Qui ne connaît pas la Chaconne de Jean-Sébastien Bach, le morceau qui clôt sa Partita en ré mineur pour violon solo? Les compositeurs tentèrent sans cesse de s?approprier pour d?autres instruments ce morceau exceptionnel.

L?arrangement le plus connu est certainement celui de Ferrucio Busoni.

Sans trop s?éloigner de l?original de Bach, Busoni adapta aux possibilités de l?instrument à clavier la virtuosité du violon, parvenant ainsi à créer un morceau pour piano qui tire profit, de manière tout aussi géniale, des ressources offertes par le piano moderne.

En plus des sources traditionnelles, nous avons, pour notre édition Urtext, examiné pour la première fois de manière si approfondie un rouleau pour piano, sur lequel on entend Busoni lui-même.

Les doigtés sont de la plume de nul autre que Marc-André Hamelin. / Partition /

Carl Nielsen's Chaconne Op.32 for Piano solo dating from 1916. The present score is a photographic reproduction of the work as it appears in Carl Nielsen Works - Published by the Carl Nielsen Edition The Royal Library Copenhagen - Piano and Organ Works Series II. Vol. 12  

Carl Nielsen is doubtlessly one of Denmark???s most important and popular composers. This is no more evident than in his 1916 work for Piano Solo Chaconne Op.32 which followed a seventeen-year gap in his compositions for that instrument. It is a decidedly dynamic work in constant motion from the moment the simple opening theme begins through the crescendo and to the winding down and end of this piece. The twenty variations that form the core of this piece themselves have a varied range sometimes comparatively easy showing Bach???s influence other times he uses highly complex contrasts. This is a fine example of Nielsen???s work and uses mood and texture togreat effect making it ideal for concert or recital performance whilst the variations make it a clever training manual.

One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius, Elgar, Enesco, Mahler and Schoenberg. A student of Liszt (and one of the teachers of Rachmaninoff), Siloti is a central figure in the development of the great age of the piano virtuoso. As with many of his colleagues, transcribing and arranging existing music for the piano was a major part of Siloti's activity, and since he madeno recordings, his published transcriptions are one of the few existing keys we have to his musical taste and philosophy. In an extended biographical essay, Dr. Charles Barber explores this issue and writes cogently about the style and influence of this remarkable man. The Alexander Siloti Collection is dominated by Siloti's remarkable transcriptions and arrangements of the music of J.S. Bach, notable particularly for their pianistic character and faithfulness to the unique genetic code of Bach's design. Some of the Bach works included are: Prelude in B Minor, BWV855a, Gigue from Suite in Bb Major, Chaconne in D Minor, the Organ Preludes in E Minor and G Minor and the celebrated Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565. Music by Gluck, Mozart and Chopin is also contained in this generous compilation of pianistic wizardry. This addition to The Master's Collection is likely to be one of the most talked about piano folios of the year. (288 pages, smythe sewn binding).Prelude in B MinorAdagioAirChaconne in D MinorGigueAndanteFantasia in C MinorOrgan Prelude in E MinorParaphraseOrgan Prelude in G MinorPreludePrelude from Cantata No. 29Prelude from Cantata No. 35SicilianoToccata and Fugue in D MinorMelodyVariationsVariations in F MajorEtude No. 25 in F MinorScherzo in B-flat MinorAu bord d'une sourceAu lac de WallenstadtConsolation No. 3 in D-flat MajorConcert Etude in D-flat MajorSposalizioIl PenserosoSursum CordaLe cygneHumoresqueTheme original et variationsA Song of IndiaFour Russian Folk SongsFour Russian Folk SongsFour Russian Folk SongsTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesNo. 3. On the Beautiful Blue DanubeTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesTwelve Themes from Famous WaltzesEtude in C-sharp MinorPoemeRomanzePrelude in G-sharp Minor / Piano / Carl Fischer

Volume 4 of the Barenreiter Urtext Edition of Handel's Keyboard Works. This volume concentrates on another selection of miscellaneous suites and pieces for solo Piano edited by Terence Best. Suite C-dur HWV 443 Partita G-dur HWV 450 Prélude d-moll HWV 563 Prélude e Capriccio G-dur HWV 571 Ouverture (Ouverture Entrée Chaconne) g-moll HWV 453 Preludio d-moll HWV 564 Allegro C-dur HWV472 Chaconne F-dur (für zweimanualiges Cembalo) HWV 485 Suite d-moll HWV 448 Suite d-moll HWV 449 Sonatina d-moll HWV 581 Allemande a-moll HWV478 Fuga F-dur HWV 611 Chaconne g-moll HWV 486 Partita c-moll HWV 444 Suite c-moll HWV 445 Prélude-Allegro a-moll HWV 576 Air g-moll HWV 467 Toccata g-moll HWV 586 Sonatina g-moll 583 Sonata g-moll HWV 580 Concerto G-dur HWV 487 Air B-dur HWV 471 Preludium F-dur HWV 567 Preludium f-moll HWV 568 Prélude g-moll HWV 573 Prélude E-dur HWV 566 Air g-moll (für zweimanualiges Cembalo) HWV 466 Air B-dur (für zweimanualiges Cembalo) HWV 470 Impertinence g-moll HWV 494 Air und zwei Doubles F-dur HWV 465 Allegro d-moll HWV 475 Courante h-moll HWV 489 Anhang: Air c-moll HWV 458 Sonatina a-moll HWV 584 Aria c-moll HWV459 459

