Preludes, Op. 23: For Early Advanced to Advanced Piano (Alfred Masterwork Edition)

Like I said in the headline, the main reason I bought this edition is because I liked the pretty picture.Just a few things about the content from using the book for a little while. They printed 4 staff lines per page for most of the book with only a few pages with 5 staff lines. This makes the print size somewhat large, which you may prefer. Personally, I'd prefer the 5 lines per page size so you don't have to flip pages as often to go through the music. But what really gets me is how in some pieces they reconfigured the notation of the right hand vs left hand crossovers. The picture I uploaded of the D major prelude is a good example of what I mean. What they did makes it more confusing and harder to play, which is why I took it upon myself to pencil in some notes in the top staff (the hand drawn notes in the picture). I think the original editions show the left hand notes just fine and it is intuitive enough to figure out what to do. They also did this a little bit in the C minor prelude, but not as badly as the D major. Lastly, the finger assignments are minimal so they don't interfere with readability.I really like how they wrote descriptions of each prelude in the introduction section of the book, something I wish ALL music books would have. The descriptions are more of a technical analysis. I'd prefer something that describes the emotional content of each prelude, but I guess that is subjective and more personal.

Good edition, layout and fingering is good. I question the breakup of pages from time to time. I bough two copies so I can place them side by side and have 4 pages open so I don't have to turn the pages as much.

This is a great publication, with thoughtful page breaks, and concise formatting. I'm very slowly working through these difficult pieces, and I love that there is ample room for notes in the margins.

Very happy with this book. On Prelude Op 23 #4 the fingerings are divided between the right and left hand which makes it possible for me to play. All the Alfred Masterwork Editions are excellent books.

These reviews are getting absurd. This is akin to praising a novel for having a charming font and fun cover rather than for its content.Before you post a review, just as you would with ANY other book, maybe do more than flip through and admire the margin sizes.For anyone who is actually serious about music, understand that all of the rave reviews praising the large margins and wonderfully spaced notes and bold page numbers are ignoring the fact that those enlargements are done digitally, and all that stretching and distortion has to go somewhere (see photo).This is complex music. There is no room for misprints, no room for inaccurate notehead alignment, no room for page after page of wrong notes.I am flummoxed by the review praising the fingering. There are so many errors in the music that I'm uncertain how one gauges "good fingering" when notes are wrong.Again, this is complex music. So much is missing in this edition for no other reason than Alfred Publishes S***.Multiple attempts to contact various departments within Alfred to address the misprints were ignored. It speaks volumes about the integrity of the company and shows utter disregard for the musicians who purchase from them.For a couple more dollars, you can buy a quality performance edition that you can judge based on content instead of the watercolor on the front cover.

Me encantatan las digitaciones y que tiene una grafia impresa adequada, no es pequeña, se agradece para la vista

Preferiria haber comprado de otra editorial, los dedos están muy mal

pour quelles raisons j'ai acheté ce produit ?c'est une partition pour piano, donc pour la jouer, bien sûr !J'en avais un peu marre de jouer les préludes Chopin, alors j'ai décidé de m'attaquer à ceux de Rachmaninov-:)

Esta edición de Alfred, está muy cuidada y las digitaciones propuestas son de mucha ayuda.