Hans Abrahamsen's Concerto For Piano And Orchestra was composed in 1999 by commission for the BIT-20 Ensemble. A complex and multi-layered work opening with highly minimal material and very slowly building to an ecstatic frenzy across the four movements. As the piece progresses Abrahamsen has also included some significant nods towards composers Gyorgy Ligeti (a former teacher of the composer) and Gustav Mahler.The work was premiered at the Ultima Festival in Oslo in 2000 with Anne Marie Abildskov as soloist. I Allegro Volante e nervoso II Adagio innocente e semplice III Tempo de grandegioia IV Fluente ma tranquillo Programmenote: ???The piano concerto starts entirely as I usually start with this filigree in the piano and many simultaneous layers ??? Hans Abrahamsen has explained ???The beginning is music that could continue almost minimalistically ad infinitum. But it doesn???t. Instead it has a seizure after just thirty seconds. It literally comes to a halt!???There is no programmatic structure behind the four-movement course of the concerto but a romantically minded listener may be tempted to interpret the development from a quick stalling of the familiar through the introduction (by the lyrical second movement) of something much more ???innocent and simple??? as it says - something feminine one feels like adding - to the third movement???s flashing firework display of a scherzo which draws the curtain aside for a liberating rush of joy as life after the advent of love. However the undersigned assumes full responsibility for this interpretation.The piano soloist is the undisputed main character in the concerto and plays almost constantly in the first three movements. It is only in the fourth movement that she takes a break and listens. ???The piano stirs up an anthill??? is Hans Abrahamsen???s own description ???and it becomes almost operatic! It is as if the music is about to fall right out over the edge of the abyss at the drastic general

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ?Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain works such as ?Preciosa', ?Oberon', and ?Euryanthe', the overtures, solo concertos and piano sonatas, the lieder and chamber works enjoyed great popularity and were widely known in Germany and abroad as late as the second half of the 19th century. However, any chance of a revival of Weber's influential and substantial oeuvre was wasted in the 1920s, when a complete edition - begun by Hans Joachim Moser and with potential contributors including Wilhelm Kempff, Hans Pfitzner, Max von Schillings, Fritz Stein and Richard Strauss - failed after the third volume.Ever since there have been numerous attempts to restart a complete edition of Weber's works, but as this kind of project would have required the co-operation of scholars from both sides of the inter-German border, the political situation after 1945 was not conducive to any such enterprise. Careful negotiations led to the first tangible steps in the 1980s. The intention, right from the beginning, was to place Weber's work in context, and not to separate his musical output from his influential work as a writer, critic and organiser in the musical field, but to publish his compositions together with his letters, diaries and other literary output as the best way to document the cross-fertilisation between his musical, literary and practical activities.Since the German re-unification both working-parties concerned - at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and at the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Detmold/Paderborn - have co-operated on the complete edition of the musical works (c. 45 volumes in 10 series: sacred music - cantatas, odes and other occasional works - stage works - lieder and vocal works - orchestral works - chamber music - music for piano - piano reductions - miscellanea, arrangements and orchestrations - works of doubtful attribution). The diaries (6-8 vols.) are edited in Berlin and the letters (8-10 vols.) and other writings (2 vols.) in Detmold. This complete edition aims to be a reliable basis of scholarly debate as well as for the authentic performance practice of Carl Maria von Weber's music. Conforming to the standards of recent historico-critical editions, the textual material will be based on all available authentic sources, accompanied by a detailed documentation of the genesis and a list of variants for each work. The musicological importance of the works will be evaluated by placing them in their historical context, the presentation of their genesis, history and Critical Commentaries. The letters, writings and diaries will be treated as inter-related and relevant to each other in the commentaries, therefore readers should benefit from a wealth of concise information and cross-references. / Piano Et Orchestre

Howells's second Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society and premiered at the Queen's Hall London on 27 April 1925. The second Piano Concerto highlights how far Howells has travelled stylistically since his first Piano Concerto of 1914 marking his mature style his courage in innovation and his sense of drama and colour in his use of orchestration.

Urtext edition study score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 In E-Flat Op.73.Features:Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarshipAn ideal reference edition for pianists students conductors and librariesEach score contains an introduction by Barry Cooper (Ger/Eng)Format 17.5 x 22.5 cmBarenreiter has now published the scores Critical Commentaries and the complete performance material (BA 9021-9025) as well as a boxed set of study score editions (TP 920) to all five of Beethoven’s Piano concertos. The study scores can now also be purchasedindividually.The musical text reflects a meticulous examination of every surviving source resulting in Urtext editions at the highest possible level. The study scores are supplemented by introductions by Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper on the genesis of the concertos as well as forewords by the renowned editor Jonathan Del Mar with descriptions of the sources and the editorial method.

