Sheet music with analysis/annotations?

[the romantic]

Hello all,

I have lots of sheet music from different publishers.  I was recently learning one of Beethoven's Sonatas from an ABRSM edition that includes an 'Annotation by Donald Francis Tovey'.  I very much enjoy reading his breakdown of each sonata with bar references included.  Here is an example of how this appears:

Bars 9-14: You need a loose wrist here; and you must not leave your thumb at the bottom, but contract and expand your hand according to the shape of the passage.

This kind of advice is really useful if you do not have a piano teacher to consult!  I would like to read more things like this, and also by different authors, to get more ideas.

I saw that 'A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas' is available as a seperate published book.  I assume this contains all of Tovey's comments that are printed in the individual sheet versions, and perhaps some more information - does anyone own a copy of this?

Can anyone recommend other authors/musicians who write analysis for the famous composers?  I would especially be interested if the analysis were available separately from the sheet music, so that I don't have to buy sheet music that I already own.  Perhaps someone has created a website with that kind of detailed tuition on it?

Thanks for any advice, and a Happy New Year! 

[stevebob]

Chopin:  A Graded Practical Guide by Eleanor Bailie offers learning, practice and performance strategies for his entire oeuvre (broken down genre by genre and thence piece by piece).  Some people may inevitably differ on occasion with opinions she expresses, but it's a comprehensive and, in my experience, worthwhile volume nonetheless.

Bailie wrote the Chopin guidebook as a companion to her other titles in a series called "The Pianist's Repertoire" about the piano works of Haydn and Grieg, though I've never seen them.