Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON / DOSS THOMAS (Arr.). Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn?t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years …

Par RATKJE MAJA S. K.. Hvil (Eng.: rest) is an imperative, and a plea: the earth's plea to humankind. This plea consists of words and music which have taken shape at the same time in a close collaboration between composer and the author Aasne Linnestå. 'Hvil' was commissioned by the Nordland Musikkfestuke festival, Bodø, in 2008 and received its premier performance there by Marianne Beate Kielland…

Par YANOV-YANOVSKY DIMITRI. After Chopin's death in 1849 most of his possessions and some non published manuscripts went to his family in Warsaw. Chopin's sister Ludwika made a catalogue of the manuscripts, copying only the first bars of them. In 1863 all manuscripts were destroyed by a fire, and the only thing that was left of them was the catalogue of Ludwika. After Chopin's death in 1849 most o…

Par KAREL RUDOLF. Rudolf Karel, the last student of Dvorák, was able to compose the Nonett in short score before his death [1945] in the concentration camp in Theresienstadt. From this score, Václav Snítil, the longtime leader of the Czech Nonett, has been able to complete and instrumentate the work. In spite of death and suffering around him, Karel was still able to portray the belief in a place …

Le légendaire groupe Metallica a décidé de faire honneur à son public francais en leur offrant le concert enregistré aux Arènes de Nîmes le 7 juillet dernier. Un DVD live qui a pour nom « Français pour une nuit » 'Francais Pour Une Nuit' reprend l'intégralité du concert. Les 4 cavaliers de l'apocalypse, que sont James Hetfi eld, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett et Robert Trujillo, débarquent à Nimes et f…

Par MUSSORGSKY MODEST. The death in 1873 of Mussorgsky's friend Victor Hartmann was the stimulus for the initial creation of what was to become one of the most vividly colourful works in the orchestral repertoire. However, Mussorgsky's original piano version of Pictures At An Exhibition was not even published until 5 years after his death, and remained almost unknown until Ravel's masterful orches…

2016 marks the first centenary of the death of Max Reger. In addition to his best-known field of creativity - organ music - his choral compositions form another major part of his oeuvre.This edition contains a selection of his sacred a cappella choral works. Their scoring, level of difficulty and length make them ideal for choirs who are wary of tackling the large-scale op. 110 motets. For the fir…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. In the course of the two centuries following the death of Henry Purcell in 1695, no British composer of any statue was apparent. Consequently, the break-through of Edward Elgar (1857-1934) as an internationally known and respected composer at the end of the last century, was of considerable importance. As a composer Elgar was largely self-taught and he looked towards the con…

Par PHILIPS JULIAN. Four Sonnets of John Clare by Julian Philips is a 12-minute work for baritone and piano which sets four sonnets by the English poet John Clare. The work reflects on different aspects of Clare\'s human experience: the transcience of worldly renown, the loss of inspiration, a fear of neglect in death and a love of the numinous in nature, and the music seeks to match Clare\'s poet…

Allerheiligentag Iii. Par LINJAMA JYRKI. Jyrki Linjama's second string quartet (2018) is subtitled Allerheiligentag III. The material for the Allerheiligentag cycle is a Finnish folk chorale for All Saints' Day (no. 146 in the Finnish Hymn Book). The first work in the cycle is a string trio (2007), the second a piece for orchestra (2009), and the fourth and fifth are solo works for viola da gamba …

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn’s setting of Psalm 98 was written in a few weeks to satisfy a commission in his new position as general music director of Prussia and was premiered by the Berlin Cathedral Choir on 1 January 1844. As he neither released the work forpublication nor produced a vocal score, his psalm setting did not appear in print until after his death. For this edition t…

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Arrangeur: Elizabeth Walker. Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) composed St. Matthew's Passion, BWV 244, in the 1720s and it is believed that the first performance took place on April 11, 1727 at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. The music arranged here for Flute Quartet is the heart-wrenching aria, 'Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben,” extracted from the middle of the…