The Piano Player: Classical Tear-Jerkers presents 20 emotive pieces of classical music, designed to tug at the heart-strings, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Un bel di vedremo" from Madama Butterfly by Puccini and Dido's Lament by Purcell. The striking cover features Edward Bawden's colour linocut Aesop's Fables: The Ant and the Grasshopper, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out poster of the stunning Edward Bawden cover artwork. "

Complex symphony integrates on a truly grand scale the musical ideas, forms and media that dominated the composer's creative life. A two-part work, the symphony is scored for orchestra, eight solo voices, double chorus, boys' choir and organ. A monumental masterpiece, affordably priced for students, performers and Mahler admirers.

Unique melodic and tonal structures calling for vast orchestral resources exhibit the distinguished Austrian composer's expansive emotional expressions and monumental musical designs. Enjoying an undiminished popularity for nearly a century, Mahler's fifth symphony is reproduced here from an authoritative edition for musicians, students, and music lovers alike.

Gustav Mahler spent 14 years exploring the musical potential of German folk poetry, and this volume comprises some of his most significant work. It features authoritative editions of his settings of five poems by Friedrich Rückert, known as the Rückert Lieder: "Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder" (Look not, love, on my work unended); "Ich atmet einen linden Duft" (I breathed the breath of blossoms red); "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (O garish world, long since thou hast lost me); "Um Mitternacht" (At midnight hour); and "Liebst du um Schonheit" (Lovst thou but beauty). A pair of songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Miraculous Horn) are also featured: "Revelge" (The dead drummer) and "Der Tamboursg'sell" (The drummer-boy).

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in this 2010 performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.

One of the composer's most popular, accessible works, the 7th has neither a "program" or folk-song theme. It is a purely instrumental composition, both hopeful and romantic in feeling. Reprinted from the authoritative German edition of 1909. List of instruments. Glossary of German terms.

For solo voice and orchestra. Edition: Rev. Neuausgabe. Text writer: Friedrich Ruckert. German language. Study score.

Collection of ballets making up the Gala des Étoiles of 2015. David Coleman conducts the Teatro alla Scala in performances of, amongst others, 'La Rose Malade' by Gustav Mahler, 'The Dying Swan' by Camille Saint-Saëns and Aram Khatchaturian's 'Spartacus'.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 9 and 10, recorded in 2009 and 2008, respectively.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, recorded in 2011 and 2013, respectively, at the Rheingau Musik Festival.

Paavo Järvi conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in these performances of Gustav Mahler's works. The performances featured are Mahler's Symphony No. 1, recorded in 2010, and Symphony No. 2, recorded in 2012.

One of Mahler's most popular works, a masterpiece of symphonic writing. The composer brought fresh and formidable thinking to the entire structure of this innovative four-part symphony, shaping each movement into the intensely personal narrative his art had become. Reprinted from the authoritative Universal-Edition, complete with bar-numbered movements for easy reference.

Mahler's seventh symphony ranks among the composer's most popular and accessible works. Possessing neither a "program" nor a folk-song theme, it is a purely instrumental composition, both hopeful and romantic in mood, with a harmonic and stylistic structure that evokes the daily journey from dusk till dawn.
This miniature score is reproduced from an authoritative edition, complete with numbered movements for easy reference. Affordable and compact, it is ideal for use in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall.

Marvelous collection of musical settings based on 23 German Volkslied (folk poems), adapted by early 19th-century romantic poets Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano, and five poems by Friedrich Rückert. Extraordinary representation of the composer's most intimate and significant work-available in a handsome, inexpensive new edition.