SKU: HL.49045865
ISBN 9790001170710. UPC: 888680784263. 9.0x12.0x0.097 inches.
This first print is a rarity: the highly virtuoso, evocative 'Nocturne' owes its creation to an instrument that has only survived as a museum piece. Gustave Lyon, the director of the French instrument maker Pleyel, commissioned Charles Koechlin as well as several other French composers (such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel) to write works for the 'harpe chromatique' developed by him around 1900. In contrast to the common pedal harp, the chromatic harp allows for an unlimited modulatory range. Nevertheless, the instrument did not gain much acceptance and remained exotic. Koechlin was aware of the difficulty of introducing and establishing new instruments. He therefore, from the very beginning, had the piano as an alternative of equal value in mind when writing his Nocturne.
SKU: BT.1956-13-400-M
ISBN 9789043137546. 9x12 inches. English-German.
Aniko Drabon, the editor of this book of piano masterworks, is also the pianist on the accompanying CD recordings. She is known among other things as the author of the successful Tastenzauberei piano tutor method. PIANO MASTERWORKS richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Klavierspieler, die eine pianistische Grundausbildung absolviert haben, wie z. B. die bekannte Klavierschule TASTENZAUBEREI von Aniko Drabon. Während ihrer langjährigen Tätigkeit als Klavierpädagogin sammelte die Herausgeberin die Lieblingsstücke ihrer Schüler. Die schönsten Titel wählte sie nun für dieses Buch aus. Die Audio-CD dient als Beispiel für eine Interpretation der Werke.
SKU: BT.EMBZ40045
The plan for the three orchestral Nocturnes took a long time to mature: Debussy first alluded to them as 'Three evening scenes' in a letter dated September 1892. Two years later the work was already referred to as a concerto, which would have been written for the renowned violinist, Ysaye. In the end, however, it was the original idea which meterialised. According to notes on the composer's manusript the detailed elaboration of the Nocturnes took two years: 'Composé de décembre 1897 á décembre 1899'. Only the first two movements were played at the first performance in Paris on 9th December 1900. The complete work was performed on 27th October 1901. Although the full scoreappeared in print as early as 1900, Debussy made a number of substantial changes in the orchestration during the years that followed, only the much later, in 1930 published version may be regarded as the final one which forms the basis of the present edition.
SKU: CY.CC3066
ISBN 9790530110430. 8.5 x 11 in inches.
Nuages (Clouds) is the first movement from the orchestral tryptych, Nocturnes written in 1899 and inspired by a series of impressionist paintings by the same name by James Abbot McNeill Whistler. The work is flowing and mysterious and uses the sky as the musical canvas with the slow motion of the clouds floating across with the tones of color from white to dark gray. Randall Malmstrom's unique arrangement for 8-part Trombone Ensemble uses a family of mutes (optional....straight, cup and bucket) to bring out the colors of Debussy's work of genius.
SKU: HL.50577579
SKU: M7.BRP-1006
SKU: HL.50577578
