34 miniatures for piano. Par HILLER WILFRIED. In a film portrait of dancer, painter and sculptor Antje Tesche-Mentzen, I learned that in former times she was a proficient pianist. When she told me that she intended to begin playing again, I promised to compose her a cycle for her new beginning: 34 miniatures, some of them with a direct connection to her paintings and sculptures. The main part of Kosmos was composed in 2014, 400 years after Albrecht Dürer created his copperplate engraving ‘Melencolia I’, in which a magic square appears. In a magicsquare, numbers are arranged in a grid so that their sum in each column, row, and the two diagonals is the same number. In the square I have chosen, the magic number is 34. Wilfried Hiller/ Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Lors de sa première en 1924, l''uvre emblématique Rhapsody in Blue de George Gershwin a transformé le monde de la musique en Amérique. Sa fusion du classique et du jazz en a fait l'une des 'uvres de concert américaines les plus populaires de tous les temps. Pour cette nouvelle édition, toutes les sources disponibles à la Bibliothèque du Congrès ont été consultées, y compris les partitions complètes pour piano et orchestre ainsi que les réductions pour deux pianos. Cette édition comprend une deuxième copie de la musique, la rendant idéale pour tous concertos. Le contexte historique et les notes critiques sur les sources offrent un aperçu fascinant du processus de composition de Gershwin.

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach ’s Harpsichord concerti, extremely popular among pianists, are presumably reworkings of pieces originally written for the Violin. Bach, however, succeeded in transferring the diverse idiosyncrasies of Violin technique to the keyboard with such ingenuity that most of today’s pianists also include these concerti in their standard repertoire. The first concerto in d minor is perhaps the most popular – not least because of its jaunty outer movements and the eminently forceful solo part. Now, as a prelude to a series of all of Bach ’s Harpsichord concerti, G. Henle Publishers presents a Piano reduction and study edition(score) of the d-minor concerto. None other than András Schiff, the outstanding Bach expert, has provided fingering suggestions. / Müllemann, Norbert / Répertoire / 2 Pianos, 4 Mains

Par FELLOWS DARREN. Blue for Two contains 12 enjoyable and original jazz pieces for piano duet and is aimed at introducing different jazz styles to the pianist. From blues and ragtime to tango, ballads and more, these cool and fresh pieces are the perfect introduction into the world of jazz and will leave the pianist hungry for more! Blue for Two provides the student with cool and fun repertoire to play with friends, teachers or family members and is a great supplement to the student's normal practice material. / Date parution : 2020-04-11/ Répertoire / 2 Pianos

The New Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) is intended as a historico-critical edition of the collected works. They will be carefully studied and prepared according to present-day musicological and editorial techniques and presented in their entirety. Drafts, sketches and fragments, in short, everything that has come down to us as being authentically by Schumann and which, in most cases, has been deliberately preserved by him, will be brought together, evaluated as to its importance and documented in some form or other in the edition of the complete works.It is the aim of the edition to reproduce authentic texts which - having corrected scribal, copying and printing errors and eradicated later additions and other textual corruptions - will approach as closely as is possible the intention of the originals.The critical edition will form the basis of accurate performance material for Robert Schumann's work. / 2 Pianos 4 Mains

According to Mozart's own catalogue, K. 491 was completed on 24 March 1786 - it was Mozart's only piano concerto aside from K. 466 that was in a minor key. It was probably first performed two weeks later as part of an 'academy? at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Mozart was extremely pressed for time while composing this work, a fact that is shown both by the cursory way in which the autograph was written and by the repeated corrections. Unlike earlier publications, our edition contains the definitive version as in Mozart's manuscript. The piano reduction of our edition was undertaken by the celebrated pianist András Schiff, to whom we also already owe our reductions of the concertos K. 453, 467, 488 and 503 (HN 765, 766, 767 and 825). He also supplied the fingerings for the solo part, the cadenzas and the lead-ins. / Piano

Syrtaki. Par THEODORAKIS MIKIS. Mit „Zorba's Dance' schuf Mikis Theodorakis jene Melodie, die die griechische Musiktradition von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart zu verkörpern scheint und heute als Syrtaki weltweit den Inbegriff der volkstümlichen griechischen Musik darstellt. Lowell Liebermann schuf nun eine virtuose und zugleich effektvolle Bearbeitung für zwei Klaviere, die sich sowohl als Konzert- aber auch als Zugabenstück bestens eignet. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Werke Für Klavier Zu Vier Händen Bzw. Für Zwei Klaviere. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. Le nouveau Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) est conçu comme une édition historico-critique des oeuvres recueillies. Ils seront soigneusement étudiés et préparés selon des techniques musicologiques et rédactionnelles actuelles et présentés dans leur intégralité. Brouillons, des croquis et des fragments, bref, tout ce qui est parvenu à nous comme étant authentiquement par Schumann et qui, dans la plupart des cas, a été délibérément préservé par lui, seront rassemblées, évalué quant à son importance et documentés dans une forme ou une autre, dans l'édition des oeuvres complètes.C'est le but de l'édition de reproduire des textes authentiques qui - après avoir corrigé copistes, copies et d'impression des erreurs et éradiquées ajouts et autres corruptions textuelles - aborderont aussi étroitement que possible l'intention des originaux.L'édition critique formeront la base du matériel de rendement précis pour le travail de Robert Schumann./ Répertoire / 2 Pianos ou Piano 4 Mains

