Piano Concerto in A Minor and Other Works for Piano and Orchestra

A superb four-volume collection of over 180 solos for the intermediate level Pianist. Includes popular film and show tunes - themes and songs from top TV shows - and classical favourites from choral works, concertos, ballets, operas and symphonies. / Piano

For the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable MP3s-Now even the often-challenging works of the last of Russia's Romantic composers are accessible to beginning pianists. Rachmaninoff's music can be daunting to those just starting out but these simple arrangements focus on the composer's melodies and style. The more abstract works are excerpted and presented in manageable samples and the keys are simplified. Suggested fingerings are also provided.The collection features easy-to-play versions of 'Vocalise'; Prelude in C-sharp Minor Op. 3 No. 2 ('Bells of Moscow'); the second movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Op. 18 (Theme); Nocturne No. 1 in F-sharp Minor and Nocturne No. 3 in C Minor; Morceaux de Salon No. 3 Op. 10; Variations of a Theme of Corelli; and other selections.In addition to the piano arrangements the compilation includes a free MP3 download for every piece which will help students develop an ear for the melodies. The MP3s may be downloaded individually or collectively.

by Baroque Composers-Sixteen of Bachâ??s transcriptions for solo keyboard instruments (Piano and Harpsichord) of concertos for Violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi Telemann and others. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann.

Par . Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation of classics. Each piece was carefully selected and simplified to help students develop their skills. Many of the greatest composers ? J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and others ? are represented by several pieces each, some newly adapted for the piano. Composers and works not usually featured in beginner\'s books include pieces by Borodin, Gluck, Rameau, and Tallis. Well-known classics include Bach\'s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Debussy\'s Claire de Lune, Moussorgsky\'s Pictures at an Exhibition, Satie\'s Gymnopedie No. 1, Schumann\'s Child Falling Asleep, and \'Spring\' from Vivaldi\'s Four Seasons. Several orchestral pieces have been newly adapted for the piano, including \'Dance of the Swan\' from Swan Lake, \'Elephant\' from Carnival of the Animals, \'Largo\' from Xerxes, and \'Waltz of the Flowers\' from The Nutcracker. / Date parution : 2022-11-12/ Recueil / Piano

Compilations regroupant les plus grands titres d'un genre musical spécialement regravées en piano, voix et diagrammes d'accord guitare ou en piano solo en format A4 spiralé afin qu'il reste plat sur le support du piano. / Classique / Partition / Wiro /

2me Polonaise brillante pour violon avec acompagnement de piano op.21 Henryk Wieniawski wrote only two polonaises. The first one, op. 4 in D minor, is one of his youthful works; the other, op. 21 in A major, is one of the last works he composed. Moreover, H. Wieniawski is the co-author of another polonaise, op. 8, for violin and piano, which he wrote with his brother Józef Wieniawski, a pianist. The latter polonaise, like the Polonaise in D minor op. 4, is also a youthful composition (1852). The polonaise as a genre, therefore, does not occupy much space in Wieniawskis heritage. Nonetheless, both polonaises, in D minor and A major, constitute an essential part of his artistic inheritance. Likewise, both polonaises had been composed in two versions: for violin and orchestra, and for violin and piano. The Polonaise in A major was completed in 1870. It is not known precisely which of the versions, the one with the piano, or the one with the orchestra first came into being. It was the version with orchestra that the composer performed for the first time on 17 March 1870, in the Grand Theatre in St. Petersburg. But merely two months later he performed the Polonaise in Warsaw, accompanied by his brother Józef at the piano. It is quite possible that Wieniawski had already performed this version of the Polonaise. It is certain, nonetheless, that both versions either appeared simultaneously, or one was composed shortly after the other. From its first public performance until the end of his concert career, Wieniawski often included this Polonaise in his concert repertoire, playing one version or another, the choice depending on the needs and circumstances. Just to mention one occasion, he played the orchestral version during a concert tour of Sweden in 1870, when he dedicated and presented a manuscript of this piece to King Charles XV of Sweden. The dedication, however, was changed in print, and both versions were eventually dedicated to François van Hal. Both versions were published simultaneously, by Schott Publishers in Mainz, with the same plate number, though the orchestral version appeared only in parts, which was a common practice in those days. The piece was most probably not published earlier than 18751. The Polonaise was praised by the critics. The reviews reported that it was a magnificent piece2, and this opinion was shared by later critical reviews, both Russian and West European. The Polonaise remained popular after the composer had died, which is evident from the number of later editions of the piece (more than ten) issued by different publishers, mostly German, and prepared by different editors. In Poland, the Polonaise was published twice after the Second World War. All the editions introduced some more or less significant changes into the text, mostly concerning performance indications, but in a sense blurring the composers intentions. All those changes were pertinent to the violin and piano version, and it was mostly in this form that the piece appeared in concert and teaching repertoires. The performances with an orchestra were much more seldom which was, among other factors, due to limited availability of the orchestral version, as it had never been published again after the first edition, until now. The Polonaise in A major was composed approximately at the same time as the Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor3. This convergence in time had influenced a certain similarity with regard to both composition and technical means, and also to the themes. In particular, the similarity becomes quite obvious in the second theme of the Allegro in the Concerto, and in the theme of the Polonaise. The Polonaise in A major is also in a certain way similar to the first Polonaise (in D minor), the motifs of the themes in both polonaises are alike. However, both pieces differ in style. The Polonaise in D minor shows the composers fascination with technical writing. Wieniawski makes the most of double-stops, chords, and all other sophisticated virtuoso techniques. The Polonaise in A major, written 18 years later, is much more mature. Although it is a virtuosic piece as well, the techniques used are somewhat more limited and subordinated to the expression. The virtuoso character of this piece is more fragile, much closer to the brillant style. At the same time, the Polonaise is typical of Wieniawskis violin playing technique. Here the composer uses the means regarded by his contemporaries to be typical of him, e.g., long staccato fragments played with one bow. The Polonaise is a concert piece in one movement extended form with a considerably abbreviated return of the first section at the end. The middle section is contrasting in character, due to the modulation to F major, change of tempo (meno mosso) and the reduction in the number of instruments (in the orchestral version). All the sections show thematic similarity. The first section, too, consists of three subsections, including a contrasting middle subsection (in E major). Zofia Chechlińska Footnotes 1. See The Critical Commentary, p. ? and onward. 2. See V. Grigoriev, Henryk Wieniawski. Życie i twórczość. [Life and Work] Warszawa - Poznań 1986, p. 184. 3. The first version of the Concerto No. 2 in D minor was completed in 1862, but in 1870, i.e., not until the Polonaise in A major was completed, Wieniawski had been working on the Concerto and implemented quite a few changes. Publisher: PWM/Towarzystwo Muzyczne im. Henryka Wieniawskiego w Poznaniu Series: Henryk Wieniawski - Complete Works Cover: softback Nr ISMN: 979-0-2740-0753-9 Number of pages: 34+8 Format: N4 stoj. 235x305 Language version of text: pol., Eng.

