During the latter part of his life, Brahms wrote only sets of relatively short pieces. With their formal and stylistic perfection, they are among the most valuable of the late-Romantic additions to piano repertoire. Included in this edition are 30 pieces by Brahms, preceded by a helpful introduction which contains definitions of the ballade, rhapsody, capriccio and intermezzo.
This affordable edition contain all of Schubert's music for pianoforte solo except for the dances and a few unfinished pieces: the ever-popular "Wanderer" fantasy, Opus 15; the 8 impromptus (Opp. 90 and 142; the Moments Musicals, Opus 94; the Adagio and Rondo, Opus 145; and numerous variations, scherzi, and other short pieces.
A five-volume graded anthology of short piano pieces from the Romantic era. As well as featuring the great German composers from the period, this collection includes works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Moszkowski, Glazunov, Albeniz, Granados, Delius and many others.
This is a facsimile of an extremely rare, limited collection of the French master's brilliant verbal and musical sketches of various outdoor sports and amusements, written to accompany Charles Martin's drawings.
Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man's virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion into the world of piano and its multiple spheres of affect and influence. From pithy reflections on tone, technique, and the thorny matter of thumbs to ruminations on how such a machine could be the voice and repository of priceless human messages both lyrical and complex, Piano Pieces examines the current status of music, piano-playing, and pedagogy through the noisy filter of contemporary culture.
Brought together in the early part of the 19th century, some of the pieces in this collection are transcriptions of instrumental works. However, these masterfully constructed miniatures are well suited to keyboard performance and are characteristic of Haydn's humor, tenderness, charm and passion. The selections provide intermediate pianists with a wealth of musical ideas and harmonic invention, and are similar in difficulty to Haydn's Sonatinas.
There's more to Beethoven than the great symphonies and sonatas. The composer wrote some fine smaller pieces, many of which appear here. This collection of popular and often-performed works includes 18 bagatelles (or "trifles," usually for piano), 3 rondos (often used for the final movement of a larger piece), and 12 ländlers and minuets (folk and formal dances). Popular and often-performed works include Rondo a Capriccio in G and Andante in F.
A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Classical Music" "[One of] the most beautiful books I got my hands on this year. . . . About the shaping of this maddening, glorious, unconquerable instrument."--Jenny Colgan, Spectator, "Books of the Year" An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre--from classical to jazz and light music. Charting the development of the piano from the late eighteenth century to the present day, pianist and writer Susan Tomes takes the reader with her on a personal journey through 100 pieces including solo works, chamber music, concertos, and jazz. Her choices include composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gershwin, and Philip Glass. Looking at this history from a modern performer's perspective, she acknowledges neglected women composers and players including Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach.
