Advanced Piano

Die Rosenkavalier-Fantasie über das berühmte Schluss-Duett der Oper stammt aus der Feder des 1882 in Melbourne geborenen Percy Aldridge Grainger. 1895 kam Grainger als Wunderkind nach Europa, gastiert...

These 24 preludes and 17 etudes-tableaux include what are possibly Rachmaninoff's finest compositions for solo Piano. Reproduced from authoritative Russian editions, Serge Rachmaninoff: Complete Prelu...

Seventy-Six popular compositions of the masters including themes from concertos and symphonies arranged for solo piano. Suitable for pianists from grade 5 standard. Edited by Hugo Frey.

In the following exercises, I have endeavoured to collect material in a complete, yet condensed form which should help piano students to acquire reliable playing technique. They are even well-suited f...

Written between 1854-1925. Fifteen virtuosic exercises for the advanced pianist.

Scriabin's third piano sonata is an early composition that was still fully written in the romantic tradition. For a long time it has been part of the core piano literature - and rightly so. In additio...

Schumann's great C-major Fantasy, op. 17, was originally intended to be published as a 'Sonata for Beethoven' entitled 'Ruins, Trophies, Palms. Grand Sonata.' Although he eventually abandoned this pla...

Chopin's Piano Concertos first saw the light of day around 1829/1830 and thus represent the culmination and termination of his student years in Warsaw. Both concertos are early masterpieces with which...

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...

Beethoven's '33 Variations on a waltz by A. Diabelli', composed between 1819 and 1823, are his most significant contribution to the genre. The notice announcing the publication of the first edition ap...

Schubert composed the Wandererfantasie in November 1822. Though generally designated as a year of crisis, an entire series of Schubert's important works were created precisely at this time, when the W...

Bach's death meant that the Art of Fugue was left unfinished. In his father's manuscriptCarl Philipp Emanuel noted exactly where the last fugue of the Art of Fugue broke off: 'While working on this fu...

This rousing Polonaise, which is preceded by a nocturne-like Andante, was originally a work for piano and orchestra. It was written at the same time as Chopin's two piano concertos in e minor and f mi...

11 note-for-note transcriptions right off the iconic 1962 piano album by Peterson.

The much needed transcription book of a jazz genius. Mulgrew, a true jazz giant and legend, left us way too early but left behind an enduring legacy of famous recordings. This book includes 8 note-for...

The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Faz?l Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, an...

Twentieth-century arrangements from choral and instrumental works - Seventeen contrasting Bach transcriptions originally published separately by OUP from 1925 to 1954 - Pieces carefully selected by M...

The beautiful melody from this all-time favorite orchestral piece flows above the lush chords to begin this work, and intertwines with additional themes throughout, creating a full arrangement true to...

This volume contains 12 famous works by Debussy as edited and performed by Joseph Banowetz. A complete preface describing compositional and performance notes on each piece is included along with a Onl...

The most widely used piano technique book ever written, The Virtuoso Pianist was designed to develop agility and strength in all the fingers as well as flexibility of the wrists. Exercises are sequenc...

Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris' Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie, or even Kodály!...

Diese Neuausgabe löst die bestehende Ausgabe (BA 5634) ab. Schuberts B-Dur-Sonate entstand 1828 und ist wahrscheinlich das letzte Instrumentalwerk überhaupt, das er fertigstellte. Die von Walburga Lit...

Brahms' vivacious 'Rhapsodies' op. 79 of 1879 are among his most frequently played works. He had a hard time finding a suitable title for them, vacillating between 'Piano Piece', 'Capriccio' (No. 1) a...

In 1929, Olivier Messiaen finished composing his Préludes. The first original work for piano of a twenty-one-year-old composer, it would be the first to be included in his official catalogue. This col...