Klassische Klavierstücke

I believe - without false vanity - that these three pieces will do well and take their place in the piano literature ... to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ... as you like it, Debussy w...

I believe - without false vanity - that these three pieces will do well and take their place in the piano literature ... to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ... as you like it, Debussy w...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano work "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" that inspired Ravel to write one of his most famous works in 1901. The piece is formally conceived as a sonata form, dominated...

Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...

Beethoven had promised his Horn Sonata op. 17 to one of the most famous horn players of his time, Johann Wenzel. Although, according to an anecdote from his pupil, he only composed the sonata on the d...

Piano music is of central importance in Fauré's oeuvre. He dedicated his "Ballade", composed in 1879, to his teacher Camille Saint-Saëns. It breaks with the epic form of the genre both through its lyr...

Fauré's '13 Barcarolles', composed over a period of almost four decades (1882-1921), are highly representative of his piano oeuvre and are considered his most characteristic works. They reflect his mo...

Fauré's four "Valses-Caprices" (1882/83-1894) (BA 10843) reflect various forms of his exploration of the waltz in connection with the free form of the caprice. The composer therefore received inspirat...

Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' remain a fundamental challenge for every harpsichordist and pianist to this day. The fact that Bach intended the work to be performed on a two-manual harpsichord poses a p...

Mit seinen im Sommer 1913 entstandenen parodistischen Klavierstücken über allerlei Seegetier - mit dem grotesken Titel 'Vertrocknete Embryos' machte sich Satie einmal mehr über sich und die Musikwelt...

The atmospheric cycle "Penultimate Thoughts" from 1915 belongs to the type of Satie's "story pieces" with underlying text phrases. The curious playing instructions of the three miniatures based on ost...

Beethoven's Sonata in C minor, his first great sonata and exemplary for the type of characteristic sonata of the late 18th century, has lost none of its fascination to this day due to its passionate p...

The Sonata in F minor op. 57 (1804/05) was not given the nickname "Appassionata" until 1838, long after Beethoven's death. Jonathan Del Mar now offers an Urtext edition whose principles are revealed i...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

Beethoven's final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment...

Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have always exerted a great fascination. With the Sonata op. 109, composed in 1820, Beethoven opens the door to the future - through the highest expressivity, the...

The two sonatas op. 14, written in the immediate vicinity of the "Pathétique", Beethoven's great C minor sonata op. 13 (BA 10851), are among the composer's easiest sonatas and are an indispensable par...

Composed in 1803/04, Beethoven's Sonata in C major op. 53 marks his move towards a large-scale, symphonic piano movement. The highly virtuosic work, which Beethoven dedicated to his friend and patron...

> Urtext performance edition at the cutting edge of scholarship > Optimal page turns > Informative Introduction > Valuable suggestions on period performance practice (Eng/Ger) > Detailed Critical Comm...

The three popular sonatas op. 10 were composed between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only a short time after Beethoven's first complete sonata oeuvre op. 2. They were heralded in the pres...

There is hardly a piano pupil who would not have played Beethoven's two sonatas op. 49, both of which are described as "Sonate facile", in his early years. The works are not only technically easy, but...

Bärenreiter führt die Urtext-Edition von Beethovens sämtlichen Klaviersonaten mit einem weiteren wichtigen Beitrag fort. Die viel gespielten Sonaten op. 2 Nr. 1, 2 und 3 entstanden in der Zeit, als de...

The much-performed sonatas op. 2 nos. 1, 2 and 3 were written at the time when the young composer was taking lessons from Joseph Haydn in Vienna and are dedicated to him. After the three youthful sona...

This new edition replaces the existing edition (BA 5634). Schubert's Sonata in B flat major was composed in 1828 and is probably the last instrumental work he ever completed. The Urtext edition, edite...

Schubert composed his great A major Sonata a few months before his early death in 1828. With its balance of lyrical melody, intimate feeling and pianistic brilliance, not least thanks to its poetic "A...