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“At the Piano” – lends colour to the Henle catalogue!
Even the visual design is a little revolution for Henle: … Continue reading
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Tagged At the Piano, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, piano, Schubert, Schumann
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Tristan at Troldhaugen – interesting finds in Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces”
Among the most popular and successful of Edvard Grieg’s compositions … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Grieg, Edvard, Lyric Pieces (Grieg), Monday Postings, piano solo, sketches, variant reading
Tagged accidentals, Grieg, piano, variants
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Listeners are also only human
Observations on the necessity of body language in piano playing … Continue reading
Posted in Alfred Brendel, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Hungarian Rhapsody (Liszt), Lang Lang, Liszt, Franz, Marc-André Hamelin, Monday Postings, piano solo, Piano Sonata op. 31 nr. 3 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 7 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata op. 81a Les Adieux (Beethoven), Victor Borge
Tagged Beethoven, body language, Hungarian Rhapsody, interpretation, Liszt, piano, piano player, piano sonata
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Schubert deletes, Brahms restores. On the first of the three posthumous piano pieces (Impromptus) D 946 by Franz Schubert
Schubert did not live to see the publication of his … Continue reading
Brahms’s ‘Hungarian Dances’ – new finds in old sources
In 2011 the Brahms researcher Michael Struck made a striking … Continue reading
Posted in articulation, Brahms, Johannes, Hungarian Dances (Brahms), Monday Postings, notation, piano solo
Tagged Brahms, interpretation, notation, piano
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‘Play it again’ – is a repeat sign missing in Brahms’ Paganini Variations?
Some time ago we received an interesting query from a … Continue reading
Posted in autograph, Brahms, Johannes, first edition, Monday Postings, notation, Paganini Variations op. 35 (Brahms), piano solo
Tagged Brahms, notation, Paganini, piano, repeat, variation
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Debussy: to finger or not to finger…? Why we are adding fingering in the “Études”
In summer 1915 in the solitude of Pourville, the small … Continue reading
Posted in Debussy, Claude, Douze Études (Debussy), Monday Postings, piano solo, Urtext
Tagged Chopin, Couperin, Debussy, Études, fingering, piano, Rameau
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