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

Choralvorspiel ?Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme?

Trancribed By Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni - For Piano

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 adheres pointedly to the melodic and rhythmic contours of one of Bach?s most indelible chorales.

"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (literally: Awake, the voice is calling us) is a Lutheran hymn written in German by Philipp Nicolai, first published in 1599 together with "Wie sch�n leuchtet der Morgenstern". It appears in German hymnals and in several English hymnals in translations such as "Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying" (Catherine Winkworth, "Wake, O wake! with tidings thrilling" (Francis Crawford Burkitt, 1906), and "Up! Awake! From Highest Steeple" (George Ratcliffe Woodward, 1908). Johann Sebastian Bach based a chorale cantata on the hymn, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140, one of its many settings for organ and for voices.

Flavio Regis Cunha is a pianist, conductor and composer from S�o Paulo - Brasil. He is currently finishing his doctorate at Mackenzie Presbyterian University where he works as conductor of the Mackenzie University Orchestra and resident composer. For more arrangements like this, works by commission or for any questions you can contact Flavio Regis Cunha at his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/flavioregiscunha

Pachelbel?s famous Canon was popular during his lifetime, but then slipped into obscurity for centuries before making a comeback in the 1970s and '80s. Since then it has frequently been used for weddings and funerals and has led to a variety of pop song adaptations. This early intermediate piano solo remix starts out with the classic slow chord progression of the original, then shifts gears to a driving rock beat that would certainly liven up a funeral. 4 pages. Performance time: approximately 2:10.