g-moll Op. 33 B. 63-Composed in 1876 Dvorák’s only piano concerto has been overshadowed by his other two concertos for violin and violoncello respectively. Performers and editors have often attempted to upgrade this pianistically unassuming work by adding stylisations of their own. Our Urtext edition revaluates the sources frees the work from subsequent interventions and presents it to full advantage in its authentic form. The principal source of our new edition is the first complete print issued by the publisher Hainauer in 1883 which has been meticulously collated with the autograph. The anonymous original piano reduction is so full of mistakes that editor Robbert vanSteijn decided instead to present the version by Karel Šolc. - New Urtext edition of Dvorák’s only piano concerto - Foreword by Dvorák scholar David R. Beveridge (Eng/Cz/Ger) - Commentary on performance practice by Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek (Eng/Cz/Ger) - Piano reduction by Karel Šolc adapted to fit this new edition - Full score (BA10420) and two-piano reduction (BA10420-90) available for sale - Performance material (BA10420-72) available for hire

J. S. Bach's French Overture In B Minor BWV 831 was published along with the Italian Concerto as the second half of the Clavier-Ãœbung II in 1735. This suite in B minor was originally scored fortwo-manual Harpsichord and is the longest Keyboard suite ever composed by Bach with eleven movements.An earlier version of this work exists in the key of C minor (BWV 831a); the work was transposed into B minorto complete the cycle of tonalities in Parts One and Two of the Clavier-Ãœbung.The term overture refers to the fact that this suite starts with an overture movement replacing the allemande found in Bach's otherKeyboard suites. There are optional dance movements both before and after the Sarabande and another unusual aspect of this work is the inclusion of an extra movement after the Gigue. This is an 'echo' a piece meant to exploit theterraced loud and soft dynamics of the two-manual Harpsichord. Other movements also have dynamic indications (piano and forte) which are not often found in Keyboard suites of the Baroque period.This Henle Urtext Editionhas been edited by Rudolf Steglich and includes fingering by Hans-Martin Theopold.

My First Book Of Bach contains twenty-six favourite pieces in easy piano arrangements edited by David Dutkanicz.Students of all ages will delight in these simple piano arrangements of familiar melodies such as Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring Wachet Auf and highlights from the Brandenburg Concertos Goldberg Variations and Inventions plus menuets gavottes bourees and other fun-to-play pieces all gathered together here to demonstrate the beauty enjoyment and skill of J.S. Bach's compositions.

Features 16 of Bach's transcriptions for solo keyboard instruments (piano and harpsichord) of concertos for violin and other non-keyboard instruments by Vivaldi, Telemann, and others. Reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition prepared by Ernst Naumann. Content : Concerto No. 1 in D major, BWV 972 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 9) [ALLEGRO]. LARGHETTO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 2 in G major, BWV 973 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 7, book 2, no. 2) [ALLEGRO]. LARGO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 3 in D minor, BWV 974 (based on an oboe concerto by Allessandro Marcello) [ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. PRESTO. Concerto No. 4 in G minor, BWV 975 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 4, no. 6) [ALLEGRO]. LARGO. GIGA: PRESTO. Concerto No. 5 in C major, BWV 976 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 12) [ALLEGRO]. LARGO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 6 in C major, BWV 977 (source unknown) [ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. GIGA. Concerto No. 7 in F major, BWV 978 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 3, no. 3) ALLEGRO. LARGO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 8 in B minor, BWV 979 (source unknown) [ADAGIO]-ALLEGRO. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 9 in G major, BWV 980 (based on a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, op. 4, no. 1) [ALLEGRO]. LARGO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 10 in C minor, BWV 981 (based on a concerto by Benedetto Marcello, op. 1, no. 2) [ADAGIO. VIVACE. [LARGO]. PRESTISSIMO. Concerto No. 11 in B-flat major, BWV 982 (based on a violin concerto by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, op. 1, no. 1) [ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 12 in G minor, BWV 983 (source unknown) [ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 13 in C major, BWV 984 (based on a concerto by Duke Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar) [ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO E AFFETTUOSO. ALLEGRO ASSAI. Concerto No. 14 in G minor, BWV 985 (based on a violin concerto by Georg Philipp Telemann) [ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 15 in G major, BWV 986 (source unknown) [ALLEGRO]. ADAGIO. ALLEGRO. Concerto No. 16 in D minor, BWV 987 (based on a violin concerto by Duke Johann Erns of Saxe-Weimar, op. 1, no. 4) [GRAVE]-PRESTO. ALLEGRO.