Pour Quintette de Vents. Par TOMASI HENRI. French composer and conductor, Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) published Five Secular and Sacred Dances for Wind Quintet in 1963. As with his other wind compositions, Five Secular and Sacred Dances was well-received by audiences. Tomasi was born in Marseille, but his Father and Mother were originally from La Casinca in Corsica. Despite being pressured into music…

Par DOBSON SIMON. Firefly was composed by award-winning composer Simon Dobson (b.1981) to provide an entertaining uptempo concert work for community and youth bands. Composed in funk-rock style, and is based on the groove beat with which it opens. Dobson says, 'Firefly was written as a break from my more serious music and as a 'hat tip' to the various types of beat orientated music I listen to.” I…

Farewell to philosophy. Par BRYARS GAVIN. I have a great fondness for the lower string instruments: I am a bass player, my mother is a cellist, as are both my daughters; my own ensemble includes two violas, a cello and a bass, and for the instrumentation of my opera Medea I omit the entire violin section from the orchestra. As I have written a number of works for solo instrument or voice with or…

Par MORSCHECK PETER. Classics Forever is a collection of famous classical works that are arranged for acoustic guitar. You know many of these beautiful melodies from radio and TV advertisements. In transcribing these pieces special attention has been given to preserving the 'original” composition as much as possible. In spite of this, the pieces have been kept at a level between easy and medium in…

Vol. 2: Sonate concertate in stil moderno for one, two, three, four-parts and Continuo (Venezia, 1629)/ Recueil / Divers

Vol. 2: Sonate concertate in stil moderno for one, two, three, four-parts and Continuo (Venezia, 1629)/ Recueil / Divers

Par ZHANG ZHAO. 'Chinese Dream' was completed in 2014 and won the gold medal at the CCTV Piano Grand Final Competition in the same year. The work was inspired by the 'Yi Zhuan? written by Confucius for the 'I Ching'. The I Ching is the source of Chinese culture. To inherit the essence of Chinese culture, Confucius wrote a set of ten commentaries with his descendants, also known as the 'Ten Wings',…

Trombone and Piano. Par FUCHS KENNETH. Kenneth Fuch's Bass Trombone Concerto places the soloist in the role of a musical protagonist, leading the players of the ensemble in a vibrant affirmation of lyrical melody, instrumental color, and orchestral texture. The workemerges from a serene atmosphere with the bass trombonist weaving fragments of melody from which the entire concerto evolves. The work…

Par JAFFE ANDY. Andy Jaffe?s Jazz Harmony, one of the most definitive texts on the subject, goes into its third edition in 2009. Over the years the book has proven equally useful for students of all backgrounds, whether self-taught, classically trained, or as a useful reference for working professionals. Also appropriate for use as a classroom text./ Recueil / Instruments Mélodiques

Pièce pour guitare en trois mouvements. La plus belle composition pour guitare solo.

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. J. S. Bach ’s Four Orchestral Suites belong to that select group of works one could truly call classical hits! They stem from Bach ’s extremely productive time in Cöthen which ended in 1721. Unfortunately the only sources that have come down to us are copyist parts from Leipzig. These originally formed the basis for the critical complete edition volume which was publishe…

J.S. Bach's four Orchestral Suites belong to that select group of works one could truly call classical hits! They stem from Bach's extremely productive time in Cöthen which ended in 1721.Unfortunately the only sources that have come down to us are copyist parts from Leipzig . These originally formed the basis for the critical complete edition volume which was published in 1967 as part of the ' New…

Par BALAZS ARPAD. Árpád Balázs (*1937) composed the first version of Rhapsody for Hungarian cimbalom and concert band in 2001; in 2021, on the encouragement by a Japanese marimba player he arranged the solo part for marimba, and therefore the opportunities for the work to be played have significantly widened. The Rhapsody follows the one-movement structure created by Franz Liszt. The beginning sol…