This effective demanding work for piano solo captivates through its changes between twirling cascades and oases of tranquillity whereby the irridescent development focuses on central reference tones. Occasionally the strings inside the instrument have to be plucked: Matthias Pintscher wishes to achieve the greatest poss

Modern Piano Nocturnes. Par METELKA JAKUB. The album ?The Secret Garden? by Jakub Metelka (b. 1986) contains fifteen recital pieces in simple song form, thus tying in with his successful, technically less demanding piano cycle ?Little Virtuoso? (BA11569). The individual compositions in the collection are characterized by Metelka?s unmistakable, tonally anchored melodic style, enriched with many unusual harmonies and colours, which here underlines the slightly melancholic and mysterious character of these nocturnal pieces. The playful illustrations by Andrea Tachezy reflect these moods in an imaginative and charming way. Although it is not really a predetermined cycle, the fifteen atmospheric character pieces, with their programmatic titles and their arrangement tell a kind of fairy tale that culminates in the magical final composition ?The Secret Garden?. / Date parution : 2024-01-06/ Répertoire / Piano

Composer Daniel Schlee wrote about his piano piece â??Sursum chordis cordaâ?: â??The third movement of my Second Symphony is titled â??Sursum cordaâ? â?? a liturgical call to lift up our hearts. This call is answered by joyfully flowing music. The piano version is neither a particella nor an intabulation in the traditional sense; it adapts the essential elements of the musical process partially reinterpreting them to suit the wealth of possibilities the piano offers in terms of sound and technique. The scope of the work ranges from the impetus of emphatic chord progressions and carillon-like passages through to lyrical phrases.â?

Though Bohuslav Martinu produced a lot of didactic material for the Piano not all of it has been published and many delightful works have remained unknown.In this ?Easy Piano Pieces and Dances? album Martinu?s four-part Piano cycle ?Crotchets and Quavers? composed in Paris in 1937 appears for the first time. It is devoted to changes of metre and tempo.The work previously known only from his correspondence was long considered lost until a manuscript copy resurfaced in Brno in 2011. The jazz piece ?One-step? composed in 1921 is also made accessible here for the first time. It hitherto only existed in the composer?sautograph.Along with these two ?discoveries? this album contains the dance pieces that Martinu composed in Policka in the 1920s as well as the three-part cycle ?Christmas? composed in Paris in 1927. These were previously available in ?Compositions for Policka?.Includes original Martinu works some published for the first timeForeword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and fingering by Lucie Harasim BernáEasy to moderately difficult pieces

It was unmistakably Liszt?s piano piece ?Les jeux d?eau la Villa d?Este? that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: ?Jeux d?eau?. Laid out in sonata form its sound is governed by myriad motions of water and sustained by innovative highly virtuosic piano textures against a freely migrating and richly coloured harmonic backdrop. Nicolas Southon has re-evaluated the work?s many sources including memoirs from musicians close to Ravel such as Vlado Perlemuter Jacques Février and Hélène Jourdan-Morhange. Special attention has been devoted to the original part-writing in Ravel?s notation. Rounding off the new edition are an informative Foreword atrilingual glossary as well as fingering and notes on performance by Ravel specialist Alexandre Tharaud.

A collection of pieces for early intermediate pianists. Par . The leading Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek has long devoted himself to training young musicians. With this album of recital pieces he offers young pianists quite easy pieces by well-known Czech composers./ Recueil / Piano

replaces BA 7284-This pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué?s ?Sonate pour piano? (1950 52) is the first to present this masterpiece from the heyday of serialism in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition.The new edition offers a consistent musical text purged of obvious mistakes and audibly departing from the shortcomings of the original print. In the interest of optimum presentation there are no editorial additions in the musical text: alternative readings and editorial comments are exhaustively explained in a separate Commentary volume. An informative Foreword and facsimile reproductions round off this remarkable edition.

Bartók’s voluminous output for the piano contains a great many exquisite masterpieces at every level of difficulty. This collection gathers together easy to moderately difficult pieces including a wide variety of dance forms and folk-music miniatures. Players can coax magical sounds from the instrument using a varied refinement of touch such as silently depressed keys or can even play in two keys at once (bitonality). In addition all of this provides a stimulus for improvisation.This collection is a welcome addition to the repertoire used in music schools and private lessons and will of course appeal to all lovers of Bartók’s music. Besides familiar works italso contains several that have never before been edited. Two pieces handed down as fragments have been judiciously completed by the editor. Care has been taken to provide a spacious engraving and practical page turns.Easy to moderately difficult pieces with fingeringIdeal for teaching purposesSeveral pieces edited for the first timeSpacious engraving with practical page turns

[Leichte Klavierstücke und Tänze] / Classique / Editeur : Michael Töpel - Doigtés : Annette Töpel / Partition / Agrafé / Edition Urtext

kleine Stücke für Klavier-This collection of fourteen pieces together entitled Puppets plays an exceptional role in the catalogue of early works by Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) namely in that it represents the first works by Martinu which transcended his initial attempts at composition and quickly found a publisher.Thanks to their lasting popularity particularly with young pianists they were ultimately published in numerous editions. (The way the pieces are numbered which the composer verifiably accepted however does not correspond to their actual chronological order - they were in fact written in reverse order so that Puppets III came first whilePuppets I is the latest in the series.)All three books of Puppets which emerged between the years 1912 and 1925 and despite their title differ from one another in their aesthetic approaches and progressive maturity are published by EditioBärenreiter in new revised urtext editions edited by Ales Brezina. This urtext edition with its relatively comprehensive preface describing the circumstances surrounding the advent of the work is supported by the latest research and an assessment of all known and accessible sources which the editor presents and clarifies in detail in his critical commentary to the second and third books of Puppets.The second book (Puppets II) is dated 1918 and contains the following works: Puppet Theatre Harlequin Colombine Remembers The Sick Puppet and Colombine Sings. Thanks to its witty musical ideas and the composer's empathy for children and their intellectual world Puppets has since its first edition always been highly popular among performers.

Satie?s ?Ogives? und Gymnopédies? are milestones in the history of modern music. The four metrically free ?Ogives? (meaning pointed arches) reflect the influence of the French New Gothic or Neo-Gregorian movement in architecture with their clear lines and echo effects. The three ?Gymnopédies? proceed with a swaying chordal momentum and Satie?s radically sparse writing makes ironic reference to the dance of young warriors in ancient Sparta during gymnopaedia rituals.The pieces are easy to play and are ideal for teaching purposes. Information on performance practice by Satie specialistSteffen Schleiermacher offer insight into Satie?s music aesthetics.- Urtext edition based on all sources and current scholarship.- Easy to play.- Ideal for teaching purposes.- With practical suggestions for performance (Eng/Ger).- With an informative foreword (Eng/Ger) and critical commentary (Eng).

[Elf kleine Klavierstücke für die Jugend Opus 15b (1936)] / Classique / Partition / Agrafé /