Piano Pieces • Piano Variations. Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. Les oeuvres réunies dans ce volume fournissent un exemple de l’évolution des instruments à clavier: les premières pièces ont été écrites pour le clavecin, deux d’entre elles pour un instrument équipé de l’«octave basse viennoise», qui permettait de jouer d’une main des accords allant au-delà de l’écart de la main. Notre édition joint à ces passages, sous forme de notes, des propositions d’exécution. Pour les oeuvres ultérieures, c’est le «Hammerklavier», le piano à marteaux, qui entre en ligne de compte. Haydn arrangeait aussi volontiers ses propres compositions, par exemple le «Largo assai» extrait du quatuor «le Cavalier» pour le piano. Le doigté de cette édition Urtext amplifiée, entièrement revue et corrigée est de Christine Schornsheim, spécialiste de la pratique d’exécution historique. ? / Partition reliée / Répertoire / Piano

Following the composition of Harold En Italie for Viola and orchestra in 1834, Berlioz began work on the opera Benvenuto Cellini , which subsequently failed on its first performances at the Paris Opera in 1838. Berlioz withdrew the opera for substantial revision, and from some of the discharged material he later fashioned this Reverie Et Caprice (in versions both for Violin and orchestra and Violin and Piano). Dedicated to Berlioz's violinist friend Alexandre-Joseph Artot, the piece was quickly taken up by several celebrated violinists of the time, including David, Joachim and Wieniawski, and was played all over Europe. This new edition for Violin and Piano, by the musicologist and performer Neil Heyde, is based on the first edition of the score.

The 21 pieces in this collection represent some of the best miniature masterworks in piano literature. These pieces were carefully selected not only for their overall quality and musicality, but because they advance very logically from the five-finger position pieces that preceded them in Pathways to Artistry: Masterworks, Book 1. For maximum benefit, students should work through the skills that are comprehensively presented in Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 2. / Piano

This volume includes 18 famous piano solos by Chopin, as edited and performed by noted concert pianist, Joseph Banowetz. Included are Nocturnes, Preludes, Mazurkas, a Polonaise and several other works. Banowetz provides a lengthy preface introducing students and performers to all aspects of these works. A full performance CD recording is also included. Joseph Banowetz graduated with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie fr Musik und darstellende Kunst. Banowetz has been a piano recitalist and orchestral soloist on five continents. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in recognition of his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.

Premiered in London in 1733, Handel's 'magic opera? 'Orlando? is based on a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capeci that derives indirectly from Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem 'Orlando furioso?.This subject was very popular at the time and was frequently set to music, e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Agostino Steffani and Joseph Haydn. The title role of Orlando is the last one that Handel wrote for the celebrated castrato Senesino. Several stunning stage effects intended to illustrate Zoroastro's sorcery call for sophisticated baroque stage machinery.The vocal score has been adapted and carefully amended in keeping with the revision of the complete edition volume. The engraving and presentation of the former vocal score (BA 4027-90) have also been meticulously revised in many details. However the pagination stays the same so that both vocal scores are compatible with each other. A new Foreword in two languages (Eng/Ger) is also included in the edition.- Urtext edition based on the 'Halle Handel Edition?- With a singable translation in German- Adapted in keeping with the revised score- Comprehensive bilingual Foreword (Eng/Ger)- Idiomatic piano reduction / Chant Et Piano