Par GRIEG EDVARD. The piano concerto in a minor stands out in Edvard Grieg’s oeuvre. Besides this famous concerto, he composed only a few other large orchestral works. Because of its popularity even in Grieg’s lifetime, it was often performed, not least by the composer himself. So it is not surprising that Grieg made many changes to the score up to 1907. But at the same time, the concerto’s size, form and substance remained completely unaltered. Interventions in the piano part basically involved subtleties of nuance, and only a very few places in the music text were altered. The situation was different with the orchestration. Here Grieg was keen to experiment and kept filing away at the orchestra sound right up to the last. Melodies were moved to other instruments, accompanying string chords were reconstructed, and above all the list of scored instruments was changed. The main source of the Urtext edition by Ernst-Günter Heinemann is the new edition of the score originally published in 1907 by C. F. Peters, thus several years after the first edition of 1872. Taken into account in the present edition are the changes that Grieg made up to the time of his death. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Répertoire / Orchestre et Piano

Par SUZUKI SHINICHI. The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 6, includes French, German and Spanish translations as well as a newly recorded CD performed by internationally renowned recording artist Seizo Azuma. Now the book and CD can be purchased together or separately. The contents have changed to include Mendelssohn's 'Venetian Gondola Song, ' J. S. Bach's 'Invention No. 8, ' Grieg's 'Notturno, ' as well as 'Spanish Dance No. 5, ' by Granados and 'O Polichinelo' by Villa-Lobos. Daquin's 'The Cuckoo' was moved to Book 5. The second and third movements of Mozart's 'Sonata in C Major, ' K. 330, and J. S. Bach's 'Little Prelude' have been permanently removed. Titles:Sonata in C Major (Allegro; Andante; Rondo: Allegretto), K. 545 (W. A. Mozart) * Venetian Gondola Song, from Songs Without Words, Book 2 (Mendelssohn) * Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779, from 15 Two-Part Inventions (J. S. Bach) * Notturno, Op. 54, No. 4 (Grieg) * Sonata in D Minor, K. 9; L. 413 (D. Scarlatti) * Sonata in C Major (Allegro moderato), K. 330, (W. A. Mozart) * Spanish Dance No. 5 (Andaluza), from 12 Spanish Dances (Granados) * O Polichinelo, from A prole do bebê no. 1 (Villa-Lobos) / Méthode / Méthode / Piano