This page presents a selection of scores published by Felix Editions. Each video combines the music with a synchronised score, allowing the viewer to follow the notation bar by bar. The recordings feature works by 19th- and early 20th-century composers, published in new Urtext editions. These videos are intended both as a resource for pianists and as an introduction for a wider audience to rediscovered repertoire.
Carl Czerny
Variation on a theme by Diabelli
The Diabelli Variations (Volume II of the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein, 1824) bring together fifty composers, each contributing a response to Diabelli’s waltz—a fascinating cross-section of early nineteenth-century piano music. In Variation 4 Carl Czerny showcases the style brillant: flowing figurations that weave gracefully around the harmony, shaped with lyrical legato and crystalline clarity—an elegant étude in disguise, where brilliance is always balanced by refinement.
Coda
Carl Czerny concludes the Diabelli Variations with a dazzling coda that is far more than a simple epilogue. Cast as a miniature fantasy, it unfolds in rapid succession of arpeggios, tremolos, octave passages, and bold harmonic gestures. Brilliant yet always controlled, the music projects both grandeur and clarity, transforming Diabelli’s modest waltz into a resounding, celebratory close to the entire set.
Adolf von Henselt
Variations de Concert: Variation 4
Adolf von Henselt’s Variations de Concert, Op. 1, were his official debut as a composer and immediately established his reputation. The work is based on a theme from Donizetti’s opera L’elisir d’amore and belongs to the tradition of virtuoso opera variations. Already in this early score, Henselt combines lyrical cantabile writing with brilliant pianistic effects and a refined harmonic sense, qualities that would define his mature style.
Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer
Six Views of Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji from the High Seas
The Dutch composer Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer (1888–1953) developed a distinctive musical language, deeply rooted in nature and landscape. His cycle Six Views of Mount Fuji, Op. 9, evokes the shifting atmosphere of the mountain with refined, impressionistic colours, yet in a style wholly his own. Mount Fuji from the High Seas opens the set with broad, sweeping gestures that suggest distance and grandeur, combining clarity of line with subtle harmonic nuance. This performance is by Dutch pianist Marius van Paassen, both a masterful interpreter of the work and the editor of this edition.
Mount Fuji in the Rain
The fourth piece of the cycle opens with driving broken figures in the right hand, set against discreet left-hand punctuations. The perpetual motion suggests the unrelenting fall of rain, evoking atmosphere through rhythmic insistence rather than overt virtuosity. The music’s energy is sustained not by display, but by the clarity of texture and the precision of its motion.