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Bärenreiter führt die Urtext-Edition von Beethovens sämtlichen Klaviersonaten mit einem weiteren wichtigen Beitrag fort. Die viel gespielten Sonaten op. 2 Nr. 1, 2 und 3 entstanden in der Zeit, als de...

The much-performed sonatas op. 2 nos. 1, 2 and 3 were written at the time when the young composer was taking lessons from Joseph Haydn in Vienna and are dedicated to him. After the three youthful sona...

This new edition replaces the existing edition (BA 5634). Schubert's Sonata in B flat major was composed in 1828 and is probably the last instrumental work he ever completed. The Urtext edition, edite...

Schubert composed his great A major Sonata a few months before his early death in 1828. With its balance of lyrical melody, intimate feeling and pianistic brilliance, not least thanks to its poetic "A...

As early evidence of Schubert's preoccupation with early music, his Fantasy in C D 2 E from 1811 contains echoes of Mozart's C minor Fantasy, while the virtuoso Graz Fantasy in C D 605 A, probably com...

Schumann's Arabeske and Blumenstück were composed during his stay in Vienna from October 1838 to April 1839 in the context of weightier piano works such as the C major Fantasy op. 17, the Humoreske op...

Schubert's great C minor Sonata D 958 was composed in 1828, a few months before his death, at the same time as the late sonatas in A D 959 and in B flat D 960. The three works, conceived by Schubert a...

The most famous of the fantasies, the Wanderer Fantasy, is also published as a single edition. When Schubert himself once played the Wanderer Fantasy with friends and faltered, he exclaimed impatientl...

The significance of Liszt's late piano pieces has been the subject of much debate. On the one hand they are considered heralds of the elderly Liszt's waning inspiration; on the other hand, they are pr...

There has been much debate about the significance of Liszt's late piano pieces. On the one hand, they are regarded as harbingers of the ageing Liszt's fading inspiration; on the other, they are praise...

The Fantasia in F minor op. 103 - D 940 which was completed in April 1828, the last year of Schubert's life, was followed in May by the equally popular Allegro in A minor op. post. 144 - D 947 and in...

With a clever play on the words 'Ancient Modes', Graham Buckland presents eight character pieces for piano duet which effectively portray various mythical modes of transport and at the same time are b...

Graham Buckland brings mythical scenes to life, always with a focus on locomotion: One hears the flowing of the swimmers of Gilf Kebir (known from the movie "The English Patient"), the three-beat of t...

With its impressive range of gentle shades and hues, this composition plays with memories of Franz Liszt’s late piano pieces La lugubre gondola I and II. Manfred Trojahn likewise presents subdued melo...

This effective, demanding work for piano solo captivates through its changes between twirling cascades and oases of tranquillity whereby the irridescent development focuses on central reference tones....

This effective, demanding work for piano solo captivates through its changes between twirling cascades and oases of tranquillity whereby the irridescent development focuses on central reference tones....

The composer Thomas Daniel Schlee writes about his piano piece "Sursum chordis corda": "The third movement of my Second Symphony bears the title "Sursum corda", that liturgical call to lift up our hea...

The title of this piano work, written on the occasion of Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday, refers to the American painter Barnett Newman, one of the abstract expressionists of the 20th century. In his fa...

This pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's 'Sonate pour piano' (1950-52) is the first to present this masterpiece from the heyday of serialism in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition. The new edition o...

The pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's "Sonate pour piano" (1950-1952) is the first time that a work from the heyday of serial music has been made available in a source-critical Urtext edition. The...

Lauschgut (2018/19) follows the idea of freeing the piano from its chordal tradition. Instead, the single note is fringed so far inwards that pitch and noise can meet in "fanned-out unanimity". The pi...

Zsigmond Szathmáry was deeply impressed by the vibrant colors and expressiveness of the mosaic paintings in the apse and altar area of the late antique church of San Vitale in Ravenna. The composer wa...