Upon entering a painting was written in 2008/09 and it was commissioned with funding from the Britten-Pears Foundation and the RVW Trust by Piano 4 Hands (Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa) to whom it is dedicated. The inspiration of the piece was the kind of painting which as you gaze at it seems to draw the onlooker into the frame indeed into the very paint itself. The specific trigger for the idea of the piece was the Rothko Exhibition at Tate Modern in 2008 Rothko has long been a favourite painter of mine even though his creative world is very different from my own. However there were one or two paintings in the exhibition in which I felt strongly this sense of beingdrawn into the inner life of the painting especially when I was able to incur the wrath of the curators and step close to the paintings and examine the surface in detail. The opening and closing sections of the piece with their gradual thickening of the harmonies and (at the end) equally gradual thinning reflect this sense of stepping forward into and backward out of the works. The inner life of the faster sections while apparently very un-Rothko-like reflects the extraordinary teeming inner life of the brush-strokes.

Per Pianoforte A Quattro Mani (O Due Pianoforti). Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down to us. As a pianist, he began to give public performances at the age of 13, making his debut in his home town Rosario. Following this success, he embarked upon an extremely busy career as a soloist, giving numerous recitals in Buenos Aires and other citiesin Argentina. He continued to take advanced lessons with eminent exponents of the most prestigious international piano schools. In 1974 he became an Italian citizen and settled in Rome, teaching piano as principal instrument at the S. Pietro a Majella StateConservatory in Naples, the Luisa DAnnunzio Conservatory in Pescara and the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in Aquila. As a composer, he began - at just 9 years of age - to study in the rigorous school of Paul Hindemith, under the guidance of Father Luis Machado, from whom he inherited a love of counterpoint and a strong taste for harmony. He took a diploma incomposition, counterpoint and fugue at the age of 16 at the Amigos del Arte Society in Rosario, going on in 1964 to do an advanced course in 12-tone counterpoint at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The catalogue of his compositions, which has nowreached Op. 55, encompasses a huge range of instrumental/vocal chamber music and symphonic works: a vast and articulated catalogue, in which Sergio Calligaris’s composition expresses its inspiration through the dramatic development of a dialecticalcontrast between the two natures of the composer’s personality - the elegiac and the dithyrambic - which confront and interact with each other giving rise to artistic outcomes of a deeply moving nature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Répertoire / Piano 4 Mains

The Phillip Keveren Series Piano Duet. Eight inspiring hymns arranged by Phillip Keveren for one piano, four hands, including: Church in the Wildwood · His Eye Is on the Sparrow · In the Garden · Just a Closer Walk with Thee · The Old Rugged Cross · Shall We Gather at the River? · There Is Power in the Blood · When the Roll Is Called up Yonder.

for piano four-hands-The six pieces in Gabriel Fauré's Dolly suite were inspired by the young daughter of the composer's friend Emma Bardac. The girl was born in 1892 and called “Dolly” on account of hersmall delicate figure. These pieces were composed mainly for Dolly's birthday or the New Year and reflect the world as experienced by the growing child from a lullaby to a temperamental dance. The suite was notmeant to be taken too seriously as shown by the subtle allusions to his own music and that of others. Despite their simple basic structure these pieces which soon became popular contain numerous harmonic and rhythmic subtletiestypical of the French composer – “children’s music” that is also well suited to adults.  

Opus 99 - Piano Four Hands-From this often-neglected Russian master come these ten beautiful duet studies inspired by nature. They are all highly accessible and suitable for 2nd-3rd year students and above. Highly recommended! Includes complete printed music score with both primo and secondo piano parts and a compact disc featuring the duets in two formats: split-channel stereo with secondo part on the left channel primo on the right so you can play either part and then again with just the secondo part in stereo so you can perform the primo part alongside. Performed by Sondra Bianca piano Accompaniment: Harriet Wingreen piano

From The Bohemian Forest a set of six character pieces for Piano duet was written at the turn of the year 1883-84 at the instigation of Dvo ák?s publisher Fritz Simrock and appeared in print in the spring of 1884. After the Slavonic Dances and Legends this was already his third cycle of piano duets to be inspired by much-loved locations.This edition presents the musical text from the Complete Edition of the Works of Anton n Dvo ák Series V/6. It includes a new Foreword by Ivana Rentsch and Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen assessing the latest findings in Dvo ák scholarship.- Popular Piano miniatures which can be played individuallyand are ideal as encore pieces.- New Foreword by Ivana Rentsch and Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen (Ger/Cz/Eng).- Well-presented division of Primo and Secondo parts printed on facing pages.Contents:1. In the Spinning-Room (Na p ástkách)2. By the Black Lake (U erného jezera)3. Walpurgis Night (Noc filipojakubská)4. In Wait (Na ekán )5. Silent Woods (Klid)6. From Troublous Times (Z bou livých dob)

