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This collection contains ten pieces, including Bach's Prelude and Fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Schubert's Moderato from Sonata D. 566 and Beethoven's Rondo from Grande Sonate Pathétique, op....

With his Variations sérieuses, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy contributed to the anthology Album-Beethoven which had been initiated by the Viennese publisher Pietro Mechetti and whose proceeds were to be...

Regarded as the highlight among Chopin's polonaises, the great Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53 has also become known as 'octave polonaise' because of the distinctive octave passages in the middle sec...

200 years ago, in the late autumn of 1817, Beethoven began the first sketches for the most monumental of his piano sonatas, the Hammerklavier Sonata op. 106. In the fall of 2017, Wiener Urtext Edition...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C major op. 53, known as the Waldstein Sonata, is one of the highlights of all piano music. The large-scale work was originally far more expansive with its extensive Andant...

Beethoven’s Sonata Les Adieux is the composer’s only piano sonata with a programmatic background. The reason for its creation was the so-called 5th coalition war, in which Napoleon’s army invaded Aust...

Beethoven himself called the composition Sonate facile oder Sonatine. Although comparatively easier to play than most of his piano sonatas, it shows all the "typical" stylistic elements, such as surpr...

The edition is supplemented with a facsimile of the autograph. As well as being a bibliophile's delight, the edition also offer the opportunity to study the composer's own manuscript in all its detail...

A tremendous work for Solo Piano dating from 1916. This is number 10 in his set of 13 Pieces. Jean Sibelius' 13 Morceaux Op. 76 were all composed between 1911 and 1919, and form a fantastic set of pi...

Piano Concerto No.3 In E Minor (Ballade) Op.60 is a tremendous work for Solo Piano and Orchestra composed by Nikolai Medtner (1879-1951), and is available here as a Two Piano Score. This work demonstr...

Alle vier Sätze sind ohne Zwischenpausen vorzutragen. Das Hauptthema besteht aus einer schönen Kantilene, deren Auszierungen typisch russische Wendungen sind. Es folgt eine energische und elegante Maz...

After the Six Fairy Tales, op. 51, this is the second Medtner edition which was revised and reprinted. The cycle Forgotten Melodies op. 39 is one of Medtner's most important works. He wrote it just be...

Die Mazurka von Sergej Liapounow (1859-1924) ist sehr fein, raffiniert und nachdenklich - ein ungewöhnliches, vielschichtiges Spielvergnügen für den Pianisten. Es ist ein eher nachdenkliches Konzertst...

The third concert etude in D-flat major from Liszt's Trois études de concert will challenge advanced pianist with its constant hand-crossings and varying number of cascading notes per measure in the a...

Nancarrow's music for player piano with acrobatic complexity that sounds hardly performable has been known for more than four decades. The traditional notation is replaced by the accurate manual punch...

With his 5 Etudes in Different Intervals op. 68, composed in 1992, Kapustin presents technically very demanding exercises based around different intervals. They have been recorded for CD by Marc-André...

The 24 Soul Etudes constitute a kaleidoscope of soulful landscapes nested in human soul's depth. These pieces are destined for pianists yearning to express their utter sensitivity and poetry in perfec...

Die 'Studies for player piano' des 1912 geborenen Amerikaners Conlon Nancarrow beweisen auf ebenso spielerische wie virtuose Art, dass der Einsatz eines mechanischen Klaviers weder zur Automatisierung...