Maurice Ravel : Ravel ; 15 pièces pour Piano

for the Left Hand for Piano and Orchestra Piano reduction and solo part-In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel’s most thrilling compositions and for Wittgenstein the most important of the many works he commissioned over the course of his career.This scholarly-critical edition of Ravel’s Piano Concerto For The Left Hand is based on previously inaccessible and unknown sources. The editor Douglas Woodfull-Harris was able to consult manuscripts in the private library of the Paul Wittgenstein Estate which allowed him to retrace the work’s evolutionfrom Ravel’s autograph working copy to the first printed edition.A source of key importance to our new edition is a handwritten French copy of Ravel’s own Piano reduction (the autograph is inaccessible) that he gave to Wittgenstein to facilitate rehearsing the work. This copy is the sole source reflecting Wittgenstein’s own interpretation and containing his changes to the final cadenza. It also helps us to understand omissions in the first edition of the score as well as the Piano reduction and enabled the editor amongst other things to correct a great many notes which could be found in previous editions including the solo Piano part.The Piano reduction in our edition contains both Ravel’s and Wittgenstein’s fingering. Also included is a solo part without fingering thereby giving pianists the opportunity to enter their own fingering after having studied those of Ravel and Wittgenstein.Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5 cm)Includes source descriptions and a Critical Commentary with alternative readings (Eng)Informative Introduction on the work’s history and genesis (Ger/Eng/Fr)With facsimile pagesPiano reduction with separate Urtext solo part enclosedFull score & parts (BA7881) and two-Piano reduction (BA7881-90) available for sale

Détendez-vous au piano avec cette collection exceptionnelle de morceaux apaisants. Jouez certaines pièces des plus grands compositeurs classiques de tous les temps : Bach, Beach, Beethoven, Chopin, Coleridge-Taylor, Debussy, Mozart, Schumann et bien d'autres. Certaines oeuvres ont été transposées et simplifiées./ Recueil / Piano

This edition provides a valuable resource of accessiblemasterworks for busy pianists. It contains 40 piano piecesin their original form appropriate for weddings, funerals,receptions, and other events. To make the selectionsuseful as background music, only short pieces havebeen included and flashy, concert-like pieces have beenavoided. Each piece has been carefully engraved for easyreading, and approximate performance times have beenincluded to assist with planning. / Piano

Par . Un parcours au fil de 40 pièces parmi les plus représentatives des prestigieux catalogues Max Eschig, Durand et Salabert. Les morceaux sont disposés par ordre de difficulté d?exécution croissante. Édition fondamentale pour un voyage dans le monde du piano à travers le répertoire didactique du siècle dernier. / Niveau : Moyen / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Recueil / Piano

Born in Paris in 1899 Francis Poulenc soon became a notable composer and pianist. His Trois Pièces for Piano were composed in 1928 towards the beginning of his career and paved the way for exceptional Piano works from the composer. Poulenc as a member of Les Six composed music in a style contrary to that of Richard Wagner and impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Trois Pièces for Piano is made up of three movements 1. Pastorale 2. Hymne and 3. Toccata all of which exploit the Piano to its full potential. Being an imaginative and evocative composition TroisPièces for Piano is a pleasure to play for all pianists.

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard De La Nuit is one of the most important Piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites which was already begun by Chopin and Liszt in the 19th century. The three movements Ondine Le Gibet and Scarbo are based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand which Ravel put in front of each of the three pieces. Thus too the work is in a tradition represented by composers such as Schumann and Liszt in the 19th century that combines instrumental music with literary models. For the new edition published by the Wiener Urtext Edition the editorsconsulted not only the first edition used almost exclusively up to now but also Ravel's autograph as well as his personal copy of the first edition on the basis of which numerous passages in the musical text could be corrected and brought closer to Ravel's original intention. In addition the editors included corrections from personal copies of various students of Ravel. Entries of the composer going well beyond mere text corrections and practical performance tips handed down by his students are analysed in the Notes of Interpretation. The reader-friendly large-format Wiener Urtext edition is completed by a trilingual glossary of the French performance instructions used by Ravel as well as English and German translations of Bertrand's three poems.

The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 of the saddest pieces of classical music, guaranteed to make you weep, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di vedremo from ?Madam Butterfly? by Puccini Parry and Dido?s Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden?s colour linocut Aesop?s Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork.