Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Their diversity of forms knows no bounds and the musical texture is infused with the most ingenious counterpoint, but at the same time performers will not miss out on the enjoyment of virtuosic playing in any way. G. Henle Publishers presents this magnum opus in a revised Urtext edition that consults the original editions as well as autograph sources while also extensively documentin...
Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-movement partitas, composed in Leipzig between 1726 and 1730, published in individual editions. This culminated in their publication in an anthology that proudly sports the opus number "1" in 1731. Their diversity of forms knows no bounds and the musical texture is infused with the most ingenious counterpo...
Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-movement partitas, composed in Leipzig between 1726 and 1730, published in individual editions. This culminated in their publication in an anthology that proudly sports the opus number "1" in 1731. Their diversity of forms knows no bounds and the musical texture is infused with the most ingenious counterpo...
Bach's Six Partitas form what is presumably the most famous and challenging collection of suites in music history. Bach was aware of the weightiness of his cycle as he initially had these multi-movement partitas, composed in Leipzig between 1726 and 1730, published in individual editions. This culminated in their publication in an anthology that proudly sports the opus number "1" in 1731. Their diversity of forms knows no bounds and the musical texture is infused with the most ingenious counterpo...
more than the score_ is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the essential repertoire from Bach through Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Debussy, right up to John Cage. Each volume focuses on one piece, with written masterclasses and background information encouraging an exploration of the music - beyond the printed score. All titles in the this series include written masterclasses from one of our panel of internationally-renowned pianists including Joanna MacGregor, Roy Ho...
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 transcriptions Busoni fashioned from J. S. Bach's works. Considerable evidence suggests that he viewed these three pieces as paradigmatic examples of his transcription technique. Busoni's explicit labelling of the Prelude and Fugue "for concert performance" in the title already serves as an indication of the heightened virtuosic requirements. ...
The perfect introduction to Baroque keyboard music. Contents include: March in D (Helm 1) (C.P.E Bach) March in G (Helm 1) (C.P.E Bach) Minuet in C Minor (BWV Anhang 121) (composer unknown) Minuet in D minor (BWV Anhang 132) (composer unknown) Minuetin G (Attr. Boehm) Minuet in G (BWV Anhang 114) (Pezold) Minuet in G (BWV Anhang 116) (composer unknown) Minuet in G Minor (BWV Anhang 115) (Pezold) Musette in D (BWV Anhang 126) (composer unknown) Polonaise in G minor (BWV Anhang 119) (compo...
This timeless collection contains selections attributed to J. S. Bach, his son C.P.E. Bach, and others. Generations of students have studied the volume's "Menuet in G Major," "Musette in D Major" and the "Prelude in C Major" from the first volume of The Well-Tempered Clavier. Dr. Palmer provides the texts to the instrumental settings of chorales and arias found in this work, as well as a brief biography of the Bach family. The Alfred Masterwork CD Editions conveniently combine each exceptional vo...
In 1725, J.S. Bach gave his second wife, Anna Magdalena, a "Notenbchlein"a collection of solo keyboard pieces and arias. Most of the keyboard pieces were composed by friends, colleagues, and his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The easier keyboard works were probably used to instruct their children, while the arias would have been performed by Anna Magdalena, who was a singer. For this edition, Edwin McLean has chosen and expertly edited the most popular and easier keyboard pieces. Originally, th...
This hard cover edition includes the Bach Suite E flat major BWV 819a Overture (Suite) F major BWV 820 Suite F minor BWV 823 Suite A major BWV 832 Suite (Prelude and Partita) F major BWV 83 Second Minuet from French Suite C minor BWV 813a Minuet from French Suite E flat major BWV 815a Minuet I from the "Notebook for W. F. Bach" G major BWV 841 Minuet II from the "Notebook for W. F. Bach" G minor BWV 8 Minuet III from the "Notebook for W. F. Bach" G major BWV 843 Sonata D major ...
Baroque (1723). For solo harpsichord, cembalo, or piano. Bach's two-part Inventions and three-part Sinfonias (BWV 787-801) have come down to us in an autograph fair copy dated 1723. The Inventions in particular are of merely moderate difficulty and occupy an important place in piano teaching to this day. In terms of their overall organization, the 15 pieces can be seen as leading on to the Wohltemperiertes Klavier. In keeping with normal practice, they were initially distributed in the form of ha...
Like the two-part inventions, Bach's three-part inventions (also known as Sinfonias) were composed as instructional material for his son, Wilhelm Friedemann. In researching the sinfonias, Willard A. Palmer discovered that previous editors had misinterpreted an important note in Sinfonia No. 11. Such careful research is a hallmark of Palmer's Bach editions. - the publisher (sample page)
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