Urtext Edition-Edited and engraved by Ephraim Hammett Jones Volume II of this two-book set presents an original compilation of Robert Schumann's best-known character pieces and piano cycles in a pristine urtext edition. Printed to precisely reproduce the artist's original intentions it features eight of the Romantic composer's finest works.Suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists the cont…

Schumann's famous 15 - titled cycle Scenes from Childhood op. 15 originally composed for piano now available for cello and piano accompaniment.

Schumann was right in the middle of the preparations for the performance of his oratorio Das Paradies und die Peri when he wrote the sketches of Neujahrslied. How much vocal music meant to him is shown by the foundation the year before i.e. in 1848 of the society Verein für Chorgesang initiated by Schumann.Choir practice and choral composition were to have a stimulating influence on each other w…

Schumann’s Violin Sonatas were taken up with enthusiasm very soon after they were first performed. The Second Sonata was described at the time as 'Second only to Beethoven's Sonata in A'. Sonatas Op. 105 and Op. 121 are now presented in the first volume of this Wiener Urtext edition. It is based on the score in the new complete Schumann edition which draws not only upon the authorised first…

To occupy the post of municipal music director Schumann came to Düsseldorf on the Rhine in 1850 and it was probably the impressions of the Rhineland that inspired the composer to write his Symphony No. 3. In a letter to the publisher Simrock Schumann himself wrote that the peculiarities of Rhenish life had found expression in the work. To Schumann the view of the Cathedral of Cologne was a hig…

Schumann's Faschingsschwank Aus Wien or Carnival Jest from Vienna Op.26 completed in 1939 for Piano Solo. Published within the Signature Series a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works prepared from original sources by leading scholars including informative introductions and performance notes this score provides an authentic text based on the Schumann???s first c…

Schumann’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor Op. 54 is fine example of Romanticism and has a dynamic mood like much of his work. There is a sober atmosphere though dignified melody runs throughout but overall a unified and structured piece that broke away from the trend for virtuosic displays. Completed in 1845 when he appended two movements to the revised Fantasie; it is one of a…

Avec Le Pensionnaire d'Endenich et Lutter avec le bleu du ciel, Jean-Philippe Guye présente deux textes de théâtre musical, autour de la vie et de l'oeuvre de Robert Schumann et de Claude Debussy. Chaque spectacle est composé de six lettres ou monologues imaginaires, qui s'intercalent entre des pièces de musique de chambre avec piano et si possible voix. Le choix des oeuvres, leur ordre, la succes…