Continuing in the tradition of previous publications in the Classics series: Classic Solos and Classic Duets, Mary Karen Clardy has selected 24 of the most significant standard études from Carl Joachim Andersen's op. 21, 30, 33, 37 and 41, Antoine Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier's Studies and Ernesto Köhler's Romantic Études op. 66. Performance notes, composers' biographies and a glossary of terms ar…

Par DOBSON SIMON. Firefly was composed by award-winning composer Simon Dobson (b.1981) to provide an entertaining up-tempo 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.” …

Vincenzo Bellini a passé très haut dans le ciel de la musique, à la vitesse d'un météore. Ses études terminées, il s'envole tout de suite vers une carrière fulgurante que rien ne semble pouvoir arrêter. Jour après jour, de triomphe en triomphe, il réforme l'opéra grâce au chant infini. Un pont entre la sublime élégance de Mozart, le romantisme de Donizetti, le drame de Verdi. Tout y évolue vers un…

Böhmische Hirtenmesse. Par RYBA JAN JAKUB. Freely rhymed Mass settings; available either in German or Czech. The Bohemian Christmas masses are a typical product from the end of the 18th century. Jan Jakub Ryba’s Pastoral Mass from 1796 is a prototype of this genre. It was set in Czechoslovakian and filled with a conscious simple, folk-like musicality, which every villager in Ryba’s time could unde…

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rap…

Böhmische Hirtenmesse. Par RYBA JAN JAKUB. Freely rhymed Mass settings; available either in German or Czech. The Bohemian Christmas masses are a typical product from the end of the 18th century. Jan Jakub Ryba’s Pastoral Mass from 1796 is a prototype of this genre. It was set in Czechoslovakian and filled with a conscious simple, folk-like musicality, which every villager in Ryba’s time could unde…

Par FAVIER THIERRY. Parallèlement aux productions parodiques et populaires, les cantiques et airs spirituels composés sur les plus beaux recueils de poésie lyrique chrétienne, comme les Cantiques spirituels de Racine, les Stances chrétiennes de l’abbé Testu ou les Psaumes de la pénitence d’Élisabeth-Sophie Chéron, explorent toutes les ressources de la musique baroque française et offrent un témoig…

Böhmische Hirtenmesse. Par RYBA JAN JAKUB. Freely rhymed Mass settings; available either in German or Czech. The Bohemian Christmas masses are a typical product from the end of the 18th century. Jan Jakub Ryba’s Pastoral Mass from 1796 is a prototype of this genre. It was set in Czechoslovakian and filled with a conscious simple, folk-like musicality, which every villager in Ryba’s time could unde…

Piano Works. Par LANGGAARD RUED. Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) is one of the most important Danish composers of the 20th century. Langgaard's piano compositions are evenly spread out over his 50 productive years from 1902 to 1951. Generally speaking his piano music represents the entire broad spectrum of expression and the stylistic diversity one finds in his music. Some of the most personal works he…

Par DOBSON SIMON. Little Hymn was composed by award-winning composer Simon Dobson (b.1981) to provide an alternative to the traditional hymn tune settings that provide one of the foundations of the brass band repertoire. This simple, haunting melody begins on a brass quartet without cornets. The full band joins for the second part, which rises to a richly textured climax before receding to a quiet…

Ce livre quant emploie les techniques standards de quant de langue, converti à la lecture de la musique. Les ingrédients clés sont mentale focus, focus oeil physique et doigts rapides. Le virtuose, ou le joueur élémentaire, peut bénéficier de pratiquer ces procédures. En 60 pages, on sera forage dans tous les patrons de doigt possible notamment moitié étapes, étapes ensemble, augmentées de seconde…

Par RIEDING OSKAR. Avec ce concertino en un mouvement, Oskar Rieding se tourne vers des élèves violonistes de niveau déjà bien avancé. À côté du jeu en troisième position, il est également exigé un certain degré de vélocité et de maîtrise d’archet. Le «style hongrois» dont il est fait mention rappelle que Rieding, d’origine prussienne, fit partie de l’Opéra de Budapest pendant plus de trente ans. …