Par TALLIS THOMAS. Au XVIe siècle fut une période de bouleversements religieux en Angleterre. De la réforme protestante de Henry VIII par le biais ardent mais éphémère catholique renouveau du Queen Mary au retour de l'anglicanisme à l'époque élisabéthaine, il aurait fallu une diplomatie avisée pour un catholique romain comme Thomas Tallis, simplement rester en vie. En fait, il est devenu le compos…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. In his Prelude ? The Truth from Above, outstanding arranger and curator Paul Hindmarsh has distilled the essence of a timeless Christmas classic by Ralph Vaughan Williams into five minutes of ravishingly unforgettable music for brass band. The variants of the Herefordshire tune popular from the Fantasia on Christmas Carols and The Oxford Book of Carols are skilfully and…

Par WHITBOURN JAMES. James Whitbourn's Apollo tells the story of the first manned flight to the Moon (the year before the first lunar landing). A wealth of imaginative textures depicts such dramatic events as countdown, ignition, and the first sight of earthrise, leading to a fantasia on an ancient Greek melody, and a final triumphant Paean. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Classique / Répertoire / O…

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works for violin and harpsichord obbligato pervade his entire compositional oeuvre. The earliest works, like the Sonata in D minor still numbered BWV 1036, date back to the years of study with his father, yet show already a remarkable creative will of his own. The latest work, the fantasia 'C. P. E. Bachs Empfindungen' in F flat minor of 1787 is characterized by the com…

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Editor: Thomas Fritzsch and Günter von Zadow, publication date: 2016-03, source: print Hamburg 1735 Description For more than two hundred years, Telemann's unique Fantasias for solo viol remained hidden from the general public until a copy of the original 1735 print was discovered in 2014. We are very happy to be able to make them accessible now to all gambists, and are certain that these Fantas…

Octo Tonorum Melodiae. Par STOLTZER THOMAS. Frutti Musicali, a series of ensemble music from the Renaissance and early Baroque, addresses itself to all friends of early music. Practical editions with authoritative musical texts offer an selection of pieces performable in a variety of instrumental combination, and allow a wide range of musicians to savor the delights of these largely unknown ; musi…

Joaquín Rodrigo a composé de la musique dans tous les genres, de l'opéra aux pages vocales et aux oeuvres de chambre, en passant par de nombreuses pièces solistes et plusieurs concertos pour instrument seul et orchestre. Ses oeuvres pour et avec guitare sont sans aucun doute les plus connues et les plus interprétées parmi ses compositions, bien qu'en général l'attention des concertistes ne se foca…

Fifteenth-Century Music. 'The Schott Recorder Consort Anthology' presents a wealth of music from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Although the bulk of the collection is laid out for a variety of four-part ensembles there are also duets and trios, as well as five- and six-part pieces. The repertoire includes both original instrumental works and transcriptions of vocal pieces. There are l…

Par FROBERGER / SCHOTT. First volume of the first tome of the Oeuvres Complètes Pour Clavecin by Johann Jakob Froberger, this book (Version 1649) is a set of twenty-four pieces for Harpsichord. Edited by Howard Schott, the book has its preface and information in French, English and German. It features six Toccatas, six Fantasias, six Canzones, 5 Suites and a partite. The works are of medium diffic…

Toccata, Canzone, Ricercare and Fantasias

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. A selection of Bach’s best-known, most-performed and most-recorded works for the keyboard, reproduced from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition. The l6 works, principally preludes, fugues and fantasias, are reproduced in a format ideal for study and practice./ Répertoire / Clavier ou Orgue Electronique

Musica Britannica XIV. Par BULL JOHN. Edited by John Steele & Francis Cameron and revised Alan Brown. Bull's skill as a composer and performer was acknowledged throughout Europe. This volume, the first of two, contains fantasias, ostinati and plainsong settings, keyboard canons, preludes and a group of 'Dorian' pieces by this intriguing and ingenious master of the virginals. First published in 196…

Les oeuvres de Mozart pour piano à quatre mains constituent le premier point fort de ce genre qui plus tard est réalisé uniquement par Franz Schubert. Les deux premières sonates de la période de Salzbourg qui sont particulièrement adaptés pour l'enseignement de la musique dans les écoles secondaires, sont opposés à trois compositions efficaces de sa période viennoise. Le présent volume contient au…