Par POHJOLA SEPPO. According to Jouni Kaipainen, the fourth string quartet (2006) is one of key works of Seppo Pohjola (b. 1965) and holds a place as a landmark in Finnish quartet literature. Of the composer's five string quartets, it is the longest and has the widest thematic arcs of his quartets. Seppo Pohjola has gone through a variety of styles in his musical career. He began as a strict Moder…

Par LAURIDSEN MORTEN. Four poems sharing a common motif of 'Night' provide the texts for my choral cycle Nocturnes, the American Choral Directors Association's commissioned work for its 2005 national convention. For Rilke's atmospheric 'Sa nuit d'ete,” several melodic themes are supported by dense, colorful harmonies in both the choral and piano parts, leading to a climactic section where all are …

Par HARVEY JONATHAN. Predominantly hushed and serene, Plainsongs for Peace and Light proved to be Jonathan Harvey’s final work. It sees Harvey re-examining the very fundamentals of his craft – superimposing lines of plainsong, relishing the simple clash of note againstnote and creating rich, otherworldly sonorities through an elaborate use of canon. Harvey was a composer who always embraced and so…

Par TYSHAWN SOREY. Tyshawn Sorey\'s For George Lewis draws inspiration from The Will to Adorn, a dense work for chamber orchestra by the composers friend, collaborator and mentor George Lewis. Where Lewis\'s score is frenetic, however, Sorey\'s enters into a meditative stasis for most of its 51-minute duration, slowly accumulating and breaking down different sonorities of harmony and colour. Alarm…

Jazz Suite in Color for solo piano is an arrangement of the original Jazz Suite in Color, a trio for clarinet, trumpet, and piano. Now solo pianists can enjoy this exciting mix of jazz styles painted musically with a splash of color. As in the original, there are three movements, each with a distinctive jazz style. The first movement projects a jazzy feeling of celebration and happiness. The secon…

Par PERKOWSKI PIOTR. Easy Pieces for Piano by Piotr Perkowski is a collection of nine compositions first published by PWM in the '40s and' 50s of the 20th century. The pieces are intended for first-grade students of a music school, but not for the very beginning of their adventure with the piano, but for the following years of study (grades 4-6). Recipients will meet in a set of varied composition…

In time for Beethoven's anniversary, Schott presents a new collection of his most popular works for piano. The successful author Hans-Günter Heumann has compiled 30 easy to intermediate original works and arrangements: Für Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Ode to Joy and many more, all in one volume! Complete with fingerings and tempo suggestions, this collection with its modern and easy-to-read layout is …

ANBRUCH est apparu de 1919 à 1937 et a été le premier magazine consacré exclusivement à la musique nouvelle. Auteurs comme Bartók, Berg, Braunfels, Casella, Gál, Grosz, Krenek, Malipiero, Milhaud, Reznicek, Scherchen, Schönberg, Schreker, Strobel, Stuckenschmidt, Toch, Ullmann, Weill, Wellesz, Wiesengrund-Adorno, etc., fait bientôt le magazine le plus important moyen d'une scène musicale controver…

Kantate Zum Ersten Ostertag. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The words are based on the Easter Gospel, the account of the Resurrection of Jesus, which is first joyfully celebrated. Then follows a call to the faithful: every Christian must make the Resurrection a reason to renew himself spiritually, so as to complete a kind of inner Resurrection himself. For his scoring – which changed slightly from per…

Commissioned by Roger Muttitt for the 600th anniversary of Durham School in 2014, In this place is a setting of my own words and was first performed at a service of celebration in Durham Cathedral in June 2014. The text is a poem of renewal and the setting builds towards the final phrase 'I will fly with angels'. Keep the chords as balanced as possible between the parts and aim for a really warm b…

Par HILLBORG ANDERS. Despite its short duration, The Peacock Moment holds a central place in Anders Hillborg’s worklist. Much of material in this frenetic 1-minute work for clarinet and piano derive from a prime-number series – a common feature in his subsequent work. Particularly striking is the way Hillborg creates the impression of a polyphony of voices within the clarinet’s solo lines.   / Ins…

Par GOLDSMITH JERRY. Dive into the darkly humorous score of The ’Burbs with this premium-quality study edition! Directed by Joe Dante and released in 1989, The ’Burbs satirizes suburban life and cult paranoia, capturing the 'Satanic Panic' of the late 1970s and 1980s. With Tom Hanks leading an ensemble cast, and Jerry Goldsmith providing the unique soundtrack, The ’Burbs stands out as a one-of-a-k…

FINER IN MINOR. Par . With beautiful, easy to moderately difficult, familiar and above all not so familiar pieces, our bestseller Finer in Minor has now been a companion for many generations on their way to the wonderful works of major piano literature. In the meantime, the sister edition Greater in Major (EB 8936) expands the sound palette, showing that playing the piano in a major key is, of cou…