Brahms had already announced his ?retirement? from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld?s much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. Brahms and Mühlfeld premiered the works and played…

Par ADES THOMAS. This suite of exquisite portrait pieces for violin, clarinet, cello and piano was composed in 2005 and distils the essence of six numbers from Adès's astonishing opera The Tempest into purely instrumental form./ Répertoire / Clarinette, Piano, Violon et Violoncelle

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band, including: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galan…

Par YAGISAWA SATOSHI. Écrite dans un style cérémonial, cette ?uvre faisait partie d?un medley de marches pour les participants au Championnat 2019 des établissements d?études supérieures, qui s?est déroulé dans la préfecture de Kagoshima, au Japon. Elle a été créée par l?harmonie symphonique de Kagoshima Prefectural Shoyo High School sous la direction de sa directrice musicale, Junya Tateishi. Fus…

Sound Innovations: Ensemble Development for Advanced Concert Band builds upon the concepts in Ensemble Development for Intermediate Concert Band with 399 new exercises that are more technically and musically challenging, including over 70 chorales written by some of today's most renowned composers for concert band, including: Roland Barrett, Chris Bernotas, Andrew Boysen, Ralph Ford, Rossano Galan…

Concert March. Par SPARKE PHILIP. Salutation est une commande du chef d'orchestre et animateur radio japonais Yutaka Nishida, un ami du compositeur Philip Sparke. L’oeuvre suit la forme assez conventionnelle de la marche : une courte fanfare introduit le thème principal, joué par les clarinettes et les saxophones. Un bref pont, principalement interprété par les cuivres, annonce un changement de to…

Par EICHBERG NILS SOREN. „Oryx and Crake“ tells the story of the only human survivor on Earth. In flash-backs, revealing only bit by bit, we must ourselves put together the pieces of the drama that lead to the apocalypse. The opera unfolds within 24 hours, beginning at dawn and finishing the next morning. Atwood’s love-triangle offers plenty of classic music drama, her dystopia is painted in comp…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Parallèlement à ses activités de directeur d’ensembles à vent et d’enseignant, Yutaka Nishida présente une émission hebdomadaire consacrée exclusivement à la musique pour Orchestre d’Harmonie et Brass Band sur une chaîne de la Radio nationale japonaise. The Bandwagon est le titre de son émission. Aussi, lorsque la station de radio demande à Philip Sparke de composer une marche p…

Par GAUBERT. Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941) was a distinguished performer on the Flute. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that his compositions for the instrument are at the forefront of the Flute's repertoire, his Deux Esquisses being no exception. After a prominent career as a flautist with the Paris Opera, Gaubert was appointed as professor of Flute at the Paris Conservatoire as well as princip…

From String Quartet Opus 11. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Universal Edition has done violinists an enormous service by republishing violin virtuoso and teacher Leopold Auer’s arrangements of great works for violin and piano, available for the first time in decades. With beautiful new covers, these editions are a welcome addition to the repertoire./ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Par EICHBERG NILS SOREN. „Oryx and Crake“ tells the story of the only human survivor on Earth. In flash-backs, revealing only bit by bit, we must ourselves put together the pieces of the drama that lead to the apocalypse. The opera unfolds within 24 hours, beginning at dawn and finishing the next morning. Atwood’s love-triangle offers plenty of classic music drama, her dystopia is painted in comp…

Par ZELENSKI WLADYSLAW. The Piano Sonata in G minor, op. 5, Wladyslaw Zelenski?s first important composition, was written in Kraków under the guidance of Franciszek Mirecki ? a conservative composer and teacher who was a pupil of Johann Nepomuk Hummel. It was probably Mirecki who brought about the publication of his 22-year-old pupil?s work by the esteemed Milan firm of Ricordi in 1859. That publi…

Mal Klassisch est l'album de piano par Heinz Erhardt, savamment interprété par le pianiste Chie Ishii.Les compositions pour piano de Heinz Erhardt sont ses poèmes sans musique words.His a de l'humour profond encore est équilibré et amusant en même temps. Les présentes compositions sont une découverte sensationnelle et démontrent un côté jusque-là inconnue du talent artistique de Heinz Erhardt. / P…

Par DAVIS OLIVER. 'For many years the violinist Kerenza Peacock and I have been discussing the concept of a piece about trees. One day I received in the post from her a book by Annie Davidson entitled, ‘How to be More Tree’. This brilliant book became the inspiration for the Arboretum Suite. The first tree I decided to write about was Aspen. I read that Aspen trees work together sharing water and …

Sur le CD vous écouter : Takako Nishizaki, violon slovaque Philharmonic Orchestra Stephen Gunzenhauser, chef d'orchestre / Violon Et Orchestre