New Liszt Edition III Vol. 1. Par LISZT FRANZ. Composed in 1834, Liszt's Grand duo is based on material from three pieces from the first book (op. 19b) of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words (no. 1 in E major, no. 6 in G minor, and no. 3 in A major). While Liszt made an almost literal transcription of the first piece, he gave the second and third pieces a much freer arrangement, in the style of concert paraphrases. The large-scale concert piece was premiered by Liszt and Chopin on Christmas Day 1834 in a salon in Paris. The Grand duo was not published in Liszt's lifetime, and has survived as a draft. Schubert's Fantasy in C major (also known as the 'Wanderer' Fantasy) was a defining musical experience for the young Liszt. He arranged this masterpiece of Romantic piano literature for piano and orchestra in 1851, at the beginning of his Weimar period, and it was premiered by Julius Egghard in Vienna in December of that year. By 1855, Liszt had transcribed this arrangement for two pianos, because it was played on 22 October 1855 at a concert held in Weimar in honour of his birthday. With the version for piano and orchestra, Liszt attuned the fantasy to the requirements of the concert hall, reinforcing the orchestral effects inherent in Schubert's composition. His aim with the two-piano version was to achieve a similarly grand effect in spaces too small for an orchestra. The arrangement for piano and orchestra appeared in print in 1857, followed by the two-piano version in 1862. This volume comes complete with a detailed preface in English, German, and Hungarian containing new research findings, several manuscript facsimiles, and a critical report in English. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI. Written between 1900 and 1901, Suite No. 2 was premiered in 1901 by Rachmaninoff and Alexander Siloti. This virtuosic suite is orchestral in nature and contains four movements. The first movement serves as a march-like introduction, and the second and fourth movements are dances---a waltz and tarantella. Between the two dances is a slow third movement. Two copies required for performance. / Classique / Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Suite for orchestra (1919) arranged for 2 pianos by Achilleas Wastor (2015). Par STRAVINSKY IGOR. Igor Strawinskys Ballett Der Feuervogel gehört zweifellos zu den Meisterwerken des Komponisten und stellt eine der bedeutendsten Kompositionen des 20. Jahrhunderts dar. Kein Wunder, dass Strawinsky eine Orchestersuite aus dem Ballett erstellte, die seither in jedem Orchester regelmäßig auf dem Programm steht. Achilleas Wastor hat für den Pianisten Cyprien Katsaris eine Bearbeitung geschrieben, in der das Klangfarbenspektrum der Originalpartitur virtuos und eindrucksvoll für zwei Klaviere umgesetzt wird. / Niveau : Avancé / Ballet / Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Bearbeitung für zwei Klaviere zu vier Händen Grüters. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Gattungen: Requiem - Verwendung / Anlässe: Trauer, Tod - Langue : o Spr / Requiem / Répertoire / 2 Pianos 4 Mains

Fantasie über das Rondo aus der Klaviersonate in A-Dur KV 331 von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Par SAY FAZIL / CETINER YUDUM (Arr.). The final movement of the Sonata in A major KV 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Rondo Alla Turca, is one of the most famous piano pieces of all time. Once only familiar to musical experts, later a universal piece for all piano pupils, its opening melody is now even omnipresent as an alienated sinus tone-like mobile phone ring tone. Fazil Say's arrangement, originally created as an effective encore, follows on from this popularity. After the first eight bars have been presented in original form, typical elements of jazz superimposed on the still recognisable classical foundations can be discovered, such as syncopation of the top notes and ornamentation through chromatic blue notes, embedded in the at times frenzied chains of semiquavers. In the spirit of the work's improvisatory character, Say likes to perfom his Alla Turca Jazz in different combinations, for example accompanied by jazz singers of with orchestra. It may appear strange that Fazil Say, who was born in Turkey and - when not on tour - is still resident in that country, does not bring back Mozart's interpretation of genuine Turkish music closer to its own roots, particularly as many of his compositions such as Black Earth or the Violin Sonata are characterised by a subtle amalgamation of the Classical-Romantic tradition, Turkish folk music and elements of jazz. In a further Mozart arrangement, the ballet music Patara premiered in Vienna in 2006, composed on the basis of the Rococo-like theme from the first movement of the same A-major Sonata (wich enjoys almost as great popularity as the Alla Turca theme), Say utilised the connection which was absent in Alla Turca, albeit in the opposite direction. In the ballet music, the piano symbolises Western culture and the Ney flute Oriental culture, communcated atmosperically by austere percussion instrumentation and soprano vocalisation. / Date parution : 2021-12-09/ Répertoire / 2 Pianos