In a burst of creative fire,Tchaikovsky completed his beautiful violin concerto in little more than three weeks.Despite the extraordinary delay in its......
This volume contains two of Beethoven's most unusual, highly innovative and original works: the Concerto in C Major, Op. 56, for piano, violin, cello ......
All five sonatas for cello and piano, and three sets of variations on themes by Mozart and Handel. Basic works of the cello repertoire carefully repro......
Beethoven's symphonies are among his greatest works--in the opinion of many, the greatest orchestral compositions in the history of music. Perfect in ......
Mozart was commissioned to write La Clemenza di Tito for the coronation of the soon-to-be-emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Leopold II. Working with a......
Treasury of orchestral works: "The Moldau" and "From Bohemian Fields and Groves" from Má Vlast; also, the Overture and three dances—"Polka," "Furiant"......
Songs of a Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen), Mahler's first orchestral song cycle, is a strongly autobiographical work. Set to his own text,......
The First Violin Concerto in G Minor is one of German composer Max Brueh's (1838-1920) most enduring works, filled with exuberant melody and colorful ......
Although the string quartet was a rarely used form in 19th-century Russia,Tchaikovsky and Borodin both produced superb, inventive compositions in the ......
This finely produced volume, reprinted from the authoritative edition published by Breitkopf & H/irtel of Leipzig, combines Chopin's two piano concert......
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Miraculous Horn) was an assemblage of folksongs and folksong-style poems collected and adapted in 1805 and 1808 by ......
Paganini and Wieniawski were two of the most famous violin virtuosos of the 19th century, and composers of a number of the most treasured masterpieces......
This exquisite set of compositions for piano trio (piano with violin and cello) includes 5 of Beethoven's finest chamber music works. Frequently studi......
In a piano age dominated by Chopin's harmonic innovations and Liszt's technical advances, the keyboard music of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) stands o......
33 splendid pieces: the six impromptus of "Pictures from the East" (Bilder aus Osten), Op. 66; "Twelve Piano Pieces for Little and Big Children," Op. ......
One of the composer's most popular, accessible works, the 7th has neither a "program" or folk-song theme. It is a purely instrumental composition, bot......
One of Handel's greatest oratorios, this magnificent work features a series of superb choral pieces — ranging in mood and technique from grim intensit......
Complete measure-for-measure piano transcriptions of the best-known Strauss waltzes, and many favorite polkas, galops, quadrilles and polka-mazurkas, ......
