Author : Charles-Valentin Alkan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486400662
Selected and with Introductory Notes by Marc-André Hamelin. Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 39 (Symphony for Solo Piano, Op. 39, Nos. 4–7; Concerto for Solo Piano, Op. 39, Nos. 8–10; "Le Festin d'Ésope", Op. 39, No. 12); Saltarelle, Op. 23; Barcarolle, Op. 65, No. 6; Toccatina, Op. 75.
Author : Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486427362
Gottschalk's Creole heritage and extensive visits to Cuba, the West Indies, and South America are reflected in this great-sounding, glittering, and wonderfully melodious music for piano duet. Contents include La jota aragonesa, Op. 14; Ojos criollos, Op. 37; Réponds-moi (Cuban dance), Op. 50; La gallina, Op. 53; Ses yeux (polka), Op. 66; Grande tarentelle, Op. posth. 67; Radieuse (concert waltz), Op. 72; and — as an encore — Gottschalk's legendary four-hand arrangement of Rossini's ever-popular William Tell Overture.
Author : Sergey Prokofiev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486410913
New collection displays composer's lyrical charm with 4 Etudes, Op. 2; 4 Pieces, Op. 3; 4 Pieces, Op. 4; Toccata, Op. 11; 10 Pieces, Op. 12; Sarcasms, Op. 17; Visions fugitives, Op. 22; Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31; 4 pieces, Op. 32; and March and Scherzo, Op. 33 (from The Love for Three Oranges).
Author : Nikolay Karlovich Medtner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486416830
Complex, surprising pieces by a brilliant, underrated Russian 20th-century Romantic whose music, though similar to that of his friend Rachmaninoff, is more cerebral and harmonically adventurous. These 34 "fairy tales" for piano highlight the composer's gift for musical storytelling, with their intense polyrhythms, intricate textures, and complex harmonic development.
Author : Enrique Granados
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486424293
Full of the color, harmonies, and rhythms of Spanish folk music, this excellent, authoritative compilation of works by Granados features his finest pieces: A la cubana, Op. 36 (In Cuban style); Allegro de concierto, Op. 46 (Concert allegro); Capricho español, Op. 39 (Spanish caprice); Dos danzas españoles, Op. 37 (Two Spanish dances); Dos Impromptus; El pelele (The puppet); Marche militaire, Op. 38; Moresque y Cancion arabe (Moorish piece and Arabian song); Ochos valses poeticos (Eight poetic waltzes); Seis piezas sobre cantos populares españoles (Six pieces on Spanish folksongs); and the composer's own transcription of the world-famous Intermezzo from his opera Goyescas.
Author : Edvard Grieg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486279316
One of the most popular concertos ever written, and one of the most recognizable of all musical works in the standard repertoire. Deeply romantic, it is filled with great melodic inspiration.
Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486204697
Piano transcriptions of the syncopated, turn-of-the-century melodies created by such masters as Scott Joplin, Percy Wenrich, and Charles Hunter
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486401140
This memorable tribute reveals Liszt's remarkable capacity for translating orchestral effects into pianistic terms. An astonishing, brilliant, and sensitive tribute to the master by the 19th-century's greatest piano virtuoso.
Author : Ronald Herder
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486404073
Play the world's most beautiful classical music quickly and easily with this high-quality selection of short, favorite, accessible compositions by the world's greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and others. Includes Beethoven's Für Elise, Three Norwegian Dances by Grieg, Liszt's Consolation, Macdowell's To a Wild Rose, Schumann's Träumerei, and many more.
Author : Frédéric Chopin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486240527
Includes 26 Preludes: Op. 28, Nos. 1-24; Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45; Prelude in A-flat Major. 27 Etudes: Op. 10, Nos. 1-12; Op. 25, Nos. 1-12; Trois Nouvelles Etudes.
