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This is the first critical Urtext edition of Ravel’s homage to Joseph Haydn for piano, based on his autograph. This edition contains a preface by Swiss Ravel biographer Theo Hirsbrunner and is arranged in the special large format of Vienna Urtext. For advanced players.

Vienna Urtext UT50265 • $8.95  Add to Cart

Following in the footsteps of student-and-teacher duet collections Clever Cat and Clever Cat at the Seaside, this collection of eight easy pieces provides an opportunity for the young pianist to take flight on her or his own. These pieces are meant to encourage skill-building, but are also fun to play and explore a variety of styles. The book also includes stickers so teachers can reward their students for completing each piece!

Universal Edition UE021484 • $14.95  Add to Cart
See also Clever Cat at the Seaside, below.

The popular Cornick piano duet series continues with more inspiring duets, this time on the subject of love. Contrasting styles are explored from Duke Ellington's stylish and swinging “Don't Get Around Much Anymore” to a unique, intertwined arrangement of the Caribbean songs “Yellow Bird” and “Water Come a Me Eye (Come Back Liza).” The old favorite “Dark Eyes” and the more contemplative “I Gave My Love a Cherry” and “The Water is Wide” complete the collection. Separate piano parts and score included. The CD includes the complete performance of each duet as well as play-along rehearsal tracks for both parts. For intermediate level players and beyond.

Universal Edition UE021485 • $26.95  Add to Cart

This newly revised edition of Haydn’s most simple piano sonatas has been freshly engraved and arranged for easier reading by Vienna Urtext. Includes four complete works.

Vienna Urtext UT050273 • $9.95  Add to Cart

Podgornov has written a collection of easy pieces for the beginning pianist, with the idea that the player should learn technique as a result of playing interesting musical themes, rather than focusing specifically on skill. The technical level of these pieces increases as the volume progresses. For beginning players.

Universal Edition UE034551 • $19.95  Add to Cart

Discovered on the eve of his 200th birthday, this long-lost piano piece by Robert Schumann is being released as a first edition by Vienna Urtext. It includes a facsimile of the original manuscript and commentaries on the work and its discovery.

Vienna Urtext UT050271 • $9.95  Add to Cart

Haskell Small has spun a delightful story in this new piece for piano, based on the famous 1881 Renoir painting “Luncheon of the Boating Party,” which depicts a group of lively young adults taking an outdoor lunch. Small created personalities for the subjects in the painting, choosing different musical themes for each, and the piece ends as all of the revelers board a train, receding into the distance. For advanced players.

Peermusic Classical 62385-501 • $29.95  Add to Cart

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A short celebratory piano duet from our Pulitzer Prize winning composer. A new take on the processional. Dur.: 2' 10" See a two-page spread.

Theodore Presser Co. 110-41781 • $18.95  Add to Cart

Luke Bedford
Catafalque
Piano Solo

A marvelous work for solo piano by the prolific young composer Luke Bedford. For advanced players. Duration: 5'

Universal Edition UE21439 • $19.95  Add to Cart

PWM Edition presents Classical Music Hits, a collection of well-loved traditional classics given a contemporary feel with Andrzej Klos’ upbeat, jazzy instrumental accompaniment CD. This book contains favorites like Pachelbel’s “Canon in D,” Mozart’s “Turkish March,” and Grieg’s “The Hall of the Mountain King.” For intermediate players.

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne 510-05028 • $24.95  Add to Cart

Lowell Liebermann
Concerto No. 1
for Piano and Orchestra
Reduction for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands

Liebermann is quickly becoming a staple in the repertoire of advanced students and performers. His catalog of works garners ongoing praise and respect. Listen to a bit of his first Concerto and visit him at MySpace!

Presser 410-41286 • $40.00  Add to Cart

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Recorded by Marc-André Hamelin on Albany (TROY 665) on The Devil in the Flesh and Other Pieces, along with Reise's Satori (with soprano Jody Applebaum), Yellowstone Rhythms (with Charles Ullery, bassoon), and Sonata Rhythmikosmos.

See Departure (Romance) for Left Hand Alone
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Merion Music 140-40104 • $25.95  Add to Cart

Ferenc Liszt
Harold en Italie and Other Works

In the ongoing series of Supplements to the New Liszt Edition, Editio Musica Budapest presents Volume 9, devoted to previously unpublished or inaccessible works. Along with Liszt's piano score of the Berlioz Harold en Italie, this fascinating collection includes smaller late masterpieces (Excelsior! and Resignazione) and three other unpublished works. Includes detailed and interesting prefaces to the pieces. A critical edition in practical form. For advanced pianists.

