The atmospheric cycle 'Avant-dernières Pensées? (Next-to-last Thoughts) of 1915, with its underlaid words, likewise belongs to Satie's 'story pieces'. The curious performance instructions in these three miniatures, all based on ostinato figures, amusingly lampoon the ideal of Romantic expressiveness. This Urtext edition faithfully adheres to the sources and reflects the latest findings of Satie sc…

14 Smash Hits. Par . From the radio to your instrument, play or sing the songs that define 2025! Top Hits of 2025 brings together 14 of the year's biggest tracks in one must-have collection, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar. Each arrangement includes lyrics, chord symbols, and guitar chord frames so you can perform the music your way. Inside, you'll find hites from Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, Sabr…

With his sonatas op. 31 composed in 1802 Beethoven for the last time grouped together piano sonatas under one opus number. The centrepiece of the collection is undoubtedly the dramatic Sonata in D minor nicknamed 'Tempest' which already fascinated his contemporaries. According to Anton Schindler, who asked the composer about the 'key' to this work as well as to the sonata op. 57 ('Appassionata'), …

Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY / JOO HYUNG-KI. Either of these pieces, for more advanced players, would make an exceptionally unusual and entertaining concert item. The writers, Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo, have stunned audiences, critics and fellow musicians worldwide with their combined musicianship and hilarious antics. They have now applied their skills and written these pieces specifically for …

Bwv 1007-1012. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Urtext edition with articulation markings - Soft-cover performing edition When you think cello, you think of Bach?s immortal cello suites. The suites take centre stage in the cello literature. They are timeless and beautiful and accompany cellists from their student years up through their professional career at the highest level. Appropriately and not surp…

Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Either of these pieces, for advanced players, would make an exceptionally unusual and entertaining concert item. The writers, Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo, have stunned audiences, critics and fellow musicians worldwide with their combined musicianship and hilarious antics. They have now applied their skills and written these pieces specifically for the competition 'Fea…

Arrangeur: Mike Cornick. Par ELGAR EDWARD / CORNICK MIKE (ARR.). Although often regarded as quintessentially English in style, Elgar's music is undeniably deeply rooted in the German Romantic tradition. Elgar's gift for the creation of melody, often sequential and frequently including one of his most familiar 'fingerprints' - the falling seventh - might well be the most obvious attraction in his m…

Urtext edition with articulation markings - Soft-cover performing editionWhen you think cello, you think of Bach's immortal cello suites.The suites take centre stage in the cello literature. They are timeless and beautiful and accompany cellists from their student years up through their professional career at the highest level. Appropriately and not surprisingly there are countless editions of the…

Frédéric Chopin spent his fifth summer at George Sand's country estate in Nohant in 1844. The time away from Paris gave the composer the necessary creative free space to produce the delicate Berceuse (lullaby) as well as the b minor sonata that year. The former is known for its dreamy, exquisite ambient sound - and yet it still numbers amongst Chopin's most fabricated works. It was originally inte…

Par SZYMANOWSKI KAROL. (VII) The Polish idiom appeared in Szymanowskis music in 1920, foreshadowing the beginning of a new period of creativity, later called nationalistic. Before this idiom was realised and such compositions typical of the Polish style as the ballet Harnasie, the Mazurkas, Stabat Mater, Fourth Symphony and Second Violin Concerto had been written, the change in musical thinking an…

Herttrich Ernst (Editor) - Schilde Klaus (Editor). Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. After an early work and a discontinued attempt in 1831/32 Mendelssohn made his breakthrough in this important chamber music genre in the summer of 1839 with the Piano Trio in d minor op. 49, which was to be followed six years later by the Trio in c minor op. 66. On publication of the first trio, Schumann took the o…

'From the Bohemian? Forest, a set of six character pieces for piano duet, was written at the turn of the year 1883-84 at the instigation of Dvorák's publisher Fritz Simrock and appeared in print in the spring of 1884.After the 'Slavonic Dances? and 'Legends?, this was already his third cycle of piano duets to be inspired by much-loved locations.This edition presents the musical text from the 'Comp…

In the summer of 1913 Satie once more poked fun at himself and the world of music with a set of parodic piano pieces on various marine animals, giving it the grotesque title 'Embryons desséchés? (Dessicated Embryos)(BA 10811). The atmospheric cycle 'Avant-dernières Pensées? (Next-to-last Thoughts) (BA 10849) of 1915, with its underlaid words, likewise belongs to Satie's 'story pieces'. The notatio…