Par GRIEG EDVARD. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Norway’s most famous composer, has written a lot of music which is definitely worth playing, and listening to! Play Grieg features a selection of well-known and lesser-known works or themes. Since most of these were originally written for instruments other than the one for which they are intended in this volume, things such as tempi have been carefully a…

Bärenreiter Urtext, Paperback. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Dvorák's Seventh Symphony was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in August 1883 and premiered in London under the composer's baton on 22 April 1885. Two months later he shortened the second movement by about 40 bars. The work was published by Simrock in this form in 1885./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par PURCELL HENRY. A shortened version of Purcell's Fairy Queen for concert performance devised by Peter Pears, with the words taken from an anonymous adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream./ Répertoire / Chorale

Dirge and Hymeneal was composed in 1915, shortly before the composition of Saturn from The Planets whose music it anticipates. It was performed for the first time at the 1986 Cheltenham Festival. Scored for SSA and piano set to text by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. / Voix

Arrangement für Cello und Klavier/ for Cello and Piano. Par REGER MAX. Max Reger's well-known Romance in G major WoO II/10 was written as a supplement for the Neue Musik-Zeitung, which was the recipient of works & particularly songs and piano pieces & by Reger in the years 1900 and 1901. Reger himself designated his Romance shortly after its publication as 'an occasional piece of the worst kind & …

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Antonín Dvorák’s five-movement “Suite in A major” for piano was completed in New York on 1 March 1894, shortly after the triumphant success of his “New World” Symphony. As he himself noted in the autograph, it was the fifth piece he composed during his stay abroad. In a letter to his publisher Simrock he called the Suite, alongside the “Biblical Songs”, his finest achievement t…

Par BOSVELD JAN. Shortly after the Second World War, a combative movement of Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists chose the cobra snake - extremely dangerous yet considered sacred - as a symbol of their resistance to strict guideliness of form. The name 'Cobra' also happens to contain the first letters of the cities Copenhagen, Brussels ans Amsterdam, from where most of the movement's members came. T…

What better wish for children - and all of us - this Christmas than Peace on Earth' This fun and poignant new musical from Sheila Wilson (Hosanna Rock!, Scrooge, Rock Around the Flock, The Sel'sh Giant) moves through laughter and tears as it tells the Christmas story with style and wit. All the favourite characters feature, with optional appearances from King Herod and Emperor Caesar Augustus, and…

contient les traités et écrits de Cavalieri, Viadana, Agazzari, Bianciardi, Banchieri et Sabbatini
160 pages, relié cousu
bilingue italien-français
préface et annexe musicale
Ce volume, consacré à la basse continue en Italie, couvre la première moitié du 17e siècle. Il rassemble les traités et les écrits de Cavalieri, Viadana, Agazzari, Bianciardi, Banchieri et …

Es-Dur. Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. Two complete settings of the Requiem by Johann Adolf Hasse are extant. Hasse composed the Requiem in C major on the death of the Elector Friedrich August 11 of Saxony. Only a few weeks later his son the elector Friedrich Christian also died. Presumably for this reason Hasse wrote the Requiem in D flat, and because of the shortage of time he used the Sanctus and Agnu…

Par GASIENIEC MIROSLAW. The first version of the Sonata for violin and piano was written in the autumn of 2008, when I had the opportunity to work with the violinist Robert Bachara, who was pursuing his doctoral studies at Wroclaw Music Academy. A few years later, around the turn of 2016, I revised the musical material, made some changes and shortened the work. It was then that Dr Jacek Ropski, a …

Par MARTIN FRANK. Having considered writing a Requiem for many years, Martin finally became obsessed with its creation only shortly before his own death. A Calvinist Protestant, he had turned to Roman Catholic texts earlier (as in his Mass of 1922-1924), but was now taken with the Requiem setting, in order to 'accept death, to make peace with it, to view it straight on with all the fears... that i…

Le Real Book est une alternative à la pléthore de mal conçus, les volumes illisibles, inexactes et mal édités qui abondent sur ??le marché aujourd'hui. Claire et précise, la série Real Book vise à fournir une sélection de musique qui est à la fois facile à lire et agréable à réaliser. Arrangé pour instruments en clé de basse, cette édition de The Real Book: Volume II contient 400 chansons, dont Mo…