Post your recent music/piano investment-purchases

[thalbergmad]

Would standard 5 string work? Obviously without the drone, apologies, not too clued up on banjos.

I am advised that they are completely different. Dunno why.

Thal

[quantum]

Do you know the name of the Russian publisher(s)? Are they still in print, or out of print?

I believe they are Moscow: Muzyka.  Excellent print quality.  Similar to what you would find with Peters or Henle. 

The following site may help.  Look up the work you want then it will inform you of the publishers:
https://www.medtner.org.uk/works.html

[outin]

I believe they are Moscow: Muzyka.  Excellent print quality.  Similar to what you would find with Peters or Henle. 

That may vary. The two Muzyka editions of Forgotten Tunes I got differ in the print quality. I believe cheap digital printing has become popular among music publishers and that shows...It's easy to reprint old editions, but if not done properly the end quality resembles more a cheap copy than a proper edition...

[the_fervid_pig]

Looks heavy going, not quite sure if I'll get through it given I have the attention span of a walnut and any "spare" time goes on practice, but I'll give it a go. Any opinions?

Currently on with this, think I'll finish the man, then dip into the music as I learn the pieces.

[davidjosepha]

Just got my Etudes-tableaux book, holy crap I'm pumped! Both the Preludes and E-t are great quality books. Quite thick. Presumably quite scholarly, given that they're based on the hard cover critical editions, and they have a bunch of pages in the back dedicated to explanation of editorial choices...although entirely in Russian, so...

I have a friend who speaks Russian fluently. Unfortunately, he's Azerbaijani and hates Russia with a passion, so he sorta considers it an insult whenever I ask him for a translation. I guess I could make an effort to type it all into Google translate, but that would take forever

I also bought this from my local "sheet music store", if you can really call it that. Looked kinda cool, so, whatever.



I also bought The Cat and the Mouse, which I played when I was younger and really liked, but I have it in an Alfred edition I'm not too fond of.



And then I bought Brahms Op. 118. I already have the Dover book of Brahms' shorter pieces, but it's nicer playing out of A) a Baerenreiter score and B) a small magazine-type score rather than a book. Yolo?

[davidjosepha]

Re-bought these. Also have the Schirmer copy, but I hate using Schirmer. Gonna play the Bb one (k358) with my dad. Played the C one (k521) a while ago, it was quite a bit of fun. Not that musically exact given that my dad hasn't really played piano much since college and it's already hard enough to get two people playing 16th notes to sound really precise, but it's fun.

[unholeee]

about $200 aud worth

[promusician]

about $200 aud worth

For me, I will buy original edition instead of the Chinese authorised ones due to the binding and printing quality.

[iquinn876]

This one arrived in mail today...what the heck!??? Did someone freaking hack my account? 

My teacher has the same book as this, very old, but identical. 

[unholeee]

But its so cheap! I have so mcuh ravel, rachmaninoff, beethoven, some jazz, and the full set of chopin to play now! the only thing ive had the binding fall out on me is ameb australian grade 7 leisure book... and for $40... ;[ and as much as people give china crap about their products.. i did see a car clock 600,000 kms... but then again i also had to use 2 paper cups from a fountain to hold water.

this was the first bunch i bought in beijing. but the same franchise in shanghai had a better range and i doubled it.

[davidjosepha]

Are those actually Chinese versions published by the companies they appear to be published by, or are they knock-offs? Like the orange ones, are those just designed to look like Wiener Urtexts, or are they?

[unholeee]

the bookstore seemed reputable. had 5 floors worth of literature. xinhua books i think the name was.

[outin]

Are those actually Chinese versions published by the companies they appear to be published by, or are they knock-offs? Like the orange ones, are those just designed to look like Wiener Urtexts, or are they?

The covers actually say Wiener Urtext edition and the Ravel looks exactly like the Peters editions, so either they a pirate or the publishers are smart enough to take advantage of the huge market there and publish in Chinese as well.

