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Più di 20 anni dopo l'op. 52, Saint-Saëns si dedicò nuovamente al genere dello studio da concerto. Nel 1892 scrisse uno studio inizialmente destinato alla pubblicazione su una rivista e che in seguito...

Saint-Saëns' etudes for the left hand were written in 1912 at the request of his pianist friend Caroline Montigny-Rémaury de Serres, who had suffered an injury to her right hand. These etudes which we...

... Passerà molto tempo prima che qualcuno migliori radicalmente questo testo musicale e l'apparato critico che lo accompagna!. (Leslie Howard). Con la sua edizione delle sonate per pianoforte di Beet...

Mozarts Werke für Klavier zu vier Händen gehören zu den wichtigsten Beiträgen dieses Repertoires. In der vorliegenden, auf der 'Neuen Mozart-Ausgabe' basierenden kritisch-praktischen Urtext-Edition gi...

Mit seinen zwischen 1914 und 1916 komponierten 'Douze Préludes' op. 36 und 'Trois Nocturnes' op. 35 knüpft Vierne an die romantische Klaviertradition an, lässt die historischen Modelle freilich in jen...

No genre reflects Skrjabin's artistic evolution more vividly than his piano sonatas. Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 and 8 which are presented in this edition were written between 1911 and 1913, at times contempora...

Auslöser für den 1874 komponierten Klavierzyklus 'Bilder einer Ausstellung' war die im gleichen Jahr veranstaltete Gedächtnisausstellung für den 1873 verstorbenen und mit dem Komponisten befreundeten...

Nach Schuberts bereits im großzügigen Neustich vorliegenden 'Moments Musicaux' (BA9647) und 'Impromptus' (BA9648) erscheinen nun auch seine späten Klavierstücke in einer modernen Ansprüchen genügenden...

Meilenstein der Klavierliteratur Liszts 1854 erschienener Sonate in h-Moll kommt innerhalb der Gattung Klaviersonate überragende Bedeutung zu. Bärenreiter legt das Werk - nach wie vor pianistische Her...

Beethoven's 'Diabelli Variations', written between 1819 and 1823, mark the pinnacle of his oeuvre for variations and next to Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' form one of the most important contributions t...

L'opera, che la compositrice annovera tra i suoi pezzi preferiti, è ispirata alla vita e all'opera di Marguerite Duras. Nell'omonima opera teatrale, una donna fiamminga si reca a Saigon all'inizio del...

Between 1995 and 2003 the composer York Höller from Cologne created 14 highly demanding piano pieces which are not only tone pictures, but also compositional reflections on persons personally close to...

For her concerts marking the anniversary of '50 Years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel' the pianist Heidrun Holtmann asked several authors to write compositions. Being under the impr...

Was sein Titel verspricht, hält das metrisch frei notierte, vierminütige Stück mit post-impressionistischer Spieltechnik und Klanglichkeit. Die türkisch-österreichische Pianistin Seda Röder nahm es in...

In una tranquilla e del tutto convenzionale barcarola alla Chopin o alla Tchaikovsky suonano inquietanti campanelli d'allarme, prima di essere definitivamente brutalizzati (rivelando come fonte il tem...

What if the probably most popular symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff were rewritten as a piece for piano and orchestra? This was the idea behind the 'adaptation' of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 into his...

Variations from the Golden Mountain was commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the partial support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffman, a Swiss grant making foundation. It was first perfo...

These four short pieces, though simple on the surface, all give glimpses in miniature of the technical ideas which characterise Birtwistle's larger works. Ostinato with Melody, dedicated to Boulez on...

Composer's note:When pianist Inon Barnatan asked me to write him a new work, he had a particular stipulation: that I somehow connect my piece with Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit, which he would program al...

I 3 brani per pianoforte di Roland Szentpális costituiscono un trittico pianistico dedicato a Henrik Szőcs, che coniuga virtuosismo e fantasia sonora. Attraverso tre quadri musicali contrastanti, il c...

I 3 brani per pianoforte di Roland Szentpális costituiscono un trittico pianistico dedicato a Henrik Szőcs, che coniuga virtuosismo e fantasia sonora. Attraverso tre quadri musicali contrastanti, il c...

A sumptuous selection of the very best Keyboard music of the late Romantic era by composers ranging from Tchaikovsky to Faure and beyond, all presented in one superb volume for the solo Piano. The mu...

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