BALLADEN OP.10 / BALLADES OP.10COMPOSER / AUTHOR: BRAHMS, JOHANNESDETAILED INSTRUMENTATION: PIANOEDITOR: KÖHN, CHRISTIANFOREWORD / INTRODUCTION: KÖHN, CHRISTIANPRODUCT FORMAT: PERFORMANCE SCORE(S), URTEXT EDITIONINCLUDES THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUAL PARTS: PIANOCOMMENTS ON THE EDITION: WITH FINGERINGS BY CHRISTIAN KÖHNLANGUAGE(S) OF TEXT: GERMAN, ENGLISHLEVEL OF DIFFICULTY (D): 4PUBLISHER: BÄRENREITERBINDING: STAPLEDPRINT RUN:1ST PRINTING 2012DESCRIPTION:-THE INSTRUMENTAL BALLAD WAS A POPULAR MUSICAL FORM IN THE 19TH CENTURY AND THESE FOUR PIECES FOR PIANO ARE BRAHMS’S ONLY CONTRIBUTION TO THE GENRE. THE COMPOSER WROTE THE BALLADES DURING THE TIME OF HIS CLOSE FRIENDSHIP WITH CLARA SCHUMANN, AND THEY EXUDE AN INTIMACY MORE TYPICAL OF A VOCAL BALLAD. THE PIECES, WHICH SCHUMANN ENTHUSIASTICALLY PRAISED, WERE DESCRIBED BY BRAHMS AS BEING “NOT TOO DIFFICULT TO PLAY AND EVEN LESS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.”-BRAHMS’S BALLADES OP. 10 FORM AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE ADVANCED PIANO LITERATURE. THIS PUBLICATION REPRESENTS A VALUABLE ADDITION TO THE REPERTOIRE OF BRAHMS’S PIANO WORKS IN BÄRENREITER URTEXT EDITIONS. THE FINGERING BY BRAHMS SPECIALIST CHRISTIAN KÖHN, THE CLEAR NOTATION AND OPTIMUM PAGE TURNS FULFIL THE REQUIREMENTS OF A PRACTICAL PERFORMING EDITION. A DETAILED FOREWORD WITH INFORMATION ON PERFORMANCE PRACTICE, THE COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS, SOURCES AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE WORK COMPLETES THE EDITION.-URTEXT EDITION BASED ON ALL KNOWN SOURCES AND CURRENT RESEARCH-WELL-PRESENTED MUSICAL LAYOUT WITH OPTIMUM PAGE TURNS-WITH FINGERING AND SUGGESTIONS FOR PERFORMANCE PRACTICE (ENG/GER)-WITH FOLD-OUT PAGE FOR AN EASY PAGE TURN-WITH AN INFORMATIVE FOREWORD (ENG/GER) AND CRITICAL COMMENTARY (ENG) CONTENTS: • VORWORT • PREFACE • COMPOSER / AUTHOR: BRAHMS, JOHANNES BALLADE NO. 1 D MINOR OP. 10 • COMPOSER / AUTHOR: BRAHMS, JOHANNES BALLADE NO. 2 D MAJOR OP. 10 • COMPOSER / AUTHOR: BRAHMS, JOHANNES BALLADE NO. 3 B MINOR OP. 10 INTERMEZZO • COMPOSER / AUTHOR: BRAHMS, JOHANNES BALLADE NO. 4 B MAJOR OP. 10 • CRITICAL COMMENTARY.-NOTA: SI BUSCA ALGUNA PARTITURA O MÉTODO, ENVÍENOS UN MENSAJE Y CON GUSTO ATENDEREMOS SU COMENTARIO, SOMOS ESPECIALISTAS EN MÚSICA IMPRESA, SI REQUIERE FACTURA FAVOR DE SOLICITARLA AL MOMENTO DE SU COMPRA.