Par DONIZETTI GAETANO. Through works such as Verdi’s Requiem or Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, we know that the great composers of Italian bel canto opera also wrote marvelous sacred music. Yet most of these pieces are rarely performed. This is also true of Gaetano Donizetti’s Messa di Requiem, which he composed as an expression of grief at the early death of Vincenzo Bellini in 1835. Neither performe…

For String Quartet Volume 1. Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. The idea for these arrangements came to me whilst listening to the Hagen Quartet's beautiful recording of the fugues that form part of Haydn's 'Sun Quartets', Op. 20. The spirit and influence of J.S. Bach, in particular his Well Tempered Clavier, Book II, courses through these three miraculous Haydn fugues. Like the viol consort, the string q…

Chinesische Lieder. Par PENDERECKI KRZYSZTOF. The history of the symphony is full of curiosities, ranging from works that are extremely long or scored for extensive instrumental forces to those of dubious authorship. There are also famous symphonies labelled as No. 0, works with alternate or multiple opus numbers, and a wealth of ‘unfinished’ symphonies. Krzysztof Penderecki’s 6. Sinfonie can also…

Par MALTBY R. / SHIRE DAVID. This straight-to-Broadway musical was developed from the hit film starring Tom Hanks. Titles are: Coffee, Black! * Cross the Line * Dancing All the Time * Fun * I Want to Go Home * I Want to Know * One Special Man * Stars, Stars, Stars * Stop, Time. / Miscellaneous, Scores, Songbooks / Recueil / Piano, Voix, Guitare et Clavier

Par RATKJE MAJA S. K.. William Butler Yeats once wrote a poem titled To a Friend Whose Work has Come to Nothing (1931). In 1960, the American poet Anne Sexton wrote the following poem, as a part of her first published work, Bedlam and Part Way Back. I see it as an encouraging advice to reach the sun. If you never tried, you'll never know. I thought it fitted very well to the trombone concerto and …

Where You Are - How Far I'll Go - You're Welcome - We Know the Way. Par MIRANDA LIN-MANUEL. / Niveau : 3 / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Par DILWORTH ROLLO. Historically, the arts have always fulfilled the dual roles of responding to change while at the same time creating change. Weather is a poem that gives voice to the voiceless, especially those who have been and continue to be marginalized because of difference. It responds to and reflects realities that are both culturally specific and humanly universal. Professor Claudia Rank…

Par SCHUERWEGHS SIGRID. Sailing the oceans is an unpredictable adventure. One moment the sea is calm and then choppy, and before you know, you are in the middle of a storm. Fortunately, most storms don?t last long and things calm down eventually. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Cor Alto et Piano

Par DONIZETTI GAETANO. Through works such as Verdi’s Requiem or Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, we know that the great composers of Italian bel canto opera also wrote marvelous sacred music. Yet most of these pieces are rarely performed. This is also true of Gaetano Donizetti’s Messa di Requiem, which he composed as an expression of grief at the early death of Vincenzo Bellini in 1835. Neither performe…

Arrangeur: Siegfried Petrenz. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The importance of the Art of Fugue, a late work of Bach, is undisputed. The composer died while preparing it to be printed. The work has been given the highest recognition by musicians and music lovers ranging from his contemporaries to the present day. This stands in sharp contrast to the reception of the work. It is scarcely to be found in…

Opus 118 Nr. 2. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. When his contemporaries heard the works that Johannes Brahms had composed during his summer holiday in Ischl in 1893 – the Piano Pieces op. 118 –, they were delighted. Clara Schumann was one of the first to be allowed to get to know the new pieces, and she attested that they contained “a wealth of sentiment in the smallest of dimensions”. Philipp Spitta fitting…

La série ' Get to Know compositeurs ' présente des oeuvres de maîtres célèbres dans des arrangements faciles ainsi que des compositions originales pour piano. Une brève notice biographique avec illustrations en couleurs contemporaines ainsi que la liste des oeuvres plus importantes fournissent un accès facile au compositeur respectif. Ainsi, les pianistes amateurs et jeunes élèves piano peuvent em…

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. '. . .a sumptuous piece, clotted with color, dense with incident, yet also transparent in its deisgn: it lets you know where you are.'Richard Dyer, Boston Globe, 7 August 1991/ Répertoire / Conducteur