Susannah

Commissioned for the Kentucky Music Educator's Association TTBB All-State Chorus this lively arrangement of a beloved folk song also features piano four-hand accompaniment. “O Susannah!” with its wonderfully freshglee club sound clever vocal effects and unexpected tempo changes is guaranteed to bring the house down! For high school through adult male chorus.

With the new Urtext Primo series, the Wiener Urtext Edition wants to close the gap arising at the point of transition to additional lessons after having studied a piano method. Beginning with a performance level which is outlined by pieces such as Bach's Minuet in G (BWV Anh. 116), Mozart's Minuet in F (KV 5) or Schumann's Wilder Reiter (Op. 68/8), works by three different composers are selected for each volume of the Urtext Primo series, with the aim of offering piano pupils (or even adults who want to resume piano playing) a wide range of repertoire pieces on the basis of which they can enhance their technical and musical skills. The pieces' range of levels of difficulty is relatively narrow so that the volume can be used continuously over a period of about two years. This is what distinguishes the Urtext Primo approach from almost all common anthologies. The selected repertoire takes into account not only pieces of the classic canon of lessons, but also lesser known works which are in no way of less importance for piano lessons. The Urtext Primo volumes are published in the internationally recognised standard of the Wiener Urtext editions. The explanations included in each volume shall help to deepen the knowledge of musical styles, music history and piano playing. A repertoire chart at the end of each volume gives a rough overview of the levels of difficulty of the selected pieces.Volume 4 combines works of the German Romanticism by Schumann, Brahms and Theodor Kirchner. Apart from well known pieces from Schumann's 'Album for the Youth' and the easiest waltzes from opus 39 (in the easier version) by Brahms, the selection contains the attractive set of variations from Schumann's first Youth Sonata Op. 118/1 and Brahms' Saraband in A minor WoO 5/1 as well as a number of pleasant pieces by Theodor Kirchner which continue the tonal air of Schumann and Brahms in easy playable pieces. / Piano

Schumann's Phantasiestucke has been published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' Series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and performance notes.

When Brahms Mendelssohn and Schumann composed for the organ all three turned for inspiration to the musical style of the late Baroque period. Includes 11 'Choral Preludes' by Brahms three 'Preludes And Fugues' by Mendelssohn six 'Fugues' by Schumann and other works by the composers.

Selected and with an Introduction by Nancy B. Reichs-Among the leading pianists of the 19th century Clara Schumann was a respected published composer in her lifetime regarded by her contemporaries as a member of the avant-garde 'new romantic' school. Praised by such greats as Chopin Brahms Mendelssohn and Liszt her music is being heard again today in recitals and new recordings. This rare collection reproduced mainly from the classic Breitkopf and Hartel edition of 1879 is introduced by Dr.Nancy B. Reich.

Original Version - Edition for Cello and Piano. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered. In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann?s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 ? a piece he actually called a ?Concertstück? ? removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer?s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków. It is presented in a beautifully printed edition for cello with Schumann?s original piano reduction. Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann?s original 1850 manuscript Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions Critical Commentary Matching orchestral material available separately from Edition Peters Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton Robert Schumann?s tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann?s original conception of the work ? not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never heard the piece performed. In an effort to promote a performance of the work, he gave the score to the cellist Robert Emil Bockmühl. Bockmühl made revisions that Schumann resisted, and the hoped-for performance never happened. Schumann?s health failed and he died aged just 46 in 1856. The Concerto, in an already substantially revised form, was premiered in 1860 but it was not given significant recognition until it was championed by Pablo Casals in the 20th century by which time (and since) the text for the work had accreted additions and alterations from generations of soloists. Now Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London has returned to the original 1850 manuscript of the work, which is in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków, to reveal Schumann?s original thoughts for the first time in a modern Urtext edition. The edition reflects Schumann?s original conception of the work as a Concertstück and restores Schumann?s musical text, free of posthumous interventions. It is presented in a beautifully printed edition for cello, with Schumann?s original piano reduction. Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. ?My ultimate wish,? says the editor, ?is to give performers both access to, and confidence that they are playing from, an edition which is a true representation of the piece in its original form, no matter how much more difficult this might be. I found that incorporating the changes enabled the piece to take on a completely different character ? one that is lighter and happier, even ?cheerful?, as Schumann himself described the work.?

World Famous Folksongs contient 22 airs traditionnels en provenance du monde entier (Oh! Susannah ? Donna Donna ? Mexican Hat Dance ? Sur le pont d?Avignon ? Cielito Lindo ? Sakura etc.). / [CD inclus - version intégrale play-along]. / La version papier des accompagnements de piano est vendue séparément.

World Famous Folksongs contient 22 airs traditionnels en provenance du monde entier (Oh! Susannah ? Donna Donna ? Mexican Hat Dance ? Sur le pont d?Avignon ? Cielito Lindo ? Sakura etc.). / [CD inclus - version intégrale + play-along]. / La version papier des accompagnements de piano est vendue séparément.

World Famous Folksongs contient 22 airs traditionnels en provenance du monde entier (Oh! Susannah ? Donna Donna ? Mexican Hat Dance ? Sur le pont d?Avignon ? Cielito Lindo ? Sakura etc.). / [CD inclus - version intégrale + play-along]. / La version papier des accompagnements de piano est vendue séparément.

World Famous Folksongs contient 22 airs traditionnels en provenance du monde entier (Oh! Susannah ? Donna Donna ? Mexican Hat Dance ? Sur le pont d?Avignon ? Cielito Lindo ? Sakura etc.). / [CD inclus - version intégrale + play-along]. / La version papier des accompagnements de piano est vendue séparément.