Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

This edition will assist piano students in achieving a better, more stylistically correct interpretation of some of Ravel's finest keyboard music. Historical background is given for each early advance...

The word toccata comes from the Italian word' toccare' (to touch). Such virtuosic pieces for the keyboard typically display the performer's technique. Each piece in this collection provides an opportu...

This piano duet begins with a cantabile opening in 3/4 time that serves as an introduction to a lively dance in 6/8, marked Allegro giocoso. The introduction is filled with lush harmonies and lyrical...

Commissioned by Radio France and premiered by the dedicatee Bertrand Chamayou in Paris at the beginning of 2023, the ten-minute work follows the Beethovenian ‘development type’. Like Höller's two prec...

Almost all of Ursula Mamlok's works created before the Wind Quintet (1956) have remained unpublished until now. Many of them were performed for the first time in the final years of the composer who di...

The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartók.In 1945 Bela Bartok described 'Mikrokosmos' as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano...

Enthält 2 Spielpartituren. Erstveröffentlichung der Bearbeitung für Klavierduo von Brittens frühem Meisterwerk für Orchester, den Variationen über ein Thema von Frank Bridge, op. 10. In seinem Vorwort...

Existing edition of A Charm of Lullabies (BH 5000052) extended by an appendix containing two settings originally intended for the cycle but discarded by the composer: A Sweet Lullaby (Nicholas Breton)...

Commissioned by China National Centre for The Performing Arts, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie de Paris – Orchestre de Paris, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the Ne...

Most of Bernstein's compositions for solo piano took the form of the 'Anniversary'. Bernstein is not the first composer to have written a short homage to commemorate a special date; he perhaps took hi...

The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss was wholly influenced by 19th-century tradition. Logically, it was the examination of the examples of Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann which character...

Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, As?k Veysel (1891-1973), was one of the last great Turkish balladeers and the final link in a thousand-year...

Both waltzes are based on the famous musical cryptogram B-A-C-H and were created in 1975. The very same year, Nino Rota was asked by Federico Fellini, who was just shooting the film Casanova, to write...

Faz?l Say, to whom the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights was awarded in 2016, reflects on the events in Istanbul in May / June 2013 in his cycle Gezi Park. Gezi Park 3, first composed as...

Eingebettet in atmosphärische Beschreibungen der quirligen Ägäis-Metropole finden sich mit türkischem Kolorit angereicherte Porträts von Chopin, Brahms und Rachmaninow: alle drei Hommage-Sätze zitiere...

Mit 'Seventeen Trances of the Pomegranate Tree' setzt Xuntian He seine Reihe aus Kompositionen für Klavier fort, die sich von keiner kulturellen oder akademischen Tradition Fesseln anlegen lassen will...

The piano gods of my youth were Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, both mysterious, enchanting. While I only knew Lipatti from his records, I was able to see Clara Haskil live in concert twice, in Burgdor...

Kompositionsauftrag von Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lissabon, National Cen...

Die Aufgabe, für die jungen Teilnehmer des Mendelssohn Wettbewerbs ein Klavierstück zu schreiben, war eine aufregende Herausforderung für mich. Und schon ganz am Anfang, als ich selber am Klavier Insp...

The New Life Sonata by composer and pianist Fazil Say is a work of hope that describes the process in which the traces of the Corona pandemic, which has affected the whole world and brought life to a...

Mit Posuo Pishon setzt Xuntian He seine Reihe aus Kompositionen für Klavier fort, die sich von keiner kulturellen oder akademischen Tradition Fesseln anlegen lassen will. Weder der westlichen noch der...