The New Essential Companion. Henrik Wiese, the internationally renowned orchestral and solo flautist, has spent four years compiling what promises to be the definitive guide to audition repertoire for students preparing for a seat in a professional orchestra. He has worked with his own students in Salzburg as they engaged in auditions, as well as with other professional players and his teaching co…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Bärenreiter is closely connected with Mozart. The complete works of the ingenious composer have been published in the benchmark “New Mozart Edition” issued by Bärenreiter. Moreover, the vast majority of compositions are available in performing Urtext editions based on the musical text of the “New Mozart Edition”. There is hardly a musical area in which Mozart did not e…

Par COROZINE VINCE. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 of the 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional …

In 1790, during the lifetime of Mozart and Haydn, Ernst Ludwig Gerber wrote of Ko?eluch in his famous handbook for musicians, 'without opposition, by young and old, (?) generally the best-loved composer alive today?. His works display 'liveliness and grace, the noblest of melodies with the purest of harmonies, and a pleasing organisation of rhythm and modulation.? Until now, pianists have had litt…

Solo And Chamber Works. Par KURTAG GYORGY. Signs, Games and Messages are series for solo instruments and small chamber ensembles. Each of the three notions refers to an essential factor in Kurtág’s music. Signs ties it with the composer’s period of study in Paris as a young man, when he could not compose, merely put graphic signs on the paper. Games links with his nine-volume series for the piano …

A hot collection of 20 hits arranged with melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A tuning. Includes: Better Man - Black Hole Sun - Breakeven - Creep - Do I Wanna Know? - I Will Follow You into the Dark - Lonely Boy - The Only Exception - Paradise - Plush - Radioactive - Say It Ain't So - Take Me to Church - 21 Guns - Use Somebody - We Are Young - and more. / Ukulélé

The 'prequel' to Barbara Barber's widely-used Scales for Advanced Violists is here! Scales for Young Violists is a user-friendly scale system which presents two-octave major, melodic minor, and harmonic minor scales with arpeggios. The first five Foundation Keys (C, D, E, F, G) introduce beginning double-stops in octaves, 3rds, and 6ths, remaining in first position. One-octave scales in double-sto…

My First Bach and My First Mozart are now followed by a third edition of easy-to-play original works from one of the most important composers of the Romantic era: Robert Schumann. This collection includes pieces from Album for the Young and Scenes from Childhood, enabling young players to experience Romantic piano music for the first time. Ideal for teaching the first use of the pedal, pupils can …

Par ZELENSKI WLADYSLAW. The Piano Sonata in G minor, op. 5, Wladyslaw Zelenski?s first important composition, was written in Kraków under the guidance of Franciszek Mirecki ? a conservative composer and teacher who was a pupil of Johann Nepomuk Hummel. It was probably Mirecki who brought about the publication of his 22-year-old pupil?s work by the esteemed Milan firm of Ricordi in 1859. That publi…

No. 4 from Goyescas. Par GRANADOS ENRIQUE. This 'Lament, or the maiden and the nightingale” is the fourth movement of Granados' six-part piano cycle Goyescas (1909-11). The cycle's title is derived from the name of the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, whose paintings inspired Granados. The Goyescas conjure up Goya's Spain of the late 18th century - chivalrous and sensual, but also melancholic an…

La variété est le mot clé dans cette collection de mélodies écossais traditionnels. Pratiquement tous les types de tune-l'air de la chanson et danse sont représenté ici et choisis avec soin pour offrir une introduction de première classe à vraiment immense trésor de la musique écossaise. La majorité des airs 200 sont dans les clés faciles de D, G et une rendant convenant à la plupart des instrumen…

Arr. Jan De Haan. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Young Amadeus donne une nouvelle jeunesse à l’ Adagio du Concerto pour Clarinette et Orchestre en La Majeur KV 622, une oeuvre que Mozart a composée en 1791, quelques mois avant sa mort. La courbe mélodique d’une sublime tendresse témoigne du génie musical et de la divine facilité d’élocution dont Mozart avait été doué par la nature. / Niveau : 2 …