Editio Musica Budapest
Paper cover — 510-05067 • $121.95  Add to Cart
Cloth cover — 510-05068 • $225.95  Add to Cart

Highly versatile composer John Musto has written an arresting two-movement piece for his primary instrument, the piano, entitled Improvisation and Fugue. Commissioned by the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation for the 2008 New York Piano Competition, this is sure to become a popular recital piece for advanced players. See the music (PDF).

Peermusic 62303-501 • $14.95  Add to Cart

Marvin Wolfthal's Lulu Fantasy is a paraphrase of Alban Berg's great opera Lulu in the spirit of Liszt's virtuoso opera arrangements. Some of the most lyrical and dramatic moments in the opera - Alwa's love music, the film music, and the final scene - are presented in a way that explores their hidden connections and creates a poetic portrait of the main characters. Especially interesting is the elaborate arrangement of Alwa's Ragtime, normally heard only in the background in Act I. Duration: 14 minutes.

Universal Edition UE33970 • $26.95  Add to Cart

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
Volume 1 - 510-05017 • $54.95  Add to Cart
Volume 2 - 510-05019 • $54.95  Add to Cart

Nicolai Podgornov
Nicolai Podgornov’s Romantic Piano Album
Piano Solo

Sixteen romantic pieces composed or arranged by Nicolai Podgornov, ranging “from dreamy to energetic and passionate.” Includes Tiersen’s “La Valse d’Amelie” from the film Amelie, Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from The Lion King, plus Podgornov’s own “A Night in Venice” and “Waltz No. 1.” Middle-grade pieces are suitable for all ages.

Universal Edition UE33937 • $22.95  Add to Cart

Lowell Liebermann
Nocturne No. 9
Piano Solo
Theodore Presser Co. 110-41774 • $9.95  Add to Cart

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Nocture No. 10
Piano Solo
Theodore Presser Co. 110-41775• $6.95  Add to Cart

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Schnabel's first large-scale composition became one of his favorites, and a popular concert entry at the time. The Rondo theme, particularly, reappears in his 3rd Symphony, the last notes he ever wrote to be played by piano. This new piano reduction also includes a cadenza written by Schnabel for a talented young composer/pianist, Eduard Erdmann, who toured extensively with this work. For advanced pianists.

Peermusic Classical 62145-506 • $39.95  Add to Cart

The complete original pieces for piano by W.A. Mozart from Nannerl’s Music Book. Nannerl, the nickname for Mozart’s sister Maria Anna, preserved a music book containing her younger brother’s earliest musical compositions beginning at age five—simple dance scores still treasured for elementary piano lessons today. These 18 favorite recital pieces for beginners include, for the first time, the fragmentary piece K 9b by Mozart, completed by the Mozart specialist Robert D. Levin.

Vienna Urtext UT50262 • $13.95  Add to Cart

A commission by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music brought this short (2') tone poem to their ongoing collection of contemporary piano works, Spectrum 4. We publish this work as an example of piano dynamics - the melody sings in the upper register over sustained chords in the lower. An excellent introduction to the contemporary art for advancing students.

Presser 110-41763 • $4.95  Add to Cart

A collection of well-known seasonal favorites perfect for Christmas concerts and get-togethers. Five holiday favorites are arranged for piano duet, with CD containing recordings of each duet as well as play-along rehearsal tracks for primo and secondo players. Includes Sleigh Ride, I Saw Three Ships, Silent Night, Jingle Bells, and a Medley of Carols. For intermediate players.

Universal Edition UE21454 • $27.95  Add to Cart

Alban Berg
Streichquartett Op. 3 (1910)
Piano Four Hands

Alban Berg's renowned String Quartet, Op. 3 (1910) is now available in a beautiful arrangement by Universal Edition for piano duet, four hands. First performed in 1911 and published in 1920, Streichquartett was the last work the composer produced under the guiding influence of Arnold Schönberg. For advanced players.

Universal Edition UE33841 • $46.95  Add to Cart

Franz Liszt
Symphonies de L. van Beethoven,
   Nos. 5-7, Marche Funebre (No. 3, II)
Edited by Imre Mezo
Piano

Editio Musica Budapest has done an immeasurable service to the world of piano music by publishing this extensive collection of Franz Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies for solo piano, as part of the New Liszt Edition series. Liszt held Beethoven in high regard from childhood throughout his adult life, and felt that existing transcriptions of Beethoven’s orchestral works for piano did not adequately evoke the style and scope of the originals. His “piano scores” as he called them, were arranged to address everything an orchestra would be able to express, and they were wildly successful in public performances. This collection contains Symphonies No. 5-7, as well as the Funeral March from Symphony Heroique No. 3. While this collection remains as faithful to Liszt’s compositional style as possible, inconsistencies between the primary sources used have been eliminated for greater clarity. In addition, Liszt’s original footnotes have been preserved, along with clearly indicated footnotes included by the editor. A true masterpiece in its own right. For the advanced player.

Editio Musica Budapest 510-05039 • $94.95  Add to Cart

Garrop considers the art of a master of tango in forming her new piano solo showpiece. For advanced pianists. Available as Custom Print edition.

Theodore Presser Company 110-41782 • $17.95  Add to Cart

Eine Tanzsuite is the first and most accessible of four serious piano works by twentieth-century Austrian composer Artur Schnabel. A teacher and performer in his own time, Schnabel’s compositions were largely overlooked, but are now recognized for their great range of style and content. In five movements, Eine Tanzsuite explores the moods of light-hearted flirtation, unabashed romanticism, a stately waltz, an otherworldly unknown, and a jubilant finale. This edition is drawn directly from the composer’s manuscript, with some discrepancies corrected. The original score can be viewed here. For the advanced player.

Peermusic Classical 62273-501 • $39.95  Add to Cart

Chris Villars, chronicler of all things Feldman, offers a selection of published reviews of the world premiere performance of Triadic Memories, as performed by dedicatee Roger Woodward in 1981. These explain in large part how a 26-page piano piece takes an hour and a half, while never rising above pianissimo! This important contemporary work is now available for study or performance. For advanced students and performers. Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Universal Edition UE21448 • $46.95  Add to Cart

In the year 1723, J.S. Bach rearranged and reworked his Two-Part Inventions to present them in an authoritative version, with the intention of bringing about ‘pure’ keyboard playing. The Two-Part Inventions remain, to this day, among the most popular keyboard works by the composer. Vienna Urtext’s new edition of this essential teaching work for piano strictly follows Bach’s manuscript and contains facsimile examples from the composer’s autograph. Both the earlier and later versions of Invention One are included in this definitive edition.

Vienna Urtext UT50254 • $12.95  Add to Cart

Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (PWM) 510-05011 • $28.95  Add to Cart

The National Edition, founded in 1959, has but one goal: to provide the edition of Chopin’s works as Chopin intended them, and, by so doing, to honor Poland’s greatest composer. The National Edition is an ongoing research project, gathering together all available source materials and producing definitive publications. Ekier’s team uses the latest techniques to assess the composer’s intentions and relates this to modern pianos and performance. The National Edition is a source edition, a critical edition, and a practical edition, and the finest edition of Chopin’s works available today. See available volumes of The National Edition here.

The First Urtext Edition of the complete Works for Piano Four Hands by Robert Schumann for performance purposes is a hefty compendium of the composer’s well-known works, as well as Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73 (meticulously arranged by Friedrich Gustav Jansen). The pieces are presented in practical primo/secondo format, and the volume includes both a comprehensive preface containing historical information plus helpful notes on interpretation. (See also Volume One, listed below.)

Vienna Urtext UT50079 • $49.95  Add to Cart

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A new piano duet from Hailstork in three contrasting movements. A brief opening statement (allegretto scherzando) is followed by a tender and melodic lento grazioso. The finale is a punchy and rhythmic vivace. Suitable for advanced students and performers. See a spread.

Theodore Presser Co. 110-41780 • $17.95  Add to Cart

Adolphus Hailstork
Sonata for Two Pianos
Two Pianos

Written for the duo piano team of Delphin and Romain, Hailstork's Sonata demands focus from the outset. A driving, rhythmic allegro energetico moves quickly, with the pianists in tight formation. The A-B-A form features a beautiful adagietto ma non troppo middle movement, with a challenging vivace finale. For advanced performers. Duration: 12' See a page.

Theodore Presser Co. 110-41779 • $42.95  Add to Cart

"The four-movement sonata (1987, rev. 2005) is comparatively inward and subdued. ...the central 'Romance,' which begins like Scriabin and gradually gains color with the accumulation of feather-light decoration. Virtuosity returns in the concluding 'Finale Fantasia,' full of turbulence and unsettled harmonies. "
-- Phillip Scott, Fanfare  See a page!

Presser Custom Print 410-41276 • $29.95  Add to Cart

ORGAN

Mario Lavista
Mater Dolorosa
Organ Solo

Peermusic 62297-525 • $19.95  Add to Cart

The original trumpet and piano edition has become standard fare for the trumpet repertoire, and now the popular Prayer of Saint Gregory is available as a powerful organ solo. It is interesting to note that Searle's transcription was done with direction by the composer. For advanced organists.

Peermusic Classical 62367-525 • $9.95  Add to Cart