations of form and harmony he brought to his music, Franz Schubert helped pioneer the Romantic piano style as he influenced later composers. This attractive compilation of his most accessible piano music displays that musical brilliance in a variety of his best-loved pieces. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf

Wanderer Fantasy Impromptus Moments Musicaux and Twelve Other Works-Supplementing the Dover edition of Schubert's complete piano sonatas this volume contains all of the remainder of Schubert's music for pianoforte solo. Breitkopf

Piano Reduction including solo part. Par DENISOV EDISON. The catalogue of Edison Denisov's works includes 16 concertos. It was a genre to which he returned time and again throughout his life, from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra of 1972 to the Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra of 1996. In Denisov's music the role of the soloist, or rather the protagonist, is extraordinarily important, not so much for its virtuosity as for its confessional character. The solo part is a monologue distinguished by poetic diction and a very personal message from the composer. The dramaturgical conception of the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, a reworking of the Viola Concerto of 1986, draws on traditional sonata form, thereby reaffirming the ubiquitous classicism in Denisov's thought. In this late work, we find all the typical features of his style: sinuous melodic lines layered into dense contrapuntal textures, and an interplay of orchestral colours, with pure sonorities contrasting with complex mixtures of sounds. It is a perfect dramaturgy that governs the evolution of the music to the very end. The first movement assumes the role of a sonata-allegro, with the standard formal sections of exposition, development, recapitulation and coda. The second movement is an Adagio for strings. The third takes the form of a little contrasting intermezzo that introduces both new thematic material and a new range of colours. Here tunefulness gives way to pointillism enriched with sonic effects. The only movement with a virtuosic solo part, its nervousness and inner tension set it worlds apart from the second and fourth movements that surround it. The fourth movement assumes the traditional form of a final set of variations. It is the dramaturgical and semantic heart of the concerto. The theme of the variations is Franz Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat major, op. 142, which in this case is 'born' from the celesta as the product of a dodecaphonic string cluster. This finale represents Denisov's homage to his great mentor, Schubert's music being for him a symbol of eternal and universal beauty. 'The attentive listener', Denisov stressed, 'will recognise that the Impromptu theme is already suggested very slowly in the course of the three preceding movements, not only thematically, but also psychologically. That's what makes the appearance of the Schubert theme sound so natural.' The variations relate to the variation genre less in their form than in their spiritual and conceptual metamorphoses. It is, one might say, 'music round about Schubert'. (Ekaterina Kouprovskaia-Denisova)/ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

More than the Score-more than the score… is a series of classic piano music covering much of the essential repertoire from Bach through Mozart Schubert Mendelssohn Chopin and Debussy right up to John Cage. Each volume focuses on one piece with written masterclasses and background information encouraging an exploration of the music beyond the printed score. All titles in the Edition Peters more than the score…series include written masterclasses from one of our panel of internationally-renowned pianists including Joanna MacGregor Roy Howat Daniel Grimwood Clare Hammond and Adam Tendler.J. S. BACH Prelude and Fugue in C major from The Well-tempered Clavier includes the printedscore a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood in which he considers how to approach the playing of baroque harpsichord music on the piano a biography of the composer and a short history of the music all illustrated in full colour.

All piano music except Sonatas, Dances, and a few unfinished pieces. Contains Wanderer, Impromptus, Moments Musicals, Variations, Scherzi, etc. Content : 1 Fantasy, Op. 15 (Wanderer) 2 Four Impromptus, Op. 90 3 Four Impromptus, Op. 142 4 Moments musicals, Op. 94 5 Adagio and Rondo, Op. 145 6 Ten Variations 7 Variations on a Theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner 8 Variation on a Waltz by Antonio Diabelli 9 Andante in C Major 10 Piece for Pianoforte in A Major 11 Adagio in E Major 12 Allegretto in C Minor 13 Three Pieces for Pianoforte 14 Five Pieces for Pianoforte 15 Two Scherzi 16 March in E Major

[Impromptu Ges-Gur Opus 90 Nr. 3 D 899] / Classique / Editeur : Walter Gieseking / Doigtés : Walter Gies / Partition / Broché / Edition Urtext