for Harpsichord and Strings-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called 'Scottish Collegium Musician' a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).The Concerto in F minor BWV 1056 is the fifth of the harpsichord concertos contained in the autograph score that Bach wrote out in or around 1738 (Berlin Staatsbibliothek Mus. ms. Bach P 234). It is one of those harpsichord concertos that reveal themselves to be transcriptions even though the original model is nowlost.- Urtext of the New Bach Edition- Full score & parts (BA5228) two-keyboard reduction (BA5228-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

Bach composed his 15 Two-Part Inventions or as he called them Sinfonias for Keyboard at the same time as their 15 Three-Part Counterparts. They are designed to as Bach himself says: 'To play cleanly in two voices...(and) deal correctly with three obbligato voices...but above all else to acquire a true cantabile style of playing and with it to get a good foretaste of the art of composition'.

De La Guerre's Harpsichord Pieces was composed in 1687. The compilation remains a favourite in the Harpsichord repertoire. Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) was born into an important family of musicians in Paris. Comprising four Suites de La Guerre exemplified in her compositions her own skills on the Harpsichord. Each of the Suites begin with a Prelude Allemande two Courantes Sarabande and a Gigue. The following movements include a Cannaris Chaconne Gavott and Menuet. Pieces for Harpsichord is essential to the repertoire of aspiring players of the instrument.

La cour d'organiste Antonio de Cabezón, qui a été nommé à la chapelle de la cour de la Reine Isabelle de Toledo à l'âge de 16 ans, a été considéré à juste titre par ses contemporains comme l'organiste espagnole leader et claviériste du 16 ème siècle. Ses hymnes et des versets sont basées sur courte, harmonisations décorée des tonalités psaume. Dans le tientos, la transformation du style motet vocal à un style d'écriture approprié pour les instruments à clavier est parfaitement exécuté.Cette édition Urtext contient une sélection des meilleurs Cabezon de travaux connus et se composera de quatre volumes. Il a été préparé par deux rédacteurs en chef travaillant dans les universités portugaises et espagnoles qui sont tous deux grands spécialistes des oeuvres de Cabezón et reflète les derniers résultats de recherche.- Première édition critique universitaire, des oeuvres sélectionnées par l'organiste leader espagnol- Reflète les derniers résultats de la recherche- Chaque volume avec une préface (Ger / Eng) avec des conseils sur la technique de rédaction, le commentaire critique (Ger / Eng) et l'indice de sources'Les éditeurs ont fait un excellent choix parmi le grand nombre de pièces disponibles et ont probablement fait le meilleur choix en gardant le intabulations en deux volumes distincts de la tientos et pièces liturgiques. Cette édition fortement recommandée va un long chemin à offrir un tel choix représentatif, et sera peut-être mener les amateurs d'oeuvres sélectionnées, et restera l'anthologie standard pour de nombreuses années. '(Le Diapason Août 2011) / Orgue, Piano, Clavecin

The Books of 1705-6 and 1724-This three volume edition is the first complete edition of the keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau to incorporate all the printed collections of harpsichord music published under his supervision as well as his clavier arrangement of Les Indes Galantes (In book 3 - BA6583).It also includes many new insights into performance practice (e.g. the handling of repeat signs in the original prints) and presents the music entirely in modern clefs. The result is a reliable and unique edition for today’s performers that does full justice to recent findings in historical performance practice.For the first time all accidentals and expressionmarks are reproduced exactly as they appear in the sources. All of Rameau’s written comments a key source on performance practice are reproduced in the original French with translations into German and English.Rounding off the edition are instructive facsimiles and a detailed preface in which the editor the celebrated harpsichordist and conductor Siegbert Rampe discusses the sources editorial method and important aspects of performance.Complete scholarly-critical Urtext edition in modern clefsIncludes the latest findings in performance practiceIncludes Rameau’s written comments and explanations in the original and in translations in English and GermanIdeal format (24.3 x 31 cm)

Harpsichord work - Volume 4 LP.24 by Francois Couperin is the fourth in a series of 4 volumes of suites for Harpsichord. Published in 1930 three years before Couperin’s death when he was very ill this volume initially presented some small mistakes and some white pages. It features seven Ordres from the 20th to the 27th with a total of 43 pieces. For upper-intermediate players this volume was edited by Kenneth Gilbert. François Couperin was a very famous French composer who played the Harpsichord the Organ. Coming from a famous family of musicians he was nicknamed“Couperin le Grand” ('Couperin the Great').

Edited by Alan BrownIn conjunction with MB66 this volume draws on manuscript sources of Tudor keyboard music to create a comprehensive edition of all the material which has not yet found a place in the series or in comparable library editions.First published in 1989.

