Klassische Klavierstücke

Liszt's Funérailles is a broadly conceived, virtuoso funeral march that has found a permanent place in the repertoire of all great pianists while remaining within the reach of talented amateurs. This...

Handel and fugues? The connection is not the first thing to cross our minds when we think of baroque keyboard music. Yet Handel, besides writing keyboard fugues as parts of larger works, also turned o...

Thanks to its variety and playfulness, the so-called 'Gastein Sonata' is one of Schubert's most effective essays in the genre, posing considerable demands on technique while always lying well under th...

This 'little' D-major sonata is somewhat the pansy (or violet?) among Mozart's eighteen piano sonatas. It is 'little' in dimensions when compared to the two other sonatas in the same key of D major (K...

For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the standard starting-point for any serious study of thes...

For half a century Henle's edition of the Beethoven sonatas - the 'New Testament' of the piano repertoire - has been universally recognized as the standard starting-point for any serious study of thes...

When Liszt took over the direction of the Court Opera in Weimar, he spent a great deal of time exploring Goethe's works. He was particularly attracted to the subject-matter of Faust. He used Nikolaus...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

None other than András Schiff is collaborating with Henle Publishers for the edition of Mozart's piano concertos. His piano reductions are aimed at amateurs rather than professionals; his fingerings f...

Though the autograph has disappeared, this posthumously published waltz is a jewel of Chopin's art, effectively combining dramatic passages with outpourings of lyricism. Despite its virtuoso brillianc...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

Beethoven's three Piano sonatas op. 2 were the first works in this genre to which he gave an opus number, thus signalling to the music world the special importance that he assigned to them. He wrote t...

After composing the three Piano Sonatas op. 2 between 1794/95, Beethoven presumably planned a further trilogy without delay. Because of its enormous scope, the Grande Sonata op. 7 was removed from thi...

Catalan piano virtuoso and composer Isaac Albéniz received his musical training under Liszt, Vincent d'Indy and Paul Dukas, among others. Today's pianists mostly dedicate themselves to Albéniz's exten...

> Edition based on the autograph > Musical text is the definitive version as in Mozart's manuscript > The fifth Mozart piano concerto in our series with András Schiff< >> Orchestral material available...

The Piano Sonata op. 101 marks the transition to Beethoven's late works. The composer's increasing deafness was already manifesting itself in such a marked way that he no longer dared to appear public...

A wonderful piece, but very difficult - only a few will be able to master it ...'. Since this pronouncement by Nicolai Rubinstein, who nonetheless premièred it with bravura, the work has unjustly been...

We have begun with numbers 2 and 6: in the coming years we will be producing editions of all of Franz Liszt's 'Hungarian Rhapsodies', brilliant pianistic excesses and a favourite with all virtuosos. H...

Liszt's ninth Rhapsody is the 'Carnival at Pest' - one of the few Hungarian Rhapsodies to which he gave a name. Once again Liszt turns to Hungarian folk melodies and fuses them with improvisatory elem...

This work, in which Liszt draws on five different folk themes, is surely one of his most ingenious Hungarian Rhapsodies. It offers a unique mix of melancholy, glittering keyboard acrobatics and stormy...

The Rákóczi march is often referred to as the 'Hungarian Marseillaise'. The beginnings of this march song go back to around 1730. In the text, the Hungarians summon Franz II Rákóczi to free his people...

Beethoven only arranged one of his piano sonatas for a different instrumentation: an authentic arrangement of the Sonata op. 14 no. 1 for string quartet still exists (it is published in an appendix to...

Berg's pupil Adorno once said, 'Whoever is seriously trying to comprehend Berg's music should closely apply themselves to the eleven-page piano sonata'. It is tempting to enlarge upon this statement:...

The high opus number suggests that it is a late work, yet in reality the work comprises twenty single movements which were composed 10 to 15 years before publication. This means that they were written...