Urtext edition study score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.3 In C Minor Op.37.Features:Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarshipAn ideal reference edition for pianists students conductors and librariesEach score contains an introduction by Barry Cooper (Ger/Eng)Format 17.5 x 22.5 cmBarenreiter has now published the scores Critical Commentaries and the complete performance material (BA 9021-9025) as well as a boxed set of study score editions (TP 920) to all five of Beethoven’s Piano concertos. The study scores can now also be purchasedindividually.The musical text reflects a meticulous examination of every surviving source resulting in Urtext editions at the highest possible level. The study scores are supplemented by introductions by Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper on the genesis of the concertos as well as forewords by the renowned editor Jonathan Del Mar with descriptions of the sources and the editorial method.

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Le nouveau Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) est conçu comme une édition historico-critique des oeuvres recueillies. Ils seront soigneusement étudiés et préparés selon des techniques musicologiques et rédactionnelles actuelles et présentés dans leur intégralité. Brouillons, des croquis et des fragments, bref, tout ce qui est parvenu à nous comme étant authentiquement par Schumann et qui, dans la plupart des cas, a été délibérément préservé par lui, seront rassemblées, évalué quant à son importance et documentés dans une forme ou une autre, dans l'édition des oeuvres complètes.C'est le but de l'édition de reproduire des textes authentiques qui - après avoir corrigé copistes, copies et d'impression des erreurs et éradiquées ajouts et autres corruptions textuelles - aborderont aussi étroitement que possible l'intention des originaux.L'édition critique formeront la base du matériel de rendement précis pour le travail de Robert Schumann./ Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre

Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1468-Originally a ballet score this 30' work is scored with strings and consists of three movements:'cumnock fair': A 12-minute fantasy based on dance melodies by the 18th-century Cumnock composer John French. The moods range widely from playful rustic archaic ungainly dreamy boisterous stately brutal and grotesque to mysterious and unnerving.'shambards'': Memories of Burnsian folksong are interrupted by new dance tunes built on fragments from the Mad Scene from Act 3 of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor based on the novel by Walter Scott.'shamnation'. Low throbbing in the piano becomes a drumbeat to accompany a fast violin reel using three tunesand following a traditional 8-bar structure. The solo piano part emerges as a counterpoint to the Scottish themes after which the music winds its way through many different keys.

Piano Concerto g minor op. 33-Composé rapidement puis «fignolé» avec un soin méticuleux le Concerto pour piano en sol mineur de Dvorák est l?une des ?uvres majeures de la littérature pour piano tchèque. Le compositeur l?écrit en 1876 en deux mois à peine mais son travail de finition s?étend sur sept ans jusqu?au premier tirage. Rien d?étonnant donc à ce que la partition manuscrite de Dvorák soit surchargée de modifications et de corrections. Son autographe de 141 pages reflète de façon frappante ce travail de composition extraordinairement complexe: outre la notation initiale en effet il renferme diverses corrections effectuées au crayon au crayon rouge et bleu ou encore à l?encre rouge- en outre quelques passages sont recouverts d?une nouvelle version.La partition se trouvait jusqu?en 1990 en possession des héritiers de Dvorák. À l?instigation du pianiste András Schiff et grâce à son généreux appui financier nous présentons pour la première fois sous la forme d?une reproduction de grande qualité comparable dans les moindres détails à l?original le fac-similé complet de ce document musical. Il invite à découvrir et à revivre les différentes étapes du processus de composition. Et qui plus est c?est un cadeau idéal pour 2004 l?«année Dvorák» (? mais aussi bien sûr pour après ?).

Clara Wieck’s sincerest wish was that her future husband Robert Schumann turn his extraordinary genius toward the larger and more challenging task of composing orchestral music. Confiding in her diary in 1839 just one year before her marriage she explained that “it would be best if he composed for Orchestra: his imagination cannot find sufficient scope in the Piano…” In the years that followed their marriage Robert Schumann continued to devote much of his attention to Piano music but he also found the time to comply with his beloved Clara’s wish by creating a number of musical pieces composed specifically for Piano andOrchestra. Although Schumann’s genius is most in evidence in his masterful solo Piano compositions and superb lieder his lively and provocative imagination manifests itself with equal aplomb in the works composed for Piano and Orchestra. The same compelling romantic and lyrical qualities that captivate lovers of Schumann’s Piano music are evident in these compositions. Three of his finest are presented here in full score including the A Minor Piano Concerto one of the most popular and frequently performed concertos ever written. All demonstrate his remarkably innovative approach to music diverting substantially from the classic models of the day and display his immense creativity as well as his warmth and sensitivity. Included in this collection of Schumann’s compositions for Piano and Orchestra are: Piano Concerto In A minor Op. 54 (published 1846) Concertstück Op.92 (Introduction and Allegro appassionato; published 1852) Introduction and Allegro Op. 134 (published 1855) These three works by one of the greatest masters of romanticism will delight musicians music lovers and students as well as devotees of Schumann. Pianists will be especially pleased to have these appealing Schumann works in one convenient edition available at