Durand-Salabert-Eschig-Instrumental Series

This volume offers a selection of original pieces and transcriptions for cello and piano from the best repertoire by Camille Saint-Saëns. Saint-Saëns' many sources of inspiration for the cello can be...

Tristorosa is one of Villa-Lobos's earliest piano compositions. It is a waltz in a popular style of the day, and has a sentimental tone, colored with Chopinesque figures. Appropriate for the early adv...

This volume offers a selection of original pieces and transcriptions of the time never before published as a collection. These transcriptions, published by Durand from 1928, were very much in demand w...

These early works include Ravel's Sonatina, Gaspard de la Nuit, Menuet sur le nome de Hadyn, and three rarely performed fragments for solo piano transcribed by the composer from his ballet Daphnis et...

These later piano pieces of Ravel's are notable for their abandonment of an impressionistic approach to writing. Many pay homage to composers Ravel admired: Borodin, Chabrier and Couperin.

Claude Debussy was a great admirer of Chopin's music, and oversaw these editions for Durand in 1915. Includes a brief introduction by Debussy and a historical article.

Frederic Chopin's Valses. Revision by Claude Debussy for solo Piano.

Composed in 1949-1950, these études represent Messiaens' period of composition when he focused on rhythm and duration. The score includes a very detailed analysis by the composer. Advanced level.

The musical creativity of Bonnal (1880-1944), a disciple of Fauré, often draws on literature or poetry, though it can also arise from an intimate feeling that is biographical in nature or from his own...

Includes 3 Fantaisies or Caprices, Op. 16 - Fantaisie, Op. 28, 3 Caprices, Op. 33.

Contents: Des heures passent... , Op. 1 - Conte la Poupée - Petit canon perpétuel - Rustiques, Op. 5 - Suite, Op. 14 - Sonatine, Op. 16 - Valse du Festin de l'Araignée - L'accueil des Muses - Doute......

Three works composed on the name of Haydn for the first centenary of his death in 1909. Includes: Hommage Haydn (Debussy) - Prélude élégiaque (Dukas) - Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (Ravel).

Includes 6 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35 - Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 - 6 Pièces enfantines, Op. 72.