Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich: The Lark

Arrangement for Piano

Edited by Bitzan, Wendelin
Setting: Piano
Period: Romantic
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1455
Other reference: 1455
ISMN: 9790201814551
'The Lark'' is one of the most popular Russian songs of the Romantic era, composed by the founder of the Russian nationalist school, Mikhail Glinka. His fellow countryman, Mili Balakirev, took this simple, melancholy air as the basis for a highly virtuosic piano transcription a la Liszt. It is an impressive bravura piece of moderate length that is ideally suited as an encore or in recitals. While researching this new Urtext edition, G. Henle Publishers succeeded in unearthing two sensational so

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