En 2021, Indochine fête ses quarante ans d'existence. Un record de longévité pour un groupe français légendaire ! Bête de scène, Indochine est le premier groupe de rock français à remplir Bercy, puis le Stade de France à plusieurs reprises. Faiseur de tubes, Indochine a vendu 13 millions de disques, dont les plus connus sont L'Aventurier, Canary Bay, J'ai demandé à la lune… Avec treize albums stud…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens’ production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia’s Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de Rome that was established in 1803 then cancelled following the events of May 1968. It had been for more than a century and a half, the most co…

Par SIEGEL RICHARD. Richard Siegel won prizes for the Harpsichord and Chamber Music at the Paris Conservatoire before going on the win first prize in the 1977 International Harpsichord Competition. He has since recorded over 30 CDs and his passion for the instrument has been further apparent in his production of Apprendre à Toucher le Clavecin. As stated in the preface, the study of the Harpsichor…

Freie Orgelwerke - BuxWV 136-153, 158. Par BUXTEHUDE DIETERICH. This edition is the result of Harald Vogel?s many years of practice as an organist and musicologist. The music text is based on a reevaluation of 17 th - and 18 th -century manuscripts containing the free organ and keyboard works by Buxtehude. They originated during a transitional phase between the traditional letter tablature and the…

Dominick DiOrio has chosen the vivid and striking poetry of Amy Lowell for this powerful work. Lowell's poetry explores the awakening of one's passions by the arrival of a before-absent lover. DiOrio paints this internal exultation with glissandi in the voices, richly-harmonized chords and high chromatic ululations of a solo soprano. This was the first prize winner of the Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble…

Par ZIMMERMANN HEINZ WERNER. Das Te Deum Deutsch 'Herr Gott, Dich loben wir' for 12-part mixed Chorus a cappella (SSMezMezAATTBarBarBB). The Te Deum in the translation of Martin Luther 1529. Heinz Werner Zimmermann (born 11 August 1930 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German composer. Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954…

Eric Clapton Unplugged remains a high water mark in MTV's Unplugged series. It was a remarkably diverse outing exploring the full range of Clapton's artistry in acoustic form. Included in the program were authentic rural blues, dramatic rock ballads, Dixieland, bossa nova, earthy folk songs, and more - all delivered with Clapton's uncategorizable but immediately recognisable guitar style. This spe…

Par WENNAKOSKI LOTTA. Lotta Wennäkoski composed her harp concerto Sigla in 2022. In Segla (2022) for solo harp the concerto?s material is reorganized and developed further. The title means ?to sail? in Swedish. At the times, the music gently sways on the waves ? one might hear some spindrifts as well. Duration: 4'. This product is a B4 sized folder with loose pages. Segla was written for the Royal…

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rap…

Par PINTSCHER MATTHIAS. Composed in 2004/2005; performance material available for hire. Matthias Pintscher was born in Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in 1971 and studied composition with Giselher Klebe and Manfred Trojahn. Formative influences were his encounters with Hans Werner Henze, who invited him to Montepulciano in 1991 and 1992, and with Helmut Lachenmann, Pierre Boulez and Peter…