Phillip has arranged 8 fantastic songs by one of the greatest bands in the world into piano duets! The arrangements are suitable for intermediate to early advanced-level students. Titles: Another One Bites the Dust • Bohemian Rhapsody • Crazy Little Thing Called Love • Killer Queen • Under Pressure • We Are the Champions • We Will Rock You • Who Wants to Live Forever.
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Nikolai Kapustin first composed the Sinfonietta op. 49 for orchestra. He later arranged the popular four-handed piano version for a concert in the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. It is written in a medium level of difficulty, so that it is well playable even for advanced pianists.
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Includes 8 of the Piano Man's greatest hits arranged for 1 piano/4 hands. Perfect as recital encores, or just for fun! Titles: It's Still Rock and Roll to Me • Just the Way You Are • The Longest Time • My Life • New York State of Mind • Piano Man • She's Always a Woman • Uptown Girl.
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To this day, Brahms' Hungarian Dances number among his most popular works – although he didn't even write them! As he expressly noted on the title page of the first edition, he “only compiled them for piano duet.” What he meant was that he had taken Hungarian dance tunes, fused them into a larger entity and then had the results published, first in an arrangement for piano duet, since the performance of such duets was extremely popular back then. The first two volumes containing the Dances 1-10 were printed in 1869, and two further volumes with the Dances 11-21 were added by Brahms in 1880.
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Contents: Grand Rondeau, Op. 107 • Allegro (Lebenssturme), Op. 144 • Fantaisie, Op. 103 • Divertissement a la Hongroise, Op. 54 • Grand Duo, Op. 140.
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For 2 pianos, 3 hands. Second piano part is orchestral reduction.
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The six pieces in this little suite were written between 1893 and 1896. They were inspired by Hélène Bardac, the daughter of a singer with whom he was friends. The girl was born in 1892 and called “Dolly” on account of her small, delicate figure. The pieces, composed mainly for her birthday or the New Year, reflect the world as experienced by the growing child, from a lullaby to a temperamental dance. But it was not meant to be taken too seriously, as shown by the subtle allusions to his own music and that of others. Despite their simple basic structure these pieces, which soon became popular, contain numerous harmonic and rhythmic subtleties typical of the French composer - “children's music” that is also well suited to adults.
Introduction presented in English, German, and French.
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In the successful Best of Piano Classics series, two more collections of original works and arrangements are published, now for piano four hands, for double the joy of playing the instrument:
Best of Piano Duets 1 contains 20 original duets, including the popular Waltz and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms or the Military March by Schubert.
Best of Piano Duets 2 contains 20 arrangements for discerning lovers of classical masterpieces, including the famous Canon by Pachelbel, “Das klinget so herrlich” from Mozart's Magic Flute or Morning Mood by Grieg.
Completed with fingerings, tempo suggestions and pedal indications and published in a modern and reader-friendly layout, these great-sounding original pieces and arrangements, selected for advanced players, are recommended not only for lessons but also for any amateur musician who loves to play the piano.
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You will love playing these timeless songs together with a partner on the piano! In stacked duet form. Titles: Bicycle Built for Two • Chopsticks • Do-Re-Mi • Heart and Soul • Lean On Me • Scarborough Fair/Canticle • Silly Love Songs • Tea for Two • Two for the Road.
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Bach's harpsichord concertos have proven extremely popular, though several were originally written as concertos for another solo instrument – either violin or a woodwind instrument. But we know nothing about any such preliminary versions in the case of the A-major Concerto BWV 1055. Its enchantingly songlike middle movement inevitably makes one think of the oboe damore, though there is in fact no reason to suppose that its idiomatic, spirited harpsichord writing was conceived from the outset for anything but a keyboard instrument. Ultimately, this music is so fresh and irresistible that all such speculation is irrelevant. For this Henle Urtext edition of the A-major Concerto, we consulted the autograph score and especially the original orchestral parts that presumably contain the musical text of the concerto as Bach himself performed it. You cant get more authentic than this! The piano reduction contains the solo part with carefully chosen fingerings by Michael Schneidt, plus a piano accompaniment that Johannes Umbreit has arranged so as to be practical and easily playable.