I think they should be a lot cheaper for me to buy these instead of the English versions, I do like to read the text too

[promusician]

At first, they are not pirated editions, just the People's Republic music publisher gain permission of Wiener Urtext to published their works under People's Republic Music company. I have bought some 'chinese' Wiener Urtext but I am very disappointed with the printing, some notes are very blur and the paper quality is low. I will recommend QuanYin Music publishing by Taiwan, their Henle editions are of top notch with the price 10 times lower. SMPH, Shanghai music publisher, which published PWM Chopin is good too, but the binding is not too solid.

[cabbynum]

A few months ago I bought the last piano I'll probably ever need.
Steinway model L 1994!

Heck of a deal.

[temptar]

I may have gone a bit overboard on the purchase of sheet music lately:

• JS Bach - Kleine Praludien unt Fughetten - G.Henle Verlag
• Beethoven - Appassionata - Edition Peters
• Chopin - Préludes - G. Henle Verlag
• Liszt - Tarantella -Klindworth - Schott
• Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 - G.Henle Verag
• Rachmaninoff - Preludes for Piano - Boosey & Hawkes
• Saint-Saens - Concerto No 2 in G Minor (Edition for 2 Pianos) - Edition Peters
• Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre and other works for Solo Piano - Dover Publications
• Schumann - Concerto in A Minor - Edition for 2 Pianos - Edition Peters
• Schumann - Carnival of Vienna - Edition Peters
• Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No 2 Edition for 2 pianos - Boosey & Hawkes
• Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No 2 - Edition for  2 pianos - Edition Peters

There may have been a closing down sale involved.

Chopin Ballades - G.Henle Verlag are waiting for me somewhere.

This should keep me busy for a very long time like most of my life.

[thalbergmad]

• Schumann - Concerto in A Minor - Edition for 2 Pianos - Edition Peters

Useful for toilet paper.

Thal

[ahinton]

Useful for toilet paper.

That would presumably depend on the number of times that one might wish or need to visit the toilet and use some of it thereafter; it's not a very long work (fortunately)...

Best,

Alistair

[outin]

Chopin Ballades - G.Henle Verlag are waiting for me somewhere.

It would be worth to check out the Ekier edition by Wiener Urtext...I have both the Ballades and Nocturnes and like them much more than the Henle editions... And the WU was actually cheaper...

[promusician]

video link:

Rare work by Felix Mendelssohn and Joseph Merk, the cello part is missing (actually composed by Merk), the reconstruction is copyrighted, therefore censored.

[pbryld]

But its so cheap! I have so mcuh ravel, rachmaninoff, beethoven, some jazz, and the full set of chopin to play now! the only thing ive had the binding fall out on me is ameb australian grade 7 leisure book... and for $40... ;[ and as much as people give china crap about their products.. i did see a car clock 600,000 kms... but then again i also had to use 2 paper cups from a fountain to hold water.

this was the first bunch i bought in beijing. but the same franchise in shanghai had a better range and i doubled it.

I wonder if it is possible to order sheet music online from a Chinese store to get the better prices.

I tried the Chinese Amazon, but that was not allowed.

[outin]

I wonder why I bought the last one...after all I cannot stand walzes...   

More sight-reading material:


This one I'll probably never play, don't like classical at all...but the price was reduced 

[oxy60]

This one I'll probably never play, don't like classical at all...but the price was reduced 

Give it a try, it is considered easy.

At least that was what the editor thought.

[j_menz]

More sight-reading material:

 

Does that mean you've read through the first two volumes?

I like Handel, but he's pretty advanced sight reading.

[davidjosepha]

Got my Brahms Op. 118 today! It's even nicer than the other Baerenreiter scores I have! Very tempted to go order the rest of the Brahms that Baerenreiter currently has published, especially given that I just got a paycheck today, but...I'll resist, for a while. Maybe I'm crazy, but it feels like Brahms doesn't get as much love as a lot of Romantic composers around here. He's probably my favorite non-eastern european Romantic or later composer.

