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Although Frédéric Chopin was one of the greatest piano virtuosos of his time, even pianists of moderate technical ability can enter into his Romantic, magical realm. His mastery was such that his own,...

The works in this volume show the development of keyboard instruments in an exemplary manner: the early works were intended for harpsichord, two of which were for an instrument with the so-called 'Vie...

The works in this volume show the development of keyboard instruments in an exemplary manner: the early works were intended for harpsichord, two of which were for an instrument with the so-called 'Vie...

Apart from the major cycles (partitas, French and English suites), a whole series of separate keyboard suites by Bach have come down to us, including individual sonatas or sonata movements, variations...

Apart from the major cycles (partitas, French and English suites), a whole series of separate keyboard suites by Bach have come down to us, including individual sonatas or sonata movements, variations...

Johann Christian Bach settled in London in 1762 after acquiring extensive experience in Italy. His Six Sonatas, op. 5, are signposts towards the future classical piano sonata. Bach wrote them for the...

Through the amiable genre of the 'sonatina', generations of piano pupils have slowly and cautiously approached its 'big sister', the sonata. With the aid of our three-volume selection of sonatinas fro...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was probably the most famous of the Bach sons. He wrote many works for keyboard instruments, and these form the core of his compositional oeuvre. This volume is the last of H...

His things for clavier are incomparable, and almost indispensable to those familiar with the keyboard', was the judgment of music theorist Johann Anton Scheibe in 1743 when discussing George Frideric...

The polonaise was a fashionable dance form not only in Chopin and Liszt's time, for Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann had already brought this Polish national dance to a high-point. His t...

The idea behind the 'Classical Piano Sonatas' of the preclassical and classical eras is to help the pianist find his way more easily within the profusion of literature in this genre, the most importan...

Grieg's second book of Lyric Pieces was published 16 years after its predecessor, but immediately reprised the huge success of the former collection. Interestingly enough, the original title pages of...

The extraordinary popularity of the first two books of Lyric Pieces (opp. 12 and 38) was interpreted differently by Grieg and his publisher. Whereas Grieg would have liked to call his third book 'Spri...

Grieg's successful series of Lyric Pieces reaches a unique climax in the eighth book. After the publisher almost had to force him - Grieg was at the point of becoming tired of composing Lyric Pieces -...

The high opus number suggests that it is a late work, yet in reality the work comprises twenty single movements which were composed 10 to 15 years before publication. This means that they were written...

During his summer holiday of 1842 Mendelssohn wrote four piano miniatures in each of the albums of two children to whom he was related. Years later he revised the pieces. In so doing, he deleted two o...

The only surviving original recording of Albéniz' piano playing is from 1903. On a visit to Ruperto Regordosa Planas he had sat down at the former's piano and improvised three short pieces. Planas rec...

Al igual que la Salut d'amour de Elgar, las dos "chansons" figuran entre sus melodías más populares. La ensoñadora Chanson de nuit y su alegre homóloga Chanson de matin se interpretan a menudo juntas....

¡Arriba el telón para Henriëtte Bosmans! La Sonata para violonchelo y piano escrita en 1919 por la compositora y pianista holandesa es todo un descubrimiento: música exuberante y cantarina en un estil...

The Divertimento K. 247 in B-flat major was composed for the name day of Countess Antonia Lodron, and was first performed on 18 June 1776 in Salzburg. The little March K. 248 was presumably used to ac...

The Fantasy Pieces op. 88 are Schumann's first contribution to the genre of the piano trio and date from his very prolific 'chamber music year' 1842. However, Schumann needed an unusually long time to...

Esta obertura fue encargada por el conjunto judío "Simro", formado por seis antiguos compañeros del Conservatorio de San Petersburgo, con los que Prokófiev se reencontró en Nueva York en 1919. Querían...

As with the g minor Quartet op. 25, the origins of opus 26 reach back into the 1850s. However, it assumed its final shape only in summer and fall 1861. While in her first evaluation of the work Clara...

Los conciertos para clave de Bach, muy populares entre los pianistas, son presumiblemente reelaboraciones de piezas escritas originalmente para violín. Sin embargo, Bach consiguió trasladar las divers...

Los conciertos para clave de Bach, muy populares entre los pianistas, son presumiblemente reelaboraciones de piezas escritas originalmente para violín. Sin embargo, Bach consiguió trasladar las divers...