Par HARVEY JONATHAN. Andrew Porter says '. . . a stirring and beautiful adventure. . . He has written some of the most ardent love music since Messiaen's, and love music finds its place in the opera. . . There is also music of pain and despair. Bell sounds, chants, choruses, electronics, swelling harmonies, sharp-focus solo lines fill the theatre with deep, ever-changing ever-stirring music.' The …

Volume One
Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op.18, No. 1
Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Op.18, No. 2
Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op.18, No. 3
Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op.18, No. 4
Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op.18, No. 5
Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op.18, No. 6
Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1
Quartet No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2
Quartet …

Exceptional singer Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) owes his early successes to the 'songs for voice and piano? genre, whose raison d'être he defines in his journal as follows: 'To highlight a poem, word for word but without uniformity - to emphasize its meaning without distorting it - to shine light upon one idea, obscure another and present it all in vocal, sung form - to produce a sharp, precise sensa…

As indestructible as Rachmaninoff's c-sharp-minor Prélude (HN 1211) may be, it is not his only Prélude to have begun a 'solo career? of its own: with its rousing rhythms and rhapsodic middle section, the famous piece in g minor certainly takes its place among them. Pianists who aren't yet ready to tackle the complete cycle of 24 Préludes (available as HN 1200) can still enjoy Rachmaninoff 'at his …

Commandé pour les Concerts de chambre BBC Proms en 2000, ' Vaporize ' est vivant avec énergie rythmique et sharp syncopations. Dédiée à John McCabe après que Duddell a été impressionné par la chorale de l'ouverture de McCabe ' Cloudcatcher Fells ', le travail de huit minutes doit sa fraîcheur et la vitalité de clarté du Duddell d'une partie de l'écriture, épargnant la pédale et la préférence pour …

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Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. This hymn was commissioned by “Antwerpen 93”. And this city, on the banks of the river Schelde has been nominated “Cultural Capital of Europe” for 1993. The work-group “animatie” took the initiative and commissioned a hymn, which -as the finale to a grand open-air event on 27th March- was premièred by hundreds of musicians from all over Europe. Philippe Langlet (France) was …

Book 1. Par HARWOOD BASIL. Sonata No. 1, Op. 5 Two Preludes, Op. 52 Two Meditations, Op. 57 A Quiet Voluntary, Op. 70 Basil Harwood's organ music takes a chronological journey through the composer's creative years. This journey begins with the Organ Sonata No. 1 in C sharp minor, op. 5 and ends with Quiet Voluntary for Evensong, op. 70, composed in 1946 when the composer was eighty-seven. In the i…

Par MITCHELL HAROLD. Mitchell on Trumpet is revered by educators around the globe and stands unequalled by any other published approach for trumpet. This proven curriculum will guide any ambitious student on a path towards performance excellence. It takes you from the beginning to the extreme limits of the horn through a gradual progression of 82 balanced lessons developing your range from low F-s…

Comme le troisième après la deuxième La Seconde Guerre mondiale chaîne résultante est également Trio Laks 'pour hautbois, clarinette et basson de 1965 à la vie du compositeur, non publié. Le virtuose, pièce ludique est à son tour dans la tradition de néoclassicisme français, avec son accent sur ??la clarté formelle, la transparence de la texture et Melodizität élégante. La précision razor-sharp av…

8 New Blues Tunes For Classical And Fingerstyle Guitar. Par BEAUVAIS WILLIAM. Les blues présentent une opportunité d'être profondément expressif. Chaque note peut être coloré avec les coudes de poix, diapositives, vibrato et toutes sortes d'attaques. Le style rend facile à posséder la musique, à fermer les yeux et jouer comme si vous l'avez écrit. Ces pièces sont conçues pour être amusante et dive…

Par SCHWEITZER BENJAMIN. The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this technique on the rather unusual instrumentation of two double-reed woodwinds and piano. On the one hand, a clear, well articulated playing is characteristic for these instruments,…

Wiener Urtext Edition Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, op. 27/2 "Moonlight Sonata": for piano, edited by Peter Hauschild and Jochen Reutter, ISBN 9783850557955, ISMN 9790500574163, UT 50433, 23 x 30 cm, 24 pages / Wiener Urtext Edition