Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn's contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise” in the same breath as Beethoven's Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper, in his extensive Introduction to this new Urtext edition, shows that the comparison is completely unfounded: with this work Mendelssohn created a new genre to which he…

'Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody? - thus reads Ravel's entry on 'Tzigane? in the so-called 'Autobiographical Sketch?. Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with piano, with orchestra and with luthéal, a device for keyboard instruments to extend the timbre. 'Tzigane? was inspired by the Hungarian-English violinist Jelly d'Aranyi, to whom Ravel had already prom…

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn’t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years as a school assistant…

Spinning Song for PianoThis famous song by Moniuszko has been arranged for different instruments. Henryk Melcer, Polish composer of the turn of 19th and 20th century gave us his brilliant arrangement for piano.

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 BEATLES THE. 29 songs from the Beatles' iconic 1968 double album that gave us such gems as: Back in the U.S.S.R. · Birthday · Blackbird · Dear Prudence · Glass Onion · Happiness Is a Warm Gun · Helter Skelter · Honey Pie · I'm So Tired · Martha My Dear · Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da · Revolution · Rocky Raccoon · Sexy Sadie · While My Guitar Gently Weeps · Why Don't We Do It in the Road · Wild Honey Pie…

Piano solo arrangements of 21 beautiful current hits, including: All of Me - Everything - God Gave Me You - I Won't Give Up - Just the Way You Are - Love Me Like You Do - Love Story - The Luckiest - No One - One and Only - Thinking Out Loud - A Thousand Years - The Way I Am - We Found Love - You're Beautiful - and more. / Piano

Par WIBERNY HEINER. Heiner Wiberny has written this joyful composition for his wife Ulla, who has a special affinity for African Music. The listener recognizes immediately the sound and flavor of 'African Highlife” and 'Latin Funk”. The composition consists of the following parts: chorale-intro, prelude, ABA-theme, transition, violin- and violasolos with 'break'-intros, prelude, AB-theme, Coda. Th…

Par PHILIPS JULIAN. Four Sonnets of John Clare by Julian Philips is a 12-minute work for baritone and piano which sets four sonnets by the English poet John Clare. The work reflects on different aspects of Clare\'s human experience: the transcience of worldly renown, the loss of inspiration, a fear of neglect in death and a love of the numinous in nature, and the music seeks to match Clare\'s poet…

Choralkantate. Par REGER MAX. The choral cantatas are Reger's most personal and most substantial contribution to one of the principal categories of Protestant church music, and they are only major works in this field by one of the foremost composers of his time. This is true despite the fact that Reger himself does not appear to have considered the cantatas to figure among his principal compositio…

Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. A collection of pieces that pay tribute to Gershwin's unique melodic genius, which gave us such gems as Embraceable You, Summertime, I Got Rhythm, 'S Wonderful, and Lady Be Good. These and other favourites are arranged here as impressive Cello solos with Piano accompaniment. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Date parution : 1996-01-18/ Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók' s 'Romanian Christmas Songs' are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave ' the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, rather than a pious and religious one”. Nevertheless, he chose 20 melodies from this collection of ' colinde” and published them under the title of ' Christmas Songs”. In the first …

Jean Baptiste Arban was amongst the first of the great soloists of the then newly invented cornet, and his post as first soloist in the Paris Opera Orchestra gave great respectability to the instrument.The Amazing Mr Arban celebrates his melodic gift by grouping together and integrating several of the best known studies.The piano arrangement is by Nicholas Hare. / Cornet Et Piano

Edizione tradizionale rilegata in tela e oro. Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. The hidden sadness and frustration of living as a moral outcast, the attempt to simulate innocence in frivolous living and the desperate search for relief from pain and anguish, the destruction of all hope in an unrealistic love affair. . . this is Violetta Valery. Verdi penetrated the tormented sensitivity of her soul as he visuali…

Sinfonische Fantasie. Par SIBELIUS JEAN. The tone poem Pohjola's Daughter Op. 49 - a ‘ Symphonic Fantasy for Large Orchestra' - was written by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in 1906. The story is a variation of Orpheus in the Underworld, depicting a hero (Väinämöinen) who spotted the beautiful ‘ daughter of the North' (Pohjola), seated on a rainbow. The hero asked her to join him, but …