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Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...

Piano music is of central importance in Fauré's oeuvre. He dedicated his "Ballade", composed in 1879, to his teacher Camille Saint-Saëns. It breaks with the epic form of the genre both through its lyr...

Fauré's four "Valses-Caprices" (1882/83-1894) (BA 10843) reflect various forms of his exploration of the waltz in connection with the free form of the caprice. The composer therefore received inspirat...

With the two sonatas of his Opus 27, Beethoven broke new formal ground at the beginning of the 19th century. Each named Sonata quasi una Fantasia, the second in particular became immortal under its la...

Beethoven's final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment...

Beethoven's last three piano sonatas have always exerted a great fascination. With the Sonata op. 109, composed in 1820, Beethoven opens the door to the future - through the highest expressivity, the...

Composed in 1803/04, Beethoven's Sonata in C major op. 53 marks his move towards a large-scale, symphonic piano movement. The highly virtuosic work, which Beethoven dedicated to his friend and patron...

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The three popular sonatas op. 10 were composed between the end of 1795 and the beginning of 1798, only a short time after Beethoven's first complete sonata oeuvre op. 2. They were heralded in the pres...

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...

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 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...

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...

The earliest sketches for Beethoven's Grande Sonate op. 7 date from 1796 and the first edition was issued by the publisher Artaria, Vienna in October 1797. It is dedicated to Beethoven's pupil Anna Lu...

If the epithet "Appassionata" applies to one of Beethoven's sonatas, it is not the famous work in F minor op. 57, as Carl Czerny believed, but the E flat major sonata op. 7, which was written "in a ve...

Composed in 1800 and published as a 'Grande Sonate', Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B-flat major op. 22 marks the end of his first creative period. The only surviving handwritten source is a copyist's ma...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B flat major op. 22, composed in 1800, marks the end of his first creative phase. The only surviving manuscript source of the work, which was entitled "Grande Sonate" in th...

With the sonatas op. 31, composed in 1802, Beethoven brought together piano sonatas as a group for the last time. The highlight of the collection is undoubtedly the middle work in D minor, whose drama...

Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 54 was written in 1804, just after the highly virtuosic 'Waldstein' Sonata and before the 'Appassionata' Sonata, and has unjustly stood in the shadow of its predecess...

The Sonata in F major op. 54, written in 1804 immediately after the highly virtuoso "Waldstein" Sonata, is still unjustly overshadowed by its predecessor and the subsequent "Appassionata" in F minor o...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81 'Les Adieux', that Beethoven, then at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna, returned to the piano sonata. The highly lyr...

'Here's a sonata that will challenge pianists and that one will be able to play in 50 years': thus Beethoven is said to have written to his publisher Artaria regarding his mighty 'Hammerklavier' Sonat...

Here you have a sonata that will give pianists a hard time, one that will be played in 50 years' time, Beethoven is said to have written to the publisher Artaria about his enormous Sonata in B flat ma...