Par PART ARVO. This work was composed originally in 1992 for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson-Trio on commission by the Helsinki Festival, where it was premiered. The piece is in memory of Oleg Kagan, who was a friend of Arvo Pärt's and one of Russia's leading violinists. Kagan had a special affinity with the music of Mozart and the composer memorialises the violinist by transcribing one of the mos…

Par MAHLER GUSTAV. The Song of the Earth , composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler’s best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the very end, Mahler continued to refine the extremely differentiated instrumentation, as is evident in numerous retouchings in the autograph score and engraver’s model. It is therefore …

Par ESENVALDS ERIKS. Stars is one of the most popular of all contemporary choral works by Latvian composer Eriks E?envalds. The music begins with water-tuned glasses playing a sequence of chord clusters, which are heard throughout the whole piece. It creates an evocative effect, which is both imaginative and inventive prodcing an ethereal shimmering beauty. Phillip Littlemore's expert arrangement …

A Practical Sight-Singing Course. Par EILERS JOYCE / EMILY CROCKER. Don't read notes, read patterns of sound! This unique sight reading course for treble voices in elementary and early middle school does just that! PATTERNS OF SOUND uses excellent voice leading, careful sequencing and musicallyinteresting exercises that can be combined to strengthen part singing, pitch relationships and to develop…

Bohuslav Martinu wrote his First Violin Concerto in Paris in 1932-33, this work having been commissioned by the violin virtuoso Samuel Dushkin. However, it was never performed during the composer's lifetime and was even considered lost after his death. It was not until 1961 that musicologist and collector Hans Moldenhauer bought it from Boaz Piller, contrabassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestr…

Cantata for the Sundays after Trinity. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. 72 Solo Cantatas for Voice, Melodic Instrument and Basso continuo. Cantatas For The Sundays After Trinity - Medium Voice. When Telemann issued his first annual cycle of printed cantatas, Der Harmonische Gottesdienst (Hamburg, 1725-6), he was already one of the leading cantata composers of his time. Thanks to their brevity and their…

Par HAMPTON ANDY. Ideal supplementary material for the landmark Basics method series. Saxophone Basics Repertoire has both varied and carefully-chosen original repertoire as well as arrangements of well-known favourites such as the themes from James Bond, The Pink Panther, The Great Escape and Harry Potter. Devised for the Grade 1+ to Grade 4 level, each stage focuses on a different technique w…

Par ESENVALDS ERIKS. O Salutaris Hostia is one of Eriks E?envalds? most popular pieces. Originally written for female voices, the composer later created a version for full choir on which this arrangement is based. It has a gentle meditation with the two soloists drifting across the soft band accompaniment, alternately echoing and imitating each other or joining together in thirds. The effect is qu…

The Guest Spot: Big Film Hits song book allows you to step out of your living room and into the spotlight by playing along with ten top-line arrangements of the most popular contemporary film hits. With the unique download card, you'll also be able to listen to specially recorded versions of the tunes, before playing along to them yourself.Some of the best of contemporary cinema theme tunes are in…

for solo piano. Par RUO HUANG. Huang Ruo has been lauded by the New Yorker as 'one of the worlds leading young composers' and by the New York Times for having “a distinctive style. ” His vibrant and inventive musical voice draws equal inspiration from Chinese ancient and folkmusic, Western avant-garde, experimental, noise, natural and processed sound, rock, and jazz to create a seamless, organic i…

Par KOSHKIN NIKITA. Born in 1956 in Moscow, guitarist Nikita Koshkin is one of Russia's leading composers, teachers and concert artists. This collection includes works from throughout his 30-year career as a composer including his three-movement Hispanic Suite, one of his earliest compositions. The other compositions included in this volume are: Pan, Tristan Playing the Lute, Romance, and a five-m…

A book of 20 solo piano pieces to supplement Lesson Book 1 of this definitive beginner method by leading piano educator H-G Heumann. The choice of repertoire includes pieces from the classical period to the present day, charming arrangements of folk tunes, children's songs, and jazz and pop melodies. Perfect for first concerts! Visit www.piano-junior.com to find out more.What is Piano Junior?Piano…

Best Of Idina Menzel: PVG Artist Songbook contains ten of the best-known songs as performed by the acclaimed Oscar and Tony Award-winning songstress Idina Menzel, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar.Idina Menzel is an American actress and singer-songwriter. In 2004, Menzel won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her role as Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked. She is also kn…

The Piano Adventures series is now the teaching method of choice at many leading universities and music studios around the world. This 'all-in-two' editionfor students at level 3 includes a Technique and Performance Book and this Lesson and Theory Book. / Piano

New! 9 demo/play-a-long tracks. Essential companion : volume 24. The culmination of Jamey?s 25 years as one of the world?s leading jazz exponents. Volume 1 has unlocked the mysteries of jazz improvisation for a whole generation of musicians who previously had nowhere to turn for competent rhythm sections and accurate instruction. Now, Volume 1 has all new, updated information presented in a new ma…