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Valses Nobles

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Publications :

ALBÉNIZ

Opus posthumous :

  • Navarra

Iberia

Book 1

  • Evocación
  • El Puerto
  • Fête Dieu à Séville

Book 2

  • Rondeña
  • Almería
  • Triana

Book 3

  • El Albaicín
  • El Polo
  • Lavapiés

Book 4

  • Málaga
  • Jerez
  • Eritaña

CHOPIN

Etudes Op 10 Vol I : 1-4

Scherzos

  • Nº 1 B minor Op 20
  • Nº 2 B♭minor Op 31
  • Nº 3 C# minor Op 39
  • Nº 4  E Op 54

 

DEBUSSY

3 Morceaux 1903-1904

  • Masques
  • …d’un Cahier d’Esquisses
  • l’Isle Joyeuse

Images book I

  • Reflets dans l’eau
  • Hommage à Rameau
  • Mouvement

Images book II

  • Cloches à travers les feuilles
  • Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
  • Poissons d’or

Estampes

  • Pagodes
  • La soirée dans Grenade
  • Jardins sous la pluie

Études book 2

  • VII pour les degrés chromatiques
  • VIII pour les agréments
  • XI pour les arpèges composés

Pour le Piano

  • Prélude
  • Sarabande
  • Toccata

Préludes book one

  • II Voiles
  • III Le vent dans la plaine
  • IV Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
  • V Les collines d’Anacapri
  • VII Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest
  • VIII La fille aux cheveux de lin
  • XI La danse de Puck
  • XII Minstrels

Préludes book two

  • III La Puerta del Vino
  • IV «Les fées sont d’esquises danseuses»
  • VI General Lavine – eccentric
  • VII La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
  • VIII Ondine
  • XII Feux d’artifice

Suite Bergamasque

  • IV Passepied
  • IV Passepied version for 4 hands

 

GRANADOS

GOYESCAS

  • Los requiebros
  • Coloquio en la reja
  • El fandango de candil
  • Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor
  • El Amor y la muerte (Balada)
  • Epilogo: Serenata del espectro

RACHMANINOV

Moments Musicaux

  • Op 16 Nº 1 B♭minor
  • Op 16 Nº 2 E♭minor

Préludes 

Op 23

  • Nº 1 F# minor
  • Nº 2 B♭major
  • Nº 3 D minor
  • Nº 4 D major
  • Nº 5 G minor
  • Nº 6 E♭major
  • Nº 7 C minor
  • Nº 8 A♭major
  • Nº 9 E♭minor
  • Nº 10 G♭major

Op 32

  • Nº 1 C major
  • Nº 2 B♭minor
  • Nº 5 G major
  • Nº 7 F major
  • Nº 9 A major
  • Nº 10 B minor
  • Nº 12 G# minor
  • Nº 13 D♭major

Op 3

  • Nº 2 C# minor

Études Tableaux

  • Op 33 Nº 2
  • Op 33 Nº 7 G minor
  • Op 39 Nº 5 E♭minor

RAVEL

  • À la manière de … Borodine et Chabrier
  • Daphnis et Chloé l’Aventure de Pán et de Syrinx
  • Gaspard de la Nuit
  • Jeux d’Eau
  • La Valse
  • Le Tombeau de Couperin
  • Ma Mère l’Oye (duet)
  • Ma Mère l’Oye (transcription for piano solo by Ray Alston)
  • Menuet Antique
  • Menuet sur le nom de HAYDN
  • Miroirs
  • Pavane pour une infante défunte (version pour 4 mains)
  • Prélude (1913)
  • Sonatine
  • Valses nobles et sentimentales

SCHUMANN

  • Variations on the name ABEGG Op 1
  • Davidsbündler Op 6
  • Toccata Op 7 C major
  • Phantasiestücke Op 12
  • Études Symphoniques Op 13
  • Variations on a theme of Clara Wieck Op 14
  • Kreisleriana — Op 16
  • Phantasie Op 17
  • Blumenstück Op 19
  • Humoreske — Op 20
  • Novelette Op 21 Nº 1 F major
  • Novelette Op 21 Nº 2 D major
  • Novelette Op 21 Nº 8 F# minor
  • Presto Passionato Op 22 — original Finale to the sonata in G minor
  • 3 Romanzen Op 28
  • 3 Preludes in Counterpoint (transcribed for solo piano from 6 Studies in Canonic Form Op 56)
  • Waldszenen Op 82
  • Bunte Blätter Op 99 (4 pieces)
  • 3 Phantasiestücke Op 111
  • 1840 — 6 song transcriptions for piano solo by Ray Alston

SCRIABIN

  • Vers la Flamme Op 72
  • Sonata Nº 4 Op 30
  • Sonata Nº 5 Op 53

Teaching Collection

5 volumes covering grades 0 – 8 and a comprehensive volume of duets

Ray Alston Piano Solos 

 

Publisher’s Announcement Rachmaninov Moment Musical Nº 2 E flat minor

PianoPracticalEditions is delighted to announce the publication another “first”. This year another work by Rachmaninov, Moment Musical Nº 2, has just been published presenting two versions : the original and the 1940 revision — identical page and bar numbers making it easy to compare. Intriguing differences in the text, tempo (the metronome speed has been removed), dynamics and agogic markings can be observed.

STEPHEN WALSH

Debussy… A Painter in Sound

ROY HOWAT

Debussy in Proportion A Musical Analysis

EDWARD LOCKSPEISER

Debussy: his life and mind: Volumes 1 & 2

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Maurice Ravel in 1912
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Josephine Miles

8:32, 21st June 2019

The complete piano works of Maurice Ravel are now available in new ‘practical’ editions by British pianist Ray Alston

Alston, who studied with leading Ravel interpreter Vlado Perlemuter, has released his edition of Ravel’s La Valse on Piano Practical Editions (PPE) to complete his adaptations of Ravel’s piano works.

PPE was launched by Alston over 20 years ago to create new editions of advanced piano works with a refreshed layout and solutions to musical and technical problems. Since 2017, Alston has published editions of Ravel – as well as piano works by Albéniz and Debussy – on the PPE site. All scores are available to download for free.

Changes from existing scores include:

  • The use of differently sized noteheads
  • The redistribution of hand positioning
  • Some modification of key and time signatures
  • Suggestions for use of the sostenuto pedal
  • Amendments to stave layout
  • Amendments to page layout for improved page turns

Designed to be used in conjunction with traditional scores, Alston sees his editions as ‘practical and innovative’ rehearsal scores which try to eliminate textual inaccuracies. Despite making alterations to the composer’s written notation, Alston always aims to adhere to the ‘spirit of the composer’s original intentions’.

He says: ‘My editions are not intellectual, and do not follow urtext or other editions precisely, but are rather fresh interpretations based on personal analysis and experience, getting into the skin of a composer through his works and relying on intuition rather than adhesion to tradition.’

Murray McLachlan, head of keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music, commented: ‘What I see in Piano Practical Editions is terrific innovation – even if inevitably the ideas will not suit everyone. Alston’s scores are fascinating, and it is wonderful that he has made them available for free.’

Ray Alston’s editions of Ravel, Albéniz and Debussy are available at Piano Practical Editions

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