Kolme kappaletta pienille viulisteille. Par AHO KALEVI. Kalevi Aho's Three pieces for young violin players (2023) celebrates the full potential of open strings, first position, glissandos that end up on natural harmonics. The young violin player gets the tell three stories: I Storming (Myrsky) II Meowing (Kissa naukuu) III Rain making (Sadetanssi) Premiere by the pupils of Pirkanmaa Music In…

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. 2013 marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth and major celebrations are planned across the world, making this the widest ever global celebration of a British composer. The previously unpublished Two Pieces were written in late 1929, after Britten composed the Rhapsody For String Quartet (March 1929). The new publication will be edited by David Matt hews, who spent thr…

Par GRIFFIN MICHAEL. Bumblebee! Rounds and Warm-ups for Choirs is more than just a wonderful collection of 130 choir exercises including 50 rounds. Michael Griffin, who has taught and consulted throughout the world, shares timeless wisdom to help you get your choir into shape. 'Will prove useful for almost everyone” -Rhinegold Music Teacher Magazine. 'This is a great resource to add to one's libra…

Rhapsody in F Sharp for Piano and Orchestra was commissioned by the BBC Proms and first performed in the Royal Albert Hall on August 19th, 1943. Written with the wartime audience in mind, it is unashamedly popular in style, with its flashy virtuosity making it immediately accessible and entertaining. There is argument among scholars as to whether it should be referred to in the Major or Minor key,…

INSTRUMENTATION : MIXED CHOIR AND SMALL ORCHESTRA VERSION : VOCAL/PIANO SCORE DESCRIPTION : KARL JENKINS'S UPLIFTING AND CELEBRATORY TE DEUM (TEXT IN LATIN), PREMIERED IN NOV 28, IS NOW AVAILABLE ON SALE AS A VOCAL SCORE. THE WORK IS MODERATE LENGTH (15 MINS) AND SCORED FOR STRINGS, TRUMPETS, PERCUSSION AND ORGAN, MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE TO CHOIRS OF ALL SIZES. JENKINS IS THE PATRON OF THE LIVERPOOL…

This one-movement piece with a duration of 11 minutes stems from the estate of Giselher Klebe who died in 2009. The work is delightful to play, rich in gesture, easy on the ear and ideal for private music making. Moreover it constitutes a valuable addition to the repertoire for violin, clarinet and piano, an appealing combination of instruments, for which composers such as Ives, Bartók, A. Berg un…

Per Clarinetto, Violoncello E Pianoforte. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down…

12 Selections from Sondheim Musicals. Par SONDHEIM STEPHEN. This collection features intermediate-level arrangements for trumpet in B-flat and piano accompaniment in a range flattering to the trumpet. The music has been edited with added dynamics, articulations and phrasing, making it appropriate for lessons or performances. The accompaniments have been recorded on an acoustic grand piano. Include…

2-stimmige Kanons. Par SCHMITZ MANFRED. Canons are fun and at the same time also help develop the ability to listen and play along, thus making them an important enhancement to musical training. With 109 pop style melodies in two volumes Manfred Schmitz work provides comprehensive and diversified material which can be flexibly implemented in teaching single pupils, for group lessons and for ensemb…

Par CHARTREUX ANNICK / GUERIN-DECOUTURELLE VALERIE. 43 original pieces to begin the piano Imagine, play, listen to yourself... These 43 original pieces, written in a very flexible progression, will help you to approach the notions of musical phrases, breaths, nuances, modes of play. A rigorous pulsation will set in thanks to the percussion games. The lateralization is particularly worked. Listenin…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost originally composed each and every note of ‘Slavia’ (as in case in ‘Puszta’, ‘Rikudim’ and ‘A Highland Rhapsody’). Consequently, ‘Slavia’ does not contain any arrangement of existing tunes, but is an original composition ‘in the style of…’. The introduction has an ABA structure and exposes a broad melodic line. Following a short cadenza, there is a second m…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…

Joan Boytim has selected some of the easisest songs in English from The First Book of Solos series and transposed them for a different voice type for many of the selections in Introduction to Art Song, making the songs available to more students. Additionally, other suitable songs, not found in other Boytim collections, have been included. Each voice type has a unique song list. These books may be…

Après plus de 350 000 albums vendus, le DVD du spectacle arrive enfin ! Filmé dans un lieu magique (les Arènes de Nîmes le 18 août dernier), Roberto Alagna nous offre un spectacle total mis en lumière et chorégraphié. Gérard Pullicino à la réalisation et Yvan Cassar à la direction musicale entourent notre Sicilien préféré pour une étonnante performance musicale unissant naturellement musique popul…

In 2012, I composed a set of variations (originally for orchestra and subsequently arranged for two pianos in 2013 ) based on one of Wagner's most inspired and haunting melodies, the 'alte Hirtenweise' [old shepherd's song], an extended cor anglais solo at the start of Act III of Tristan and Isolde. This seemingly simple, yet deceptively complex melody was my starting point for an expansive fantas…