Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'Requiem in C minor? of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings. Dispensing entirely with solo voices, it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both choir and orche…

Par DURY IAN / THE BLOCKHEADS. Ian Dury was a wordsmith, artist and entertainer who gave the English language two of its most famous phrases drawn from the song titles, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll and Reasons to be Cheerful . Now a major British film, starring Andy Serkis as Ian Dury, focuses on his personal relationships during his rise to fame. It is ten years since Ian's last gig at the Lon…

Joyride - Listen To Your Heart - It Must Have Been Love - The Look. Par ROXETTE / WOSSNER WOLFGANG (Arr.). Grand admirateur du duo pop-rock suédois Roxette, le célèbre arrangeur allemand Wolfgang Wössner a créé un medley accrocheur pour harmonie en hommage à sa chanteuse, Marie Fredriksson – qui a disparu en décembre 2019. Des chansons comme « Joyride », « Listen To Your Heart », « It Must Have Be…

Arr. Peter Kleine Schaars. The sisters Ruth, Anita and June Pointer from West Oakland in California learned how to sing in the sixties in church where their father was a minister. At the beginning of the 1970s they entered the music business, where they proved to have a mastery of many styles - including rhythm & blues, jazz, and country. However, the Pointer Sisters acquired international fame at…

In The Form Of A Partita In Seven Movements For Double Bass. Par GLASS PHILIP. The Not-Doings of an Insomniac -Partita for Solo Double Bass with spoken texts-was premiered by Robert Black at the International Society of Bassist Convention at the Griffin Concert Hall in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Not-Doings of an Insomniac developed as a result of Philip Glass's frequent travels to unfamiliar citi…

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ?Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain works such as ?Preciosa', ?Oberon', and ?Euryanthe', the overtures, solo concertos and piano sonatas, the lieder and chamber works enjoyed great popularity and were widely known in Germany and abroad a…

Step into the MAYHEM, where Lady Gaga returns to her pop roots with a bold, introspective album that explores themes of fame, identity, and inner conflict. With our matching songbook, you can play and sing along with all 14 tracks from this genre-defying album, including the electrifying Abracadabra and the hit Die with a Smile featuring Bruno Mars. Each song is arranged for piano, voice, and guit…

Par MOBERG IDA. Ida Moberg (1859–1947) was a Finnish composer and teacher. She grew up in a musical family, her father being an instrument maker. Ida was exceptionally well-educated in music: she studied singing and piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, composing and singing at the Helsinki Orchestra School, composing at the Royal Musical Academy in Dresden, improvisation in Berlin and pedagog…

Over the Rainbow is a standard that has become forever associated with its most famous interpreter, Judy Garland. Her troubled adult years only added poignancy to her guileless interpretation of the song, preserved on celluloid in The Wizard of Oz when she was seventeen. The song would also do something similar for Eva Cassidy whose 1992 version brought her posthumous fame almost a decade later. A…

Par BLUNT JAMES. Six of the best songs from James Blunt, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. Six of the Best simply does what it says - 6 of the best hits from leading artists available in a convenient and competitively priced format. Blunt's debut album, Back to Bedlam , and the multi-platinum selling single, You're Beautiful , brought him to fame in 2005. In 2006 Blunt won two BRIT Awards and …

Joyride - Listen To Your Heart - It Must Have Been Love - The Look. Par ROXETTE / WOSSNER WOLFGANG (Arr.). Grand admirateur du duo pop-rock suédois Roxette, le célèbre arrangeur allemand Wolfgang Wössner a créé un medley accrocheur pour harmonie en hommage à sa chanteuse, Marie Fredriksson – qui a disparu en décembre 2019. Des chansons comme « Joyride », « Listen To Your Heart », « It Must Have Be…

During their golden years of 1977 to 1982, The Jam's frontman Paul Weller was their outspoken leader, but it was drummer Rick Buckler who was the beating heart of the band, and it is his fascinating story that is told in his autobiography, That's Entertainment: My Life In The Jam, replete with insights into his life and music.From his childhood in the 1950s to his musical growth to becoming the ba…

Par BRASSENS GEORGES. Georges Brassens: Spécial Guitare Album N°2 - 40 Chansons features a vast collection of George Brassens' songs for Guitar. George Brassens was a iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for Voice and Guitar./ Recueil / Guitare

The Billy Strayhorn Collection brings together 17 memorable pieces written, arranged or made famous by the man of whom Duke Ellington said '(He) was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head'. A shy man who realised early on that his dream of a career in classical music was unlikely to become a reality because of his race, Strayhorn found a father figure and a lifelong employe…

Par EILISH BILLIE. This California teenage newcomer to the pop music scene launched to viral fame with her debut single 'Ocean Eyes.” Our songbook includes this song and 8 more from her debut album, plus a bonus track, 'Lovely.” Other songs include: and Burn - Bellyache - Copycat - Hostage - Idontwannabeyouanymore - My Boy - Party Favor - Watch./ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare