SKU: HL.48024837
UPC: 840126908770.
The piece was composed for the project of the pianist Susanne Kessel: Commissioned until Beethoven's 250th birthday in 2020, she plays and releases new piano pieces of 250 contemporary composers of new electronic music, jazz, pop and film music which all refer to Beethoven and his works. Despite the historical distance, York Holler finds an intellectual proximity to his predecessor with regard to the permanent development. While sometimes reaching enormous dimensions in Beethoven's symphonies, the principle is compressed by Holler in his composed homage into three minutes. As a basis he uses two contrasting motifs which are derived from thetone letters of Beethoven's name.
SKU: HL.49017545
ISBN 9790001149570. UPC: 840126938890. 9.0x12.0x0.075 inches.
Niels Gade (1817-1890), who was born in Copenhagen and spent most of his life there, went to Leipzig in 1843 for further training on a royal scholarship. There he became friends with Robert Schumann and found an eager patron in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He is regarded as the most important figure of the Danish musical scene in the 19th century.His charming cycle 'Der Kinder Christabend' was published in 1859 with titles and texts in Danish. Although the first German edition was published in Leipzig in 1860, the English edition was not published in London until 1880. With his five mood pictures 'Weihnachts-Glocken' - 'Weihnachtsbaum-Einzugs-Marsch' - 'Ringeltanz der Knaben' - 'Tanz der kleinen Madchen' - 'Gute Nacht', Gade portrays the typical atmosphere of a middle-class Christmas evening in the 19th century.
SKU: FG.55011-517-0
ISBN 9790550115170.
Kalevi Aho's Piano Sonata No. 2 Hommage a Beethoven (2016) is a tribute to that great giant of the piano sonata, Beethoven. The very opening bars already allude to the older master's most mammoth sonata, the Hammerklavier, op. 106. In many places, Aho has spread the texture over three staves in his search for a mighty sound. The third movement is in the nature of a scherzo, drawing on musical material from the second movement of the Hammerklavier. There are no allusions to Beethoven in the fourth movement, but its texture, with bells, is somehow evocative of Mussorgsky's Great Gate of Kiev. The last movement gathers the sonata's motifs together again until, little by little, they disperse and chirruping birdsong leads the sonata to an enigmatic conclusion. The sonata is dedicated to Sonja Fraki, who premiered the work at Mantta Music Festival in August 2018.
SKU: BT.BWH004913
Tobias Matthay (1858-1945) was a British pianist, composer and pedagogue. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he later taught from 1876-1925. In 1905 he opened his own Piano school, which remained highlypopular until the outbreak of the Second World War. Principles Of Fingering And Laws Of Pedalling was first published in 1908, and is his fifth educational Piano work. It includes extracts from MuscularRelaxation Studies. Both were very successful, and influenced Piano technique and teaching methods throughout the English-speaking world.
SKU: HL.14020312
ISBN 9781844492619. 9.75x13.75x0.113 inches.
Stuart MacRae's Piano Sonata was commissioned by the City Music Society and first performed by Philip Fowke at a City Music Society lunchtime concert on 27 October 1998. The composer writes: 'By the time I started writing the Piano Sonata in 1998 I had been thinking for a while about the possibilities of making works out of two separate parts which would balance one another. In order for this to be effective the two parts would have to be more or less self-sufficient, and have their own internal balance: in fact the first movement has been performed several times as a piece in its own right; the second movement has its own material until near the end when a sort of coda mixes the material from the two movements (albeit inconclusively).'.
SKU: HL.48182061
UPC: 888680850685. 9.0x12.0x0.237 inches.
“Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is known for his unique composition style. Incorporating complex rhythms, harmony, melodies and his passion for ornithology, his Catalogue of Birds for Piano is no exception to the composer's popular, distinctive style. Messiaen became fascinated by birdsong from an early age, however, it wasn't until the 1950s that he took his passion to a new level, incorporating birdsong in to all of his compositions. Catalogue of Birds, composed in 1958, comprises thirteen movements, each depicting a specific bird. The first volume contains the first three movements; 1) The Alpine Chough, 2) The Oriole, and 3) The Blue Merle. Catalogue of Birds is essential to all advanced pianists seeking to expand and vary their repertoire.â€.
SKU: HL.48182064
UPC: 888680850715. 9.0x12.0x0.136 inches.
â??Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is known for his unique composition style. Incorporating complex rhythms, harmony, melodies and his passion for ornithology, his Catalogue of Birds for Piano is no exception to the composer's popular, distinctive style. Messiaen became fascinated by birdsong from an early age, however, it wasn't until the 1950s that he took his passion to a new level, incorporating birdsong into all of his compositions. Catalogue of Birds, composed in 1958, comprises thirteen movements, each depicting a specific bird. The third volume contains movements five and six; Tawny Owl and Woodlark. Catalogue of Birds is essential to all advanced pianists seeking to expand and vary their repertoire.â?.
SKU: HL.48182063
UPC: 888680850708. 9.0x12.0x0.13 inches.
“Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is known for his unique composition style. Incorporating complex rhythms, harmony, melodies and his passion for ornithology, his Catalogue of Birds for Piano is no exception to the composer's popular, distinctive style. Messiaen became fascinated by birdsong from an early age, however, it wasn't until the 1950s that he took his passion to a new level, incorporating birdsong into all of his compositions. Catalogue of Birds, composed in 1958, comprises thirteen movements, each depicting a specific bird. The second volume contains movement four; The Black-eared Wheatear. Catalogue of Birds is essential to all advanced pianists seeking to expand and vary their repertoire.â€.
SKU: FA.MFGT055
8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Germaine Tailleferre first met Charlie Chaplin when she was living in New York City with her first husband Ralph Barton. Tailleferre and Chaplin spent a great deal of time improvising at the piano and Tailleferre convinced him to write his own themes for the music he used in his films. After her divorce from Ralph Barton, she did not see Chaplin until the early 1950s during a visit he made to Paris. At that time, she wrote this attractive waltz in Chaplin’s own style to give to him as a gift.
SKU: HL.49046798
UPC: 196288026372.
The present dedication composition Erinnerung by Engelbert Humperdinck is a discovery of historical significance. Until recently hidden in the poetry album of his sister Ernestine, who died at an early age, this little tune from 1871 already shows the only 17-year-old Humperdinck to be a romantically sensitive inventor of melodies and accomplished composer. (Henry C. Brinker).
SKU: HL.48182067
UPC: 888680853631. 9.0x12.0x0.153 inches.
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) is known for his unique composition style. Incorporating complex rhythms, harmony, melodies and his passion for ornithology, his Catalogue of Birds for Piano is no exception to the composer's popular, distinctive style. Messiaen became fascinated by birdsong from an early age, however, it wasn't until the 1950s that he took his passion to a new level, incorporating birdsong into all of his compositions. Catalogue of Birds, composed in 1958, comprises thirteen movements, each depicting a specific bird. The sixth volume contains movement ten; The Rock Thrush. Catalogue of Birds is essential to all advanced pianists seeking to expand and vary their repertoire..
SKU: BT.WA-4095-401
English.
Sir Edward Elgar was born in Worcester in 1857. Until the outstanding success of the 'Enigma' Variations in 1899, he was considered a 'provincial' composer - and a largely self taught one at that.In the earlier part of Elgar's career as a composer, he wrote several short pieces which became very popular indeed. Chanson de nuit is one such, the second of a pair (Chanson de Matin the other being), which carried his name far and wide before his larger orchestra works appeared. It was published in several versions at once: for string orchestra, for small orchestra, for violin and piano and so on - so it is almost impossible to say, with any degree of certainty, which was theoriginal version. This arrangement makes a useful addition to the repertoire for piano.
SKU: BT.ALHE30257
French.
Composed by Federico Mompou, Piano Preludes is a set of four pieces with two hands for upper intermediate players. It covers the Preludes Nos. 1 to 4 written in 1928. Each of these preludes is written on one to four pages and canbe played separately. The first one is short, to be played like a romance, with chords only. The second one lasts longer and features distinctive parts, starting with an energetic section followed by a sudden musical burst, therest of it being slower until the animated close. The third prelude is quite slow and very expressive while the last piece of this book is quite short and simple. Federico Mompou was a Spanish pianist and composer. He composednumerous pieces for piano and some songs.
SKU: HL.14006480
ISBN 9788774553120. UPC: 884088443481. 8.5x11.75x0.53 inches. English.
A solid finger dexterity, equally well developed with regard to precise touch and time, has been until today the alpha and omega of piano technique. The school Le Pianiste-Virtuose by H.L. Hanon, the object of which is above all the development of a brilliant five fingers technique, has therefore not lost any of its high pedagogic value; these exercises not only present a solid foundation for the pupil, but also help the expert pianist to maintain his technique on its high level. Hanon's exercises are an exhaustive compendium of piano-technical foundations.
SKU: AY.PN3058PM
ISBN 9790543573789.
According to the distinguished musicologist Juan Bautista Varela, the Galician Treboada is a musical term out of the songbook, as its sense is merely musical. From a lexicographical point of view it means thunderstorm, storm, squall, etc. It is almost an onomatopoeic sense, due to the great noise that the bass drums, fundamental elements of the Treboada, make. The Treboada is played always on the eves of celebrations or feasts and it is played by three or five bass drums, one or two Galician bagpipes and a drum.The dispersion area of the Treboada is much reduced, according to the poet and essayist Eliseo Alonso Rodriguez, it comprises the parishes of Forcadela and Estas, both of them belong to the town of Tomino. Xose Hernique Rodriguez Portela, from Tomino, says that they also play it on the feast of the Virgin of St. Mary of Tomino eve (Virgen del Alivio de Santa Maria de Tomino). I owe him the idea of this piece, because Xose Henrique described to me how the bass drums sound in the distance, early in the morning, like great roars along with blank bullets that are shot every time a particular house donates money for the feast and they gradually approach the house until it trembles. He sang the melody I wrote and he confessed he had heard it not long ago in the rehearsal of a popular folk group where there was only a percussionist and a Galician bagpipe player, as with the drums it is difficult to appreciate the bagpipe. I also mix the Treboada with an Alborada, because in Galicia almost all the churches have loudspeakers that play this melody at around nine o'clock in the morning, the same time that the Treboada of Tomino starts playing. Gloria Rodriguez Gil.
