Editor: Ullrich Scheideler Fingering: Marc-André Hamelin Pages: 28

Johann Sebastian Bach is more or less the alpha and omega of piano playing: there is hardly a piano pupil who did not start off with his little preludes or his inventions. And almost all pianists regard his Well-tempered Clavier as an unsurpassed highpoint in the history of piano music Dimensions : 24 x 31 x 0.5 cm

Series: Piano Publisher: Editions Salabert Format: Softcover Composer: Enrique Granados Editor: Gérald Hugon

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.”