Par WEDGWOOD PAM. Alarm clocks, barking dogs, telephones, meetings and rush hour… the hustle and bustle of life. What better way to relax than to sit down at the piano, chill out and indulge yourself with music from Pam Wedgwood's After Hours: On My Travels? Inspired by the places and people Pam has met on her travels, these evocative pieces for the advanced player (Grades 6-8) provide the perfect antidote to stress./ Recueil / Piano

Arrangeur: Albert Mendoza. Par GRIFFES CHARLES. Roman Sketches, Op. 7, is one of 20th-century composer Charles Griffes' most popular works. This piano suite of four short pieces, written between 1915 and 1916, illustrates Griffes' evolving tastes in incorporating modern devices into his compositions. Filled with many memorable, evocative, and pianistically satisfying moments, the pieces require power, agility, and finesse, as well as musical sensitivity. The suite begins with 'The White Peacock,' a sensuous depiction of the exotic white bird. The second work, 'Nightfall,' captures the stillness of dusk, before gaining excitement and swirling to two powerful climaxes. The third piece, 'The Fountain of the Acqua Paola,' in thetradition of Liszt's 'Fountains of the Villa d'Este' and Ravel's 'Jeux d'eau,' brings to life the sound and shimmer of a famous Roman fountain. The last sketch, 'Clouds,' not only depicts gently wafting clouds but also gusts of wind and bright rays of sunshine. The duration of the entire suite is slightly less than 20 minutes. This edition contains a short biography of Charles Griffes, an overview of his compositional style, and an analysis each work, including a detailed study of form and performance considerations. Roman Sketches, Op. 7, is one of 20th-century composer Charles Griffes' most popular works. This piano suite of four short pieces, written between 1915 and 1916, illustrates Griffes' evolving tastes in incorporating modern devices into his compositions. Filled with many memorable, evocative, and pianistically satisfying moments, the pieces require power, agility, and finesse, as well as musical sensitivity. The suite begins with 'The White Peacock,' a sensuous depiction of the exotic white bird. The second work, 'Nightfall,' captures the stillness of dusk, before gaining excitement and swirling to two powerful climaxes. The third piece, 'The Fountain of the Acqua Paola,' in thetradition of Liszt's 'Fountains of the Villa d'Este' and Ravel's 'Jeux d'eau,' brings to life the sound and shimmer of a famous Roman fountain. The last sketch, 'Clouds,' not only depicts gently wafting clouds but also gusts of wind and bright rays of sunshine. The duration of the entire suite is slightly less than 20 minutes. This edition contains a short biography of Charles Griffes, an overview of his compositional style, and an analysis each work, including a detailed study of form and performance considerations. / Niveau : Débutant à Avancé / Etudes et exercices / Répertoire / Piano

Edition revue par Maurice Ravel Danse fut d'abord publiée sous le titre de 'Tarentelle Styrienne', dont Debussy avait cru emprunter la rythmique syncopée et ambigue (6/8 = 3/4). Elle fut orchestrée, comme la Sarabande, par Maurice Ravel, en 1901. / Piano

15 titres arrangés pour piano solo & 4 mains / Apprendre le piano ne signifie plus étudier et travailler uniquement de la musique « classique». L'héritage de grands compositeurs, tels que Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin ou Ravel est certes immense et merveilleux pour tous les pianistes. Mais voici enfin de véritables morceaux tirés des mélodies populaires : chanson, musique de films, jazz, etc., écrits, arrangés et pensés pour le piano et par un pianiste. Avec cette nouvelle collection, Franck LANONE nous propose d'emmener les élèves pianistes vers des terres jusque-là interdites, et cependant dans une approche très sérieuse et pédagogique. Les difficultés spécifiques à chaque pièce sont énoncées au début du morceau, avec des pistes de travail et d'interprétation, à étudier seul ou avec son professeur. Il devient possible de travailler son piano en jouant autre chose que de la musique classique, dans des styles très variés, mais dans la grande tradition de l'exigence d'une écriture pianistique. Bref, comme de vraies pièces du répertoire ! Que ces partitions vous suivent dans votre apprentissage du piano, et vous fassent encore plus aimer cet instrument résolument moderne, et présent dans tous les genres de musique. Un CD inséré dans les recueils vous offrira la possibilité de vous inspirer pour votre interprétation, ou vous donnera tout simplement le plaisir de l'écouter...

