Bagpipers is the first movement of the three-movement Sonatina composed in 1915 (1. Bagpipers, 2. Bear Dance and 3. Finale). The composer said of the piece, ''Originally I planned a group of Romanian folk dances for piano. I selected three parts of this and called it Sonatina…
An Evening in the Village was composed in 1908 as no. 5 of the Ten Easy Piano Pieces. It has become one of Bartók's favorite works, which the composer himself was fond of playing at recitals. As he explained in an American interview, it was ''an original composition that is (...)…
From 1906 on Béla Bartók was collecting folksongs on a regular basis. It was in 1907, during his first collecting trip to Transylvania, that he jotted down those three melodies in Gyergyótekerőpatak, Csík, which he both provided with piano accompaniment (From Gyergyó) and arranged…
Stylish arrangements of selected highlights from the leading 20th century composer
Arreglado por Davies, Hywel
Arreglo: Oboe and Piano
Editorial: Boosey and Hawkes
Nº de artículo: BH13207
The Boosey & Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy. The Romanian Folk Dances were originally written in 1915 as a suite of six short piano pieces, which…
The work is an attempt at combining, by means of juxtaposition, two aesthetics: one baroque and the other, the aesthetics of French neoclassicism of the first half of the twentieth century: hence the strange title of the work ''Dualistyl''. The whole is a kind of pastiche enriched…
Freely adapted from various movements from Six Sonatas for two violins and figured bass, published in London 1746. The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 5,7).
Both of these works for oboe and piano explore the emotions of grief and anger following loss or bereavement. Fierce Tears I and Fierce Tears II both use a melodic line taken from Berkeley's Oboe Concerto, but it is developedin different ways in each work.
This collection of works for oboe and piano has been selected and arranged to provide a wide variety of musical challenges for advanced student performers based on the rich musical legacy of one of America's greatest composers - Leonard Bernstein.
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