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I've got a couple of books by Rachmaninov but I found this great series by Brahms. I'm not sure if they are well known but I like number 1 and number 7.



What have you bought lately and if possible please share some great music we can enjoy

Most recent was Bartok Mikrokosmos Volume 5 (Boosey and Hawkes). Before that it was Schumann, Kinderscenen (Alfred). I play something from each at each lesson. Yin and Yang.

Omg tons! This year I built a Henle series.

- Chopin Preludes, Nocturnes
- Debussy assorted
- Bach WTC, Little Preludes and I/S
- Mendelssohn SWW
- Tchaikovsky Seasons
- Satie Gymnopedies, Nocturnes
- Schumann Kindersnezen

Am I missing something? Anyway, that’s enough to last me a little bit .

My last one was Einaudi's Islands book. Shortly before that was the music from The Greatest Showman. Way too difficult for me, but I'm dreaming of the day I can play them!

Prokofiev, 10 pieces from Romeo and Juliet. Haven't started on it yet...

I'm boring, I just got more RCM books

I am addicted to buying music, whether its classical music CDs online or local stores, or Henle sheet music/books. My goal is to have a huge piano music library...growing up (my immigrant parents were poor) I only had a few piano books; a Sonatina book, Hanon, and A Dozen A Day method books, Diller Quayle for beginners, and a general Chopin Favorite Pieces book. I only discovered Schubert and Schumann in the past 2 years when I started piano lessons again..(gasp😵). This year so far I bought

Henle editions of
- Bach WTC 1 and 2
-Chopin Preludes
- Chopin Nocturnes
-Chopin Ballades
-Brahms Intermezzo Op 117 and Op 118
-Schumann Kinderszesen
-Schubert Impromptus and Moments Musicaux

Non classical books= jazz piano favorites. Billy Joel classics, Elton John songs and sheet music from googled web sites.

I was at the Juilliard bookstore a few weeks ago and bought Mozarts Piano Concertos 21-23 w the Orchestral reductions.

My next book will likely be the Grieg Lyric pieces. I also print out various versions of the same piece from ISLMP so I have 4 fat binders on my bookshelf with printed scores.

It's been a while since I bought new scores, but Carl Vine's Bagatelles was one of them.

This is the best-known (and easiest) piece from that set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-hGImfMuU

I also bought this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqJKPg2yaE

I bought this:

http://www.hanbooks.com/yipicomsc.html

...and this:

http://www.hanbooks.com/yieapicomsc.html

Why? Because I just HAD to have the Korean versions and spiral bound versions, in both regular and easy, because I aim for regular but realistically can only attempt to play the easy versions.

Since I'm in to Jazz and harmony I got this book on Bach, "J.S. Bach 413 Chorales: Analyzed". I've only scanned it a bit so far but looks great. A Jazz guitarist I know of uses this with his students at the university he teaches at.

J.S. Bach 413 Chorales: Analyzed

Love this suite. I plan to revisit it in the not too distant future. I think I can play 4 of the pieces. They vary quite a bit in level of difficulty.
Enjoy!

Just ordered Mikulis Chopin mazurkas and Henles Chopin Nocturnes yesterday. Excited for both, my first piano volumes.

Most recent purchases:
Satie: Gymnopedies, and Gnossiennes

Also: Saties complete piano works on CD.

I have never been much aware of Saties music, but after having heard it all, I feel confident that I will take it upon myself to play quite at bit of it over the coming years. His music is a weird kind of proto-minimalism meets Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

I rarely buy brand new scores....but I've amassed a pretty big collection over the past five years from yard sales and thrift stores...it's amazing what you can find, and honestly really fun ( thrill of the hunt! ).
My latest find that I'm totally in love with is "The Three Maries" by Villa-Lobos. I'd never heard of him, so a new discovery as well

Recently bought Faure Barcarolles in the Barenreiter edition. I have always been a fan of his music. I had an old edition but the barenreiter is really great.

I'm part of the Schumann and Chopin crowd.

Schumann's kinderszenes.
Chopin's C# minor Nocturne.

I bought this a few months ago and am getting decent value from it: Hours with the masters

I haven't bought any classical in decades but have at least 30,000 pages in my library. For non-classical I mostly get free sheets off the internet, but recently bought a few scores:

Szczepanek-Pure Imagination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reloa...ten32zacdp434fvagfg34uh2nz3yc0y1w03c010c
Constantino Carrara-La La Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0LcFV33Shs
Luca Sestak- Walk with the Devil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOR_SsYrpTc
George Shearing-In the Still of the Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Hrkh5-dx4
Fred Hersch- No One Is Alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhxgv2-8Pc
Dave Grusin-Spartacus Love Theme, On Golden Pond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqIVHM-nvPw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6zx09a3TU

My most recent purchase was the RCM 5 syllabus... >.> nothing exciting.

But I did come across the sheet for Sogno Di Volare by Christopher Tin from Civilization 6. Not hard, but sounds great!

Thanks! I was planning to try Montagues and Capulets if I can handle the jumps...

My most recent purchase consisted of selected compositions by Harald Saeverud, Dag Wiren, and Einojuhani Rautavaara. I bought them to provide submissions to the Nordic Themed Recital occurring later this year -- I'm using the Recitals as an"excuse" to investigate composers about whom I knew a little bit, but never before played. Of course, I'm using YouTube to "screen" whatever I purchase -- I've got to like what I'm working on, and there's little reason to buy "blind" anymore.