Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Dr. Stewart Gordon, Professor Emeritus of Keyboard Studies at the University of Southern California, is held in high regard by professional piano teachers worldwide. His two-volume critical editions of Mozart’s piano sonatas provide all the tools necessary for a stylistic performance. His thorough research of the earliest available sources, as well as careful study of …

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in A flat is published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' Series, a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and performance notes. / Piano

Christopher Hogwood a-critique savante édition de Brahms op 'trio final et le plus grand peut-être. 101 est basé sur deux sources principales, la première édition et la autographes.La préface de cette édition présente des informations sur la pratique de la performance contemporaine- Hogwood a tiré sur les commentaires de Fanny Davis, un étudiant de Brahms, de faire la lumière sur ce point. Elle dé…

Par ZEMLINSKY ALEXANDER. La musique d’Alexander Zemlinsky est longtemps injustement restée dans l’ombre de la deuxième École de Vienne, considérée comme «plus progressiste». Certes, Zemlinsky était amicalement très proche de l’une des personnalités les plus en vue de cette école, Arnold Schönberg, mais il n’a jamais franchi le pas de la radicalité dodécaphonique. Il n’en composa pas pour autant de…

Les Cinq Préludes de Heitor Villa-Lobos représentent la dernière oeuvre pour guitare seule du compositeur brésilien, qui les écrivit durant l'été 1940. Ils ne constituent pas un cycle homogène, mais plutôt un ensemble composite de feuilles d'album, dont chacune développe de manière originale un principe stylistique différent. Sur le plan de la technique instrumentale, Heitor Villa-Lobos situe les …

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The Bärenreiter Urtext edition of Ludwig Van Beethoven 's Concerto No. 1 In C Major Op. 15 For Piano features a detailed commentary by Bärenreiter editor and Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar. In Beethoven ’s autograph for Concerto No. 1 In C Major Op. 15 For Piano Del Mar found no less than 17 corrections which were made after the work was published. These have been brou…

Par ROZYCKI LUDOMIR. This edition is based on the editions from the epoch, and in the case of Romanze, on the autograph. I relation to sources, obvious errors have been corrected, and marks have been unified. Some fingering and dynamic marks have also been introduced in the places where the lack in the original text seems to result from the publisher's or author's mistakes. At the same time, the c…

Rameau's 'Les Fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour? was long considered second-rate because its première was associated with a political event. Yet this ballet abounds in novel dramaturgical effects that foreshadow his later operas, such as 'Zaïs?, 'Zoroastre? and 'Les Boréades?. Working together with his librettist Cahusac, Rameau sought to weave the dance numbers, choruses and stage machinery more tig…

Ricordi, the well-known printer of classical opera, presents the works of the great opera composers in its CRITICAL EDITION · PRACTICAL SERIES. These revised definitive scores are produced by using all the currently available sources ranging from the original autographs to printed editions, in line with strict philological and critical criteria. Each edition has a brief introduction providing the …

Hommage aux compositeurs TESSIER, MURAIL, LEVINAS, GRISEY, DUFOURT. Par CASTANET PIERRE ALBERT. Préfacé par le compositeur et chef d’orchestre Alain Louvier et illustré de documents de première main, le livre de Pierre Albert Castanet rend hommage aux cinq compositeurs historiques de L’Itinéraire (ensemble pionnier de la « musique spectrale »). Situés aux extrêmes de l’ouvrage, deux grands volets …