Nikolai Kapustin first composed the Sinfonietta op. 49 for orchestra. He later arranged the popular four-handed piano version for a concert in the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. It is written at an...
Selezionato per gli allievi dei primi anni di lezioni di pianoforte, questo volume contiene 50 composizioni dal barocco al primo Novecento, da Pachelbel a Grechaninov. Sono incluse anche sonate e sona...
In questa edizione, Silvestrov ha raccolto per la prima volta cinque cicli da una moltitudine di "Bagatellen", il suo genere preferito negli ultimi anni - e li ha anche registrati su CD (ECM). Ciò che...
Both waltzes are based on the famous musical cryptogram B-A-C-H and were created in 1975. The very same year, Nino Rota was asked by Federico Fellini, who was just shooting the film Casanova, to write...
8 Concert Studies is one of the most popular works by Kapustin. Composed in 1984, the studies show Kapustin's wide-ranging and inventive composition style. In each study, the pianist faces various, of...
In diesem Band der Reihe 'Klassische Meisterwerke zum Kennenlernen' wird das großartige Werk Karneval der Tiere von Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) in leichter Bearbeitung für Klavier vorgestellt. Dar...
Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) was a major star on Polish State Radio in the 1930s. In September 1939, during a live broadcast, he was perfoming Chopin's Nocture in C Sharp Minow when the sudio was bo...
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) received his first music lessons from his father and later became a pupil of the famous Antonio Lotti. His oeuvre first and foremost includes operas and oratorios, but h...
G. I. Gurdjieff, geboren im Kaukasus an der Grenze zwischen Armenien und der Türkei, entwickelte eine philosophische Lehre, die zwischen dem esoterischen Wissen des Ostens und dem wissenschaftlichen D...
Il movimento finale della Sonata in La maggiore KV 331 di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, il Rondò Alla Turca, è uno dei brani pianistici più famosi in assoluto. Un tempo riservato a tutti gli intenditori di...
Se c'è un'opera in cui il nome del compositore Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) è destinato a vivere, questa è senza dubbio il suo canone. Quest'opera estremamente elaborata e allo stesso tempo tonalmente...
This 'Fantasia in G' was only recently discovered among the last manuscripts to be examined in the Nino Rota archive in Venice. Together with the '15 Preludes' (ED 9386), it is one of the few works by...
Originally published in Jazz in Autumn, this well-loved traditional tune is given a jazzy twist, with rich harmonies and free-flowing rhythms.
The official sheet music edition of the same-named CD album 'Piano Songbook' (Sony Classical). Includes arrangements and fantasies of popular works, ranging from baroque to romantic as well as own com...