(Music from the Motion Picture Score). By Various. By Carter Burwell. For Pi...(+)
(Music from the Motion
Picture
Score). By Various. By
Carter
Burwell. For
Piano/Keyboard.
Piano Solo Songbook.
Softcover. 32 pages.
Published
by Hal Leonard
Piano SKU: FG.55011-642-9 Composed by Kalevi Aho. Solo part. Fennica Gehr...(+)
Piano
SKU:
FG.55011-642-9
Composed by Kalevi Aho.
Solo part. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-642-9.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-642-9).
ISBN
9790550116429.
Kale
vi Aho's Piano Concerto
No. 2 is scored for a
string orchestra
comprising just twenty
players. The first
performance took place at
the concluding concert of
the 2003 Mantta Music
Festival, in Vilppula
Church on 29th June. The
soloist was Antti Siirala
and the strings of the
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
were conducted by Osmo
Vanska. The demanding
piano writing is
primarily a consequence
of Siirala's remarkable
command of the
'Beethovenian-Lisztian-Br
ahmsian' pianistic
tradition. At times the
piano part is lean and
linear, but the work also
contains multi-layered,
full-toned piano textures
and massive rolling
octaves. The concerto
requires great artistry
on the part of the
performer. The Second
Piano Concerto lasts
roughly half an hour and
comprises three untitled
movements played without
a break. The first
movement and the finale
are extremely fast; these
outer movements contain
plenty of playful music.
The slow second movement
is more serious in tone,
and its piano texture is
very ample. The difficult
cadenza at the end of the
finale brings more
serious emotions to the
coda as well.
Piano SKU: BA.BA11854 Premier livre. Composed by Camille Saint-Sae...(+)
Piano
SKU:
BA.BA11854
Premier
livre. Composed by
Camille Saint-Saens.
Edited by Catherine
Massip. This edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Performance score. Opus
52. Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA11854. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA11854).
ISBN
9790006576067. 31 x 24.3
cm inches.
One of
Saint-Saëns' mature
works, the Six Ã?tudes
pour piano op. 52,
appeared in 1877 around
the same time as his
opera Samson et Dalila.
The second etude of the
cycle was originally
written in 1868 for the
â??Ã?cole du
pianisteâ?, the French
edition of the piano
method by Lebert and
Stark. With his
collection, the composer
who had embarked on a
compilation of piano
etudes for the first
time, evidently wanted to
deliberately? distinguish
the cycle from the
character of the
brilliant concert etude:
Each of the etudes is
devoted to one or more
specific difficulties or
compositional techniques,
as in the fugues. He
assigned the individual
pieces to famous
virtuosos of his time,
such as Anton or Nikolai
Rubinstein or Marie
Jaëll.
The new
Urtext editions are based
on the ground-breaking
musical text of the
Å?uvres instrumentales
complètes by Camille
Saint-Saëns, for which
the editor has
meticulously evaluated
all known sources. A
detailed Foreword
provides information on
the genesis and
significance of the
etudes. Readings and
variants are precisely
documented in the
Critical Commentary
(Eng). Notes on
interpretation
(Fr/Eng/Ger) as well as
an elegant music
engraving provide the
pianist with optimal
conditions for studying
these virtuosic
etudes.
About
Barenreiter
Urtext
What can I
expect from a Barenreiter
Urtext
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MUSICOLOGICA
LLY SOUND - A
reliable musical text
based on all available
sources - A
description of the
sources -
Information on the
genesis and history of
the work - Valuable
notes on performance
practice - Includes
an introduction with
critical commentary
explaining source
discrepancies and
editorial decisions
... AND
PRACTICAL -
Page-turns, fold-out
pages, and cues where you
need them - A
well-presented layout and
a user-friendly
format - Excellent
print quality -
Superior paper and
binding
Composed
by Ryan Fraley. 5 or
More; Collections; Jazz
Ensemble (Combo); Jazz
Resources;
Method/Instruction; Solo
Small Ensembles. HXmusic.
Jazz. Book. HXmusic
#98-HX102PNO. Published
by HXmusic (PE.HX102PNO).
ISBN
9781530882854.
A
collection of six charts
for small jazz groups at
grade 2 - 2.5. All charts
are scored in three-part
writing, with flexible
instrumentation provided
by all three parts in
each wind book. Solo
sections are provided
with changes, and also a
mini-clinic for each tune
with a break down of the
spelled-out chord
progression and suggested
scales to use throughout
each solo. Twelve
transcribed solos match
the recordings
note-for-note, and twelve
suggested solos give
younger players a
starting point with
themes taken from the
recorded solos. 49
downloadable play-along
tracks provide every
instrument a chance to
sit in with the recorded
band. Contents Include:
Porto Alegre; Time Will
Tell; Leap Day; Bohemian
Groove; Avalon; Steam
Punk Funk.
