Alfred Hitchcock was once so famous he was the only film director whose name appeared on the cinema marquee above the title. He disparaged actors and loathed location shooting since both threatened the precise realisation of the film he had already made in his mind. Yet, in his Hollywood heyday he forged some creative collaborations he truly valued: those with composers. From the start, Hitchcock …

soprano, mezzo-soprano, piano. Par BELL IAIN . Composer Iain Bell sets text by Eugene Fields in A Cradle Suite. Volume One sets ‘Japanese Lullaby’ alongside ‘Norse Lullaby.’ Volume Two, scored as a duet, evokes fairies, the Mirkland Queen, brownies and trolls in its lullabies of Old England, the Orkney Isles and Cornwall. / Date parution : 2025-01-21/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Bach composed his oratorio for the Feast of the Ascension in Leipzig in 1735. Though this work has the duration of a cantata, the choice of text places it among the oratorios. It combines the biblical account of the Ascension with chorales and free madrigal poems.As in other works which were composed during this same year (e.g. the 'Christmas Oratorio'), Bach reveals a special fondness for colourf…

Craig McLeish writes of The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was the first black American to earn his living from writing. He was an innovator of jazz poetry, becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote plays, short stories, novels, and his poetry was widely read. He was also a journalist, columnist and lecturer. The Negro Speaks of Rivers was perha…

Kantate Zum Ratswechsel In Leipzig. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's first cantata for the election of the Leipzig town council, composed in August 1723, is one of his most splendidly scored work from his Leipzig period. The choice of opening, with the 'representative' form of a French overture, was suited to a festive orchestral scoring. Two choral movements frame a middle section which consists…

Par HINDSON MATTHEW. Matthew Hindson's Rush for guitar and string quartet takes its influence from the music of Felix Mendelssohn. The fast and technically challenging passages found in the final movement of the Mendelssohn String Octet influenced Hindson's decision to compose a work for the Goldner String Quartet that is highly virtuosic in nature. Hindson remarks, 'it is much more the spirit of …

Bach composed his oratorio for the Feast of the Ascension in Leipzig in 1735. Though this work has the duration of a cantata, the choice of text places it among the oratorios. It combines the biblical account of the Ascension with chorales and free madrigal poems.As in other works which were composed during this same year (e.g. the 'Christmas Oratorio?), Bach reveals a special fondness for colourf…

Par BROWN BOBBY / COX ISHBAH (Arr.). Recorded by Bobby Brown in 1988, this hip hop classic has remained popular thanks to cover versions and pop culture. Ishbah Cox brings it to life for the marching field with the signature riff scored for low brass and the powerful chorus for full band. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Marching Band

Par FIELD JOHN. Edited by Frank Merrick This is neglected repertoire by an important figure of the early Romantic movement who was a significant influence on Chopin. The contents include Piano Concertos in E flat, A flat and E flat, scored for strings, timps and double woodwind, horns and trumpets. First published in 1961./ Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre

Par BUXTEHUDE DIETRICH. This work has survived in an autograph, unfortunately undated, preserved in the Düben Collection. The cantata is a setting of Ecclesiasticus 50, verses 24–26. This composition is one of the most richly scored vocal compositions of Buxtehude. A ritornello, which includes a fanfare of trumpets, and a longer vocal section based on “Nun danket alle Gott” create the work’s struc…

In 1717 Telemann composed his cantata 'Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch? for the first day of Whitsun based on a text by Erdmann Neumeister. It forms part of the 'Concerten-Jahrgang?, also known as 'Das Harmonische Zion? or 'Italienischer Jahrgang? where all the cantatas are conceived as concertos for vocal and instrumental parts and have been colourfully scored. This particular work includes two ob…

Par SAUCEDO RICHARD. Here\'s a flexible edition of Richard\'s popular Scorpion! scored for just four parts plus percussion. Written for second-year players, you can mix and match the parts to fit the needs of your ensemble. / Date parution : 2022-07-30/ Répertoire / Ensemble Flexible à 5 Parties

A bright swinger solo feature at 180 BPM, Patrick Williams' 'The Sun Will Shine Today' has standard instrumentation plus optional horn in F parts. It was originally scored for clarinet, but includes solo parts for trombones, B-flat instruments, and E-flat instruments. An ideal vehicle to feature your soloist and swing all the way home! (2:20) / Ensemble De Jazz

Par WEILL KURT. Kurt Weill developed his creative energies mainly within the world of musical theater, where he proved to be an immensely productive and imaginative innovator, but he also left behind a small body of work for the concert hall. The Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra op. 12 dates from the spring of 1924. Scored for two flutes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, one oboe and trumpet, per…

nach BWV 1053 . Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. A version scored for oboe with piano reduction./ Répertoire / Hautbois, Instruments à Cordes, Piano Accompagneme