G. Henle urtext edition. Edited by Norbert Mullemann. Fingering by Rolf Koenen. When the Catalan composer Albeniz wrote his six album leaves "Espana" at the age of 30, he was in London and his piano recitals were causing a sensation. At these concerts heoften performed his own compositions which were infused with the flair of his home country. Albeniz also gave the first performance of the piano cycle "Espana" in London, taking his audience on a journey through the Spanish countryside: exotic dan...
Since their publication, the first two Henle Urtext volumes of "Iberia" have become standards in the pianists' world. Now comes the third book, in which Albeniz once again fuses his knowledge of European classical music with elements of Spanish folk music. -the publisher
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20th Century. Spanish. Three Improvisations were recorded on a phonograph cylinder by the composer in 1903, but never written down on paper. They have been reconstructed in this edition by Albeniz expert Milton Laufer. Includes a CD of those recordings made by Albniz in 1903.
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Romantic. When Albeniz' work Sevilla was performed in Madrid in 1886, it not only brought the composer public recognition but also a commission to compose an eight-movement Suite espagnole for piano. Although it took him a further 15 years to complete the latter, Sevilla was already published in a single edition in 1886. Most people are probably not familiar with the original version of this spirited miniature about the Spanish city and its native flamenco. This is because Albeniz captured the mu...
G. Henle urtext edition. Edited by Ullrich Scheideler. Fingering by Rolf Koenen. The Suite Espagnole quickly became so popular outside Spain that it was issued by a German publisher before the onset of the First World war.
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"La Vega" depicts the view over the plain of Granada, as seen from the Arabian palace, the Alhambra. The attractive landscape inspired Albniz to compose this delicate, impressionistic work with an almost meditative character. Claude Debussy was so impressed that he would have liked to have visited the place immediately. "La Vega" has survived in two very different versions, both of which we have reproduced in their complete form in our Urtext edition. Thus, the player is afforded a unique insigh...
Charles-Valentin Alkan's cycle of variations Le Festin d'sope derives from his monumental series of etudes op. 39, the 12 tudes dans tous les Tons Mineurs, and forms the culmination of that work. Now G. Henle Publishers presents, for the first time in an Urtext edition, what is by far the most well-known piano composition by this French pianist and composer notorious for the extreme virtuosity of his works. Because no autograph manuscripts survive, the first edition from 1857 is the sole source...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Edition without fingering. Includes Contrapunctus i through XIV (1 through 14), plus Canons in Hypodiapason, alla Decima, alla Duodecima, Hypodiatessaron. Appendix contains Contrapunctus XIII (13) as a version for two harpsichords.
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16 Well-Known Original Pieces in Progressive Order of Difficulty. Contents: • Prelude in C Major, BWV 924 • Prelude in F Major, BWV 927 • Prelude in D Major, BWV 936 • Chorale "Wer nur den lieben Gott lsst walten," BWV 691 • Invention in D Major, BWV 774 • Invention in E Major, BWV 777 • Arioso from Capriccio in B-flat Major, BWV 992 • Aria del Postiglione from Capriccio in B-flat Major, BWV 9...
Baroque/Romantic. The D-minor Chaconne is undoubtedly the most famous movement of all of Bach's 6 Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo. So it is hardly surprising that it has seen many arrangements. Johannes Brahms marvelled at how a single staff of music could offer "a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the mightiest emotions". He promptly made his own arrangement; it is for left hand alone, in order to come close to the restrictive framework of the original. He wrote enthusiastically: "A s...
Baroque. 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-music style". A great deal of this organ/piano edition can also be played by advanced amateurs. Henle is publishing Busoni's definitive version in the first modern Urtext edition with valuable fingering suggestions by Marc-Andr Hamelin...
Bach's harpsichord concerti, extremely popular among pianists, are presumably reworkings of pieces originally written for the violin. Bach, however, succeeded in transferring the diverse idiosyncrasies of violin technique to the keyboard with such ingenuity that most of today's pianists also include these concerti in their standard repertoire. The first concerto in d minor is perhaps the most popular - not least because of its jaunty outer movements and the eminently forceful solo part. Now, as a...
Baroque. Johann Sebastian Bach's three great cycles of suites belong to the fundamental canon of piano literature: the Partitas and the so-called English and French Suites. It is the French Suites that have long been by far the most popular - and this was also the case at the time that they were written. However, this also creates problems for an editor preparing an Urtext edition, because a vast number of copies of them were made by Bach's circle of pupils, and these contain many presumably auth...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Edited by Rudolph Steglich. Fingering by Han-Martin Theopold. Re-released June 2020. The "Goldberg" Variations are without a doubt the most important piano cycle of the 18th century. Only Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations from the 19th century can be compared to them as far their far-reaching significance is concerned. Bach's own manuscript might not have survived, but the corrected first printing of the "Aria mit verschiedenen Veraenderungen vors Clavicimbal mit 2 Manua...
G. Henle URTEXT edition. Includes the Italian Concerto; French Overture; Four Duets; Goldberg Variations. Edited by Rudolph Steglich. Fingering by Han-Martin Theopold.
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