Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. The opera – “a kind of Alice in Wonderland, but for adults”, says Crimp – lasts just over an hour and is cast in seven scenes. It is scored for five voices (S-S-MS-CT-Bar) and…

Par BERGEROT FRANCK. Des premiers work songs au métissage multiethniques, des gospels aux expériences électroniques, du blues aux rapprochements avec le hip-hop, le Jazz dans tous ses états aborde, en suivant la chronologie, les grandes phases de l'histoire du jazz : spirituals, gospel, ragtime, jazz hot, swing, bop, cool, hard bop, free, fusion, etc. Il révêle combien l'évolution du jazz a été co…

'What's important in music that's based on a poem - on the emotion inspired by a poem - is the music and power of emotion it harbours within itself?. These words, written in 1949 by poet Pierre Reverdy, would make a deep impression on composer Betsy Jolas. She'd just sent the writer her Six mélodies for mezzo-soprano and piano composed on poems from his masterwork Plupart du temps. The songs were …

This first publication of the Sonata in D major is based on Barenreiters series Camille Saint-Saens OEuvres instrumentales completes. Although we know from correspondence that two complete autographs existed, only an incomplete autograph source containing the 1st movement and part of the 2nd movement, which breaks off, have come down to us. In his final work for violoncello Saint-Saens juxtaposes …

Arr. Wil Van Der Beek. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky …

Arr. Wil Van Der Beek. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky …

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Requiem K. 626 The Requiem, completed by Franz Xaver Sussmayr, in its traditional form. Mozart's final work, the Requiem K. 626, was left incomplete and it is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music, sorrow at the great composer's early death, truth and legend, fragments and attempts to complete the work. The completion of the fragmentary…

Rockschool Acoustic Grade 7 s?adresse aux élèves ayant développé un contrôle technique avancé ainsi qu?une maîtrise compétente des techniques stylistiques. En Grade 7, cela se manifeste par une conviction stylistique mature, l'exécution d'une complexité rythmique, un travail créatif et stylistique en solo et d'improvisation ainsi qu'un sens confirmé de la communication et de la performance. Le pr…

'Realms of Endless Day' is a fantasy setting of the hymn tune melody, 'Picardy.' This melody, thought to have been named for the region in France where it is believed the melody originated, is also the melody for the hymns 'Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence' and 'Christians, Let Us Love One Another,' as well as the 'Hymn of Saint James.' This enduring and tuneful melody is given three contrasting …

Methode Progressive. Par BIME-APPARAILLY. An educationalist of renown, Viola player Valerie Bime-Apparailly (born in 1962 in Bordeaux) is the author of numerous beginner methods for string instruments that have met with unflagging success. The second volume of the series Je Debute L'Alto once again takes up the challenge of the first collection: to combine precision with the pleasure of playing. T…

Tastentiger and Co. wurde für den Gruppenunterricht entwickelt. Die Klavierschule wird den Besonderheiten dieser Unterrichtsform durch binnendifferenzierte Angebote gerecht und führt Kinder mit unterschiedlichen instrumentalen Fertigkeiten ?spielend' zusammen. Vielseitige Kombinationen von Liedern und Begleitmodellen, Stücke für zwei, vier und mehr Hände sowie Workshops zu Improvisation und Kompos…