Surprisentopie est une oeuvre pour piano seul en trois mouvements et a été créée en Octobre 2005 par le pianiste Manabu Takasawa de l'Université de Rhode Island. Goinfroniphère a un mouvement rhytmique quasi-continu en doubles croches, avec un bref intermède 'jazz' au milieu, et culminant dans le registre très aigu. Les harmonies évoquent Ravel. Tointijoncure est dissonant au niveau harmonique et rhytmique. Il est écrit en 5/4 et comporte des passages 'désynchronisés' (notament une mesure en 19/16). Le mouvement est assez rapide et ne relie les mouvements extérieurs que par l'utilisation de quelques figures de triolets en octaves (Mesure 91) et un motif en trille (M. 92). Le troisième mouvement Plurinotiphonte, contient des motifs variés empruntés au premier mouvement, (en particulier la figure alternée). Ces figures subissent de nombreuses transformations tout au long du mouvement (d'où le nom Plurinotiphonte). Il est à noter que le langage harmonique est très différent de celui du premier mouvement. / Piano

Par POULENC FRANCIS. Born in Paris in 1899, Francis Poulenc soon became a notable composer and pianist. His Trois Pièces for Piano were composed in 1928, towards the beginning of his career and paved the way for exceptional Piano works from the composer. Poulenc, as a member of Les Six, composed music in a style contrary to that of Richard Wagner and impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Trois Pièces for Piano is made up of three movements, 1. Pastorale, 2. Hymne and 3. Toccata, all of which exploit the Piano to its full potential. Being an imaginative and evocative composition, TroisPièces for Piano is a pleasure to play for all pianists./ Répertoire / Piano

Alors que le oeuvre pour orgue par Widor ont obtenu une position solide dans le répertoire, ses oeuvres pour piano pas moins élaborées et artistiques sont connues pour seulement un petit cercle de pianistes, probablement parce que les oeuvres pour piano de Claude Debussy et Ravel surpassa lui dans ce domaine. ' Variations de Concert sur un thème originale ' transportées par la mélancolie profonde ont été publiées en 1867 pour la première fois et sont restés son opus non vérifiables 1 à ce jour. Ils montrent que le jeune compositeur prend le langage tonal de j. s. Bach comme point de départ, pourtant, donne son cycle de variations, qui rappelle les Variations Goldberg, sa propre expression romantique. En 1876, il a révisé les variations et eux publié sous le titre légèrement modifié de 'Variations sur un Thème original pour piano' opus 29. Notre nouvelle édition soigneusement révisée contient les deux versions (opus 1 et opus 29) où on peut dire sans exagération qu'ils devraient être en possession de chaque pianiste de concert. / Piano

Great Piano Solos: The Orange Book is a diverse collection of pop hits, well-known show-tunes, jazz and blues classics, film themes, great standards and classical pieces arranged for soloPiano.
Thisbumper collection offers an eclectic selection of 44 pieces and great standards for the intermediate level pianist.
This songbook includes fabulous pieces such as Every Breath You Take, Somewhere OnlyWe Know, StraightNo Chaser and Skyfall all presented clearly for Piano solo.
1. A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) (From Un Homme Et Une Femme )
2. All Blues
3. Après Un Rêve (Fauré)
4. Ave Verum Corpus, K618 (Mozart)
5. Best Song Ever
6. Blue Moon
7. Bolero (Ravel)
8. Can't Take Me Eyes Off You (From Jersey Boys )
9. Cantaloupe Island
10. Chinatown (From Chinatown )
11. Circle Of Life (From The Lion King )
12. Clocks
13. Every Breath You Take
14. Fireflies
15. Good Morning (From Singin' In The Rain )
16. Halo
17. Hero
18. How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning'
19. Hushabye Mountain (From Chitty Chitty Bang Bang )
20. I Believe It To My Soul
21. Li'L Darlin'
22. Love story
23. March From The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
24. My Cherie Amour
25. Nocturne From String Quartet No.2 (Borodin)
26. One Day More (From Les Misérables )
27. Price Tag
28. Ratatouille (Main Theme) (From Ratatouille )
29. Right Place, Right Time
30. Run
31. Sarabande In D Minor (Handel)
32. Skyfall (From Skyfall )
33. Somewhere only we know
34. Spring (3Rd Movement) (From The Four Seasons ) (Vivaldi)
35. Straight No Chaser
36. Thank God For The Rain/Betsy's Theme (From Taxi Driver' )
37. The Great Escape (Main Title) (From The Great Escape )
38. The Pink Panther Theme (From The Pink Panther )
39. The Sidewinder
40. The Trolley Song (From Meet Me In St Louis )
41. To The Evening Star (From Tannhäuser ) (Wagner)
42. Troika (From Lieutenant Kijé Suite ) (Prokofiev)
43. Voulez-Vous (From Mamma Mia! )
/ Partitions variété - pop - rock / Variété internationale / Piano / MUSIC SALES

Par MUSSORGSKY MODEST. The death in 1873 of Mussorgsky's friend Victor Hartmann was the stimulus for the initial creation of what was to become one of the most vividly colourful works in the orchestral repertoire. However, Mussorgsky's original piano version of Pictures At An Exhibition was not even published until 5 years after his death, and remained almost unknown until Ravel's masterful orchestration of it in 1922. From then on it has become favourite in the orchestral repertoire. This is the piano version of Mussorgsky’s famous work./ Répertoire / Piano

Par FAURE GABRIEL. Gabriel Faure 's Nocturnes, nos. 1-8. Gabriel Faure was born in Pamiers (Ariège) on 12 May 1845. Owing to his precocious musical gifts, he was able, at the age of nine, to enter the celebrated Niedermeyer School, founded in Paris to train organists and choirmasters. For about ten years he received instruction of great quality, centred mainly on the study of sacred music and the great classic masterpieces, into which he was initiated notably by Camille Saint-Saë ns, his Piano teacher. As soon as he left the school, Faure began a brilliant career as an organist. In 1896 he succeededTheodore Dubois as an organist at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, and was appointed professor of composition at the Conservatory, where his pupils included Ravel, Koechlin, Enesco and Schmitt. Meanwhile, he had met Liszt in Weimar and had been initiated into Wagner's art, which, however, never really influenced him. Appointed director of the Conservatory in 1905 after Theodore Dubois' resignation, a member of the French Institute and music critic, Faure spent his last years in solitude, suffering from an irreversible deafness that obliged him to resign from the Conservatory in 1920. He died in Paris on 4 th November 1924. The music of this sometimes misunderstood composer who wrote in nearly all genres (except Organ music) is of great refinement. An enemy of bombast, Faure put his elegant counterpoint, a highly individual harmonic style, unpredictable turns of phrase, and the secret of an unusual musical sensitivity at the service of music that is both varied and of very high quality./ Répertoire / Piano

These two fascinating works are combined into one volume that includes an interesting biography, background information on the writing of the music, indispensable performance suggestions and a listing of recommended readings and recordings. Also included is an outstanding CD recording from the Naxos label, by Hungarian pianist Klara Kormendi. She studied at the Bartok Conservatory and later at the Liszt Academy, where she received her diploma with distinction in 1967. Kormendi enjoyed early success in a number of national competitions before embarking on a career that has taken her to the major musical centers of Europe. She has recorded works by Debussy and Ravel and the complete piano music of Eric Satie. / Piano

Par RUIZ-PIPO ANTONIO. Un thème simple folk-song inspiré le compositeur espagnol et le pianiste Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-97) pour écrire des variations de piano 13, dans lequel il reprend la richesse des couleurs, d'humour et de virtuosité d'Albéniz ou Ravel./ Répertoire / Piano

Description This volume is the largest collection of Satie's piano works yet published, including some of the most original and appealing achievements of a turbulent era in music, compositions that influenced such modern masters as Ravel, Milhaud and Poulenc. This delightful collection includes the well-known Gymnopedies , Gnossiennes , Sarabandes and much more. Songlist Apercus Desagreables Chapitres Tournes En Tous Sens Croquis Et Agaceries D'un Gros Bonhomme En Bois Descriptions Automatiques Embryons Desseches En Habit De Cheval Le Fils Des Etoiles Morceaux En Forme De Poire Pieces Froides Poudre D'or Prelude De La Porte Heroique Du Ciel Sarabandes No.1, 2, 3 Sonneries De La Rose Trois Gnossiennes Trois Gymnopedies Veritables Preludes Flasques Vieux Sequins Et Vieilles Cuirasses

Chabrier was heralded by the young generation of composers in France, particularly by Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc, as the founder of the French Modern. He achieved resounding success with his orchestra rhapsody ?España? upon returning from his trip to Spain. Riding on this success, he composed the Habanera in 1885 which was met with equal enthusiasm. The piece was soon circulated in various arrangements. Chabrier himself transcribed the piece for orchestra in 1889. '
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Bärenreiter is publishing the original version for piano for the first time in an Urtext edition. This striking piece is ideal for teaching purposes and includes fingering by Tamara Stefanovich as well as a well-presented layout with optimum page turns.'
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- First scholarly-critical Urtext edition'
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- Informative foreword (Eng/Ger) and critical commentary (Eng)'
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studied at the University of Belgrade, at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the ?Hochschule für Musik und Tanz? in Cologne. Working alongside conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Pierre Boulez and Vladimir Jurowski, she has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra. For Bärenreiter she has already prepared fingering for the Urtext edition of Claude Debussy?s ?Images? (?1re série?: BA 10821, ?2e série?: BA 10822). / Classique / Partition / Agrafé /