Composer: Johann Sebastian BachEditor: Georg von Dadelsen
Suite A minor BWV 818 • Suite A minor BWV 818a • Suite E flat major BWV 819 • Suite E flat major BWV 819a • Overture (Suite) F major BWV 820 • Suite F minor BWV 823 • Suite A major BWV 832 • Suit
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Editor: Ernst-Günter Heinemann
The world-famous pianist András Schiff, a most familiar name to Bach fans on account of his complete recordings of Bach's piano works, has provided fingerings for both parts of the Well-Temp
Alongside the Chaconne for violin, the ten Chorale Preludes for organ are Busoni's best-known piano transcriptions of works by J. S. Bach. Unlike the Chaconne, which Busoni envisaged for concert performance, he transcribed the Chorale Preludes in “chamber
Composers: Ferruccio Busoni, Johann Sebastian BachEditors: Christian Schaper, Ullrich Scheideler
Aside from the violin Chaconne (HN 557) and the ten Chorale Preludes for organ (HN 1293), the Prelude and Fugue in D major ranks among the best-known piano t
“A wonderful piece, but very difficult – only a few will be able to master it...” Since this pronouncement by Nicolai Rubinstein, who nonetheless premiered it with bravura, the work has unjustly been stuc
With these three studies Bartók quite deliberately aimed to leave his mark on New Music in 1918. The first study is a kind of super-charged, motorically vehement Allegro barbaro, while the second, with its effervescent waterfalls of soun
After his 15 Hungarian peasant songs (HN 1404), these Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs are the second of Bartók's works to feature the words “Hungarian peasant songs” in their title. The manner in whi
Composer: Béla Bartók
Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, composed in 1915, are among his best-known works. They exist in multiple forms, since as well as several piano arrangements and a later orchestral version of his own there also exist arrangements by hi
Bartók used different melodies taken from Romanian instrumental folk music in his Sonatina. A look at the sources shows how, in 1915, the piece slowly evolved out of a series of piano transcriptions of Romanian folk melodies into its three-movement form.
Bartók's Romanian Christmas Carols are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave “the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, rather than a piou
Composer: Ludwig van BeethovenEditors: Rolf Koenen, Joanna Cobb Biermann
There are probably very few piano students who have not tried their hand at this piece; it is undeniably one of the most popular classical piano pieces today. And yet unanswered qu
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editors: Klaus Schilde, Friedhelm Loesti
This volume contains all of Beethoven's surviving cadenzas and lead-ins for piano concertos: both for his own concertos nos. 1-4, for his piano arrangement of the Violin Concerto Op
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven Editor: Hans-Werner Küthen
Ludwig van Beethoven composed his five large piano concertos over a period of twenty-five years. The Second Concerto in B flat major is presented here in a piano reduction. The edition, of our cu