Par O'REGAN TARIK. Tarik O’Regan’s Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and String Orchestra ‘Machine’ was commissioned by the Presteigne Festival in Wales where it was first performed by saxophonist Amy Dickson and the Presteigne Festival Orchestra conducted by George Vass in 2022. The piece is around 22 minutes in duration and comprises three movements which are linked by interludes for chamber forces…

The 'organ plus brass? series presents original works and arrangements for organ and brass choir specially tailored to meet the needs of amateur ensembles and non-professional organists. The pieces may be played by any constellation of brass ensemble.Volume IV contains arrangements of church music by Charles Villiers Stanford, both chorale-based and freely composed. The original works for choir an…

The 'organ plus brass? series presents original works and arrangements for organ and brass choir specially tailored to meet the needs of amateur ensembles and non-professional organists. The pieces may be played by any constellation of brass ensemble.Volume IV contains arrangements of church music by Charles Villiers Stanford, both chorale-based and freely composed. The original works for choir an…

The 'organ plus brass? series presents original works and arrangements for organ and brass choir specially tailored to meet the needs of amateur ensembles and non-professional organists. The pieces may be played by any constellation of brass ensemble.Volume IV contains arrangements of church music by Charles Villiers Stanford, both chorale-based and freely composed. The original works for choir an…

It is most interesting to know that nowadays the recorder has more admirers than ever before. Especially the treble recorder is most suited to be played in the home circle. There exists a lot of music for this particular instrument already, mainly of the period from Bach to Mozart. The works of the great masters during the above mentioned period, such as Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mattheson, etc., re…

Par RESPIGHI OTTORINO / STORY MICHAEL (Arr.). Completed in 1924 Respighi's masterwork consists of four contrasting movements. The final movement, 'The Pines of the Appian Way,' depicts the advancement of the Roman Legion as it gradually marches towards the listener. It is one of the most glorious and stunning orchestral crescendos in all of classical music. Perfectly arranged for young band by Mic…

Moment Exotique. Par HOROWITZ VLADIMIR. Danse Excentrique is an original composition by the exceptional pianist Vladimir Horowitz, which is now being published for the first time. The work presents itself in the style of the early 1920s as an exuberant and light ragtime. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Piano

Par SAMUEL RHIAN. Rhian Samuel's fresh and stimulating vocal and instrumental works have earned her an enviable reputation as a composer willing to tackle challenging subjects and a variety of musical forms. The three contrasting pieces of Blythswood were written at Glaick in Scotland, on the mainland across from Skye, and each one evokes in terms of seascape or memory the idea of the 'distant vie…

Par . Taking singers through the early steps of learning notation and vocal knowledge, this book is the ideal introduction to learning singing for beginners. This volume works equally well for classical and pop singers. Through a series of engaging pieces and exercises, each element is progressively introduced, with handy tips and ?Did you know'? boxes to strengthen ideas. Concepts of posture and …

for String Orchestra Score and Parts. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. In the key of G Major, the work begins with a Moderato where dotted rhythms are abundant. A brief Adagio intervenes and we continue with a slightly fugal, crisply rhythmic Allegro, with 16th note passage work for the upper strings. After another brief Adagio, Handel finishes with a lyric Minuet. All sections are active throughout. …

Masterpiece of sacred music structured around the 5 divisions of the Ordinary of the Catholic Mass. Too monumental for ordinary liturgical purposes but a work that stands with Bach's Mass in B Minor as a sublime vision of faith ? both personal and universal.

The subtitle of this work dedicated to Christian Gerhaher, '23 sentences by Nikolaus Lenau', should be taken literally: some of the texts in Heinz Holliger's setting consist of only a few words. With relentless focus on essential elements, the texts are a distillation of the sensation which has been recorded in literary history as 'world-weariness'. Holliger reflects this concentrated emotion, pre…

Par MURAIL TRISTAN. Instead of considering the Piano as a percussion instrument (hammers hitting strings) Territoires De l'Oubli emphasises a different idiomatic characteristic of the instrument: a group of strings whose vibration is caused by sympathetic resonance or by direct action of the hammers. This is why the sustain pedal is depressed from the beginning until the very end of the piece: the…