Intermediate Piano

The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss was wholly influenced by 19th-century tradition. Logically, it was the examination of the examples of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann which character...

In our popular 'Cadenza' series, we present cadenzas of well-known instrumental concertos from the classical and romantic periods which were composed by outstanding composers and soloists of our time....

Nino Rota is known primarily for his film scores such as Godfather, La dolce vita, Il Gattopardo, etc. As well as instrumental concertos, Rota also wrote Concerto per orchestra (also under the titles...

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Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, As?k Veysel (1891-1973), was one of the last great Turkish balladeers and the final link in a thousand-year...

The Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series presents sophisticated piano transcriptions of well-known past and present works. The art of transcription and paraphrase, particularly established by Franz Lis...

Both waltzes are based on the famous musical cryptogram B-A-C-H and were created in 1975. The very same year, Nino Rota was asked by Federico Fellini, who was just shooting the film Casanova, to write...

This arrangement of Organ Fantasia BWV 572 for piano solo is an excellent addition to your piano library. Arranged by Vyacheslav Gryaznov for intermediate to advanced players, this high baroque piece...

Faz?l Say, to whom the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights was awarded in 2016, reflects on the events in Istanbul in May / June 2013 in his cycle Gezi Park. Gezi Park 3, first composed as...

Eingebettet in atmosphärische Beschreibungen der quirligen Ägäis-Metropole finden sich mit türkischem Kolorit angereicherte Porträts von Chopin, Brahms und Rachmaninow: alle drei Hommage-Sätze zitiere...

Ethnically inspired, these thirty variations blossom from an epically anthem-like theme which was originally the piano soloist's introduction to my symphonic poem commemorating the thirteen centuries...

Mit 'Seventeen Trances of the Pomegranate Tree' setzt Xuntian He seine Reihe aus Kompositionen für Klavier fort, die sich von keiner kulturellen oder akademischen Tradition Fesseln anlegen lassen will...

After Johann Sebastian Bach, Martin Stadtfeld now devotes himself to George Frideric Handel: For Händel Variations he arranged famous compositions from different creative phases of the baroque master...

The piano gods of my youth were Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, both mysterious, enchanting. While I only knew Lipatti from his records, I was able to see Clara Haskil live in concert twice, in Burgdor...

Kompositionsauftrag von Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lissabon, National Cen...

Die Aufgabe, für die jungen Teilnehmer des Mendelssohn Wettbewerbs ein Klavierstück zu schreiben, war eine aufregende Herausforderung für mich. Und schon ganz am Anfang, als ich selber am Klavier Insp...

The New Life Sonata by composer and pianist Fazil Say is a work of hope that describes the process in which the traces of the Corona pandemic, which has affected the whole world and brought life to a...

Mit Posuo Pishon setzt Xuntian He seine Reihe aus Kompositionen für Klavier fort, die sich von keiner kulturellen oder akademischen Tradition Fesseln anlegen lassen will. Weder der westlichen noch der...