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In the successful Best of Piano Classics series, two more collections of original works and arrangements are published, now for piano four hands, for double the joy of playing the instrument:
Best of Piano Duets 1 contains 20 original duets, including the popular Waltz and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms or the Military March by Schubert.
Best of Piano Duets 2 contains 20 arrangements for discerning lovers of classical masterpieces, including the famous Canon by Pachelbel, “Das klinget so herrlich” from Mozart's Magic Flute or Morning Mood by Grieg.
Completed with fingerings, tempo suggestions and pedal indications and published in a modern and reader-friendly layout, these great-sounding original pieces and arrangements, selected for advanced players, are recommended not only for lessons but also for any amateur musician who loves to play the piano.
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A collection of popular Studio Ghibli tunes for 4 hands that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Includes 8 well-thought-out arrangements for the intermediate level, perfect for lessons and recitals!
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It is almost impossible to tell from listening to them that Bach's extremely popular concerti for harpsichord were probably his own transcriptions of solo concerti which had originally been composed for violin or a woodwind instrument. While in many cases the original model is unknown, this is not true in the case of the D major Concerto BWV 1054, which was written in 1738 as an arrangement of the E major Violin Concerto BWV 1042. Once again Bach succeeds in conjuring a brilliant and idiomatic keyboard work from the violin part. Not only because of this, but also principally due to its lively and cheerful outer movements, BWV 1054 belongs among the highlights of Bach's rich compositional output. The piano reduction comprises the solo part together with a very playable piano reduction prepared by Johannes Umbreit for practical use.
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Experience a new dimension of musicality with this fascinating arrangement of the “Swan” from Saint-Saëns' “Carnival of the Animals” for two pianos. Enjoy the charming melody and expressive interpretation while playing together.
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Contents: Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant • Petit Poucet • Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes • Les entretien de la Belle et de la Bête • Le jardin féerique.
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Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She performed in both Germany and the UK in the 1900s, but her career petered out after 1920.
The Piano Concerto (1900) is Kashperova's earliest surviving orchestral work, and it was premiered by the composer the following year in Moscow and St Petersburg, bringing her much wider recognition and paving the way for an international career. Cast in three movements and in a Romantic idiom, pianistic virtuosity is often channelled into the pianist's left hand, which is required to negotiate widely-spaced 'extreme' arpeggios – awkwardly angular when adagio, fiendishly technical when molto allegro. Kashperova's orchestral colours are achieved by felicitous solos for the woodwind, horns and brass. Noteworthy, too, are unexpected glimpses of chamber music when, in the last movement for example, the piano combines fleetingly with solo violin and solo cello in passages. The concerto's quick music (Molto allegro and Allegro con anima) admirably portrays the vivacious personality of their composer, described in 1906 as offering those around her 'an abundance of joy, excitement and fun'. The central movement, by contrast, is a tender Adagio which offers the listener a gem of musical poetry.
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One Piano, Four Hands.
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Eight of Adele's biggest hits arranged especially for intermediate piano duet! Featuring: Chasing Pavements • Hello • Make You Feel My Love • Rolling in the Deep • Set Fire to the Rain • Skyfall • Someone Like You • When We Were Young.
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After an early mini piece for this instrumentation, Bunte Blätter (Coloured Leaves) is my first real piece for two pianos. It has become a collection of highly diverse and multifaceted pieces and forms, ranging from Walzer (Waltz) to Danse macabre, from Fanfare to Zirkusparade (Circus Parade).
The fact that the interpreters of the world premiere, Arthur and Lucas Jussen, are siblings, may and should be felt in the teasingly affectionate Fangspiel (Game of Tag) in which the two pianists sometimes deliberately “play past” each other. The collection is completed by Rätsel (Riddle) for Peter Sloterdijk's 75th birthday, a small, sphinx-like piece for the librettist of my Babylon opera.
- Jörg Widmann
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The decisive role that Norwegian folk music played for Edvard Grieg can be felt in almost all of his works. The Norwegian Dances op.35 of 1880, presented here in an Urtext edition, are arrangements for piano four hands of old folk tunes that Grieg took from a collection published by the musician and researcher Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. For this Henle Urtext edition, all the extant autographs in the Grieg Archive in Bergen, Norway were consulted along with the contemporary first editions. The co-editor here is the Norwegian pianist and Grieg specialist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, who is also responsible for the fingerings.
