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HAL LEONARD Classical Piano 2011-2012 Recent Releases and Highlights Solo Piano n 1 Piano, 4 Hands n 2 Pianos, 4 Hands n Books 1 ABOUT HAL LEONARD CORPORATION The World’s Largest Source for Piano Music Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard Corporation is the largest source for printed music in the world, and also the largest source for classical music publications in the world. The company develops and produces classical music editions, popular music editions, songbooks, collections, sheet music, and educational music publications for all levels and instruments. Hal Leonard is also a publisher of trade books and reference books about all aspects of the performing arts, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs, children’s music products and more. In its more than 200,000 available publications, over 18,000 are piano publications. Hal Leonard Corporation exclusively represents in print some of the world’s best known and most respected publishers. 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We invite you to search online at www.halleonard.com Faber The World’s for additional publications. Piano Great Classical Adventures® Music Series View or download our complete See page 9. See pages 30-33 classical piano catalog at www.halleonard.com/classical. Schirmer’s Works for Library of 1 Piano, Musical Classics 4 Hands ORDER TODAY! See pages 10-11. See pages 33-34 Please see any music retailer or visit www.halleonard.com. Henle Works for Urtext Editions 2 Pianos, SIGN UP See pages 12-15. 4 Hands Receive email updates about new piano See page 35. publications from Hal Leonard. Visit www.halleonard.com/signup Solo Literature Books About CONTACT US By Composer Piano Music, We value your comments and suggestions. See pages 16-25 Artists & Instruments Please email: [email protected] See page 36 Write to: Hal Leonard Corporation Attn: Classical Piano Department Mixed Books About 7777 W. Bluemound Road Composer Classical Music Milwaukee, WI 53213 Collections See pages 37-39 See pages 26-28 Indicates publications available with a companion CD. Prices, contents and availability subject to change without notice and may vary outside the U.S.A. 3 SCHIRMER PERFORMANCE EDITIONS SAMPLE OF PERFORMANCE NOTES from Chopin: Preludes, edited by Brian Ganz • Rich cream toned paper is easy on the eyes • Provides interpretive ideas for tempo, pedaling, ornamentation, dynamics, and fingering • Gives specific performance suggestions for the individual pieces Visit our web site below for complete contents lists, selected audio files of recorded selections, and sample book pages for all publications listed. 4 www.halleonard.com SCHIRMER PERFORMANCE EDITIONS SCHIRMER PERFORMANCE EDITIONS PIANO EDITIONS BEETHOVEN: FÜR ELISE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND OTHER BAGATELLES edited & recorded by Matthew Edwards with CDs of performances Beethoven composed 24 bagatelles–by definition short trifles in a light vein–during his lifetime. This collection includes 14 pieces, including the famous G. Schirmer and Hal Leonard are proud to “Für Elise,” which are appropriate for intermediate to present these definitive Schirmer Performance early advanced pianists. Editions, prepared and edited by distinguished 00296707 Book/CD Pack ..............................$12.99 artists/teachers. They have been created with the 21st-century teacher and student in mind, and are BEETHOVEN: available in convenient Book/CD format. Features PIANO SONATAS include: edited & recorded by Robert Taub Concert pianist Robert Taub, author of Playing the • Practical, teacher-friendly editions, based on Beethoven Piano Sonatas, brings forth a major, newly urtext sources researched edition, with insightful commentary about • Insightful interpretive suggestions and fingering teaching and playing each sonata. Dr. Taub has performed all over the world, presenting an acclaimed • Informative historical and stylistic commentary series of the complete Beethoven Sonatas in both • Newly engraved music printed on high-quality New York and London. His noteworthy recordings, vellum paper praised by critics for their freshness and emotional involvement, are • A recording by the Artist/Editor providing available separately. inspiring, illustrative performance. VOLUME 1 – NOS. 1-15 All titles in the series have been released between 2005 and 2011. 00296632 Book Only ......................................................................