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Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy (1800-1880 Paris) was a French pianist, composer and professor of piano at the Conservatoire de Paris. His overall oeuvre comprises more than 300 works. He is known particulary...

The title may be read as an indication of the key and genre, on the one hand, but also as an allusion to a slightly depressive mood, on the other hand. Mozart's Piano Sonata in A minor which may have...

In the last scene of Wagner's opera 'The Valkyrie', Wotan, the father of the gods, punishes his daughter Brünnhilde for her disobedience. He wants to curse her to a deep sleep for her to be helplessly...

The music of small forms was to become the focus of the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). In 1874, after many years spent in the 'provinces', the teacher of Camille Saint-Saëns took the posit...

This is a highly virtuosic piano piece with alternating metres and miniature rhythmic elements which are abstract representations of traditional Turkish rhythms.

Building on the tradition of the piano study championed by Chopin, Liszt and Scriabin, Debussy composed his Douze Études in 1915, dedicated 'à la mémoire de Frédéric Chopin'. Each taking a small compo...

Dances of Our Time is a unique collection of new solo piano music featuring a kaleidoscopic array of international piano repertoire of the present day. Prominent composers from 26 countries have contr...

Tim Richards présente - pour la première fois en français ! - les différents aspects harmoniques, rythmiques et mélodiques du blues. L'album se compose de plus de 30 pièces et contient les très célèbr...

The anthology 'Klangspuren' by Barbara Heller contains 76 works for piano which have been written for the Barbara Heller Piano Competition. Each title has its own personal message: Music can show an i...

Die Sammlung Klangspuren von Barbara Heller umfasst 76 Klavierwerke, die für den Barbara Heller-Klavierwettbewerb entstanden sind. Jeder Titel hat seine persönliche Aussage: Die Musik kann ein Bild au...

Maurice Béjart's great admiration for the films of Federico Fellini and their accompanying music prompted the French choreographer to seek the opportunity to collaborate with composer Nino Rota who re...

PianoMotions is the new virtuoso series for advanced pianists looking for a kick concertante. Matthias Dobler's arrangements make use of the entire range of the piano and captivate with a powerful exp...

Like Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, 'Two Sad Poems' are dedicated to 'the memory of an angel': in this case to the highly gifted violist Helena Maria Maas who died in 1980 at a very early age. To expre...

Naji Hakim (*1955), French composer of Lebanese descent, not only writes pieces for his principal instrument, the organ; even his piano works are characterized by many different sources, his major sou...

The Sonata is one of Erkin's works which the casual listener may fail to attribute to a particular geography at a first hearing. He will however become absorbed by a unique sense of identity, surprisi...

The 'Preludio' presents soft melodies, colourful harmonies and delicate passages while the 'Fuga' captivates both the performer and the audience with its passionate samba-rumba style and its nods to t...

Under the title of 'Fantasies', this edition presents the four pieces Las brisas, Seven Sisters Ballade, Romance and Prelude à Géométrie Variable from the years 1996 to 2013.As always with works by Em...

Mit seinem Werk für Klavier solo stellt Thierry Pécou die Vitalität der Musik Kubas dar: polyphone Rhythmen, schnelle Tempi und komplexe Akkordfolgen versprühen die ausgelassene karibische Lebensfreud...

In this second album composed by top arranger Hans-Günter Heumann ('Klavierspielen - mein schönstes Hobby', 'Pianotainment') for solo piano, he takes a look at the bright and the dark sides of emotion...

I devote one movement of this work to each of the two figures. I have interpreted Nietzsche's character as energetic, painful and harsh. In contrast, the second movement 'Wagner' with its calm and med...