Make the silence talk'La Muette knew how to make the silence talk like no one', writes Djavann in his book (La Muette, © Flammarion 2008). Those words deeply touched me for they express one of the most beautiful metaphors in music. Through the lines of discourse, beyond words, I was listening to the silence of 'La Muette'. A rare and intense listening which joins the same internal listening I use …

(Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000)Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a uniso…

(Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000)Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a uniso…

(Essential Elements for Band and Essential Elements Interactive are fully compatible with Essential Elements 2000)Essential Elements for Band offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a uniso…

Tango Guitar Duets. Par GARDEL CARLOS. Gardel's tangos remain classics, which no performer who aspires to be taken seriously can ignore. For this album Argentinian Tango specialist Diego selected some of Gardel's most popular tangos and arranged them for two guitars. The timbre of this instrument is exceptionally well suited to evoking in sound the musical riches of an impoverished community of im…

Par VEILHAN. This new, revised edition of J'Apprends La Flûte à Bec by Jean-Claude Veilhan is a beginner method for Soprano Recorder. Including all facets that a beginner method should have, it features information on the instrument, positioning, breathing and theory. Small studies and exercises are also part of the book to support the acquired knowledge throughout. Simple melodic studies will ena…

Part of an instrumental series that provides both young and not-so-young players with well-known songs and tunes as duets. / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Recueil / Trompette et Piano

Celtiques est un ensemble de dix arrangements de mélodies traditionnelles bretonnes ou irlandaises pour choeur mixte et piano,L'écriture varie les orchestrations (voix solistes, double choeur, choeur de femmes) et mêle les langages jazz et traditionnel dans un kaleïdoscope de couleurs musicales,Il existe une version pour choeur et orchestre de cette oeuvre rassemblant trio jazz (contrebasse, batte…

Par CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO MARIO. Born into a family of bankers that had lived in Florence since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) studied under Pizzetti at the city' s Conservatoire. He soon became one of the leading members of the young Italian school, which broke with the tyranny of bel canto to return to the instrumental tradition of the Italian …

This book provides 60 technical exercises that will help to develop strong hands and flexible fingers whilst having fun. The exercises are divided into five 'sets' which are carefully graded to introduce new technical points gradually, and will help create a regular practice routine. Specifically designed for use from the first few lessons, alongside Chester's Easiest Piano Course Books 1 to 3, th…

Par REGER MAX. Die Drei Chören (The Three Choirs) op. 6 are hardly mentioned in the young Reger's correspondence. The only meaningful reference is Reger's announcement to his London publisher George Augener on August 1, 1892: 'I will send the choruses op. 6 ? which your son liked very much ? to you tomorrow morning [...]'. George Augener had spent five weeks from undergoing treatment in Wiesbaden …

Instrumentation : Medium-Low voice - PfThis is the first ever complete critical edition of Henri Duparc's songs. Edited by Roger Nichols, the elegantly presented music is supported by a fully comprehensive Critical Commentary which illuminates as never before the compositional stages of these beautiful songs. Roger Nichols' international reputation as a leading authority on French music makes this…

Une collection idéale pour un étudiant effectuant à un concours ou un récital pour la première fois. Toutes les pièces peuvent être joué confortablement en première position. / Violon / Partition + Cd