$24.99 00296634 CDs Only (5-Disc Set) ..................................................$19.99 BACH: FIRST LESSONS IN BACH VOLUME II – NOS. 16-32 28 Pieces 00296633 Book Only ......................................................................$24.99 edited & recorded by Christos Tsitsaros 00296635 CDs Only (5-Disc Set) ..................................................$19.99 This new edition combines Books I and II of the timeless Bach/Carroll edition. 00296709 Book/CD Pack .............................$12.99 BEETHOVEN: SELECTED PIANO WORKS edited & recorded by Matthew Edwards Nestled beneath the larger works for which BACH: SELECTIONS FROM Beethoven is most often lauded lies a vast collection THE NOTEBOOK FOR of short piano solos that he crafted throughout his career. These miniatures often display the same ANNA MAGDALENA BACH careful writing and attention to detail as his longer edited & recorded by Christos Tsitsaros works. Some were actually intended as pedagogical J.S. Bach married his second wife in 1721. After studies; many derive their style from the popular their marriage, the couple started right away on a dance music of the period and reflect Beethoven’s love of simple, everyday Keyboard Notebook for Anna Magdalena’s practice. pleasures. Eventually they collected two separate books, which are known today as the Notebook for Anna 00296590 Book/CD Pack .................................................................$9.99 Magdalena Bach. 00296589 Book/CD Pack .................................................................$9.99 BACH: TWO-PART INVENTIONS LISTEN TO SAMPLE CD TRACKS AT edited & recorded by Christopher Taylor WWW.HALLEONARD.COM While giving the player a superb example of musical construction, these pieces also teach the • Enter the 8-digit publication number in basics of articulation, rhythm, phrasing, fingering, the “Search” field ornamentation, and the development of a singing tone. • Click on the “CLOSER LOOK” 00296463 Book/CD Pack ..............................$9.99 icon to access audio files Visit our web site below for complete contents lists, selected audio files of recorded selections, and sample book pages for all publications listed. www.halleonard.com 5 SCHIRMER PERFORMANCE EDITIONS BEETHOVEN: CHOPIN: SIX SELECTED SONATAS PRELUDES Opus 10, Nos. 1 and 2, Opus 14, edited & recorded by Brian Ganz Nos. 1 and 2, Opus 78, Opus 79 The name Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) is edited & recorded by Robert Taub synonymous with the piano. Indeed, every one of his Presented in this volume are six sonatas appropriate compositions includes the instrument. His Preludes, for early advanced pianists, edited and recorded by several of which are of only moderate difficulty, show Robert Taub. superb polish and inventive detail. Shaped by the 00296636 Book/CD Pack ..............................$18.95 tastes of the Parisian aristocratic salon, these pieces make the most of a pianist’s technical and musical BEETHOVEN: abilities, both in passages of virtuosity and in the variety of possibilities for SONATA IN C MINOR, emotional expression. OPUS 13 (“PATHÉTIQUE”) 00296523 Book/CD Pack ...............................................................$12.99 edited & recorded by Robert Taub Ludwig van Beethoven is renowned for his large- CHOPIN: scale, innovative piano sonatas and concertos, and SELECTED PRELUDES these works hold a prominent and lasting place in Lower Intermediate to Intermediate Level the repertoire. This volume presents the powerful edited & recorded by Brian Ganz and dramatic “Pathétique” Sonata (1798-99), edited Included in this selection are eight preludes and recorded by noted Beethoven scholar and appropriate for intermediate level pianists. concert pianist Robert Taub. Contents: Prelude in A Minor, Op. 28, No. 2 • Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 • Prelude in B 00296694 Book/CD Pack .................................................................$8.99 Minor, Op. 28, No. 6 • Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, BEETHOVEN: SONATA IN No. 7 • Prelude in E Major, Op. 28, No. 9 • Prelude in D-flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15 • Prelude in C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 • C-SHARP MINOR, OPUS 27, Prelude in G Minor, Op. 28, No. 22. No. 2 (“MoonLIGHT”) 00296720 Book/CD Pack .................................................................$8.99 edited & recorded by Robert Taub