Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens’ production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia’s Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de Rome that was established in 1803 then cancelled following the events of May 1968. It had been for more than a century and a half, the most co…

Favourite Italian melodies. Par DIVERS AUTEURS (ARR.ZAMARIN ARNOLD). Italian culture infects many art forms and perhaps none more so than music. In this album, Arnold Zamarin has arranged, for flute and piano, eleven well-known pieces that simply shout 'ITALY” at you! 'Italian Classics” includes the unforgettable 'O Sole Mio”, 'La Donna e Mobile”, 'Funiculi, Funicula” and Verdi's 'Chorus of the He…

Par SAMMARTINI GIUSEPPE. Score with lightly realised (and figured) Basso Continuo and 3 parts (Treble Recorder I, II, Basso Continuo) Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750) was already famous as an oboist in Italy before distinguishing himself in England as a composer and virtuoso. In this edition we have transposed his Trio Sonatas for two Flutes or Violins to a range ideally suited to the Treble Record…

Compositori Italiani del XX secolo Vol. 1. New volume of the Ricordi Instrumental Library series dedicated to the instrumental repertoire of the Twentieth Century. The series includes publications for piano, violin/piano, guitar and, now, cello/piano. - This anthology fills an editorial void by re-proposing a series of pieces that would otherwise be difficult, if not downright impossible, to find …

This collection of Easy String Quartets includes 5 pieces suitable for players Grade 1-3. The pieces cover a wide range of musical periods and European styles, from Baroque to Romantic, from Italy to Austria and England, to give young players a broad spectrum while acquainting them with the basics of playing chamber music. The compositions included are: Allegretto Op. 72 #3 (Mendelssohn), Allegro …

Par PONTI ALESSANDRO. Alessandro Ponti’s In Fuga da Verona for solo harpsichord is thriller in music, set in medieval Italy. The underlying story of the piece is like a ‘spin-off’ of Shakespeare’s tragedy. One could imagine the lives of a couple of young friends from opposing families suddenly changing because one of them has killed a rival and has to flee immediately from the town: the emotion an…

This Baroque opera chorus from Vivaldi's La fida ninfa was first heard at the grand opening of the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Italy. Available for 2- and 3-part choirs, this edition includes buoyant choral polyphony, a jubilant music text, and an optional flute obbligato. / Choeur SAB

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens’ production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia’s Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de Rome that was established in 1803 then cancelled following the events of May 1968. It had been for more than a century and a half, the most co…

Arrangeur: Willi Schulze. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The G major mass of Mozart followed a very special type of mass pattern, namely, that of the 'Missa pastoralis'. In Mozart's time it was a widespread type of mass, especially in Bohemia and Italy, in which melodies and rhythms like those familiar from pastoral Christmas music were frequently found. The themes in this type of mass are song-like…

Par VACCAI NICOLA. Nicola Vaccai was born in Tolentino, Italy, on March 15th, 1790; he died on August 5th or 6th, 1848, in Pesaro (located on the Adriatic), the town in which he had grown up and to which he retired in 1844. He was successful as a singing teacher and opera composer, though he was eclipsed in the latter field by his rival, Bellini. He is known today primarily as the author of the pr…

Psalmen Davids. Par SCHUTZ HEINRICH. Psalm 98 from the 'Psalms of David' for 2 Mixed choirs (SATB) Schutz set to music the 'Psalms of David' 1619 in the new polyphonic 'Concert Style' which he had encountered in Italy at that time. This separate performing edition of the 98th psalm 'Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied' contains the musical text of the New Schutz Edition and opens up the work to the fi…

Minor: Bordun. Par ORFF CARL / KEETMAN GUNILD. Carl Orff devoted much of his life to the development of a philosophy of Music for Children, based on his belief that music is the natural outcome of speech, rhythm and movement. His ideas and pioneering work have had a major influence on music and dance education throughout the world and today that work continues under the guidance of leading teacher…

Handel's dramatic cantata Apollo And Daphne belongs to the composer's early years in Italy. It seems likely to have been written in Rome, where Handel lived intermittently between 1707 and 1710. Opera in Rome had been placed under a papal ban, but musical society in the performance of dramatic cantatas, which possessed most of the features of opera without requiring elaborate staging. Handel's pla…

for Violin and Orchestra. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Mozart composed the majority of his works for solo string instruments and orchestra during the years 1773 to 1779. Especially important in this context are the years 1773 and 1775, which witnessed the creation of the five concertos for violin and orchestra as well as several single movements for the same scoring. The reasons for this flourish …