Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. ‘Spirit of Independence’ was commissioned by the Koninklijke Fanfare ‘Onafhankelijkheid’ (‘Independence’) from Wiekevorst (Belgium) on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The piece depicts an enthusiastic amateur music club, practicing and making music together in an attentive and companionable atmosphere. The conductor has the good habit of trying to improve the sound of …

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. ‘Spirit of Independence’ was commissioned by the Koninklijke Fanfare ‘Onafhankelijkheid’ (‘Independence’) from Wiekevorst (Belgium) on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The piece depicts an enthusiastic amateur music club, practicing and making music together in an attentive and companionable atmosphere. The conductor has the good habit of trying to improve the sound of …

Le livre de cymbale est le premier ouvrage du genre. Il détaille les 5000 ans d'histoire et le développement de ces fascinants instruments. Basé sur les visites à toutes les entreprises de fabrication de cymbale majeurs et des entrevues avec des tambours de chef de file du monde, journaliste et le batteur Hugo Pinksterboer a créé un livre bien documenté et lisible, mettant en vedette plus de 200 p…

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Par MAW NICHOLAS. Set to by Robert Browning's poem Two In The Campagna, and presented to his his daughter Natasha and her husband Paul on their wedding anniversary. Maw's harmonic eloquence and rhythmic fervour crystallize the initial agitation to become a flowing vocal line coloured by the writing for flute, viola and harp, the words borne aloft like a continuation of the musical idea and resolve…

Mauro Giuliani is considered today to have been the most important guitarist-composer of the early nineteenth century. Not only was Giuliani the foremost player of his day: his fame reached far beyond the realm of guitar enthusiasts, earning him a place among the musical élite as a complete, versatile musician. Even so, by the end of the nineteenth century he was largely forgotten and his music ma…

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Par MANTOVANI BRUNO / BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. ...et de Boulez à Bach Trois nouvelles instrumentations réinventent donc l'Art de la fugue dont on a longtemps pensé qu'il avait été conçu dans une totale abstraction et se prêtait tout autant aux claviers du clavecin ou de l'orgue qu'à divers ensembles. Trois instrumentations, chacune renvoyant à une formation boulezienne différente : pour George Benja…

Tom Kolb est un vétéran de plus de 4 000 concerts. Avec enseignement au world Institute de musiciens célèbres (G.I.T.), il jongle son horaire chargé avec enregistrement des sessions et des représentations du monde entier. En plus d'être l'auteur d'un livre et d'articles de magazine, Tom est l'artiste vedette sur huit vidéos pédagogiques Star Licks et a été le directeur musical de plus de cinquante…

Gott Zur Ehre is a collection of hymns and chorales compiled by Jan de Haan. Each pieces are arranged in a four part flexible instrumentation, so enabling them to be used by bands with a small number of players. Volume 2 contains many famous German and international Christmas carols. Although not all pieces may be recognised instantly, they will fit perfectly in any church service or concert. They…

Par PARRY BEN / L'ESTRANGE A.. Music For Special Occasions brings together 10 secular choral works in on volume, carefully selected to cater for a wide variety of performance contexts - whether joyful, reflective, or commemorative. Practically and flexibly arranged for Soprano and Baritone or Low Alto, this unique collection of best-loved classics and new pieces is a must-have resource for all sch…

Ed. critica P. Everett - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di A. Frigé. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. This volume presents the vocal score of Vivaldi's Stabat Mater RV 621 for alto, strings and continuo, based on the critical edition by Paul Everett. Composed for the church of Santa Maria della Pace in Brescia, it was performed, for the first time, on 8 March 1712, for the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary c…

Compiled and edited by Soós András. Par . This collection, similarly to the publication entitled 111 bicinia from the 15th century (EMB 14478), contains longer and shorter two-part excerpts from polyphonic ecclesiastical choral works, for pedagogical and liturgical use. As teaching material, on the one hand it introduces and notes in brief textual definitions the characteristics of each given exce…

3 Chorale Settings - Fantasia. Par STEFFENS JOHANN. Johann Steffens was municipal organist at St Johannis church in Lüneburg and one of the founding fathers of the North German Organ school. This volume contains three chorale arrangements (including a cycle based on “Veni redemptor” / Nun komm der Heiden Heiland) and a “Fantasia”, one of the few free compositions for organ of that period to show e…