Ferruccio Busoni Préludes de chorals (Johann Sebastian Bach) Editeur: Christian Schaper, Ullrich Scheideler Doigtés: Marc-André Hamelin Les dix Préludes de chorals sont, avec la Chaconne pour violon seul, les transcriptions pour piano d??uvres de J. S. Bach les plus connues de la main de Busoni. Contrairement à la Chaconne que Busoni destina au concert, il transcrivit les Préludes de chorals en «style de chambre». Une grande partie de ce cosmos organo-pianistique convient aussi aux pianistes amateurs avancés. Nous publions pour la première fois la version de dernière main de Busoni en édition Urtext moderne, à laquelle s?ajoutent les précieux doigtés de Marc-André Hamelin. L?annexe contient en plus un onzième Prélude de choral, jamais publié auparavant: la tentative de Busoni de transcrire «Aus tiefer Not». Le compositeur lui-même déclara que l?exécution de cette polyphonie à six voix «exige le maximum de l'interprète» ? mais jugez vous-même!

Arrangement for Piano-Aside from the Violin Chaconne (HN 557) and the ten Chorale Preludes for Organ (HN 1293) the Prelude and Fugue in D major ranks among the best-known Piano transcriptions Busoni fashioned from J. S. Bach?s works. Considerable evidence suggests that he viewed these three pieces as paradigmatic examples of his transcription technique. Busoni?s explicit labelling of the Prelude and Fugue ?for concert performance? in the title already serves as an indication of the heightened virtuosic requirements. And indeed here Busoni demands that the pianist have perfectly mastered the keyboard always with the aim of delegating to the Piano effectively but still in the spirit of Bach the mighty sound-world of the Organ work. This Urtext edition is heartily recommended to all those pianists who have ever wanted finally to pull out all the stops on the Piano.

Partition pour pianoNombre de pages : 6 Niveau : 2Contenu :Chaconne pour l'étoile - Berceuse - Le Papa - Ballet de fées

Robert Saxton's Hortus Musicae Book 1 was commissioned by Ian Richie for the 2013 City of London Festival with funds provided by the John S. Cohen Foundation. The first performance was given by Clare Hammond on June 24th 2013 at the church of St Mary Le Bow. The title less 'literal' in Latin than in the vernacular refers to the idea of an allegorical/metaphysical garden (reference to a 'real' or existing garden might be implied by Hortus Musicus) with various facets. The titles of the individual pieces/movements with their respective garden image are as follows: 1) Hortus Somniorum: afleeting vision of a 'magical' garden 2) Hortus Temporis: a reflection of/on the floral clock described by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in his [metaphysical] poem The Garden: How well the skilful gardener drewOf flowers and herbs this dial newWhere from above the milder sunDoes through a fragrant zodiac run;And as it works the industrious beeComputes its time as well as we.How could such sweet and wholesome hoursBe reckoned but with herbs and flowers! 3) Hortus Cantus: A garden in which nature 'sings' (praises) in the manner of a 'chorale prelude' and ending with the cantus firmus transformed into bells. 4) Hortus Infinitatis: A meditative/formal garden representing Time suspended in the form of a palindromic prolation canon combined with a harmonic ground (chaconne). 5) Saltatio Hortensis: A (summer) garden of dancing celebratory nature. Its essence (and that of the entire cycle both metaphorically and structurally/formally) is summed up in words spoken by Miranda in WH Auden's 1944 Tempest [Shakespeare]-inspired poem The Sea And The Mirror;So to remember our changing garden weAre linked as children in a circle dancing. Duration: 15

Here for the first time in a popularly accessible edition are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Handelgesellschaft edition including eight 'Great Suites' and 'Fugue In A Minor'. For this new edition the pieces have been rearranged and retitled according to the latest scholarly sequences found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Students and scholars will find many of the ideas Handel sketched here expanded and reworked in later chamber and orchestral works and in the opera dance movements; musicians and every Baroque music lover will see in these neglected pieces 'a Protean Fluidity' (New Grove) worthyof the great composer and more than worthy of any musical library.

[Klaviersuiten und Klavierstücke (London 1733)] / Classique / Editeur : Ellwood Derr / Doigtés : Klaus Schilde / Partition / Broché / Edition Urtext