Par LANG LANG. Lang Lang: daily technical exercises is a collection of scale-based warm-ups, work-outs and routines that no aspiring pianist should be without, providing a perfect follow on from the Lang Lang Piano Academy mastering the piano series. Ideal for mastering keys and developing essential technique, this book provides flexible and progressive routines for intermediate-level players upwa…

Revisiting The Don is a piece of music composed by Michael Nyman for the album 'Mozart 252', a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Revisiting The Don is one of the two newly-composed works on this album and is arranged here as parts for String Quintet. Nyman himself states that 'as the title suggests, I revisit the same harmonic material that makes 'In Re Don Giovanni' so power…

A musical tour for young players. Par RAE JAMES. Although written for beginners (Grade 0-2), James Rae's 'City Snapshots”, for clarinet(s) and piano manages, even at this level, to capture the essence of music from around the world. Amongst the twelve pieces, we find a waltz in Viennese style that could have been written by Johann Strauss himself, a dreamy blues from Manhattan, a Cossack Dance f…

Let yourself be enchanted by the sound of the best known jazz ballads. Passionate, sensuous and warm - the flute is just perfect for longing, melancholy sounds. In the new volume of the 'Schott Flute Lounge' series, Dirko Juchem presents wonderful jazzy pieces - an absolute must for all flutists! The melodious and easy-to-play arrangements are all included on the accompanying CD, performed an…

Par SMETANA BEDRICH. Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) only began to devote himself intensively to the project of an original opera in Czech at the age of 38. The libretto of 'The Bartered Bride”, the second of Smetana's nine operas, was written for Smetana by the poet and journalist Karel Sabina. The subject chosen for the comic opera was the story of a pair of lovers in the countryside whose relations…

Par JOLIVET ANDRE. Andre Jolivet (1905-1974) established his love for composition from a young age. This remained throughout his life, and he held the post of Professor of Composition from 1966-1970 at Paris Conservatoire. Concerto for Bassoon was composed in 1954, and remains highly regarded. Jolivet, himself a cellist, wished to explore composition for all instruments, and therefore has a consid…

Par KRAUS JOSEPH MARTIN. The first volume of the new scholarly edition contains the complete chamber music without a keyboard instrument. The most important group of works comprises the string quartets, 10 of which have survived. They were composed during the 1770s, whenHaydn was developing this class of music. The differing balance between such contrasting musical elements as entries in imitation…

10 Virtuoso Pieces for Solo Violin. Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Challenging and unusual concert pieces for the more advanced violinist Aleksey Igudesman takes us to his homeland and then around the world with his own arrangements and humorous compositions for solo violin. Aleksey Igudesman's solution, when considering mistakes that could be made when performing well-known virtuoso pieces, was to '…writ…

Par SHAIMAN MARC. Complete with magnificent color photos from the original Broadway production, this 172-page collectible songbook contains piano/vocal sheet music for each song from the hit musical's Original Broadway Cast Recording. Award-winning Hairspray writers Marc Shaiman (music and lyrics) and Scott Wittman (lyrics) have created another masterpiece, and songs like 'Fly, Fly Away,' 'Goodbye…

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Ades' Chamber Symphony Op.2 was first performed on the 24th February 1991 in Cambridge, at the West Road Concert Hall. It was performed by the Contemporary Music Festival Ensemble, for the Cambridge Festival of Contemporary Music, conducted by the composer himself. Chamber Symphony Op.2 is a written for a chamber orchestra consisting of fifteen players. / Niveau : Assez Fac…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. ‘Toccata Festiva’ was commissioned in 1994 by the Dutch Brass Band Championships. The wind band version was made a year later by the composer himself. Historically speaking, the toccata is considered to be one of the first independent instrumental forms for keyboard instruments. Originally the toccata was typically more or less improvised, later this musical form was given a…

The Office's David Brent is back in a new film documentary following his incredible musical tour, and this is the official songbook of all the hits from his new album.David Brent is a renaissance man. Before he realised his true calling as an entertainer innovator, he was general manager of the Slough branch of Wernham-Hogg paper merchants. When his ideas proved too radical and his creativity too …

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Best-known for his orchestral music, Antonin Dvorak also devoted himself to music for solo Piano, creating dances and mood pieces infused with elements of native folk music. This volume contains thirty of his best,most characteristic Piano pieces. Selected and introduced by Rudolf Firkusny. / Date parution : 2024-04-11/ Recueil / Piano

Opera. Par BARRY GERALD. Gerald Barry's new opera is based on Lewis Carroll's two beloved books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barry's last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being Earnest, the composer has created the libretto himself from the author's original texts. Thus, the work remains faithful to many aspects of the Alice story but is trimmed and c…

for Percussion and Violoncello. Par HUMMEL BERTOLD. In summer 2001, Bertold Hummel composed the present work as a commission for the 'Asiago Festival' and brought together in the grand dimensions of his 'Fantasy in one movement' - as he himself termed it - for the first time the instruments he had always loved much during his life. Asiago - the letters a-s-a-g, corresponding to the notes a, e-flat…