Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto #1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: '... a second one will sound different?. Nevertheless, a good 20 years elapsed before that second concerto finally took form, and only in 1881 was he able to announce: 'I wanted to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with a tiny little delicate Scherzo?. O…

30 Klassiker, Bearbeitet Für Akkordeon. Par KOLZ HANS-GUNTHER. / Recueil / Accordéon

from La Vida Breve. Par DE FALLA MANUEL / ELLIS NICHOLAS (Arr.). Drawn from his early opera La vida breve (1905), de Falla’s Spanish Dance No. 1 has become one of his most celebrated pieces. Bursting with rhythmic fire and Andalusian colour, it captures the spirit of Spanish folk tradition with its driving pulse, passionate melodies, and sudden shifts between delicacy and intensity. In this arrang…

Par PAREDES HILDA. When Paris abducted Helen and provoked the Trojan War, Agamemnon and Menelaus were absent from home for ten years. Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra had small cause to love him: he had married her by force after killing her former husband Tantalus, and then gone away to war. On his way he sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia at Aulis in order to be able to go ahead with his enterp…

3 Chorale Settings - Fantasia. Par STEFFENS JOHANN. Johann Steffens was municipal organist at St Johannis church in Lüneburg and one of the founding fathers of the North German Organ school. This volume contains three chorale arrangements (including a cycle based on “Veni redemptor” / Nun komm der Heiden Heiland) and a “Fantasia”, one of the few free compositions for organ of that period to show e…

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky himself, but “lyric sce…

Reduction for Violin and Piano. Par BOSSO EZIO. Ezio Bosso's Violin Concerto No. 1 'EsoConcerto', published here in a violin and piano reduction, is considered one of the seminal compositions of his artistic career as well as being the first concerto he ever wrote for violin and orchestra. The work also marked another key stage in Ezio's professional career, when he conducted the Orchestra Filarmo…