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Eugene List, who premiered this work in New York as 'the most difficult composition I have ever tackled. It is a piece of immense rhythmic complexity, great technical difficulty and unrelenting thrust...

> One of Ravel's best-known piano pieces > Technically and musically charming genre scene > Single edition from HN842 In his 'Autobiographical Sketch' Ravel looks back and stresses the importance of h...

This German-born composer and conductor came to the United States at the outbreak of World War II when he was just 11. He studied with Walter Piston, Paul Hindemith and Aaron Copland among others and...

This piece was written in homage to the great pianist Artur Rubenstein towards the end of his life when he lent his name to the 'Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition'. Rubenstein,...

The composer's aim in his work was to 'blend elements of contrapuntal invention with more virtuosic and imaginative Piano writing'. Composed in 1983, it is a 'Lisztian-Ravelian wash of virtuoso pianis...

This piece introduces a novel idea, the player is requested to sit at two Pianos, placed at right angles and tuned a quarter-tone away from each other. Several other modern rhythmic and pedalling tech...

For both listening and playing along, these accompaniments add a new dimension to the student's practice and performance enjoyment and also provide an invaluable tool for teaching rhythms and tempos....

Schubert komponierte seine große A-Dur-Sonate wenige Monate vor seinem frühen Tod 1828. Sie gilt in ihrer Ausgewogenheit von lyrischer Melodik, innigem Empfinden und pianistischer Brillanz, nicht zule...

Widor's name is so closely associated with organ music that his extensive output for other instruments is easily overlooked. Within chamber music, the Suite for flute and piano, probably written in 18...

In the 19th century, Nicolò Paganini was the embodiment of the virtuoso. Many composers used his musical themes for their own creative work. Johannes Brahms likewise did not hesitate to use a work by...

Scriabin's Tenth Sonata was composed at the same time as the two Sonatas Nos. 8 and 9 in winter 1912/13. It was probably finished at the latest in June 1913. According to Leonid Sabanejev's reminiscen...