Par DUBUGNON RICHARD. Caprice No.5 ‘Zürcher Art’ is the fifth work in a series of short orchestral concert openers by Richard Dubugnon. Written as a set of variations on a single theme, the 12-minute work was commissioned by Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich AG, Sinfonieorchester Basel and Fondation du Septembee Musical Montruex-Vevey. It is dedicated to Paavo Järvi and the musicians of the Tonhalle Or…

Now solo instrumentalists can play play along with 14 intermediate-level tunes from Musicals like The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast. These books include CDs with orchestral accompaniment tracks.ABC (THRILLER - The Musical)Always Look on the Bright Side (SPAMALOT)Beauty And The Beast (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)Belle (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)Circle of Life (THE LION KING)Defying Grav…

Par RODNEY BENNETT RICHARD. Seven short pieces for solo piano by Richard Rodney Bennett. Thursday is selected for the ABRSM piano exam syllabus 2013 - 2014.  / Exams, Instrumental Music, Miscellaneous / Répertoire / Piano

Par RINCK JOHANN CHRISTIAN HEINRICH. Rinck’s organ works were oriented toward the needs of the church music of this time, when short and relatively simple pieces were required. This genre of music is exemplified by the Chorale Preludes op. 105, most of which occupy only one printed page, and which are reminiscent of Bach’s Orgelbüchlein. With his imaginative pieces Rinck successfully created a tra…

kleine Stücke für kleine Gitarren-Anfänger. Par RAK STEPAN. Stepàn Rak (1945) is a prominent Czech guitarist, composer and teacher. Minute Solos is a collection of short, musically inventive compositions for Guitar beginners. They are divided according to their character into the sections of Moods, Songs Without Words and Dances. Although not technically demanding, they represent a good introducti…

Motetto Pastorale. Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. This short, melodious piece with its charming instrumentation displays a “typically Christmas” colouring through the use of a pedal point and a Sicilian rhythmic figure./ Répertoire / Solistes SAT, Choeur SATB, 2 Flûtes Traversières,

Par SUK JOSEF. Short, technically easy pieces from the rich piano oeuvre of Josef Suk (1874–1935) form the latest addition to the established series “Easy Piano Pieces and Dances”. The editor has included a varied selection of 12 compositions from the period 1893–1928 in this album ranging from playful and carefree atmospheric pieces (“Village Serenade” and “Humoresque”), through musical gifts for…

Par MILNE ELISSA. 'More Little Peppers' is the fourth book in a series of five. Each book is filled with fun jazz pieces that can be used both as pedagogical studies and as repertoire pieces. 'Little Peppers' is around Grade 4 standard and each of the pieces has been written with the young pianist in mind, avoiding leaps that are difficult for small hands and incorporating relatively short lighthe…

The French titles and tempo markings in this four-movement, twenty-minute-long trio point to the composer's particular affinity to French culture. The 'Prélude? is followed by an impressive 'Invocation?, an homage to Schlee's highly regarded former teacher Olivier Messiaen in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. This movement, composed somewhat earlier than the others, was the depa…

Par JALBERT PIERRE. Duo Concertante contains five brief movements of contrasting character. The first movement functions as a short prelude, with the viola and bass combining to form alternating high and low harmonies and trading off solo lines. The second movement is a playful scherzo, played pizzicato by both instruments, while the third movement is the central, lyrical movement of the work, wit…

50 indémodables de la varieté internationale d'hier et d'aujourd'hui en transcription piano solo facile. Titres : Against The Wind - Angel - Autumn Leaves - Bad Moon Rising - Ben (from BEN) - Blackbird - Born Free (from the Columbia Pictures' Release BORN FREE) - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Candle In The Wind - Chopsticks - Don't Know Why - Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) - Falling Slowly (from the Mo…

Joining The Dots' offers guitarists lots of material to help build confidence and skill in sight-reading. The series brings together a range of activities to help students improve their sense of fingerboard geography, helping them to read new music more quickly and easily.The five books cover the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to 5, and include:many short, charact…

Music Of Our Time. Par SCHNEBEL DIETER. In this work Schnebel attempts to apply the idea of the Baroque canon - as exemplified in Bach’s ‘Art of Fugue’ - to modern concepts of tonal colouring. The ‘Motu proprio’ of the 7 mixed groups of orchestral instruments intensifies within 28 short emotional sections to the Baroque ‘Motu contrario’. In ‘Diapason’, literally translated ‘in the octave’ but in t…

11 festliche Werke für Hochzeiten und andere Anlässe. A collection of classical works for various occasions including birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and funerals, arranged by Markus Schenk especially for this edition. These works are distinguished by their stylistic diversity and character, and areversatile thanks to their range of durations-from a short Bach chorale to an extended concert wor…

Mostly remembered for his great compositions, during his life Edward Elgar was also a violin teacher.These six short studies, presented in a progressive order of didactic difficulty, are, despite their simplicity, very musical. They can be played in the first position, but require the knowledge of all fingering patterns. The compositions are set in C major, A minor and G major with occasional modu…