In 1918 Gabriel Faure, then 73 years old, received a commission from Prince Albert I of Monaco to write stage music invoking the atmosphere of the commedia dell'arte. The four-movement orchestral suite op. 112, consisting of Ouverture, Menuet, Gavotte and Pastorale, combines previously unpublished parts of this stage music. The Pastorale of 1919 was Faure's last composition for orchestra, the Ouve…

Often recalled as a decade defined by hippies, free love and social revolution - the 1960s had all that and more besides. As well as Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin and The Lovin' Spoonful, this was the era that gave us The Beatles, Van Morrison, Harry Nilsson and The Righteous Brothers. The charts of the 1960s found room for The Monkees and The Beach Boys, with El…

Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. When Beethoven wrote these three quartets he was 15 years old and a composition student of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. They reveal a strong Mozartian influence while the brilliant piano writing already gives a sense of the mature Beethoven. He may conceivably have written the works for the wealthy Mastiaux family in Bonn, as he gave piano lessons to …

Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. Dedicated to Sir James Galway, who gave the first performance in 1977 at New Hall, Cardiff, this Sonata for flute is in three movements. The composer writes, 'there are so many works for flute which are solely vehicles for instrumental virtuosity that I have attempted to write a piece where the musical element is more to the fore. Although this is a virtuoso work with a partic…

Following the tragic death of bandmate Stephen Gately in 2009, Brother is the fourth studio album by Irish boyband Boyzone and their first recording as a four-piece. This new folio features four songs from the album including the Mika-penned lead single Gave It All Away, Love Is a Hurricane, Nothing Without You and One More Song , all arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PV…

Cantata for Speaker, Tenor and Baritone Soli, SATB and Chamber Orchestra. Par JOUBERT JOHN. This cantata for chorus, chamber orchestra and narrator tells the story of Alban, the first British Martyr with its libretto by Stephen Tunnicliffe. Musically the work uses contrasting and iconic motifs throughout in a recognisably Joubert fashion. The St Albans Chamber Choir gave the first performance in S…

Par HOWARD EMILY. Dualities by Emily Howard is a contemporary work for an Ensemble of 14 players. The work is an expression of the fascination with the juxtaposition of extremes and explores relationships between emotion and reason, constructivism and spontaneity, complexity and simplicity. The resultant musical structure is an accumulation of transitions between contrasting soundworlds. Dualities…

Par WHITESNAKE. The original lineup of David Coverdale's Whitesnake were one of the great exponents of earthy blues-rock in the '70s and their individual style of melodic rock gave them commercial success through the '80s. The lineup has included everthing from the soulful melodic duo of Mickey Moody and Bernie Marsden to the Guitar pyrotechnics of Steve Vai . This Guitar workshop is a powerful le…

Fassung Ii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion ranks alongside the St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the B minor Mass as one of the great vocal works from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he substantially revis…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. A Tale as Yet Untold was commissioned by the Cory Band for the European Brass Band Championships in Linz, Austria, 2010, and their winning performance gave them a hattrick of victories at the competition. The theme of this impressive work, which is set in three movements, is one that recurs again and again throughout the music of Philip Sparke, the power of the human spirit to o…

Par PAGANINI NICCOLO. The autograph composition entitled Alla spagnola is a fleeting piece, similar, in size, to other small works that Paganini called “capricci”, that he gave, on more than one occasion, to friends, colleagues and other figures he encountered during his travels: a piece which gives us a clear sense of the spirit of the Genoese master of brief compositions. The publication of this…

Arrangeur: James Galway. Par BOEHM THEOBALD / JAMES GALWAY (ED.). Theobald Boehm was a goldsmith and inventor of the Boehm flute (1847). He was also an engineer, composer, industrialist, and the director of the Bavarian steel works. In addition, he was the solo flutist of the Bavarian State Opera, and a well-known soloist and teacher. He played many of his own compositions on the numerous tours he…

In The Violin Concerto Op. 64 and Chamber Music For Strings. Par BROWN CLIVE. Mendelssohn' s Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performed the work with three soloists in succession: Ferdinand David, who worked closely with the composer…

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix Konzert für Violine und Orchester e-Moll op. 64 erste Fassung 1844 Edition no.BA 9099-92 ISMN 9790006565733 Editor Todd, R. Larry / Brown, Clive Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto op. 64, is a key work of the 19th century, adhering to the classical style of Beethoven while pointing the way to the romantic ethos of Brahms. It has long been known that Mendelssohn performe…

New Liszt Edition III Vol. 1. Par LISZT FRANZ. Composed in 1834, Liszt's Grand duo is based on material from three pieces from the first book (op. 19b) of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words (no. 1 in E major, no. 6 in G minor, and no. 3 in A major). While Liszt made an almost literal transcription of the first piece, he gave the second and third pieces a much freer arrangement, in the style of conc…