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Piano

SKU: FG.55011-812-6

Preludi tulevalle elämälle - Piano. Composed by Lauri Mäntysaari. Classical, contemporary. Book. Fennica Gehrman #55011-812-6. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-812-6).

ISBN 9790550118126.

Laur i Mäntysaari (b. 1982) composed Preludi tulevalle elämälle (Prelude to future life, op. 10 for piano) in 2005 in order to explore how strongly limited harmonic selection, appearingly anxious and tight, can result to positivity and warmth. The duration of this scherzo is circa 3'30''.

Composed by Michael Finnissy (1946-). For piano trio (violin, piano, cello). Score and parts. 16 pages. Duration 3.5 minutes. Published by Oxford University Press

Piano/Vocal Selections. Composed by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard. Vocal Selections. Broadway. Softcover. 144 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Performed by Justin Timberlake. Piano/Vocal/Chords Songbook (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Softcover. Size 9x12 inches. 128 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401330

Composed by R. Nathaniel Dett. Edited by Lara Downes. 32 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #140-40133. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401330).

ISBN 9781491134412. UPC: 680160684939.

Natha niel Dett was among America’s leading composers in the early 20th century, and MAGNOLIA SUITE is a beautiful example of his rich, hybrid style. Deeply inspired by the music and mission of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Dett’s piano music springs from the late Romantic traditions of florid texture and embellishment, along with programmatic titles and raw emotion. It is notable for melody writing inspired by and paraphrasing African-American song. The 18-minute MAGNOLIA SUITE contains five movements, any of which may also be performed separately. This edition by Lara Downes provides a clean, new engraving that corrects the many errors and unclear indications appearing in the historical printing.
Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in a place that was built on freedom. The little village of Drummondville, Ontario was founded by enslaved Africans – Dett’s ancestors among them – who traveled the Underground Railroad out of the American South into Canada. Their journey brought them to a safe haven, a place where fortunes and futures could be transformed in the span of one generation, to lives full of new possibilities. You could call it “the place where the rainbow ends,” which is the title of the last movement of Dett’s Magnolia Suite.When Dett wrote these pieces, he was a young teacher at Lane College in Tennessee, a historically Black college that had been founded in 1882, the year of his birth. A place built on freedom, with the purpose of educating newly-emancipated slaves – a place designed to nurture the blossoming of ideas, the vibrant flowering of minds set free. This music is inspired by the gorgeous splendor of the magnolia blooms on that college campus, and also by the shared histories, experiences, and aspirations of the community that Dett found there.These five pieces pay affectionate tribute to lineage and legacy. They express gratitude for the bittersweet beauties of the present; nostalgia for the past (a bit romanticized, as the past always is); and an effervescent optimism for the future that awaits us in the place where the rainbow ends.

Piano Solo

SKU: YM.GTP01100046

Composed by Keichan. Arranged by Keichan. Keichan. Artist Folio. Score. Yamaha Music Media #GTP01100046. Published by Yamaha Music Media (YM.GTP01100046).

ISBN 9784636100303. 8.5 x 12 inches.

Matching piano songbook for Keichan's first CD album KARA RA BAKO. Keichan, a Japanese pianist, is rapidly gaining popularity in Japan, with over 1 million subscribers to his YouTube channel (as of May 2022) and regular appearances on Japanese TV. The book features 11 of his original pieces performed with a free and genre-less style and arranged for intermediate level piano solo. The 5 pieces listed in #12-16 have special three-staff piano scores for both the piano and the melody line, faithfully scored from his original CD performance. An artist interview and special photos included at the beginning of the book.

Piano

SKU: BR.EB-9412

12 Piano Pieces - Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. Edited by Ulrich Mahlert. Solo instruments; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. Sonata; Romantic. Score. 56 pages. Duration 30'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9412. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9412).

ISBN 9790004188866. 9 x 12 inches.

Joachim Raff's 12 piano pieces Fruhlingsboten op. 55, originating in 1852/53, mark a new creative start in his compositional oeuvre, in which the composer left behind his previously written and published piano works. The title of the work, translated as Heralds of Spring, is multilayered: It refers not only to spring in nature as expressed in the headings of the first two pieces, Winterruhe [Hibernation] and Fruhlingsnahen [Spring's Approach], but the words Heralds of Spring also indicate love's spring, the blossoming of love for his future wife, the actress Doris Genast. This appears in the headings of the pieces as of no. 3, sketching the path of an imaginary couple approaching union via various annoyances. And ultimately, Raff saw in his new piano work the harbingers of his future works, created under happy circumstances. In Fruhlingsboten Raff repeatedly demonstrates his ability to adapt idioms and compositional techniques from works by Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann, and others. The pieces do nonetheless possess their own thoroughly original diction with a character spectrum just as diverse as their stylistic piano design. Mahlert's new edition, as beautifully presented as ever from this publisher, is exemplary, and can easily be recommended to advanced pianists with a love of nineteenth-century repertoire. Superb.(Andrew Eales, Pianodao).