Piezas clásicas para piano

Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: ‘We should let ourselves be cradled , As if...

The tonal language of the young Richard Strauss is still characterized by the traditions of the 19th Century; indeed, the musical content of the composer's early piano works is determined to a large e...

Der erste Band dieser Reihe enthält die wegen ihrer Virtuosität berüchtigte sogenannte 'Donau-Arabeske' des polnischen Pianisten Adolf Schulz-Evler, in deren geradezu genialer Einleitung das berühmtes...

Paul Dessau, whose collaboration with Bertolt Brecht made a significant impression in the consciousness of music-lovers, is an extremely versatile composer. Two short pieces from his piano works are n...

Early on in his remarkable career as a concert pianist Glenn Gould composed a few works of his own: a String Quartet (ED 8764), Piano Pieces (ED 8319) and the Sonata in two movements presented here. W...

Legendär sind seine Bach-Interpretationen. Doch der exzentrische Pianist Glenn Gould schrieb auch Klavierbearbeitungen von Orchesterwerken, die in ihrer freien Gestaltung eigenständige und originelle...

Erstausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag.

Xiaogang Ye (b. 1955) is one of the best-known composers in China. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music of China, won First Prize in the Alexander Tscherepnin Composition Competition and at...

This 'Fantasia in G' was only recently discovered among the last manuscripts to be examined in the Nino Rota archive in Venice. Together with the '15 Preludes' (ED 9386), it is one of the few works by...

This 'Fantasia in G' was only recently discovered among the last manuscripts to be examined in the Nino Rota archive in Venice. Together with the '15 Preludes' (ED 9386), it is one of the few works by...

With his five piano concertos, his sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues, Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most eminent composers of piano music of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the firstperform...

With his five piano concertos, his sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues, Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most eminent composers of piano music of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the firstperform...

Dvorák's Waltzes and Mazurkas prove to be a successfully contrived balancing act between stylised composition and musical immediacy. The music critic Louis Ehlert once wrote of Dvorák's Slavonic Dance...

The studies and study works by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) are part of the standard repertoire of piano lessons. These collections count among the most popular and most important works in piano education.

Czerny has been underestimated as a composer of studies for a long time. In the meantime, however, his studies are used more and more in lessons because he is a real master in tackling technical and m...

The studies and study works by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) are part of the standard repertoire of piano lessons. These collections count among the most popular and most important works in piano education.

Musical birthday greetings on the occasion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday - composed in Mozart's style and arranged by the well-known entertainer and cabaret artist Dietrich Paul, aka Pia...

Musical birthday greetings on the occasion of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday - composed in Mozart's style and arranged by the well-known entertainer and cabaret artist Dietrich Paul, aka "Pi...

Diese Drei Walzer, zu festlichen Anlässen komponiert, voller Anspielungen für die Widmungsträger, sind nicht schwer zu realisieren und tragen die unverwechselbare Handschrift Bertold Hummels - einer s...

Improvised and also composed solo cadenzas, normally occuring towards the end of a bravura aria or an instrumental concerto movement, have existed since the late 16th century. They provide the perform...

In the 19th century, this cycle of variations counted among the most famous piano works of Schumann and was part of the standard repertoire for two pianos. Created in 1843, this work was played by Cla...

6 well-known themes from Mozart's 'Magic Flute', in easy arrangements by Beethoven's teacher C.G. Neefe - with these three names, we are right in the middle of Viennese Classicism. The authentic arran...