SKU: HL.49045267
ISBN 9790001160278. UPC: 841886029927. 9.0x12.0x0.115 inches.
Black Earth was inspired by Kara Toprak, a popular song in Turkey. The composer of the song, Asik Veysel, was the last great Turkish balladeer. Fazil Say imitates the sound of the sax, a Turkish lute, through his selection of a muted effect in the Introduction and Epilogue. In contrast, folklore, Romantic piano style and jazz are entwined in the central sections to form a large-scale outburst. Now also available in an arrangement for two pianos.
SKU: HL.49018337
ISBN 9790001171236. UPC: 884088586904. 9.0x12.0x0.22 inches.
On her 34th birthday, Clara Schumann was not only given a grand piano by her husband, but the latest music material as well. Among them was the one-movement Concert-Allegro with Introduction for Pianoforte and Orchestra Op. 134 in which the dominance of the solo instrument is even stronger than in the previous composition Introduction and Allegro appassionato Op. 92 which also consists of one movement only. With both works, Schumann continued the reformation of the solo concerto genre as intended.
SKU: HL.49019723
ISBN 9790001188074. UPC: 888680039219. 9.25x12.0x0.107 inches.
This piece dates back to Vasks' Sturm and Stress period and was premiered in 1977. Freely notated over long passages, it uses both commonly notated passages and symbols as well as clusters. Vasks uses this wide range of modern piano technique for an expressive performance of both pianists. The performers have to cope with eruptions of powerful sounds and passages of great softness, while excitement alternates with contemplation.
SKU: HL.49047061
ISBN 9781705183182. UPC: 842819116912. 9.0x12.0x0.282 inches.
SKU: HL.49002570
ISBN 9790220105852. UPC: 073999373080. 8.5x11.5x0.125 inches.
Reduction for two pianos.
SKU: HL.48013976
UPC: 073999139761. 9.0x12.25x0.177 inches.
Two Pianos - Four Hands.
SKU: HL.49013049
ISBN 9790001134064. UPC: 073999351798. 9.0x12.0x0.191 inches.
This work by Kodaly's pupil Szelenyi, published here for the first time, might be seen as something approaching the Romantic piano concerto without orchestra. Even the Fugato in this work seems to point to the Romantic tradition, recalling as it does Liszt's Sonata in B minor. The varied interplay between dramatic and lyrical moods is richly inventive. This Concertino offers (young) piano soloists the opportunity to mount the podium as an aspiring virtuoso, accompanying a second part that demonstrates symphonic pretensions. The two players are evenly matched in musical terms in the dialogue between the two pianos.
SKU: HL.49044938
ISBN 9790220126758.
Exhilarating and celebratory, the rhythmic demands of Dance Works as well as its physical nature are closer to rock, jazz and even medieval music.'Dance works' was written specifically for dance theatre and originally scored for the Steve Martland band. Martland's own arrangement for 2 pianos retains all the rhythmic power of the ensemble version but opens up new possibilities for concert performance or small scale or touring dance companies.
SKU: BT.PWM51600031
English.
Variations in C major for 4 hands WN 5. Rondo in D major for 2 pianos WN 15. Series B. Works published posthumously. Volume IX. Version with English and Polish commentary. Second piano part for Rondo in C major is included. First Edition, Foundationfor NE 2010.
SKU: HL.325449
ISBN 9781540076557. UPC: 888680986421. 9x12 inches.
Water Dances is a work scored for two pianos from 2011. Much of the work is an arrangement of the music written for the Michael Nyman Band for Peter Greenaway's 1984 film Making a Splash. The two-piano version was recorded by the Labèque sisters for their CD Minimalist Dream House on the KML/Deutsche Grammophon label.
SKU: HL.49014885
ISBN 9790220115417. 9.0x12.0x0.236 inches.
SKU: HL.50600477
8.0x11.75x0.17 inches.
Ferran Cruixent's “Binary†was commissioned by the ARD International Music Competition. The work is dedicated to a 56k Modem device. The world premiere was given during the course of the competition on 8 September 2015 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater (University of Music and Performing Arts) in Munich. “Binary†for two pianos is a one-movement work, inspired by the composer's fascination about the dangers in human dependence in technological business, such as the obsession about media in today's mechanized and computerized society. The name Binary refers to a digital representation of text and data, whose unit can take only two possible states. Binary code is a mathematical, technological language, developed by ourselves: an organic language that creates another to be described and discovered for itself. In this piece the players are asked to play in special techniques, such as “Cyber Singing†(introduced 2010 in composer's symphonic work “Cyborgâ€). “Cyber Singing†introduces a new musical technique: the audio file prepared by the composer himself is played by themusician from his mobile phone, a device commonly used for other purposes. So, it defines a new possibility of interaction between the composer and the musician, attaining genuine communication itself.
