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Contrary to their name, the four scherzos are not light-hearted compositions, and the first three, in particular the Scherzo in B minor, have very strong dramatic accents. The first and last make the most of the ternary form, with extreme contrasts between the outer sections, full of restless motion, and the melodious middle episodes. The second and third scherzos shows […]

Transcriptions and paraphrases played an important part in shaping Liszt’s role as leading musical figure of his generation. The first pianist to play the entire range of the keyboard repertory from Bach to Chopin, his historical curiosity and ambitions did not stop there. He transcribed both famous and less well known vocal and orchestral works of others in order to […]

Grieg’s meeting with Rikard Nordraak, the leader of the Norwegian musical nationalist movement, in 1864 proved very important for the rest of his career. From that moment, Grieg dedicated himself to writing music that would reflect the musical identity of Norway. 33 piano pieces by Grieg, all with strong Norwegian influences have now been added to Piano Street’s sheet music […]

How about instant access on the go to 3000+ study scores from the standard classical piano repertoire? On m.pianostreet.com, a mobile version of Piano Street’s sheet music library you can easily view all piano scores on your mobile device. The mobile sheet music library gives convenient mobile access to all scores from www.pianostreet.com. It is a mobile application in the […]

The series of recordings of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier with pianist Martin Sturfält continues. This new installment includes the masterful opening of the second set, Prelude and Fugue no 1 in C major, along with two from the first set; the expressive and introspective no. 18 in G-sharp minor and the large scale “concertante” Prelude and Fugue no. 20 in […]

Listen to 809 performances of Chopin pieces while following along in the scores! One of the highlights of Chopin‘s 200th anniversary has been the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. As a final tribute this year to Frédéric Chopin and the participants in the competition we have put together a page with all the pieces performed in the competition. It […]

Andras Schiff plays Chopin’s Preludes on a Pleyel + Free Urtext Scores by Piano Street The celebrated Hungarian pianist plays Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28 on an 1860 Pleyel Grand Piano. The recital was filmed in the beautiful, meticulously restored Ancien Conservatoire in Paris, where the composer himself frequently gave concerts. The cycle of short pieces is amongst Chopin’s most […]

Four concert pieces by Chopin in editions by Mikuli (solo piano part with orchestral cues) have been added to our sheet music library. Opus 2: Variations on Mozart’s ‘La ci darem la mano’ The variations on a theme from Mozart‘s opera Don Giovanni was the first of Chopin’s works to be published outside his own country. This is the piece […]

Written partly during Chopin’s catastrophic wintertime stay on Majorca, the 24 Preludes, opus 28, are some of the composer’s most mysterious works. Schumann said of them: “They are sketches, beginnings of études, or, so to speak, ruins, individual eagle pinions, all disorder and wild confusions.” The most well-known of these pieces is undoubtedly the “Raindrop” Prelude (opus 28 no 15) […]

The Moments Musicaux were published only a few months before Schubert’s death in 1828. Most of them were composed during 1827 or 1828, with the exception of Nos. 3 and 6, dating from 1823 and 1824 respectively. Recordings of the Six Moments Musicaux performed by David Wärn have now been published by Piano Street. We are happy to share with […]

Two of Johannes Brahms’ most popular late piano pieces are now available as Urtext scores from Piano Street’s sheet music library. Recordings, of the two pieces performed by Henrik Sandback, have also been added. Intermezzo in E-flat Major, Opus 117 No. 1 The three Intermezzi Op. 117 are probably the most well-known and best-loved of Brahms’s late piano pieces. The […]