J.G. Oncken Kassel

This series is designed to serve two purposes: on the one hand it aims to make accessible (collected in separate volumes) the best-known pieces that form the backbone of the music school curriculum, a...

Supplementary Volume 15 of the New Liszt Edition contains both earlier versions of published works and also several works that remained as manuscript. The most extensive work in this volume is the ear...

Two pieces of scherzo character in triple time flank a slower movement in duple time. The first burlesque entitled 'Quarrel' is Márta's piece, Nov. 1908, is a dispute between two opposing characters,...

In August [Bartók] heard the fifty-year-old Áron Balogh playing the peasant flute in Gyergyóteker patak in Cs k district. He arranged three songs under the title From Gyergyó, for tilinkó [peasant flu...

This music, moving even in its bleakness, is characterised by the complete absence of ornamentation. The arc of all four pieces [1. Adagio, 2. Andante, 3. Poco lento, 4. Assai andante] is similar: aft...

Supplementary Volume 16 of the New Liszt Edition contains free arrangements and technical exercises. In the first section can be found early versions of three arrangements. The first consists of the f...

Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak f...

The history of Liszt's intensely virtuosic and unwaveringly popular Transcendental Etudes dates back to his 12 Etudes composed around 1826. Liszt later reworked 11 pieces of this not-so-technically-di...

Aus der Peer Gynt-Suite bearbeitet für Klavier 4ms von Michael Heupel & Edith Meyer

Die Kunst von Jean-Baptiste Lully ist in unserer Zeit beinahe unbekannt, da er hauptsächlich - heute schon vergessene - Bühnenwerke komponierte. Auf dem Gebiete der Instrumentalmusik bewahren nur eini...

Carl Tausig, geboren am 4. November 1841 in Warschau, darf als der talentierteste und bedeutendste Schüler von Franz Liszt genannt werden. Später trat er indessen zu ihm neben Rubinstein und Bülow in...

Elgar's Serenade In E Minor Op. 20, arranged for the solo Piano by Malcolm Kenzie. A beautiful pastorale work initially premiered in 1896, and characteristic of Elgar's poignant melodic writing. The p...