Jazz Ensemble Piano/Keyboard - Grade 2.5 SKU: PE.HX103PNO Arranged by Rya...(+)
Jazz Ensemble
Piano/Keyboard - Grade
2.5
SKU:
PE.HX103PNO
Arranged
by Ryan Fraley. 5 or
More; Collections; Jazz
Ensemble (Combo); Jazz
Resources;
Method/Instruction; Solo
Small Ensembles. HXmusic.
Christmas. Book. HXmusic
#98-HX103PNO. Published
by HXmusic (PE.HX103PNO).
ISBN
9781547281589.
A
collection of six
Christmas and holiday
charts for small jazz
groups at grade 2.5. All
charts are scored in
three-part writing, with
flexible instrumentation
provided by all three
parts in each wind book.
Solo sections are
provided with changes,
and also a mini-clinic
with a break down of the
spelled-out chord
progression and a scale
etude for each tune.
Twelve transcribed solos
match the recordings
note-for-note, and twelve
suggested solos give
younger players a
starting point with
themes taken from the
recorded solos. 54
downloadable play-along
tracks provide every
instrument a chance to
sit in with the recorded
band. Contents include:
Up On the Housetop, Good
King Wenceslas, Jingle
Bells, Deck the Halls,
The Holly and the Ivy,
Auld Lang Syne.
Piano/Keyboard SKU: SU.12800062 For Piano/Keyboard. Composed by Jo...(+)
Piano/Keyboard
SKU:
SU.12800062
For
Piano/Keyboard.
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Keyboard,
Piano/Harpsichord. Score.
Subito Music Corporation
#12800062. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.12800062).
Goldberg
Variations, BWV 988
(3-page Preface, 63
pages, edited for piano,
no fingerings). This
attractive Urtext of
Bach’s popular
variation cycle is not
only extremely
user-friendly and
extra-legible, but in
addition, presents
groundbreaking
performance practice
research that explains
Bach’s
never-before-revealed
plan of tempo
relationships between
variations. This
discovery is highly
significant with regards
to the tempi chosen for
the 30 variations in a
complete performance. The
first edition from 1741,
engraved by Bach himself,
shows fermatas after
some, but not all,
variations. Most editors
assume this was an
oversight by Bach, and
thus, add fermatas where
they do not belong.
Virtually all editions of
our time add fermatas
where Bach did not
indicate them. Perhaps
the only edition that
correctly reproduces
Bach’s fermata
indications is Peters
(ed. Kurt Soldan, 1937).
Mapping out Bach’s
fermata plan for the
complete cycle reveals an
ingenious and fascinating
symmetrical arrangement
of pairs and groups of
variations unified by
direct tempo
relationships.
Bach’s tempo plan
has never yet been
honored by commercial
artists because they have
been steeped in false,
19th-century tempo
traditions, they have
been too influenced by
Glenn Gould, and they
have never been made
aware of Bach’s
use of fermatas due to
faulty editions.
Bach’s master plan
is beautifully laid out
and all the tempo
relationships are
explained in the
three-page Preface, which
also contains a tempo
hierarchy matrix relevant
to Bach performance as
well as Bach’s
well-known Table of
Ornaments. This edition
is ideal for pianists
from the
late-intermediate levels
and higher as well as
concert artists,
scholars, and teachers
who seek an informative
edition of the Goldberg
Variations for the
concert hall or teaching
studio. Piano/Keyboard
Published by:
BachScholar.
Chamber Music Piano SKU: PR.110418250 Composed by Shulamit Ran. Sws. Perf...(+)
Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PR.110418250
Composed by Shulamit Ran.
Sws. Performance Score.
12 pages. Duration 11
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #110-41825.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.110418250).
ISBN
9781491133859. UPC:
680160683345. 9 x 12
inches.
This
intriguing 11-minute work
builds on alternations
between declamatory
unmetered phrases
(beginning as
“sonorous, rubato,
with great aplomb and
resonanceâ€) and
strictly motoric rhythmic
sections, developing in
waves of increasing drama
and intensity.
Commissioned by the
Naumburg Foundation for
pianist Xiaohui
Yang’s Carnegie
Hall premiere. Ballade
is a one-movement work of
approximately 11 minutes,
divided into three main
parts that are played
without significant
break.Ballade alternates
sections where the
performer is invited to
apply great interpretive
freedom, especially on
the temporal plane, with
contrasting sections that
are quite precise and
rhythmic. Although
carefully notated, the
“freerâ€
sections (often marked
rubato) certainly allude
at times to the kind of
repertoire that is
familiar to most concert
pianists, doing so not by
way of quotation but by
the type of expressivity,
affect, and even
passagework. Thus, the
performer should think of
the score as a
“blueprint,â€
where the many
descriptive words I have
inserted throughout the
score (ranging from
sonorous, rubato, with
great aplomb and
resonance as the work
begins, to with greater
motion, in a series of
ever-expanding
“waves†later
on) are intended to act
as triggers for
one’s sense of
imagination and fantasy
to take off and bring the
music alive! An
inscription in the score
urges the pianist to play
fearlessly and
exuberantly, but also
tenderly!