for piano. Par LARCHER THOMAS. One could say that it is very natural to write for a “natural” [as opposed to prepared] piano - yes, maybe, but for me this had not been natural for many years. Exploring new things and sounds sometimes also has to do with not wanting to face the status quo, hiding oneself in a so-called future. In many of my earlier pieces I had fled into preparing the piano, wantin…

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. This treasury of 38 works for solo piano, spanning forty years of Brahms' long and prolific life, includes the famous 'Edward' ballade; two capriccios; seven Hungarian Dances in the composer's own transcriptions for solo piano; six intermezzos; three rhapsodies; the complete sixteen waltzes, op. 39; Sonata no. 3, the best known and most mature of Brahms' three piano sonatas; a…

Par PART ARVO. This work was composed originally in 1992 for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson-Trio on commission by the Helsinki Festival, where it was premiered. The piece is in memory of Oleg Kagan, who was a friend of Arvo Pärt's and one of Russia's leading violinists. Kagan had a special affinity with the music of Mozart and the composer memorialises the violinist by transcribing one of the mos…

The Op. 79 was announced by Breitkopf and Hartel in Leipzig in December 1810 as 'sonatine pour le pianoforte.' It was also registered at London's copyright registry on August 31, 1810, by the English publisher Muzio Clementi. It is not possible to ascertain exactly when the English edition was available to the public, but it may be that it predates the German edition. Although the Op. 79 bears no …

The three movements of Op. 81a are entitled 'The Departure,' 'The Absence,' and 'The Return,' dedicated to the Archduke Rudolf, an excellent pianist, friend, and patron of the composer. Rudolf's departure was part of an evacuation plan for Viennese aristocracy to escape the imminent occupation of Vienna by Napoleon's armies. An autograph of the first movement believed to have been presented to the…

dalla Sonata prima a Violino Solo senza Basso. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. For this transcription the author used a photographic copy of the autograph manuscript of Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (BWV 1001-1006) by Johann Sebastian Bach, dated 1720 and kept in the Staatbibliothek Preussicher Kulturbesits, Berlin. The adjustments to the original text mainly concern: harmonic enrichments sugges…

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Avec cette collection de 30 compositions originales populaires et d'arrangements pour piano, Schott présente une sélection des ?uvres de Frédéric Chopin qui ravira tous les pianistes. Outre le Prélude de la goutte d'eau et des pièces d'enseignement populaires, le volume contient également des arrangements des deux célèbres concertos pour piano en mi mineur et en fa mineur, de la Krakowiak et b…

Sonate pour violon du Silvestrov ' Post scriptum 'est un autre de ses postludes de musique de chambre. Le compositeur a dit que le titre du travail signifie qu'il est ' un post-scriptum à Mozart et la tradition ensemble classique. Le texte a déjà été écrit. Nous ajoutons simplement notre annotations, pensées, questions, consternation, étonnement et regret. Les phonèmes classiques commencent à waft…