SKU: CY.CC2711

Four Pieces from Opus 11 arranged for Euphonium and Piano by Ralph Sauer are originally from a group of seven pieces for solo Piano written between 1917 and 1918, except for movement 3, Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville (It rains in my heart like it rains in the city) from 1910.

The writing is very expressive and dark, possibly evoking the mood of Europe in the throes of great upheavals and the Great War.

This item is now available with parts in bass and treble clef.

About 12 minutes in length, these four movements are appropriate for advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC2586

Ralph Sauer has beautifully arranged four movements from Opus 40 for Euphonium and Piano:
1. Chanson Triste
2. Valse
3. Rêverie interrompue
4. Danse russe
These four movements totalling 14 minutes of music offer the artist a great deal of musical contrasts, ranging from lyrical, dramatic, dance-like, etc.
An excellent collection of the Russian master's music for the Euphonium.

SKU: CY.CC2602

These are fifteen short, but intense works by Leos Janacek. This music is indeed a great gift to the Euphonium solo literature by Mr. Sauer.

These pieces can be performed by intermediate to advanced performers and are about 9 minutes total in length.

Below are a few notes from the arrangement by Ralph Sauer.

Originally for solo piano, the Fifteen Moravian Folksongs are remarkable for their musicality as well as their brevity - the only notated, repeated passage in the entire work is in Number 5. Because Janacek included the text in his piano score (with no indication that it should be sung), and the fact that there are, in many cases, indications that the text is only a first verse, I have included some additional repeats.

The mp3 sound sample is from a recital at the 2012 Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Performance by Ralph Sauer, trombone and Natasha Kislenko, piano.

SKU: CY.CC2477

* Also known as Four Grandmother Songs and Old Granny Tales, this work was composed in New York in 1918 at the beginning of the composer's self-imposed exile from Russia after its Revolution. * These short pieces were immediately successful and were performed worldwide. * In the epigraph to this work Prokofiev wrote, Some recollections had become half erased from her memory; others will never be erased. * Mr. Sauer once again, has produced a magnificent work for Euphonium & Piano. * This work with its great character is a joy to perform, about 8 - 9 minutes in length for moderately advanced performers. .

SKU: CY.CC2656

--This work is the third from a collection of five short pieces Beethoven wrote for Flotenuhr or mechanical clock, discovered a number of years after his death.

--Their true origin was uncovered by Professor Albert Kopfermann, a German musician/librarian, who solved the mystery about their instrumentation.

--This delightful Allegro movement has been transposed into the key of D from G and arranged for moderately advanced performers by Ralph Sauer.

--Your audience will love this little gem as the clock slows down and stops before the final cadence. It will make a great encore piece.

SKU: CY.CC2563

The Six Romances, Op. 76 for Euphonium and Piano were originally composed for solo Piano, each one being dedicated to a different gentleman.

The six movements are titled:

1. Souvenance

2. elevation

3. Idylle

4. eglogue

5. Meditation

6. Chanson Bretonne

The length of the entire six movement suite is about 16.5 minutes and playable by advanced performers.

The sound samples are excerpts from a masterclass at the 2012 Music Academy of the West with Steven Warren, Trombonist and Miles Fellenberg, Piano performing movements 1-3 and Trombonist Kelton Koch, Trombonist and Yu Ra Kim, Piano performing movements 4-6.

SKU: CY.CC2974

ISBN 9790530057933.

Massenet's Three Pieces for Piano, Four Hands Opus 11 was published in 1867. Two of the pieces were adapted for Cello in 1877. Mr. Sauer has arranged these two pieces for Euphonium bass clef and Piano:
1. Andante sostenuto
2. Allegretto vivo scherzando
The Andante is flowing and lyrical with the Allegretto being a lively 6/8 dance in A-B-A form.
The two movements total about 5 minutes and are appropriate for advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC2652

British composer Frank Bridge is mainly remembered for his beautiful chamber music. The Four Pieces from 1912 are originally for Violin and Piano and are titled:
1. Meditation
2. Spring Song
3. Lullaby
4. Country Dance
Mr. Sauer has done a beautiful job scoring these works for Euphonium. There is a wonderful simplicity to Bridge's music, a simplicity that was lost forever just two years later at the beginning of the Great War, WW I. Bridge's most famous composition student was Benjamin Britten, who wrote one of his greatest works as an homage to Bridge.

SKU: CY.CC2833

Danses Roumaines by Canteloube are six Romanian dances for Piano written in 1930 after folk songs collected by Michel Vulpesco.

The composer is best known for his collection of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region of France titled Chants d'Auvergne

The movements in order are:

1. Hora de Jalomitza
2. Dame Jeanne (Lady Jean)
3. Les Olteniens sont partis pour faucher
4. Helene (Helen)
5. Hora de la mariee (The Marriage Dance)
6. A Ceinture Rouge (A Red Belt)

About 18 minutes in length, these six movements are suitable for advanced performers.