21st Century (2014). American composer Samuel Adler's Fantasy was composed for his former student Michael Brown, who premiered the work at Juilliard at an all-Adler concert to honor the composer's 85th birthday. The one movement work begins with a majestic introduction twice interrupted by short spurts of agitated music. This leads to a fast virtuosic main section written to show off the dexterity of any soloist. Adler has written about the work, "I have always felt that we are living in a most e...
In Espana: Six Album Leaves, Op. 165, Albeniz magically transports the listener to colorful locations, each with its own special Spanish flavor. These musical "postcards" are not particularly difficult to play, and are somewhere between the late intermediate and early advanced levels. This edition aids in interpretation through added fingerings, pedal and indications for subtle changes in tempo, which are integral to the performance of Spanish music. Dr. Kuehl-White studied in Barcelona with lege...
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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Dover reprint of early editions. Includes Aragon; Barcarolle catalene; Cadiz-gaditana; Leyenda; Malaguena; Mallorca, op 202; Rapsodia Cubama, op 66; Rapsodia Espanola; Les Saisons, op 101; Seguidillas; Serenade Espagnole, op 181; Tango in D; Tango Espagnol; Triana; Troisieme Suite Ancienne; La Vega; Zortzico.
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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...
Inspired by the work, life, and times of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beat Generation." Cast in seven entertaining movements, this significant composition is hugely influenced by jazz. In the preface to the score the composer writes: "Kerouac demonstrated the epic contradiction of America: on the one hand its wild energy, joy of life, and expansiveness; on the other, its tendency to self-destruct. Tribute to Kerouac is my musical response to, and commemoration of, this important American writer who...