Advanced Piano

Roslawez (1880-1944) studied composition and violin in Moscow. He was one of the leading figures in musical life in the 1920s. Later increasingly marginalised by the political regime to the point wher...

Carl Orffs berühmtes, auf einer Sammlung mittelalterlicher Texte basierendes Werk in einer Klavierversion von Eric Chumachenco. Diese Transkription ist kein Klavierauszug; was Vokalsolisten und Chor s...

Viktor Ullmann presented his cycle of variations on the fourth of the well-known Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 by his teacher Arnold Schoenberg in three versions at once - for piano, for string quart...

Ein wuchtiges altes Stadttor, wiedergegeben durch einen kraftvollen Hymnus mit Glockenschlägen - wer kennt Das große Tor von Kiew aus Mussorgskys Werk Bilder einer Ausstellung nicht? Der französische...

István Szelényi (1904 - 1972) studied with Kodály and later taught composition at the Budapest conservatory. His output consists mainly of pieces written for teaching purposes, including works for you...

Alles klingt hier zunächst ganz leicht. Die Töne hüpfen durch- und übereinander wie von einem Zauberer beschworen. Doch so ganz glatt läuft es nicht, hier und da hakt es, Noten kommen sich in die Quer...

This intriguing concertino links the different stylistic idioms of Impressionism and Jazz and is extremely memorable and worthwhile. A recording based on this edition with Michael Rische as soloist is...

Despite its seemingly sparse texture, this is a large-scale, virtuosic concerto in an expressive tonal idiom, full of memorable rhythmic detail. It waspremiered in 1992, 32 years after its composition...

Shchedrin, son of a composer and music teacher, underwent a thorough musical training in Moscow. His versatility and dazzling competence across a wide variety of musical genres are surely a result of...

Der erste Band dieser Reihe enthält die wegen ihrer Virtuosität berüchtigte sogenannte 'Donau-Arabeske' des polnischen Pianisten Adolf Schulz-Evler, in deren geradezu genialer Einleitung das berühmtes...

Ich schrieb diese kleine Paraphrase der Gavotte aus Bachs Partita in E-dur vor zwanzig Jahren. Eigentlich ist sie eine Art doppelte Hommage: auf der einen Seite ist es natürlich ein Tribut an J. S. Ba...

Early on in his remarkable career as a concert pianist Glenn Gould composed a few works of his own: a String Quartet (ED 8764), Piano Pieces (ED 8319) and the Sonata in two movements presented here. W...

Glenn Gould's transcriptions of the Siegfried Idyll, Morning Mist and Siegfried's Journey along the Rhine from Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen are already legendary as recordings. The Siegfrie...

With the prelude to the Mastersingers we now publish the second of three Wagner transcriptions already made legendary by Gould's 1973 recording. Gould brought Wagner's 'brilliant counterpoint' to life...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most prominent composers for piano of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the first performances o...