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> First complete critical edition of Dusek's sonatas > Previously hard to reach repertoire > Trilingual Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Easy to moderate difficulty The Czech comp...

> First complete scholarly-critical edition > Five previously unpublished sonatas > Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Easy to play and suitable for teaching purposes The Czech comp...

Smetana's piano sketch Macbeth, also known as Macbeth and the Witches, after William Shakespeare's tragedy, originated in 1859 while the composer was living in Sweden. Some scholars believe that it wa...

This Urtext edition of Janácek's works includes lesser-known piano pieces and miniatures from his late years. They complete our picture of Janácek the piano composer, best known for the cycles 'On an...

Johann Joseph Rösler (1771-1812) was a composer, conductor and pianist who was active in Prague and Vienna. Later he was in the service of Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz. His Piano Concerto No. 2 i...

Otilie Suková was the daughter of Antonín Dvorák and the wife of Josef Suk. A gifted musician, she played the piano and wrote several compositions of her own, inspired by her musical surroundings. Fou...

The leading Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek has long devoted himself to training young musicians. With this album of recital pieces he offers young pianists quite easy pieces by well-known Czech composers....

Leopold Koželuch (also Koželuh) was among the leading musical figures of 18th-century Vienna, well-known in his day as an excellent pianist and piano teacher. Six delightful sonatas have been selected...

This new piano album by the acclaimed Czech pianist, teacher and composer Jakub Metelka (born 1986) contains 15 recital pieces - short, witty, characteristic compositions with flawless melodic, harmon...

L'album "The Secret Garden" de Jakub Metelka (né en 1986) contient quinze pièces de récital sous forme de chansons simples, ce qui le rapproche de son cycle pour piano "Little Virtuoso" (BA11569), qui...

Le riche héritage pianistique de Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) comprend pour l'essentiel des compositions qui requièrent les compétences d'un pianiste avancé, voire professionnel. Dans cet album, qui fa...

Jakub Metelka (né en 1986), qui jouit d'une renommée internationale grâce à ses albums pour piano destinés aux débutants avancés ("The Secret Garden", "The Little Virtuoso", "Modern Piano Etudes"), s'...

These pieces, known as the Kurfürsten Sonatas, were composed in 1783 while Beethoven was still studying with Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. 'He will certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

Beethoven's Sonata in F major op. 54 was written in 1804, just after the highly virtuosic 'Waldstein' Sonata and before the 'Appassionata' Sonata, and has unjustly stood in the shadow of its predecess...

> Scholarly-critical Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarship<br>> Optimal page turns<br>> Informative Introduction with valuable suggestions on period performance practi...

Composed in 1809-10, Beethoven's Sonata op. 81a expresses his very personal feelings. He titled its three movements 'Das Lebewohl' (The Farewell), 'Die Abwesenheit' (The Absence) and 'Das Wiedersehn'...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81 'Les Adieux', that Beethoven, then at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna, returned to the piano sonata. The highly lyr...

> New critical performing editions at the cutting edge of scholarship > Optimum page-turns > Introductions with valuable notes on historical performance practice (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentaries (E...

L'histoire de la composition de la Sonate op. 101 est exceptionnellement longue. Les premières esquisses de Beethoven datent de 1815. La première édition de la "Sonate en la difficile à exégéter", com...

Owing to severe illness, Beethoven had to wait for over a year after completing op. 109 before beginning work on the second piece in his triptych of late sonatas: the Piano Sonata in A-flat major op....

Mit Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Jonathan Del Mar und Misha Donat

La sonate en la majeur 'auf clavier allein' de Mozart, imprimée en 1784, avec son célèbre finale 'Alla Turca', fait partie des œuvres les plus populaires de la littérature pour piano. Après la redécou...

Mit Fingersatz und Hinweisen zur Aufführungspraxis von Paul Badura-Skoda

In 1845/46 Chopin composed his bel canto inspired 'Barcarolle' in F-sharp major op. 60, which became a model for subsequent generations of composers. In his evaluation of the divergent and partly even...