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Mendelssohn's wonderful Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream musically represents various characters in Shakespeare's play. This edition is based on the duet manuscript dated 1829, which is housed in...

The Six Easy Pieces arranged by German composer, conductor, and organist Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748--1798) are inspired by the original vocal/orchestral score of The Magic Flute. These pieces are i...

This sonata for two pianos, four hands was written in 1781 for performance by Mozart and Josephine von Aurnhammer, one of his finest students. The first and third movements are fast and brilliant, con...

Debussy verbindet seine '12 Préludes' des ersten Heftes nicht durch ein tonartliches Schema, sondern durch eine Kette assoziativer Mottos oder Titel, die er den Stücken jeweils am Ende folgen lässt un...

Three years after the publication of the first volume, the second volume of Debussy's Préludes was published in 1913. Here the music reflects the impressions of Stravinsky's music on the composer. In...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano piece 'Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este' that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: 'Jeux d'eau'. Laid out in sonata form, its sound is gove...

In Faurés Gesamtwerk ist die Klaviermusik von zentraler Bedeutung. Seine 1879 entstandene 'Ballade' widmete er seinem Lehrer Camille Saint-Saëns. Sowohl durch ihren lyrischen Charakter als auch in for...

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...

Faurés vier 'Valses-Caprices'(1882/83-1894) (BA10843) spiegeln verschiedene Formen seiner Auseinandersetzung mit dem Walzer in Verbindung mit der freien Form der Caprice. Anregungen für seine 'Valses-...

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...

> Scholarly-critical Urtext edition based on the latest research findings > Enlightening Introduction and notes on period performance practice (Eng/Ger) > Well-presented engraving > Practical page tur...

> Scholarly-critical Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship > New readings > Based on an evaluation of all available sources > Reader-friendly layout and practical page turns > Informative...

Mit Fingersatz und Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Paul Badura-Skoda

Chopin's "Berceuse" is one of his most frequently performed works and was regarded by subsequent composers as the prototype of the instrumental lullaby. This piece that Chopin initially named "Variant...

In 1845/46 Chopin composed his bel canto inspired 'Barcarolle' in F-sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and partly even...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unpara...

Fauré composed his 5 impromptus in two distinct periods of his career, in 1881-83 and 1906-09. Inspired by Chopin's example, the brilliant early impromptus (opp. 25, 31 and 34) resemble lyrical études...

This piano sonata was still considered to be by Mendelssohn Bartholdy when it was recorded by Eric Heidsieck in 1972. It was not until 2010, almost 200 years after its composition in 1828, that musico...

More than 20 years after op. 52, Saint-Saëns turned once more to the genre of the concert etude. In 1892, he wrote an etude that was initially intended for publication in a magazine and later was to b...

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...

… A lot of time will pass before someone fundamentally improves this musical text and the accompanying critical apparatus! (Leslie Howard). With his edition of Beethoven's piano sonatas, Jonathan Del...

Aria with (30) different changes. Fourth part of the piano exercise. Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Harpsichord / Piano - Performance score

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...