Extracted from the Complete Works of Claude Debussy Series 1, Volume 9, this piece was also one of Durand's best-selling items during Debussy's lifetime. Foreword in English and French. Players score.
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Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920.
The Piano Concerto (1900) is Kashperova's earliest surviving orchestral work, and it was premiered by the composer the following year in Moscow and St Petersburg, bringing her much wider recognition and paving the way for an international career. Cast in three movements and in a Romantic idiom, pianistic virtuosity is often channelled into the pianist's left hand, which is required to negotiate widely-spaced 'extreme' arpeggios – awkwardly angular when adagio, fiendishly technical when molto allegro. Kashperova's orchestral colours are achieved by felicitous solos for the woodwind, horns and brass. Noteworthy, too, are unexpected glimpses of chamber music when, in the last movement for example, the piano combines fleetingly with solo violin and solo cello in passages. The concerto's quick music (Molto allegro and Allegro con anima) admirably portrays the vivacious personality of their composer, described in 1906 as offering those around her 'an abundance of joy, excitement and fun'. The central movement, by contrast, is a tender Adagio which offers the listener a gem of musical poetry.
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Grieg's incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's drama “Peer Gynt” contains some of his best-known compositions, such as “Morning mood” and “In the hall of the Mountain King”. Grieg later extracted the most beautiful pieces to form two orchestral suites and arranged himself these versions for piano solo and piano four-hands. There was a surprise in store for Henle when preparing their Urtext edition. In the autograph and the first print run, the second suite contained another movement, the “Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter”, which Grieg deleted shortly afterwards. This charming dance appears in the appendix to this edition - printed again for the first time in 120 years! The Norwegian pianist and Grieg expert Einar Steen-Nøkleberg was co-editor for this edition and also provided the new fingerings.
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According to Mozart's own catalogue, K. 491 was completed on 24 March 1786 – it was Mozart's only piano concerto aside from K. 466 that was in a minor key. It was probably first performed two weeks later as part of an “academy” at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Mozart was extremely pressed for time while composing this work, a fact that is shown both by the cursory way in which the autograph was written and by the repeated corrections. Unlike earlier publications, Henle's edition contains the definitive version as in Mozart's manuscript. The piano reduction of Henle's edition was undertaken by the celebrated pianist András Schiff, who also supplied the fingerings for the solo part, the cadenzas and the lead-ins.
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The decisive role that Norwegian folk music played for Edvard Grieg can be felt in almost all of his works. The Norwegian Dances op.35 of 1880, presented here in an Urtext edition, are arrangements for piano four hands of old folk tunes that Grieg took from a collection published by the musician and researcher Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. For this Henle Urtext edition, all the extant autographs in the Grieg Archive in Bergen, Norway were consulted along with the contemporary first editions. The co-editor here is the Norwegian pianist and Grieg specialist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, who is also responsible for the fingerings.
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Eight of Adele's biggest hits arranged especially for intermediate piano duet! Featuring: Chasing Pavements • Hello • Make You Feel My Love • Rolling in the Deep • Set Fire to the Rain • Skyfall • Someone Like You • When We Were Young.
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One Piano, Four Hands.
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Transcribed for 1 piano, 4 hands by E. Guiraud.
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It is almost impossible to tell from listening to them that Bach's extremely popular concerti for harpsichord were probably his own transcriptions of solo concerti which had originally been composed for violin or a woodwind instrument. While in many cases the original model is unknown, this is not true in the case of the D major Concerto BWV 1054, which was written in 1738 as an arrangement of the E major Violin Concerto BWV 1042. Once again Bach succeeds in conjuring a brilliant and idiomatic keyboard work from the violin part. Not only because of this, but also principally due to its lively and cheerful outer movements, BWV 1054 belongs among the highlights of Bach's rich compositional output. The piano reduction comprises the solo part together with a very playable piano reduction prepared by Johannes Umbreit for practical use.
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Contents: Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant • Petit Poucet • Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes • Les entretien de la Belle et de la Bête • Le jardin féerique.
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The music from Frozen transforms easily into great piano duet arrangements! The purchase price includes online access to audio for download or streaming of separate tracks for the Primo and Secondo parts – perfect for practice and performance! 7 arrangements from this smash Disney hit are included in this volume: Do You Want to Build a Snowman? • Fixer Upper • For the First Time in Forever • In Summer • Let It Go • Love Is an Open Door • Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People.
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Contents: Andante and Variations, Op. 83a • Allegro Brilliante, Op. 92.
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In addition to classics by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Grieg, rarely performed compositions by Robert Volkmann, Moritz Moszkowski, Paul Hindemith, Emile Naoumoff and others have been included.
Contents: J.C. BACH: Rondo in F Major • MOZART: Sonata in C Major, KV 19d • Sonata in D Major, KV 381 • BEETHOVEN: Sonata in D Major, Op. 6 • DIABELLI: Sonatina, Op. 163, No. 1 • WEBER: Sonatina, Op. 3, No. 1 • SCHUBERT: 4 Landler, D. 814 • Children's March, D. 928 • Military March, Op. 51, No. 1 • CHOPIN: Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 34, No. 2 • SCHUMANN: Birthday March, Op. 85, No. 1 • Round Dance, Op. 85, No. 8 • VOLKMANN: On the Lake, Op. 11, No. 4 • The Cuckoo and the Wanderer, Op. 11, No. 5 • BRAHMS: Waltzes, Op. 39 • Love Song Waltzes, Op. 52a • Hungarian Dance No. 3 • Hungarian Dance No. 5 • The Nightingale (Souvenir de la Russie) • BIZET: The Top • The Doll (Jeux d'enfants) • DVORAK: Silhouette, Op. 8, No. 8 • Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 7 and No. 8 • GRIEG: Norwegian Dance No. 2 • Peer-Gynt Suite No. 1 • FAURE: Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op. 56) • MOSZKOWSKI: Spanish Dance, Op. 12, No. 2 • DEBUSSY: En Bateau (Petite Suite) • SATIE: Cancan Grand-Mondain (La Belle Excentrique) • HINDEMITH: Waltz No. 6 (Three Beautiful Girls in the Black Forest, Op. 6) • PUTZ: Valsette (3 Jazz Waltzes) • NAOUMOFF: Valse pour Nadia
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