Advanced Piano

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...

The work, which the composer counts among her favourite pieces, was inspired by the life and work of Marguerite Duras. In her play of the same name, a Flemish woman goes to Saigon at the beginning of...

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 a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

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...

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...

aus op. 2 Vier Klavierstücke

aus op. 11 Vier Rhapsodien

This volume reproduces directly from an authoritative Russian edition the famous cycle of solo piano works that comprises a summa of Liszt's pianistic achievement.