Piano - Grade 4

SKU: HL.233151

Solo Piano Part. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2017. 20 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH32201C. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (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.

(The Music of The Rolling Stones: 17 of Their Classic Rock Hits). By The Rolling Stones. Arranged by Bruce Nelson. For Piano. This edition: Easy Piano. Piano - Personality Book. Simply Series. Rock. Easy Piano. Book. 80 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Piano

SKU: HL.14043546

Piano Solo. Composed by Judith Weir. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Book [Softcover]. 20 pages. Chester Music #CH82709. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043546).

9.0x12.0x0.088 inches.

Judith Weir 'S Day Break Shadows Flee For Solo Piano. This 10 Minute Work Was Commissioned By Bbc Radio 3. It Was First Performed By Benjamin Grosvenor On 1St September 2014, As Part Of The Proms Chamber Music Series At Cadogan Hall. ' Day Break Shadows Flee , Written For Benjamin Grosvenor, Is A Two-Part Invention, A Piano Solo Composition In Which The Two Hands Work In Close Co-Ordination But Independently. My Intention Was Generally To Avoid Using Thick Chords (Although Octaves And Other Clear Sonorities Are Included) While Allowing Both The Right And Left-Hand Lines To Be Free, Mobile And Expressive. The Treble And Bass Sectors Of The Keyboard Are Clearly Contrasted AndOften Widely Separated. In Atmosphere And Expression The Music Is Another Kind Of Two-Part Invention, Contrasting Bright, Upwards-Arching Phrases (Heard At The Opening And Evoking The Arrival Of Light At The Beginning Of The Day) With Veiled, Mysterious Scurryings, Suggesting The Stranger, More Nervous Life Lived At Night And In The Early Morning. ' - Judith Weir.

Piano (Piano)

SKU: HL.50581478

For Solo Piano. Composed by Jonathan Cole. Ricordi London. Contemporary Music. Book Only. Composed 2002. Ricordi London #RICL11. Published by Ricordi London (HL.50581478).

English.

One of the most exciting composers of his generation, Jonathan Cole was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 1999.

Trapdoor was written as a tribute to the great film director Alfred Hitchcock in the year of hiscentenary, 1999. The piece has four sections: Fanfares, Trap, Nervous Shadows and Trapdoor. The last being after the music falls through a trapdoor and into a totally different world. It is a skittish piece and works with a backdrop provided by theresonance of silent chords held with the sostenuto pedal.

By Gayle Kowalchyk. For Piano. Piano Solo; Sheet; Solo. Signature Series. Form: Waltz. Fall; Halloween. Early Elementary. 4 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Elementary/Late Elementary Composer Showcase. By Phillip Keveren. Educational Piano Library. Softcover. 16 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401190

For Piano. Composed by James Primosch. Premiered by Judith Gordon, Smith College, Northhampton, MA. Contemporary. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed 2012. 20 pages. Duration 14 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #140-40119. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401190).

UPC: 680160637881.

A commission by 13 individual pianists, Pure Contraption, Absolute Gift is a suite of five movements, which Primosch describes in depth on his blog, Secret Geometry. While the first movement is contained primarily to the bass clef, the second is in the treble. The suite, however, as an entirety, makes full use of the entire range of the keyboard. For advanced pianists. The piece is ferociously difficult...Both the first prelude, with its nervous thumping and banging, and 'A Gracious Dance,' Debussy a century later, ended in question marks. The 'Gigue-Scherzo' seemed more of a 'Scherzo-Gigue'; 'Nocturnal Obsessions,' with its moody left-hand ostinatos, lived up to its title. 'Contraption' evoked jazz at first, but soon [the pianist's] hands were speaking different languages. --Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe.