Grieg Piano Concerto A Minor

SKU: BR.PB-15164-07

ISBN 9790004215906. 6.5 x 9 inches.

The piano concerto in a minor stands out in Edvard Grieg's oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg's lifetime, it was often performed, not least by the composer himself. So it is not surprising that Grieg made many changes to the score up to 1907. But at the same time, the concerto's size, form and substance remained completely unaltered. Interventions in the piano part basically involved subtleties of nuance, and only a very few places in the music text were altered. The situation was different with the orchestration. Here Grieg was keen to experiment and kept filing away at the orchestra sound right up to the last. Melodies were moved to other instruments, accompanying string chords were reconstructed, and above all the list of scored instruments was changed. The main source of the Urtext edition by Ernst-Gunter Heinemann is the new edition of the score originally published in 1907 by C. F. Peters, thus several years after the first edition of 1872. Taken into account in the present edition are the changes that Grieg made up to the time of his death. Piano reduction and fingering by Einar Steen-Nokleberg.

SKU: PE.EP11435

ISBN 9790014119546. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

This new Urtext edition of one of the most famous of piano concertos is based on an in-depth revision of the existing (and tried and trusted) Edition Peters version. The piano part of the orchestra reduction has been revised, optimized (including page turns), had instrument references added and collated with the score of the Grieg Complete Edition. The solo part has been reviewed and corrected with reference to the two main sources.

SKU: SU.00220524

This CD Sheet Music™ collection contains the wealth of solo and duo piano music by Edvard Grieg and Felix Mendelssohn. GRIEG: Lyric Suites (Books I-X), Concerto in A minor, Holberg Suite, Norwegian Folk Songs & Dances, Peer Gynt Suites (Nos. 1 & 2), Piano Pieces after His Own Songs (Series 1 & 2), Two Nordic Melodies, Two Waltz-Caprices, and more MENDELSSOHN: Allegro Brilliant, Capriccio Brillante, Caprices (Nos. 1-3), Piano Concertos (Nos. 1 & 2), Rondo Brillante, Songs Without Words (Books I-VIII), Variations Sérieuses, and more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1600+ pages

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