Piano

Composed for Robert Levin, who premiered the work at the 2007 Ruhr Piano Festival. In Preludes, Rands aimed to create 12 sections that integrate into a formal whole while maintaining their individual formal integrity.

Softcover

This happy, percolating little piece was composed for the great Vladimir Horowitz. Now available separately.

Commissed by the International Beethoven Competition, Bonn, 2005. 8 minutes.

Softcover with CD

Previously unpublished. Already the composer of the Menuet antique (1895), Ravel seems to have written the Menuet in C-sharp minor at the same period as the Sonatine for piano (1903-1905), the latter also including, as a second movement, a mouvement de menuet. In this Menuet of 1904, as in his other minuets, he placed himself…