Instrumentation: pianoEdition: scoreItem no.: fue 2930Year: 1992Duration: (5?30)Difficulty: advancedISMN: 979-0-50012-193-0This is a piece for rather accomplished pianists. There is purposedly a unique theme, which constantly generates its own development. The piece is an ample pianistic variation which unwinds and then gradually narrows down to the end. But colour and harmony dominate the piece, …

For Solo Piano. Par LASH HANNAH. Pianist Lisa Moore has an extraordinary charisma and energy at her instrument, with a kind of musical laser focus that I find tremendously inspiring. I wanted to write her a set of pieces that would play to her wonderful range and character as a performer. So I decided to write pieces in the spirit of etudes: each focuses on a different type of playing or technique…

Par VINE CARL. Two piano rehearsal score Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (1997) is one of three large-scale works composed with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey in mind – the others being his first two piano sonatas.  Its composer describes it as ‘a conscious and continuous tribute to the Piano Concerto as a medium and historical entity’, a fact most apparent in the slow movement, with its long mel…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach transcriptions have always been popular for the musical brilliance of the Baroque master opens up a vast field, for composers and performers. Even the pianist and composer Emile Naoumoff who began his career at the age of 8, composed a piano concerto at the age of 10 and played it under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin is an expert and great admirer of Bach's music. …

15 Pieces for Piano. Par METELKA JAKUB. This new piano album by the acclaimed Czech pianist, teacher and composer Jakub Metelka (born 1986) contains 15 recital pieces – short, witty, characteristic compositions with flawless melodic, harmonic and pianistic workmanship. It allows little virtuosos not only to train their technical skills (from fairly easy to moderately difficult), but also to sharpe…

Gian Carlo Menotti (1911--2007) is best remembered as an opera composer and founder of three international performing arts festivals. Menotti has left behind a lasting legacy of lyrical and accessible music. Poemetti: 12 Pieces for Children was first published in 1937. These descriptive pieces demonstrate Menotti's celebrated lyric gift as well as the careful craft that characterizes his work. Tak…

I. Rêverie / II. Capriccio. Par CASABLANCAS BENET. Work commissioned by the pianists Iván Martín and Alba Ventura, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Centenary of Enric Granados (2016), and lasts approximately 10 minutes. It comprises two pieces of very contrasting character. The first, Rêverie, is a nocturne with broad resonances that unfolds in a recollected and expectant atmosphere, pr…

Par LISZT FRANZ. Franz Liszt dedicated the Grandes Etudes De Paganini to Clara Schumann, whose pianistic genius he revered. Two of the Etudes in the collection deserve particular notice: no. 3 La Campanella (The Bell) enjoyed great celebrity for the extraordinary character of its sonorities. And in the closing a-minor Etude, Liszt took his place next to many other composers with his variations on …

Dans Pratiquer le piano, Nancy O'Neill Breth offre une large sélection de conseils pratiques avec des exemples musicaux pour aider les élèves de tous âges à trouver des solutions innovatrices à des problèmes pianistiques. Le livre explore comment: organiser des temps de pratique, de la musique avant de pratiquer la carte pour découvrir le terrain musical qui nous attend- utiliser le temps de la pr…

RÉVISION ET PARTIE DE CELLO II, XAVIER GAGNEPAIN. Par POPPER DAVID. Les 40 études opus 73 de Popper constituent un précieux élément du patrimoine éducatif du violoncelliste. ?Hohe Schule des Violoncellspiels?, le titre du recueil laisse entrevoir la hauteur des sommets vers lesquels l?auteur prétend conduire les instrumentistes qui s?y confrontent. Cette nouvelle édition a pour ambition de resti…