[outin]

Does that mean you've read through the first two volumes?

I like Handel, but he's pretty advanced sight reading.

Of course I haven't

This is the first Händel book I've got, and I don't sight read everything from the books I get, I pick the easier ones...and not nearly at the correct tempo...I'm still at the stage where I need practice to figure out the chords and sometimes even notes...But I like to have something from different composers. And I just like Baroque the most these days...

[outin]

Got my Brahms Op. 118 today! It's even nicer than the other Baerenreiter scores I have!

Yours have a lovely cover colour, but I have now decided to get WU when possible, because they never fail to be easy on my eyes...

[outin]

Give it a try, it is considered easy.

At least that was what the editor thought.

Apparently...but that won't help much if the music is not appealing...

[davidjosepha]

Brahms, Op. 39, 116, 117, 118. Still need to get the Albumblatt and Op. 10...and then wait for them to release more, hopefully.

[thalbergmad]

Kindly donated to the CPS.

Thal

[promusician]

Musikalisches Nebenstunden (selections of sonatas) unavailable in modern editions.



Three Easy Sonatas, also first editions.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

The original 1909 edition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is passed down from freaking generation to generation!  My teachers teachers teacher had it, and they passed it down the line.

So I'm gonna be the 4th person to have it.

All I gotta do is wait for my teacher to die...

Well he's not my current teacher, he's the one I started piano with.  Anyways, we're like BEST FRIENDS!!! 

But anyways when he dies, I'll get it!


Now where did I put that poison...

[quantum]

I've received many books the same way. 

Do you also get that nice looking thing labeled "D" along with the score? 

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I've received many books the same way. 

Do you also get that nice looking thing labeled "D" along with the score? 

Probably. 

By the way it's not a Steinway D, it's a Baldwin.  This is the only Baldwin I played on, and it's freaking FANTASTIC!!

[the_fervid_pig]

On vinyl from the charity shop. About the fourth this week or so. Costing me a fortune. But it's ok as I'll never be able to play it as long as my arse points down but at least I can listen

[thalbergmad]

Latest acquisition for CPS archives.

Thal

[justanamateur]

this was the first bunch i bought in beijing. but the same franchise in shanghai had a better range and i doubled it.

Any idea how to get those in Hong Kong? Also, how does the price compare to Schirmer's editions? Thanks!  

[mathiasf]

Found these at the local antiquary, the 4-hand Beethoven book isn't in the greatest shape, but it shold be nice to play with my teacher.

Mathias

[thalbergmad]

Latest purchase.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

I can't stop buying 2nd hand banjos.

Thal

[outin]

I can't stop buying 2nd hand banjos.

Thal

Can't blame you, they all look very delicious

[the_fervid_pig]

Job lot from the local auction rooms. Should keep me going for a bit.

[promusician]

Job lot from the local auction rooms. Should keep me going for a bit.

That is quite a great amount of music, hope that the price is not wallet emptying.

[the_fervid_pig]

A little, but I'll sell the ones I don't need/already have.

[thalbergmad]

Another dusty old book.

Thal

[the_fervid_pig]

Nice! I have his 3 blind Mice, not got around to trying it yet though, I like dusty old books!

[thalbergmad]

Me too. Love the smell.

[nanabush]

Bought the complete Scriabin Sonatas, Ravel LH Concerto, and a new Roland Gaia Synthesizer (for other projects hehe).  So now I'm semi-broke!  Yay!

[perprocrastinate]

I bought tickets to a Yuja Wang concert, mainly because she's performing the Rachmaninoff 3rd (and I really really want to hear it live).

https://www.laphil.com/tickets/rachmaninoff-dudamel-amp-wang/2013-12-19

As a student, this tore a hole in my wallet, but it's going to be worth it.

[chopin2015]

Berg Op1 Henle
Saint Saens carnival of animals ??
Brahms select works Dover