Sheet music

[Torp]

Anyone know of a good place to find these?  My music store can order, but thought I'd check here first.  Couldn't find them from any of my usual internet sources for download.


Alkan
The Bells - Op. 63 no. 4

Ludovico Einaudi
"Julia” – From “Eden Roc"

Thanks in advance,

Jef

[bernhard]

Try this collection, it includes “The Bells”:

https://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/018630/details.html

For Einaudi, try here:

https://www.buy-scores.com/boutique-uk-frame-eur.php?clef=25888

(If you google it you get a lot more).

I usually use this internet site to buy sheet music. He will have the above works.

https://www.burtnco.com

Also, I just had a look at my book of Diabelli sonatinas , and these also have crossing hands similar to the Pathetique (but much easier):

Op. 151 no. 4 in C major (first movement)
Op. 168 no. 1 in F major (3rd movement)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[Torp]

Also, I just had a look at my book of Diabelli sonatinas , and these also have crossing hands similar to the Pathetique (but much easier):

Op. 151 no. 4 in C major (first movement)
Op. 168 no. 1 in F major (3rd movement)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

Thanks, not only for the web sites, but also for remembering why I was looking for these in the first place and providing additional resources.  You really do go above and beyond.

btw, I am absolutely in love with the Scarlatti Sonata K95.  Just out of curiosity, do you have any suggestions for a good "set" of these sonatas to play that would include the K95.  I'm thinking along the idea of putting 3 of his sonatas together in the form of a 'larger' sonata of 3 movements.  I feel the K95 would be great as either a 1st or 3rd 'movement', which one would depend on the tempo.

Am I making any sense?

Let me know your thoughts.

Again, thanks.

Jef

[bernhard]

Thanks, not only for the web sites, but also for remembering why I was looking for these in the first place and providing additional resources.  You really do go above and beyond.

You are most welcome.
(I forget nothing ).

btw, I am absolutely in love with the Scarlatti Sonata K95.  Just out of curiosity, do you have any suggestions for a good "set" of these sonatas to play that would include the K95.  I'm thinking along the idea of putting 3 of his sonatas together in the form of a 'larger' sonata of 3 movements.  I feel the K95 would be great as either a 1st or 3rd 'movement', which one would depend on the tempo.

Am I making any sense?

Yes, you are making a lot of sense. We always hear how Bach was neglected for almost a hundred years until Mendelssohn rediscovered him. But Scarlatti is even worse. The first more or less complete edition of his sonatas was made by Italian pianist Alessandro Longo in 1910, so Scarlatti was in obscurity for over 200 years! And the first serious work of musicology and analysis of his sonatas was published only in 1953 (Ralph Kirkpatrick “Domenico Scarlatti”). Kirkpatrick did a superb job and reordered the sonatas in chronological order (hence the “K” numbers – for Kirkpatrick – as opposed to the “L” numbers – for Longo).

Amongst Kirkpatrick’s many discoveries was the fact that Scarlatti had intended most of the sonatas (388 of them) to be paired, and some to be played in groups of threes. This is now more or less accepted so that most recent recordings of the sonatas present them as pairs. K 95 is one of the few “unpaired” sonatas, so you may play it on its own.

Of course, you may choose to ignore this (both Kirkpatrick and Scarlatti are dead, so if you do not believe in ghosts, no one is going to come and complain) and just put three sonatas together. If you have a look here I have listed my favourites amongst the 555:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2339.msg20064.html#msg20064
(favourite sonatas).


You can listen to them all in midi on this site:

https://www.midiworld.com/scarlatti.htm

Or in MP3 there are 273 available at present on this site:

https://www.claudiocolombo.net/altremusiche.htm


Now just think about this: Scarlatti has written 555 superb pieces of a musical inventiveness unequalled by any baroque composer on the keyboard (yes, I am including Bach here as well). They were written primarily as technical exercises for his pupil, the Spanish Queen Maria Barbara. They cover all aspects of technique. Just a few of them are advanced. Most are within grades 3 – 8. All of them are superb pieces of music worthy of being in anyone's repertory.

Why, I ask, why do people insist on mediocre barbarities like Hanon, Czerny, Pischna, Bertini, and who knows what else, when there is this cornucopia of musical goods begging to be played, and which will deliver all the technical development that the monstrosities above will not (although they claim to)?

There is my rant for tonight. 

Best wishes,
Bernhard.