Jozsef in Form

SKU: HL.50485304

ISBN 9790080123041. 10.5x14.25x0.145 inches. Russian, Hungarian, German, English. Gyorgy Kurtag.

For a Hungarian composer, writing music set to the poems of Attila Jozsef is no small feat. In this series, Gyorgy Kurtag (* 1926) took on this immense challenge in a unique way even within his own oeuvre: the loneliness of the unaccompanied, single voice line simultaneously evokes the musical world of Hungarian folk songs or even 17th-century monody. The poems - rather the fragments, the seeds of poetry abandoned by the poet - capture strong, realistic images and human situations that are characteristic of Attila Jozsef. As he is wont to do with his compositions, Kurtag transforms these poetic images into equally unforgettable musical images, drawing an atmosphere of contemplation, despair, boredom, happiness, and fear of death with just a few sounds. This composition was premiered on October 26, 1982 in Budapest by Adrienne Csengery, the recipient of the work-s dedication. (Hungaroton HCD 31821).

SKU: BT.EMBZ13592

Stephen Heller was born in 1813 in Pest and died in 1888 in Paris. He was a prominent pianist and composer of his age. Of his more than 150 piano pieces his studies range among the masterpieces of Romantic piano literature. The compositions included in the present publication reveal, in spite of formal simplicity, the richness of melody and harmony Heller's music. They are not only exercises aiming at solving certain technical problems but, similar to other Romantic studies, self-contained convert pieces as well.

Stephen Heller, geboren 1813 in Pest und gestorben 1888 in Paris war ein ausgezeichneter Pianist und Komponist seiner Zeit. Von seinen mehr als 150 Kompositionen für Klavier zählen die Etüden zu den Meisterwerken der romantischen Klaviermusik. Die Stücke dieser Ausgabe zeugen, trotzt Einfachheit der Form, von harmonischem und melodischem Reichtum. Sie sind nicht einfach Übungen, die die Lösung eines technischen Problems zum Ziel haben, sondern sie können auch als selbständige Vortragstücke verwandt werden, wie dies mit den romantischen Etüden im allgemeinen der Fall ist.

SKU: HL.50511217

ISBN 9790080135921. UPC: 073999314724. 9.0x11.75x0.169 inches. Stephen Heller; Jozsef Sarmai.

Stephen Heller was born in 1813 in Pest and died in 1888 in Paris. He was a prominent pianist and composer of his age. Of his more than 150 piano pieces his studies range among the masterpieces of Romantic piano literature. The compositions included in the present publication reveal, in spite of formal simplicity, the richness of melody and harmony Heller's music. They are not only exercises aiming at solving certain technical problems but, similar to other Romantic studies, self-contained convert pieces as well.

SKU: HL.50605472

ISBN 9781705189467. UPC: 196288125211.

In his Sonata, Peter Wolf puts his style well-known from the character pieces of his previous piano series (Wolf-temperiertes Klavier, Jazz preludes) in the service of a demanding form. We can recognize the style that can be traced back to jazz and Bartok, the characters that tap like a toccata or swirl like perpetual motion, the singing lyrical melodies or even such playful turns as the baroque musette-like episode of the slow movement. Like Wolf's previous piano works, this multi-faceted composition, which sets high standards in terms of instrumental technique, was inspired by the outstanding pianist Jozsef Balog and gives the impression of his individuality as a performer.

SKU: HL.50511416

ISBN 9790080124093. UPC: 073999058819. K/4 (23,5x31) inches. Hungarian, English, German. Ferenc Andras Hera; Jozsef Sarmai.

SKU: HL.50487603

ISBN 9790080133958. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German. Carl Maria von Weber; Ferenc Andras Hera; Jozsef Sarmai.

Each book in series presents a composer trough a selection of brief pieces. The first volumes help the young pianist to become acquainted with the music of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, J. S. Bach and Weber. Most of the works are dance movements, although some sonatinas or sonatas have also been included. All the books contain a variety of compositions easy to play but of undoubted musical value. The selection is the work of four well-known music pedagogues, Magda Csurka, Gabor Kovats, Andras Hera and Jozsef Sarmai.