AKROPOLIS

Tosca was first performed in Rome, at the Teatro Costanzi, on 14 January 1900. Based on a play by Vincent Sardou, the libretto unfolds in an effective rhetoric that is both direct and decidedly dramatic. The characters and the action seem embossed with touches of polished emotional pliancy, reinforced by the orchestration and vocal style of the music. But the music is also responsible for the more subtle, indirect psychological shading to this context of basic contrasts.
Thus we glimpse the clear outlines of generous self-denial, beguiled dreams, listlessness, fierceness – and death, which with no less precision brings all things mercilessly to their end. On the cover: Tosca and Cavaradossi on the rampart of Castel Sant’Angelo; watercolor by Leopoldo Metlicovitz for a series of postcards, 1900. Cover illustration property of Casa Ricordi.

70 works for classical piano by some of the world’s most famous composers takeus on a 250-year journey through the history of music. Carefully edited byleading scholars, these pieces are accompanied by fingering and performancetips. A key edition providing an intermediate-level approach to the pianodrawing on works from the classical repertoire.
Walzer
Bourree h-moll
Courante
Kleine Fuge
Polonaise E-Dur
Präludium F-Dur
Allemande
Menuett G-Dur
Sonatine F-Dur
Leichte Sonate C-Dur WoO 51
Maman
Marsch der Holzsoldaten (aus Nussknacker)
Die kranke Puppe op 39/6
Walzer op 39/8
Deutsches Lied
Prelude
Etüde
Prelude e-moll op 28/4
Prelude a-moll op 28/7
Walzer
Mazurka C-Dur op 7/5
Prelude
Walzer
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Jimbo’s lullaby
Serenade
La campana de la tarde
Despertar del cazador
Walzer op 12/2
Elfentanz op 12/4
Arietta op 12/1
Passacaille
Allegro
Sarabande
Menuetto con Variazioni
Prelude
KINDERTANZ
Consolation 3 Des-Dur
Die Hirten an der Krippe
PUSZTA WEHMUT
6 Stücke für die Jugend op 72
Fantasie d-moll KV 397 (385g)
Andante (aus Sonate C-Dur KV 545)
Sonatine G-Dur KV 439b 3 5 4
Scherzo
Melodie Es-Dur
Gnossienne 1
Gnossienne 4
Sonate G-Dur K 63 L 84
Sonate d-moll K 77 L 168
Galopp + Ecossaisen D 735 op 49
Tanz
Valse sentimentale op 50/13
Walzer D 365 op 9/2
Armes Waisenkind op 68/6
Volksliedchen op 68/9
Sizilianisch op 68/11
Knecht Ruprecht op 68/12
Rundgesang op 68/22
Nachklänge aus dem Theater op 68/25
Fremder Mann op 68/29
Prelude op 11/15
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