Eight of the world's best-loved duets for women are brought together for the first time in one publication. Representing a wide range of styles and composers, these selections from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods are presented with historical information, IPA pronunciation guides, and suggestions for performance. Edited and arranged by Patrick M. Liebergen, this truly valuable collect…

Par YAGLING VICTORIA. Victoria Yagling's Suite for Cello and String Orchestra (1967) is one of her first successes as a composer. The movement layout of the Suite is fast-slow-fast-slow. The first movement, Toccata, is a perpetual motion with a brisk tempo of 100 per dotted half. The Aria is reminiscent of Rachmaninov's Vocalise melody and Prokofiev's tonal language. This movement is the centerpie…

'Zais' a été le premier opéra de Rameau qui a été entièrement consacrée à 'la féerie,' le monde enchanté du mythe du Moyen-Orient avec les esprits et les créatures fantastiques. Il a d'abord été réalisée le 29 Février 1748 à l'Opéra de Paris et a été beaucoup félicité pour sa puissance, élégance expressive et la variété de sa musique ainsi que pour le charme du ballet de l'ITS. Althoug le livre de…

Water Dances is a work scored for two pianos from 2011. Much of the work is an arrangement of the music written for the Michael Nyman Band for Peter Greenaway's 1984 film Making a Splash. The two-piano version was recorded by theLabèque sisters for their CD Minimalist Dream House on the KML/Deutsche Grammophon label. / Partitions classique / Piano - instruments à clavier / Piano / CHESTER MUSIC

8 Twentieth-Century Pieces. Having touched on the romantic era in 'To a Wild Rose' and the classical era in 'An die Musik', Kember moves forward to the twentieth-century with this thoughtfully chosen collection for string quartet. The Schott String Quartet Series With the first books in the series focusing on baroque, classical and romantic styles, The Schott String Quartet Series has expanded to…

Over the weekend of 7th July 2001, composers from many countries came together at La Leprara, in Marino near Rome in celebration of Hans Werner Henze's 75th Birthday.Eleven new works were performed, forming the content of this collection of works for one or two pianos.Suitable for advanced pianists. / 2 Pianos

Par FABER PHILLIP. Mens foråret kryber frem (2020) is a choral work by Phillip Faber, with text by Caspar Eric. The work was written for the Danish National Vocal Ensemble./ Répertoire / Chœur Mixte SSAATTBB

Duos pour violoncelle Starter contient quelques arrangements d'airs traditionnels, mais surtout de nouvelles compositions, inspirées par la tradition classique - avec quelques éléments occasionnels contemporain. Dès le début, ces duos peut être joué aux côtés de toute méthode de violoncelle. Les parties supérieure et inférieure sont égales en termes de difficulté et de l'expression musicale. / 2 V…

Par STRANZ ULRICH. For many years the manuscript of 'Déjà vu' slumbered in the music library of oboist Hansjörg Schellenberger (former solo oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic) before it was rediscovered last year. Ulrich Stranz composed this solo work for Oboe d'amore, the alto instrument in the oboe family, at the end of his student years in 1974 as the nucleus of his later identically named conce…

for violin, viola and cello. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. This substantial mature work shows the superb mastery of one of Germany’s foremost contemporary composers. Henze, renowned for his lush orchestral textures and sensuous sonorities, aims for similar musical complexity – highly demanding of players and audience alike – even when writing for just three instruments./ Répertoire / Violon, Alto et Viol…

Par BULLA STEPHEN. What can be more charming than a comely Irish folk melody? This is music that allows the band to play in the rubato style, with much room for expression. Found in an old British publication and simply called “Irish Air, ” this endearing arrangement is a rhapsodic treatment that takes fragments of the melody and develops them into a large symphonic work. The freedom of tempi allo…