Par DVORAK ANTONIN. This arrangement was written for Norwegian School Band Madlamark Skolekorps to their participation at the Norwegian Championships 2023. The arrangement will work excellent also for a wind ensemble (one player to each part), but the clarinet parts should always be doubled. Euphonium II is optional, but it’s recommended to use also this when there are two players or more on this …

Faure's Requiem, op. 48, is his only large-scale sacred composition and certainly his most important essay in the genre. Already popular with audiences during his lifetime, its success continues to this day. For this new edition, Yves Castagnet, titular organist of the choir organ at Notre Dame in Paris and deeply rooted in the French tradition of organ-playing, has transposed the orchestral setti…

Par . Rob MacKillop presents 20 classic lute transcriptions; the 'greatest hits' of the Renaissance and Baroque lute repertoire arranged for pick acoustic electric or classical guitar. MacKillop has for many years played all these pieces on the lute and has created sensitive guitar arrangements that lose nothing from the original scores. Composers include Bach Weiss Dowland Spinacino among others.…

Six Beastly Humoresques. Par QUAKERNACK HELMUT. Global Animals consists of six witty humoresques, each depicting an extraordinary creature.There's the Australian dancing buck that loves to dance in pairs, a down-in-the-dumps Egyptian hippo in a permanent grouse with the world, or the dastardly Southern European trill mosquito.The extinct Mongolian striped lion is deeply mourned, while the arctic n…

Arrangeur: Mike Cornick. Par ELGAR EDWARD / CORNICK MIKE (ARR.). Although often regarded as quintessentially English in style, Elgar's music is undeniably deeply rooted in the German Romantic tradition. Elgar's gift for the creation of melody, often sequential and frequently including one of his most familiar 'fingerprints' - the falling seventh - might well be the most obvious attraction in his m…

Par BRUCH MAX. Aside from his popular Violin Concerto no. 1, “ Kol Nidrei ” numbers among Max Bruch ’s most famous compositions. The melancholy “Adagio after Hebrew melodies” was written in 1880 for the cellist Robert Hausmann. It treats two old Jewish songs whose extraordinary beauty proved deeply moving to the Protestant Bruch, by his own admission. The tenor Cello sound is the ideal medium for …

Vocal Selections. Par MICHAELSON INGRID. Described as a love story for the ages by The New York Daily News, The Notebook is a new hit musical based on Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel that inspired the iconic film. The musical offers a new spin on the beloved story that follows Allie and Noah, who come from different worlds but share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull t…

Par LAURIDSEN MORTEN. For centuries, composers have been inspired by the beautiful O Magnum Mysterium text depicting the birth of the new-born King among the lowly animals and shepherds. This setting for unaccompanied SATB divisi by Morten Lauridsen, one of America's most loved and most performed living choral composers, is rich in colour, deeply spiritual and intensely moving. It is rated as 'rea…

Herbert Howell's Requiem written for unaccompanied SATB chorus and soli. Although written in 1936, Requiem was not released for performance until 1980, held back by Howells following the death of his son in 1935. It is a harmonious and deeply Romantic composition, but restrained and it is at these moments we realise how affected he was by his loss. It was the composer's intention that Requiem shou…

Heinrich Poos is not the first composer inspired by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's poem 'Die Auferstehung', as even Gustav Mahler had already used these verses in the fifth movement of his Second Symphony 'Auferstehung'. Mahler was inspired to use a choral movement at the end of his symphony at the funeral of the conductor Hans von Bülow where a choir sang a chorale based on said text by Klopstock…

A Welsh Folk Song Setting. Par CURNOW JAMES. Lovely and delicate, this familiar Welsh lullaby is simple yet strong, in a beautifully scored setting. This is a familiar folksong that has stood the test of time, and deservedly so, and will deeply move your audience, and many will remember the tune as used in the movie 'Empire Of The Sun. ' It's a wonderful choice for a tender moment in your program.…

Par CASSIDY EVA. Eighteen beautiful ballads, as recorded by Eva Cassidy, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Eva was never a songwriter, but rather chose to sing songs that touched her deeply. Her arrangements of popular American, English and traditional music have become classic interpretations of the 21st Century. Includes photographs and an introduction by Hugh Cassidy, Eva's Father. / Niveau…

Par ADAMS JOHN LUTHER. Three Nocturnes by John Luther Adams was written in 2022 for solo double bass. Having worked as a full-time environmental activist earlier in his life, Adams writes music deeply connected to the natural world and the elemental forces that shape it. / Date parution : 2025-01-21/ Répertoire / Contrebasse

Arr. James Curnow. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Tchaikovsky's lovely, melancholy melody was inspired by a poem that speaks of great sadness. Print the poem in your program, or have it recited as the band plays to create a deeply moving tribute to any and all departed loved ones. This is a simply gorgeous piece of music that explores dark tonalities and expressive performance. / Niveau : 4 / Mus…

230 folk songs and spirituals, religious and secular, arranged for piano and voice. From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans - at work, in church and for pure entertainment. Included are spirituals, blues, work songs and a variety of social and dance songs. This is an indispensable treasury of mus…