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Contents: Andante and Variations, Op. 83a • Allegro Brilliante, Op. 92.
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Extracted from the Complete Works of Claude Debussy Series 1, Volume 9, this piece was also one of Durand's best-selling items during Debussy's lifetime. Foreword in English and French. Players score.
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Grieg's incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's drama “Peer Gynt” contains some of his best-known compositions, such as “Morning mood” and “In the hall of the Mountain King”. Grieg later extracted the most beautiful pieces to form two orchestral suites and arranged himself these versions for piano solo and piano four-hands. There was a surprise in store for Henle when preparing their Urtext edition. In the autograph and the first print run, the second suite contained another movement, the “Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter”, which Grieg deleted shortly afterwards. This charming dance appears in the appendix to this edition - printed again for the first time in 120 years! The Norwegian pianist and Grieg expert Einar Steen-Nøkleberg was co-editor for this edition and also provided the new fingerings.
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According to Mozart's own catalogue, K. 491 was completed on 24 March 1786 – it was Mozart's only piano concerto aside from K. 466 that was in a minor key. It was probably first performed two weeks later as part of an “academy” at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Mozart was extremely pressed for time while composing this work, a fact that is shown both by the cursory way in which the autograph was written and by the repeated corrections. Unlike earlier publications, Henle's edition contains the definitive version as in Mozart's manuscript. The piano reduction of Henle's edition was undertaken by the celebrated pianist András Schiff, who also supplied the fingerings for the solo part, the cadenzas and the lead-ins.
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Although Mozart's penultimate piano concerto was completed on 24 February 1788, it was not premiered until 1789 in Dresden. A further performance in autumn 1790, as part of the celebrations in honour of Leopold II's coronation as Emperor, led to the concerto's now popular nickname.
In comparison to the series of large piano concertos from 1784–86, K. 537, with its numerous rapid scale passages and embellishments, looks more conventional at first glance, although it is precisely this more flexible structure that points ahead to forms of the early romantic period. In any case, it today numbers among Mozart's most frequently played concertos. Mozart specialist Andreas Staier has supplemented this Urtext edition with numerous practical performance suggestions (rendered as an ossia or in small print): he provides not only elegant entries, cadenzas, embellishments and fingerings, but also completes the sections of the solo part only fragmentarily preserved in the autograph. Henle thus offers a welcome alternative to the previously known version of the solo part, which contains additions made by the publisher Johann André in the posthumous first edition of 1794.
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In addition to classics by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Grieg, rarely performed compositions by Robert Volkmann, Moritz Moszkowski, Paul Hindemith, Emile Naoumoff and others have been included.
Contents: J.C. BACH: Rondo in F Major • MOZART: Sonata in C Major, KV 19d • Sonata in D Major, KV 381 • BEETHOVEN: Sonata in D Major, Op. 6 • DIABELLI: Sonatina, Op. 163, No. 1 • WEBER: Sonatina, Op. 3, No. 1 • SCHUBERT: 4 Landler, D. 814 • Children's March, D. 928 • Military March, Op. 51, No. 1 • CHOPIN: Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 34, No. 2 • SCHUMANN: Birthday March, Op. 85, No. 1 • Round Dance, Op. 85, No. 8 • VOLKMANN: On the Lake, Op. 11, No. 4 • The Cuckoo and the Wanderer, Op. 11, No. 5 • BRAHMS: Waltzes, Op. 39 • Love Song Waltzes, Op. 52a • Hungarian Dance No. 3 • Hungarian Dance No. 5 • The Nightingale (Souvenir de la Russie) • BIZET: The Top • The Doll (Jeux d'enfants) • DVORAK: Silhouette, Op. 8, No. 8 • Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, No. 7 and No. 8 • GRIEG: Norwegian Dance No. 2 • Peer-Gynt Suite No. 1 • FAURE: Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op. 56) • MOSZKOWSKI: Spanish Dance, Op. 12, No. 2 • DEBUSSY: En Bateau (Petite Suite) • SATIE: Cancan Grand-Mondain (La Belle Excentrique) • HINDEMITH: Waltz No. 6 (Three Beautiful Girls in the Black Forest, Op. 6) • PUTZ: Valsette (3 Jazz Waltzes) • NAOUMOFF: Valse pour Nadia
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