Partituras para piano

With opuses 1, 2, 4, 5, and 10, this volume contains virtually all of Johannes Brahms' early piano oeuvre, with which the budding composer and pianist introduced himself to the public. The Scherzo op....

Although people might like to think that the 'English Suites' were composed after the 'French Suites', 'the temperamental and in part virtuoso flow of these Suites is more characteristic of the musica...

Composed at the end of 1785, Mozart's Piano Concerto in E-flat major forms a triumvirate with the two famous concerti in A major K. 488 and in C minor K. 491, which he completed in March of the follow...

Bach most likely composed his Toccatas in his early creative years, between 1707 and 1713; they can be seen as the products of Bach‘s own 'Sturm und Drang' period, and were not planned as an interconn...

The decisive role that Norwegian folk music played for Edvard Grieg can be felt in almost all of his works. For his Norwegian Dances op. 35, presented here in an Urtext edition, Grieg took old folk tu...

This middle piece of the early set of three early sonatas op. 2 dedicated to Joseph Haydn was probably composed in the winter of 1794/95. To this day it stands - unjustly -- in the shadow of its more...

As with the three sonatas that form opus 2, the trio of works forming opus 10, written between 1796 and 1798, offers a collection of three sonatas with entirely different characters. With its distinct...

This small volume comprises three variation cycles of Beethoven's which are brought together in Urtext editions that are technically fairly easy to master (level of difficulty 3-5). Two of them, the V...

Haydn's E-flat major Sonata is connected to no fewer than two great female musicians and musical centres: according to its autograph it was written in London in 1794 for the pianist Therese Jansen, wh...

Haydn's piano sonatas were long disseminated solely in the form of copies; it was not until 1774 that a printed edition also appeared, containing the sonatas Hob. XVI:21-26 and dedicated to Haydn's ar...

Después de sus 15 canciones campesinas húngaras (HN1404), estas Improvisaciones sobre canciones campesinas húngaras son la segunda obra de Bartók en cuyo título figuran las palabras "canciones campesi...

Concebido por primera vez en 1803/04 como movimiento lento de la Sonata para piano en do mayor op. 53 (la Sonata "Wallenstein"), el Andante resultó demasiado largo en opinión de Beethoven y fue sustit...

Arnold Schönberg's Piano Pieces op. 11 are a milestone in the development of piano music. Schönberg had also already composed other atonal works, but always for voice with sung text. By contrast the P...

Schönberg's Suite op. 25 of 1923 refers to pre-classical forms in its movement titles Präludium, Gavotte-Musette, Intermezzo, Menuett-Trio and Gigue, yet at the same time it was the first work to be...

Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata op. 143 in a minor was composed in February 1823 following his large “Wanderer Fantasy”. With its formal coherence and mature originality, the a-minor Sonata initiated a...

Liszt understood a "rhapsody" to signify the highest degree of musical freedom: a constant process of transformation and variation of themes and motifs, all bound up with constant shifts of emotion. A...

Las selecciones de números sueltos o escenas de obras escénicas a gran escala siempre han sido un medio probado de hacer accesibles las óperas o la música incidental a un público más amplio. Así, incl...

En el segundo volumen, Italie, publicado en 1858, de la trilogía Années de pèlerinage, los grandes nombres del arte y la poesía italianos ocupan un lugar central. Entre ellos se encontraba también Pet...

Charles Valentin Alkan centró toda su obra en el piano, y difícilmente se puede llenar la página más densamente de notas de lo que lo hizo Alkan. Con ello se cuenta entre los virtuosos del piano que d...

Isaac Albéniz entendió su "Suite Iberia" como "música española con un toque universal". Triunfó a la perfección con este colorido ciclo para piano, aunque al final, acosado por una grave enfermedad, t...

Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-moveme...

Las "Suites inglesas" figuran entre las cumbres de la literatura para teclado. Poseen un tono magnífico que ofrece una imagen impresionante del estilo virtuoso y suntuoso para clave que Bach tenía en...

Las "Suites inglesas" figuran entre las cumbres de la literatura para teclado. Poseen un tono magnífico que ofrece una imagen impresionante del estilo virtuoso y suntuoso para clave que Bach tenía en...

La undécima Rapsodia húngara, publicada en 1853, se basa en cuatro temas de carácter húngaro cuyo origen aún no se ha determinado: Liszt pudo haberlos anotado de oído durante su viaje a Hungría en 184...

Las "Suites inglesas" figuran entre las cumbres de la literatura para teclado. Poseen un tono magnífico que ofrece una imagen impresionante del estilo virtuoso y suntuoso para clave que Bach tenía en...