Jean-François Tapray (1738-1819), né à Nomeny en Lorraine, fit une bonne partie de sa carrière à Dole puis Besançon avant de servir à Paris où on le signale comme organiste à la chapelle de l'Ecole royale militaire peu avant la Révolution. Il meurt à Fontainebleau vers 1819. Cette sonate à quatre mains, qui date probablement de 1800, est un véritable chef-d'oeuvre très inspiré par l'école viennoise de ce temps. Elle fait grand effet au concert et a l'immense mérite de donner à jouer, de manière très équilibrée, aux deux instrumentistes. Elle nécessite une bonne technique, notamment dans le superbe 3e mouvement de forme rondo-sonate. / Piano 4 Mains Et Plus

Par LIANG LEI. I was fascinated with the Chinese landscape painter Huang Binhong (1865-1955), particularly with the albums the artist painted when he was nearly blind from cataracts. The image that inspired this composition was a detail taken from the painting. The detail was reconstructed by high-resolution scanning, and it reveals an intricate world hidden within the paintings' brushstrokes. It draws us into the landscape of microscopic elements - a fiber in the rice paper, or the trace left by a single hair in the brush. Will you come to my dream? is about discovering such a world, and the moment when we lose ourselves in the landscape together. – Lei Liang / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Piano 4 Mains

26 pieces in all major and minor keys (pentatonic melody)-The popularity of Cornelius Gurlitt's (1820-1901) varied and abundant piano Å“uvre certainly inspired by his work as a music teacher is undiminished until today and still of great educational significance in music lessons. The musical language of his four-handed piano miniatures is very similar to that of the compositions by Carl Reinecke and Theodor Kirchner. 'Hours of rest' was published for the first time by Schott in 1880 and shall now be made accessible again for music lessons with this new edition. The miniatures have a simple yet effective structure are arranged in an educationally sensible way and have an expressive tonal language containing cantabile folk-song-like dance-like expressive and chorale-like elements. Everything that makes beginner's lessons sensible and systematic is dealt with in these 26 varied miniatures; in particular the pupils are made familiar with all major and minor modes. As in Diabelli's famous 'Melodious Exercises' the primo part is played within the pentatonic scale thus being perfect for beginners. The demands for the secondo player are somewhat higher. A valuable addition to the piano duet repertoire.

The popular 'Tea for Two Series' continues with more inspiring Piano duets from Mike Cornick - this time on the subject of love. Contrasting styles are explored from Duke Ellington's stylish and swinging Don't Get Around Much Anymore to a unique intertwined arrangement of the Caribbean songs Yellow Bird and Water Come a Me Eye (Come Back Liza). The old favourite Dark Eyes and the more contemplative I Gave My Love a Cherry and The Water is Wide complete the collection. The CD includes the complete performance of each duet as well as play-along rehearsal tracks for primo and secondo players. For intermediate level players and beyond.

Tombé dans l?oubli depuis des siècles, l?opéra La Gioconda est sans doute le chef d??uvre de Ponchielli.
La partie du ballet « La danse des heures » reste néanmoins familière aux oreilles des profanes puisque cette pièce a été insérée dans Fantasia, le célèbre dessin animé de Walt Disney.
Morceau très contrasté, à la fois gracieux et mouvementé, cette page demeure inspirée et mérite à coup sûr d?être redécouverte, en dehors de l?utilisation abusive que la publicité et le cinéma en ont faite. / Classique / Trasncriptions pour piano de Jean-François / Partition / Agrafé /

Peter Dickinson (b. 1934) is a British composer pianist and academic. He studied at Queen’s College Cambridge and the Juilliard School in New York and has since held professorships at Keele University and Goldsmiths’ College. His compositions are firmly in the 20th century idiom drawing heavily on influences from Cage Ives and Satie.Five Forgeries is a collection of Piano duets written in 1963. Each duet is written in the style of a different composer with movements inspired by Poulenc Hindemith Stravinsky Delius and Bartok. The collection is dedicated to the great composer Lennox Berkeley(1903-1989) who was Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music for over 20 years and came to define the post-war generation of British composers.

Wilhelm Ganz (1833-1914) was a German musician who escaped from the continent in 1848 and spent the rest of his life in London. As a violinist and conductor he worked alongside Berlioz and Wagner and held a singingprofessorship at the Guildhall School of Music. Despite being well-regarded in his lifetime his compositional work has largely fallen into obscurity over the last century.Ganz’s Op.12 is Qui Vive(c.1860-70): inspired by the Galop a lively country dance but intended for concert performance. It is scored for a Piano Duet and keeps the pianists entertained by modulating several times through closely linked keys based around Eb Major.

Reflecting the heritage and pride of a great nation America the Beautiful has been handsomely arranged for two intermediate performers. This inspiring duet will add festivity to your next lesson or recital.