Classical Sheet Music

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...

> First complete critical edition of Dusek's sonatas > Previously hard to reach repertoire > Trilingual Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Easy to moderate difficulty The Czech comp...

> First complete scholarly-critical edition > Five previously unpublished sonatas > Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Easy to play and suitable for teaching purposes The Czech comp...

Smetana's piano sketch Macbeth, also known as Macbeth and the Witches, after William Shakespeare's tragedy, originated in 1859 while the composer was living in Sweden. Some scholars believe that it wa...

This Urtext edition of Janácek's works includes lesser-known piano pieces and miniatures from his late years. They complete our picture of Janácek the piano composer, best known for the cycles 'On an...

Johann Joseph Rösler (1771-1812) was a composer, conductor and pianist who was active in Prague and Vienna. Later he was in the service of Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz. His Piano Concerto No. 2 i...

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...

The leading Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek has long devoted himself to training young musicians. With this album of recital pieces he offers young pianists quite easy pieces by well-known Czech composers....

Leopold Koželuch (also Koželuh) was among the leading musical figures of 18th-century Vienna, well-known in his day as an excellent pianist and piano teacher. Six delightful sonatas have been selected...

For the most part, the rich piano legacy of Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) comprises compositions that require the skills of an advanced or even professional pianist. In this album, which forms part of t...

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....

These pieces, known as the Kurfürsten Sonatas, were composed in 1783 while Beethoven was still studying with Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. 'He will certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

> Scholarly-critical Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship > New readings > Based on an evaluation of all available sources > Reader-friendly layout and practical page turns > Informative...

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...

> Scholarly-critical Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship<br>> Optimal page turns<br>> Informative Introduction with valuable suggestions on period performance practi...

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...

> New critical performing editions at the cutting edge of scholarship > Optimum page-turns > Introductions with valuable notes on historical performance practice (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentaries (E...

Owing to severe illness, Beethoven had to wait for over a year after completing op. 109 before beginning work on the second piece in his triptych of late sonatas: the Piano Sonata in A-flat major op....

Mit Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Jonathan Del Mar und Misha Donat

At the end of 1821, Beethoven began work on op. 111, his last piano sonata, which has been regarded as the pinnacle since its publication and to which Thomas Mann dedicated a literary monument in Dr....

> Scholarly-critical Urtext editions at the cutting edge of scholarship<br>> Practical page turns<br>> Informative Introductions with valuable notes on period performance practice...

Mit Fingersatz und Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Paul Badura-Skoda

Chopin's "Berceuse" is one of his most frequently performed works and was regarded by subsequent composers as the prototype of the instrumental lullaby. This piece that Chopin initially named "Variant...

In 1845/46 Chopin composed his bel canto inspired 'Barcarolle' in F-sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and partly even...