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Each book in series presents a composer trough a selection of brief pieces. The first volumes help the young pianist to become acquainted with the music of Händel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,...

The idea of composing 'Games' was suggested by children playing spontaneously, children for whom the piano still means a toy. They experiment with it, caress it, attack it and run their fingers over i...

The work was composed in 1908-1910. 'Bartók may have chosen to call these sketches because most of the pieces are indeed like a painter's sketch for a later, larger work: quickly executed creative wor...

The significance of the Rhapsody composed in 1904 in Gerlicepuszta and Pozsony is well shown by the fact that Bartók subsequently reserved the designation 'Opus 1' of his last, mature opus numbering f...

For the performance of the work three playing scores are needed. The enclosed parts are incomplete, and serve only to help the page turning. (BMC CD 048)

Liszt would not have become the artist we know, had it not been for Paganini. In turn, Liszt s absence would have made the history of music and musical performance very different. As such, it is safe...

The Essential Flute is a volume that will be a welcome addition to any flautist's collection. It contains six popular and tuneful works, with composers ranging from Mozart to Joplin and styles that va...

Bartók spielte wahrscheinlich 1911 erstmals Werke von Domenico Scarlatti öffentlich und in den folgenden zwei Jahrzehnten ließ er sie an seinen Klavierabenden mehr als sechzig Mal erklingen. Seine Ver...

Die Sonaten bringen wir nicht nach Schwierigkeitsgraden geordnet, sondern in der Reihenfolge von Kirkpatricks Verzeichnis. Diese Anordnung entspricht annähernd der Entstehungszeit der Stücke. Dadurch...

The sonatas are not grouped according to their degree of difficulty, they are given in the order which corresponds with the Kirkpatrick nimbering. This is approximately identical with the order in whi...

During his ''years of pilgrimage'' spent in Italy, the young Liszt gained enough musical inspiration from the local musical, artistic, and literary heritage to last for decades. These intense impressi...

This edition includes 32 of the numerous piano pieces by Finnish composer Heino Kaski (1885-1957). Many of them are everlasting favourites among Finnish pianists, such as Yö meren rannalla (Night by t...

Pál Járdányi (1920 - 1966) was one of the most distinguished figures in Hungarian music during the years following the Second World War. He was an innovative researcher in the field of folk music, an...

Das Jugendalbum Tschaikowskys ist eine Sammlung von 24 leichten Klavierstücken, die programmatische Titel tragen. Die beiden Suiten sind Bearbeitungen, die die technischen Anforderungen von Laienensem...

Der Band vereint das gesamte choralgebundene Orgelschaffen des Komponisten.