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Not only the price is impressive, but also the well-chosen, colorful cross-section of the Bärenreiter piano program, designed according to our Urtext colors. The cover is an eye-catcher. The compiled...

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...

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...

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...

Red roots' (2022) hints at its source material in depth – only to turn it into something independent. Starting from a Beethovenian cell (from the unpublished sketch, 'Wir irren allesamt'), the focus i...

The Czech composer František Xaver Dušek (1731-1799) was one of the most important figures in Prague's musical life in the second half of the 18th century. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and...

Otilie Suková was the daughter of Antonín Dvorák and the wife of Josef Suk. A gifted musician, she played the piano and wrote several compositions of her own, inspired by her musical surroundings. Fou...

Leopold Koželuch (also known as Koželuh), who lived in Vienna, was one of the leading figures in 18th century music and was also known in his time as an outstanding pianist and piano teacher. Six deli...

The sonatas for piano and harpsichord by Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) are scattered throughout Europe in numerous copies, which testifies to their popularity at the time (among others, W. A. Mozart me...

Although Antonín Dvorák left behind an extensive oeuvre for solo piano, young pianists and less advanced amateurs are usually introduced to the composer's sound world with the same, well-known works....

Beethoven composed the works known as the "Elector Sonatas" in 1783 as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. "He would certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he progressed as he ha...

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...

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...

Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A flat major op. 26 is one of his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, one of his most important patrons, to whom Beethoven also dedic...

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...

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 is hard to imagine that this very lyrical and moderately difficult piano sonata in the unusual key of F sharp major was preceded by the highly dramatic Sonata in f op. 57 ("Appassionata", BA 10852)...

Beethoven incorporated very personal impressions into his Sonata op. 81a, composed in 1809/10, with the movement titles "Das Lebewohl", "Die Abwesenheit" and "Das Wiedersehn". The compositional trigge...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81a ("Les Adieux"), that Beethoven composed a new work in this genre at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna. The extremely...