Six Partitas BWV 825-830-Each one of Bach?s Six Partitas features seven great single movements predominantly in the sequence: Präludium - Allemande - Courante - Sarabande - [two free dances] - Gigue. These partitas canjustifiably be described as Bach?s ?ultimate? cycle of suites. As regards the artistic and manual demands it goes far beyond its ?English? (HN 100) and ?French? (HN 71) siblings that are also frequently played. It is nocoincidence that Bach only had these six partitas printed (1731) and what is more as ?Opus 1'.

Maria Boxall's terrific method for Harpsichord is based on proven and succesful 16th to 18th-century sources bringing them right up to date and suitable for today's players. This edition is part of the ABRSM Harpsichord syllabus grades 5 and 6.

G minor BWV 1058-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).The Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in G minor BWV 1058 is the last complete work in the original autograph score of harpsichord concertos that Bach wrote out in or around 1738 (Berlin Staatsbibliothek Mus. Ms. Bach 234). However it only came to occupy this position later when the manuscript wasbound. It stands at the very outset of the genesis of this group of works and marks the earliest stage in Bach’s efforts to transform concertos for melody instrument and strings into harpsichord concertos. In this case the original model the Concerto for Violin and Strings in A minor (BWV 1041) has survived thereby allowing us to examine Bach’s technique of arrangement in detail.- Urtext of the New Bach Edition- Full score & parts (BA5230) two-keyboard reduction (BA5230-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

E major BWV 1053-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).BWV 1053 is the second piece in the autograph score of harpsichord concertos that Bach prepared in or around 1738 (Berlin Staatsbibliothek Mus. ms. Bach P 234). It was probably transcribed from a concerto for a solo woodwind instrument although opinions differ on the original key and instrument. Bach had alreadyreworked the original concerto in two church cantatas in the autumn of 1726 (BWV 49 and BWV 169) at which time he assigned the solo part to the organ. Perhaps the original concerto is not much older than these cantatas for the siciliano slow movement is closely related in expression to many numbers from his great Passion settings.Urtext of the New Bach EditionFull score & parts (BA5225) two-keyboard reduction (BA5225-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for Harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly Violin or Oboe).- Urtext of the New Bach Edition- Full scores and performing material to the five concertos for Harpsichord and Strings BWV 1052-1056 (BA5224-BA5228) the concerto for Harpsichord two Recorders and Strings BWV 1057 (BA5229) as well as the concerto BWV 1058 (BA5230) also for Harpsichordand Strings based on the Violin concerto in A minor are available for sale.- Study score of the Complete Concertos for Keyboard format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP410)

D minor BWV 1052-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly violin or oboe).The D-minor Concerto BWV 1052 forms the opening item in Bach’s autograph score of his six harpsichord concertos BWV 1051 to BWV 1057 (Berlin Staatsbibliothek Mus. ms. Bach P 234). Bach scholars are unanimously in agreement that the piece was transcribed from a violin concerto in the same key. The originalconcerto although no longer extant today can be reconstructed with some degree of certainty from its various transcriptions.Urtext of the New Bach EditionFull score & parts (BA5224) two-keyboard reduction (BA5224-90) and study score (TP410) format 22.5 x 16.5cm (all 6 concertos) available for sale

Par PIETILA ESA. The title of Esa Pietilä?s solo harpsichord work Fata morgana (2019) refers to a special weather con-dition, which creates illusory effect of mirage-like fairy castle-like monuments in the horizon of the sea. The piece brings forth the frightening bass sonority on double manual, full size harpsichord and the brightness on the treble and makes a dialogue out of them. ?I got fasci-nated by the sonority, character and power of the low register sound on the instrument, es-pecially when used in non-traditional way and found some kind of especially delightful and outlandish cluster-mud and airy glimmering things which seem to play together?, the com-poser describes. The challenges of the piece lie in rhythmical ideas, which are surprisingly multi-faceted and in the short, improvised section. Duration: c. 6? / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Clavecin

A major BWV 1055-In early 1729 Bach became director of the so-called »Scottish Collegium Musician« a music organization of students and local citizens. The remarkable results of this undertaking are the concertos for Harpsichord. Today it is almost certain that practically all of these concertos were transcribed from concertos for melody instruments (mostly Violin or Oboe).- Urtext of the New Bach Edition- Full scores and performing material to the five concertos for Harpsichord and Strings BWV 1052-1056 (BA5224-BA5228) the concerto for Harpsichord two Recorders and Strings BWV 1057 (BA5229) as well as the concerto BWV 1058 (BA5230) also for Harpsichordand Strings based on the Violin concerto in A minor are available for sale.- Study score of the Complete Concertos for Keyboard format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP410)