28 Pieces by 22 Composers in Progressive Order. Baroque to Modern presents music from the 1700s through the 1900s, with composer biographies and practice and performance tips. Organized by difficulty level, the music is presented in newly researched editions. Each volume is in progressive order. ANTHEIL: Little Shimmy C.P.E. BACH: Solfeggietto in C minor, H. 220 J. S. BACH: Prelude in D minor, BWV…

Par KILPIO LAURI. Lauri Kilpiö's (b. 1974) Night Rowing on the Lake (Yösoutu järvellä, 2021) for solo piano was commissioned by the Tapiola Youth Piano Competition and first peformed by its participants in November 2021. In about four minutes' duration the work travels from dreamlike floating visions to bright and powerful mysteries of the night. The composer is also an active performer of conte…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. To A New Dawn was commissioned by the United States Continental Army Band - Captain Timothy J. Holtan, Commander and Conductor. The brief was for a piece to celebrate the 3rd Millennium and it was the composer’s aim to provide a work which, as well as looking forward to the challenges of the new century, also contained moments of reflection about the last one. After a bright int…

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI / SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius…

Par SMITH ROLLIN. Suitable for intermediate and experienced organists, this appealing collection features 43 organ works in slow tempo. Its tremendous variety includes pieces by such celebrated composers for organ as J. S. Bach, Guilmant, Vierne, and Widor, as well as works by Brahms, Couperin, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, and others./ Répertoire / Orgue

Trois mélodies pour ténor et piano. Par ABOULKER ISABELLE. Être heureux ou ne pas l’être est un recueil de trois mélodies pour ténor et piano composé par Isabelle Aboulker sur des textes de Pierre de Ronsard, Jean de La Fontaine et Octave Mirbeau. « À la désespérance profonde d’Octave Mirbeau devant un paysage de montagnes, j’ai opposé la philosophie souriante de Jean de La Fontaine et la leçon de…

Winter with all its moods has always been captured by composers in their music: Inspired by romantic walks in winter, dancing snowflakes, a look out of windows covered with ice-ferns, or an adventurous sleigh-ride, such musical winter dreams often became well-known and popular classics.The edition Winter Dreams contains a large number of these works, like the famous melodies from J.S. Bach's Chris…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. To A New Dawn was commissioned by the United States Continental Army Band - Captain Timothy J. Holtan, Commander and Conductor. The brief was for a piece to celebrate the 3rd Millennium and it was the composer’s aim to provide a work which, as well as looking forward to the challenges of the new century, also contained moments of reflection about the last one. After a bright int…

Par WEISS SILVIUS LEOPOLD. Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 1750) is known to guitarists as the greatest baroque composer for the lute, yet most are only familiar with the earlier portion of Weiss?s prolific output found in the British Library in London. Inspired by a forty-year friendship with the late Douglas Alton Smith - a major figure in the scholarly study of the history of the lute - guitarist, …

The Orgelbüchlein Project is a collective composition project aiming to complete Bach's unfinished manuscript known as 'Orgelbüchlein'. In the 'Little Organ Book', Bach laid out a complete hymnal of short organ chorale, 164 in all, but only completed 46 of them. Why the remaining 118 were left as blank pages, with only a title at the head, remains a mystery, but they inspired organists William Whi…

KV 626 - D minor - Completed and edited by Howard Arman. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Le chef et compositeur anglais Howard Arman a présenté une fin du Requiem de Mozart. On peut penser « Encore une ? » puisque, en plus de la version traditionnelle de Süßmayr, toute une série d’autres versions sont maintenant disponibles. Mais le fragment de Mozart recèle un tel potentiel que le défi et l’envie de…

Par JORGENSEN AXEL. Axel Jørgensen was the solo viola in The Royal Danish Orchestra, and as a composer he had a large output, especially for brass. His Romance for trombone and orchestra is one of his most performed pieces, and was first performed by Anton Hansen, the famous teacher. In this arrangement for wind band has Eriksen kept the beautiful late romantic colours. / Date parution : 2023-07-3…