Les tendres plaintes (for Piano Solo) as played by V�kingur �lafsson

?For me, Rameau is up there with Handel, Scarlatti, and second only to Bach,? says �lafsson. ?It is simply genius keyboard writing.? His new album ?Debussy Rameau? juxtaposes Rameau?s music with that of Debussy, describing it as a ?dialogue? between the two composers. He said that together they ?defeat time and space with music?. What follows Debussy?s tender apologies on the album are Rameau?s tender complaints in ?Les Tendres Plaintes? from his Suite in D. In fact, tenderness was also the word evoked by Debussy to describe what he admired so deeply in Rameau ? ?Delicate and charming tenderness?, to be exact. Watch V�kingur �lafsson performing Jean-Philippe Rameau?s ?Les tendres plaintes?.?�lafsson?s interpretations inhabit a unique, distinct and extraordinary world all their own.? ? Gramophone

Canon in D composed by Johann Pachelbel and arranged for piano solo by Marie-�ve Mainguy in 2021.
Level: early intermediate

The Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D minor, attributed to Alessandro Marcello, is one of the most performed oboe concertos in the repertory. It was written in the early 18th century and has become Marcello's most famous work. Bach wrote a keyboard transcription of the concerto. Here we offer an arrangement for Violoncello solo and piano based on Bach's transcription.

The Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935, is an early 18th-century concerto for oboe, strings and continuo attributed to the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello. The earliest extant manuscript containing Johann Sebastian Bach's solo keyboard arrangement of the concerto, BWV 974, dates from around 1715. As a concerto for oboe, strings and continuo its oldest extant sources date from 1717: that year it was printed in Amsterdam, and a C minor variant of the concerto, S Z799, was written down.

Bach's keyboard version was published as an arrangement of a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi in the 19th century. In 1923 the C minor version of the oboe concerto was published as a composition by Benedetto Marcello, Alessandro's brother. In the second half of the 20th century several publications indicated Alessandro again as the composer of the piece, as it had been in its early 18th-century print, and the oboe concerto was again published in its D minor version.



This arrangement was written for Piano Solo.