Composer : Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Instrumentation : 2Klav(Cemb)-4ms Edition : Urtext Editor : Zahn, Grete

In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).When Johann Sebastian Bach created his six-part corpus of harpsichord concertos in 1738 (BWV 1052-1057) he gave pride of place to the Concerto in D minor BWV 1052. It has long been thought for good reasons that this piece was based on a lost violin concerto in the same key that he had already transcribed on twoprevious occasions.The second 'forerunner' of BWV 1052 is the present harpsichord concerto. It was first published by Wilhelm Rust in volume 17 of the old Bach Society Gesamtausgabe (1869) and given the number BWV 1052a in the Schmieder catalogue. Rust felt that Johann Sebastian Bach himself wrote out the principal source a set of orchestral parts preserved in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek under the shelf mark Mus. ms. St 350 and therefore treated the piece as an authentic early version of BWV 1052. Today however we know that the scribe was Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach who is generally also regarded as the work's author.Urtext of the New Bach EditionParts (BA5231) two-keyboard reduction (BA5231-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

Including The Sorcerer's Apprentice For Two Pianos-French composer Paul Dukas (1865 1935) was also a critic scholar and teacher. 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' is his most famous creation and this original compilation of Dukas' Piano works ishighlighted by the world-renowned music that was based upon Goethe's Faust and inspired a memorable sequence from Disney's Fantasia. The two-Piano version that appears here was transcribed by the composer himself.Suitablefor intermediate and advanced pianists this collection features four additional pieces: Piano Sonata in E-flat minor; Prélude élégiaque; Variations Interlude and Finale on a theme by Jean Philippe Rameau; and Laplainte au loin du faun. Edited and introduced by renowned pianist Daniel Glover these works were reproduced from authoritative sources.