Par CAMPO REGIS. (...) Le Bestiaire est (...) né de la rencontre avec Felicity Lott : en 2003, la soprano a créé Happy Birthday, accompagnée par l'Ensemble Orchestral de Paris dirigé par John Nelson (pour célébrer les 25 ans de la formation). Séduite par la pièce, elle a manifesté le désir de poursuivre l'aventure. Dix-huit ans après avoir écrit L'Adieu pour choeur d'hommes, Régis Campo revient à …

to the violin concerto by Gyorgy Ligeti. Par ADES THOMAS. In a conversation with the violinist Peter Herresthal, we touched on the “invitation” in the score of Ligeti’s Violin concerto to provide a cadenza for the work. Peter suggested that I answer this invitation and I was happy to accept. I followed all the composer’s directions exactly: the cadenza may use material from all five movements, and…

For the left Hand. Par FERTE ARMAND. The scarcity of practice collections devoted to a speciality defined problem of technique has often been deplored by both teachers and pupils. However, Masters of piano playing have written such collections whose number is countless and which deal with difficulties of all kinds. Unfortunately, they are spread over a very large number of music books. The volume…

Arr. Douglas Court. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. It has been said that the magic of Mozart’s music lies in its ability to truly and purely express the inner self. This delightful Grade 21/2 adaptation of a well-known theme from The Magic Flute will help your young musicians gain a deeper understanding of Mozart and the amazing gift that made him the incomparable master of flawless composition. In …

Homage to Enric Granados. Par CASABLANCAS BENET. The present work was commissioned by the Foundation for Iberian Music (Graduate Center of the University of New York) as a tribute to Enric Granados on the occasion of the composer's centenary celebration in New York. The general character of the piece, in which the cantabile register dominates, responds faithfully to its title (A Song without Words…

Arr. Douglas Court. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. It has been said that the magic of Mozart’s music lies in its ability to truly and purely express the inner self. This delightful Grade 21/2 adaptation of a well-known theme from The Magic Flute will help your young musicians gain a deeper understanding of Mozart and the amazing gift that made him the incomparable master of flawless composition. In …

Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The Trio for Three Flutes here presented appeared in 1964, when Jean-Pierre Rampal acquired a non-original manuscript of this work in the Czech Republic. Attributed to an early period for its light character and instrumentation, the Trio was taken into serious consideration by Beethoven scholar and redactor of arguably the most complete of Beethoven's cat…

Par UEBAYASHI YUKO. Contemporary Japanese composer, Yuko Uebayashi moved to Paris in 1998. Uebayashi 's works have been met with much success in both Japan and France, Suite For Flute And Cello being no exception. Flautist, Jean Ferrandis described Uebayashi 's music as 'gems that, although they are so different, they yet belong to the same world, a world of vivacity, dreams, tenderness, humour, a…

Par CHILCOTT BOB. for SATB and piano In another successful collaboration between Bob Chilcott and poet Charles Bennett, Lightwaves sees the exploration of light, in its many forms and uses, from stars to electricity and photosynthesis. Piano andvoices are used pictorially, in a musical setting that contrasts moments of high energy and tranquility./ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte SATB et Piano

Op. 86. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. ?But, dear Beethoven, what have you done again'? Even if the authenticity of this statement, which was quoted by Anton Schindler, may be doubted, it reflects quite well the confusion that the Mass in C may have caused its commissioner, Prince Nicholas II Esterházy, in 1807. Unconventional for those times, here Beethoven opened up entirely new worlds of expression …

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Arranger's Note - An edition of music, like anything else, is a product of its own time. During the 1980s, guitarists of my generation were starting to become aware of stylistic concerns in the interpretation ofearly music. There was a movement towards stylistic authenticity, an attempt to re-discover the original intentions of early composers and recreate the aesthetic …

Par LIGETI GYORGY. The formal thinking behind the piece is based on the interaction between individually determined periodic rhythms and a cumulative polyrhythmic overall structure. Although the overall rhythmic structure is on an indeterminate level intermediate - the result of adding individual periods of different length is at any given time random -, it is again determinate on the higher level…

Par LISZT FRANZ. Despite having already assumed the costs for a monument to Beethoven in Bonn, Liszt's spiritual affinity for Beethoven also moved this greatest piano virtuoso of the nineteenth century to pay an even finer tribute: a superlative set of piano transcriptions of the master's nine symphonies. Liszt's brilliant and sensitive transcriptions enabled 19th century audiences and amateur pia…

Arr. Mike Hannickel. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Any list of Mozart's greatest works should include this overture. Loved by millions, Mozart's Magic Flute is remarkable for so many reasons and worthy of study by every musician! Why should we deny young band students the joy of playing Mozart just because they don't happen to use a bow on their instruments? Mozart belongs to Everyone ! Skillfully …