'Something quite curious, I believe? - it was thus that Robert Schumann described the Concert Piece for four Horns and large orchestra in a letter, and he did indeed break new ground with this work as far as the scoring and treatment of the instruments was concerned. When it was composed in 1849, the French horn was still fairly new, enabling players to play previously unheard-of runs and free mod…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Franz Schubert's 'Stabat Mater” D 175 is one of a number of church works that he wrote for his local congregation in Lichtental. This edition is based on the sole surviving source, the composer's autograph full score. Unlike its like-named companion piece D 383, Schubert uses the original Latin poem here. In his setting of April 1815 he focuses on the first two lines of the te…

'It is, aside from two passages, one of Beethoven's easiest - but as far as the performance of individual passages and its whole spirit is concerned, requires every kind of care?, thus wrote a contemporary critic. And it is for this reason that Beethoven's Sonata op. 90 is extremely popular today, both with piano students and also with professional pianists. It provides enough challenges: for exam…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Specially produced in association with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn for the 250th Anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, this souvenir collection of some of his most famous pieces and movements allows us to rediscover the joy of experiencing the full range of his music in the home and through our fingers, just as millions of amateur musicians got to know and love this mu…

Piano reduction. Par VANHAL JOHANN BAPTIST. Following Dittersdorf (HN 759) and Hoffmeister (HN 721), Johann Baptist Vanhal and his sole double-bass concerto add a further highlight to the classical bass literature in our catalogue. The virtuoso work was transmitted only in a copy of a part owned by the famous double-bass player Johannes Sperger (1750-1812) and found in his estate, which raises a f…

Vieuxtemps is nowadays considered to be the foremost exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school. Following a concert by the 14-year old 'wunderkind? in 1834, none other than Robert Schumann said: 'With Henri one can safely close one's eyes. His playing is like a flower, at the same time both fragrant and bright.? Vieuxtemps was also an excellent viola player and alongside numerous works for viol…

Third edition of the world's biggest songbook. This is a vast bumper collection, perfect for buskers, of 1001 all-time hit songs.Whatever your taste, there's guaranteed to be tonnes of songs you'll want to play, this book will last you years!Inside the spiral bound cover you will find a generous selection of hit songs, golden standards, jazz and blues numbers, classical pieces, hymns, gospel songs…

Paul Mealor's setting of the Latin hymn, Ubi Caritas , was composed for the Marriage of His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales, K.G. to Miss Catherine Middleton and first performed by the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty's Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, conducted by James O'Donnell, at the wedding service at Westminster Abbey on Friday, 29th April 2011. For SATB choir (with divisi…

Par CARTER SYDNEY. 18 songs with piano or guitar accompaniment. CONTENTS After six and all day Sunday (A - B); Bird of heaven (A - A); British Museum waltz (B flat - C) Come, love, carolling (A - C); George Fox (C - C); Glass of water (G - A) Judas and Mary (B - B); Like the snow (B - D); Long time since I had a lesson (C - D) Man with a microphone (A - D); The Mask I wore (A - B); The Postmaster …

On December 18th, 2004 three of today's most talented flatpicking guitar players Brad Davis, Tim May, and Cody Kilby got together and performed a concert near Kansas City, Kansas, and Flatpicking Guitar Magazine had cameras rolling. On that night at Jim Curley's Mountain Music Shoppe in Shawnee, Kansas, the crowd was not only treated to some amazing guitar work, but these talented musicians also p…

Cette partition contient 66 pièces créées pour le piano par le compositeur norvégien Edvard Grieg entre 1867 et 1901. Réimprimé de l'édition bien fondée de C.F. Peters. Techniquement peu compliqué et raisonnablement facile à maîtriser, ces pièces lyriques ont été des favoris des générations des pianistes, amateur et professionnel. Contenu :
8 Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 (dedicated to Betty Egeberg)…

Edizione critica a cura di Alessandro Borin - Antonio Moccia (testi in italiano e inglese). Par ANTONIO VIVALDI. 'With Il Teuzzone, RV 736, the collected edition of operas by Antonio Vivaldi gains a new volume that brings to completion the pair of operas written by the ?Red Priest? for Mantua. Premiered during the last days of 1718, the opera preceded by a few months the production of Tito Manlio,…