SKU: HL.233151

ISBN 9788759886427. 10.0x14.5 inches. English.

Piano solo part for Paganini Variations - Piano Concerto No.3 by Poul Ruders (2014). Score available: WH32201 Programme note: In 1999 my friend, American guitar virtuoso David Starobin, wanted me to write a concerto for guitar and orchestra. It quickly dawned on me, that this commission presented a golden opportunity to contribute to the time-honoured tradition of composing a series of variations on Nicolo Paganini's famous 24th Caprice for violin solo, a work which itself is a set of variations. The 16 bar (with the first 4 bars repeated) theme is not particularly sophisticated or intricate, but its inherent simplicity and logic just grow on you, almost to the point ofdistraction - and the secret behind it being hauled through the wringer by composers as disparate as Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Lutoslawski is perhaps found in its - what I'll call, with a quick nervous look over my shoulder: brilliant banality. You can do anything with that tune, it'll always be recognizable and just there, however much you maul it. The piece (subtitled Guitar Concerto no 2) was written pretty quickly, premiered and subsequently recorded for Bridge Records with David and the Odense Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jan Wagner, and everybody was happy. But the story didn't end there, and it must be the ultimate proof of the durability of the theme, not to mention the flexibility and far-sightedness of David Starobin , when he 14 years later suggested why not transcribe the solo part for piano?. The idea appealed to me immediately. One thing was clear from the beginning: the new version could in no way sound like a transcription. My aim was to end up with a solo-part sounding like were it the one-and-only, the real thing, if you like. The orchestral score remains exactly the same in both cases. Both versions, the two Paganini Variations, are comparable to a set of twins, not quite identical, but almost. And both each others's equal. Poul Ruders.

SKU: HL.50511394

ISBN 9790080137307. UPC: 073999068436. 9.0x12.0x0.159 inches. Hungarian, English, German. Ferenc Liszt; Imre Mezo.

Liszt composed three piano works on Paganini's bell theme. The best known of these works is La Campanella (1851). The Clochette fantasia, that is the Grande Fantaisie de bravoure sur la Clochette de Paganini (1831-1834) as well as the early version of the F sharp minor study, the Campanella (1838) in A flat minor are much less played. Liszt composed a fourth piano work on the campanelle theme. Similar to the preceding it is a series of variations. The second theme is also taken from Paganini: it is the theme of a variation series known with the title The Carnival in Venice.

SKU: LM.P1811

ISBN 9790230926782.

Paysage (3e etude transcendante, livre I) - Mazeppa (4e etude transcendante, livre I) - Eroica (7e etude transcendante, livre I) - Melodie hongroise en Re b (L'Album du voyageur) - Impromptu en fa# majeur - Lamento (n. 2 des Trois Caprices poetiques) - Ballade en Si mineur - Le Lac de Wallenstadt (Annee de pelerinage en Suisse) - Vallee d'Obermann (Annee de pelerinage en Suisse) - Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Annee de pelerinage en Italie) - Sposalizio (Annee de pelerinage en Italie) - 10e etude transcendante en Fa mineur (livre II) - 5e etude, Il Flauto (d'apres Paganini) - Evocation (n. 1 des Consolations) - Chant elegiaque (n. 4 des Consolations) - Funerailles (des Harmonies poetiques et religieuses) - Pensees des Morts (des Harmonies poetiques et religieuses) - Fantaisie et Fugue sur B.A.C.H. - La Mort d'Iseult (Wagner) - 10e Rhapsodie.

SKU: BT.DV-22058