SKU: HL.49030419

ISBN 9790220119507. UPC: 884088053000. 9.0x12.0x0.426 inches.

SKU: M7.DOHR-98550

ISBN 9790202005507.

Max Regers Auseinandersetzung mit der Musik Richard Wagners geht bis in seine frühe Jugend zurück. 1888 erlebte er in Bayreuth Aufführungen von Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg unter Hans Richter und Parsifal unter Felix Mottl. Bis an sein Lebensende blieb Wagner für Reger einer der größten Komponisten, häufig dirigierte er dessen Vorspiele in Konzerten. 1909 trat Regers Verleger mit Blick auf das kommende Wagnerjahr 1913 erstmals an den Komponisten heran und bat ihn, Orchesterstücke Wagners für Klavier einzurichten. Wegen verschiedener Verpflichtungen und gesundheitlicher Probleme konnte Reger die Bearbeitungen erst 1913 bzw. 1914 fertigstellen. Die Bearbeitungen wurden, bedingt durch die Besetzung mit zwei Klavieren, eher für den Konzertgebrauch konzipiert.

SKU: HL.49004433

ISBN 9790001046046. UPC: 073999860832. 9.0x12.0x0.326 inches.

SKU: HL.49005580

ISBN 9790001060103. UPC: 884088048556. 9.0x12.0x0.161 inches.

SKU: HL.49005685

ISBN 9790001061254. UPC: 884088072452. 12.5x8.75x0.428 inches.

In January 1964 Bernd Alois Zimmermann interrupted the completion of his opera Die Soldaten [The Soldiers] in order to rearrange his orchestral work Dialoge for two pianos. Monologe takes up the original material but develops it towards a different direction: Zimmermann's collage technique based on quotations extends over the entire musical setting so that it is not only Mozart (Piano Concerto in C major KV 467) who has his say but Beethoven, Messiaen and Bach as well. Monologe is a piece for two pianists; real monologues of these pianists who, though simultaneously, [...] do not always play at the same time; [...] losing themselves in their own thoughts, as it were. -Zimmermann.

SKU: HL.14018850

ISBN 9780711986008. 9.0x12.0x0.295 inches.

The Prelude, Hymn And Toccata 1987 is dedicated to, and was commissioned by the Nettle-Markham Piano Duo. It was the second work to have been written for them by the composer, the first being the Sonata For Piano Duet Op.92. This twenty minute work begins with Leighton's typical preludial double-dotted rhythms and contrapuntal textures; it develops into dark, passionate music and erupts into single and double cadenzas. The gentle Hymn is ushered in quietly and unfolds in long, rhapsodic sections, building up to more climactic cadenzas before dissolving gradually to an ethereal conclusion. The Toccata finale shows Leighton's masterly piano writing and contrasts biting, rhythmic motifs with sweeping, yearning elegiac phrases.

SKU: HL.14034688

Variations, Nocturne & Finale On An English Sea-Song for Piano and Orchestra Op.60. Orchestral part arranged for a second Piano by David Lyon.

After a brief introduction to the Orchestra, the melody of an eighteenth century whalermen's ballad with verse and refrain 'Blow Ye Winds', is given out, the verse by the Piano, the refrain divided between Orchestra and Piano. Then follow thirteen variations, the last three being pianistic etudes, accompanied Orchestrally. The nocturne evokes the nostalgia of a long voyage and the finale the excitement, dangers and glory of a triumphant chase. In these movements, as well as in the variations, the entiremusical material is derived from the basic theme. The work is designed as a virtuoso concert-piece for the pianist, with supporting Orchestral flashes of colour and points of contrast.