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This impressive early advanced piano solo begins with a two-page introductory section that is reminiscent of the late Romantic piano writing of Rachmaninoff. Large chords and low octave pedal points c...

This impressive early advanced piano solo begins with a two-page introductory section that is reminiscent of the late Romantic piano writing of Rachmaninoff. Large chords and low octave pedal points c...

This solo begins in G minor with a bold chordal fanfare and sweeping arpeggios. The following lyrical section builds to a faster scherzo-like tempo with descending broken chords over a staccato bass....

This solo begins in G minor with a bold chordal fanfare and sweeping arpeggios. The following lyrical section builds to a faster scherzo-like tempo with descending broken chords over a staccato bass....

Padre Antonio Soler (1729--1783) was a Spanish Catholic monk whose compositions span the late-Baroque and early-Classical periods. A student of Domenico Scarlatti, he wrote over 150 keyboard sonatas....

Each piece of Op. 337 consists of various sections of one to several measures, each concluded by a coda. Czerny's own instructions above the studies read: 'Each repetition should be played 20 times wi...

Perhaps Schumann's greatest large-scale piano work, the 'Fantasie' was written between 1836 and 1838 and dedicated to Franz Liszt. Intensely personal, it contains many melodic references to Schumann's...

Schumann's Symphonic Etudes is one of the most astounding musical accomplishments of the 19th century. The set consists of a theme, seven variations and a lengthy finale. This work is as significant f...

Eight contrasing pieces with descriptive titles comprise the 'Fantasy Pieces', op. 12. Although the eight pieces form a homogeneous whole, each can be played individually without loss of effect. They...

Dedicato a Gabriel Faure, Ravel prefigura questo pezzo di "poesia liquida" con un verso di Henri de Regnier: "Il dio del fiume ride dell'acqua che lo solletica". Ravel ha dichiarato che voleva che l'o...

One of Debussy's most ambitious Impressionistic sea-pieces for piano, composed in the summer of 1904 when he was visiting an island in the English Channel. Ravel called this piece 'an orchestral reduc...

These two noble and heroic rhapsodies are among Johannes Brahms's best-known works. This Alfred edition is based on the composer's personal copies of the first edition. Dr. Hinson offers valuable perf...

Two Scriabin compositions are presented here for performance by the left hand only, with performance notes and practice suggestions included. For pianists of advanced proficiency these will represent...

In this edition, Palmer provides fingering and offers suggestions for the performance of ornaments and other markings as revealed through the study of original sources. The introductory material inclu...

Mozart composed only two sonatas in minor keys and it has been suggested that the dark quality of this A minor sonata was influenced by events surrounding the death of Mozart's mother. The three movem...

Written in 1911, this piece was Bartok's first large-scale independent piano composition, and the first time he used the piano this percussively. There are many shifts in moods and dynamics from ppp t...

Rachmaninoff presents here a humorous musical play for the piano which will display a great variety of touches, dynamics and tempos. The composer's own performance of this piece displays a great range...

Maurice Hinson's Masterwork Edition of Liszt's perhaps best-known Hungarian Rhapsody contains historic information and performance notes, as well as alternate cadenzas and ossia notations.

Debussy non collega i suoi "12 Préludes" del primo volume con uno schema tonale, ma con una catena di motti o titoli associativi che lascia alla fine di ogni brano e che possono dare un'indicazione de...

Tre anni dopo la pubblicazione del primo volume, nel 1913 apparve il secondo volume dei Préludes di Debussy, che rifletteva l'impressione della musica di Stravinskij. Nella sua nuova edizione Urtext,...

Fu inconfondibilmente l'opera pianistica di Liszt "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" a ispirare Ravel a scrivere una delle sue opere più famose nel 1901. Il brano è formalmente concepito in forma di s...

Il ciclo di "Valses nobles et sentimentales" di Ravel suscitò irritazione alla prima anonima del 1911 alla Société nationale indépendante di Parigi: molti sospettarono che il compositore fosse Satie o...

La musica per pianoforte riveste un'importanza centrale nell'opera di Fauré. Dedicò la sua "Ballata", composta nel 1879, al suo maestro Camille Saint-Saëns. Essa rompe con la forma epica del genere si...

I "13 Barcarolles" di Fauré, composti nell'arco di quasi quattro decenni (1882-1921), sono altamente rappresentativi della sua opera pianistica e sono considerati i suoi lavori più caratteristici. Ess...