Faust Waltzes

Compilation. The Piano Treasury of Easy Classical Music is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This tremendous piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the pianist who loves classical music. No other single volume can provide the wealth of exquisite piano selections contained within these pages. Here you will find the world's favourite inventions, preludes, fugues, minuets, sonata movements, nocturnes, waltzes, mazurkas, intermezzos, romantic short pieces, impressionistic works, and light classics, as well as the most rewarding traditional arrangements of themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas, and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Rép Classique / Recueil / Piano

After the volumes on baroque and classical composers Piano Duets: Romantic Composers is the next instalment in this successful series. The collection includes new editions of celebrated works written for Piano duet (by Brahms Dvorak and Schumann) and attractive new arrangements of orchestral and chamber pieces including a Piano quartet by Mendelssohn and an orchestral suite by Tchaikovsky.To complete its survey of the Romantic age the collection features a Piano study by Liszt and a nocturnal song-without-words by Fanny Mendelssohn. Providing varied accessible and attractive repertoire this volume is ideal for duettists looking for recitalmaterial or for those exploring the medium.Contents:Hector Berlioz: Hungarian March from La Damnation de Faust Op. 24Georges Bizet: 'La toupie' Impromptu from Jeux d'enfantsJohannes Brahms: Waltzes Nos. 1 and 2 Op. 39Anton n Dvo'rák: Slavonic Dance No. 2 Op. 72Franz Liszt: Étude No. 5 'La Chasse' from Grandes études de PaganiniFanny Mendelssohn: Lied No. 3 (Lenau) from Vier Lieder Op. 8Felix Mendelssohn: Intermezzo from Piano Quartet No. 2 Op. 2Robert Schumann: 'Versteckens' No. 10 from 12 Vierhändige Clavierstücke für kleine und grosse Kinder Op. 85Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Suite No. 2 Op. 53

Corpus Cum Figuris is a uniform composition in three major parts. The first part is a slow marche funébre a kind of prologue with dark and sombre sounds and a massive wall of chords which leads us to the other part of the works where the static and solemn atmosphere is suddenly stopped and replaced by a rhythmic/melodic ritual which accelerates the music. In the third part the block structure is softened gradually different figurations and stylistic elements arise to live their own lives: distant waltzes and pictures from the Middle Ages appear in this gigantic sonorous body. After a wild percussion orgy a short flash-back and a scream from the edge end Corpus cumFiguris. The piece has no literal content at all even though the title leads the thought to Adrian Leverkühn?s Apocalipsis cum Figuris from Thomas Mann?s Doctor Faustus. More likely my piece will arouse associations as with all my music. It has to be heard in it?s own conditions in this case as a big body of music or perhaps as a great screen where the details of course are part of the whole body but at the same time are foreign and odd. It is as if one climbs a mountain and from the top of that mountain discovers a world which is completely different from expected. Corpus cum Figuris for 20 musicians was composed in 1984 commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain and the Danish Radio. Ensemble InterContemporain world premiered the work in April 1985 conducted by Peter Eötvös. The piece was also played at the ISCM-festival in Amsterdam by Netherland Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour.