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This Einaudi: Solo Piano folio features the very best of Ludovico Einaudi for solo piano accompanied by a special foreword from the composer. Song List: - Berlin Song - The Crane Dance - Dietro Casa - Divenire - Dna - The Earth Prelude - Eros - Fly - Indaco - Lady Labyrinth - L'Origine...

Recorded in a remote monastery in Verona, Ludovico Einaudi's In A Time Lapse explores the concept of capturing emotions and experiences in a single moment in time. This exclusive matching piano songbook presents all 14 tracks from the album, plus five bonus pieces, in beautifully crisp notation. Songlist: -...

Great virtuoso's best, most important solo piano works: the 7 Elegies; the 6 Sonatinas; the enormous and complex Contrapuntal Fantasy; the Fantasy after J. S. Bach; the Indian Diary (4 piano studies on American Indian motifs); and the 6 Pieces, Op. 33b. Authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel editions.

Michel Legrand: The Piano Collection is a definitive compilation of 25 best-loved songs by the award-winning songwriter, arranged for Piano and Voice. Michel Legrand has been a seemingly inexhaustible songwriter, film score & stage composer, arranger and jazz pianist since the 1950s. This...

Essential Bach Arranged for Guitar provides guitarists with a new approach to many of Bach's masterpieces. The fingerings in the arrangements make the guitar sound rich and full, as if the pieces were written for the instrument. Attention is given to the musical line by using cross-string fingerings...

This volume contains English translations of three important literary works by Austrian conductor Felix Weingartner (1863–1942). The title essay is a detailed account of specific performing difficulties and questions of interpretation in each of the nine symphonies, a comprehensive treatment that will...

By the time of his death in 2010 at the age of 84, Sir Charles Mackerras had achieved widespread recognition, recorded extensively and developed into a conductor of major international significance. In addition to areas in which he already had forged a distinctive profile (Janácek, Mozart, Handel,...

The elegant Romantic piano music of Anton Arensky served as the foundation of works by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. This collection of short works contains the title suite as well as Six Canonic Pieces, Three Esquisses, Six Essais sur les Rhythmes Oubilées, Four Etudes, Six Caprices, and Scherzo.

The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Élisabeth-Paule Labat  shares her interior experience of music and thus...

These mandolin duet arrangements of the music of J. S. Bach are drawn from several sources. Most are arrangements of keyboard pieces from The Anna Magdalena Notebook, English and French Suites, Two-Part Inventions, and some miscellaneous keyboard pieces. Some of these are duet arrangements of music...

Song For Athene, for unaccompanied SATB choir, was commissioned by the BBC and written in memory of Athene Hariades, who died in March 1993. The text is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Orthodox Funeral Service. The work was first performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in September...

John Tavener: God Is With Us is a Christmas proclamation for tenor (or baritone) solo, SATB choir and organ. This work by John Tavener (1944-2013) was commissioned by Winchester Cathedral in tribute to Martin Neary for his work at Winchester Cathedral during the years 1972-1987. It was first performed in December 1987 by the Choir of Winchester Cathedral conducted by Martin Neary.

Giuseppe Verdi's career forms one of the loveliest arcs in musical history. The passion of his works resonates universally, while the sophistication of his middle and late operas satisfies demanding ears and tastes. In Verdi: The Operas and Choral Works, Victor Lederer surveys every one of the master's...

Great operatic masterpiece reprinted complete and unabridged from rare, limited and numbered full-score edition (for solo voice, chorus and orchestra), approved by Strauss. Published by Adolph Fürstner, Paris and Berlin, 1910. First inexpensive, high-quality edition.