This Easiest Pop Songs edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course allows the beginner pianist, who is progressing from part one to part two of the world-renowned course, to learn some fantastic and well-known pop songs. With simplified arrangements and large notation, these are popular hits in the familiar John Thompson style.As well as reinforcing basic technique, developing musicality and m…

Edition : Paris, 1685La seule oeuvre d'Honoré d'Ambruis qui nous soit parvenue, est un recueil de remarquables airs de cour. Cet ouvrage fait partie de la dizaine de livres d'airs de cour avec leurs doubles. Passage obligé pour celui qui s'intéresse au style de la première moitié et du milieu du XVIIème siècle français.Préface de Jean Saint-Arroman : l'agrémentation des airs de d'Ambruis / Voix Et…

Avec ce volume, Bärenreiter poursuit l'édition Urtext Frescobaldi qui établit de nouvelles normes qui offrent des musiciens professionnels, des musicologues et amateurs d'un texte musical incomparable.Volume III comprend la préface de Frescobaldi sur la performance de sa musique pour clavier ('avvertimenti'), onze Toccatas pour orgue, le 'madrigale passagiatio' 'Ancidetemi pur d'Archadelt' (dans l…

Gioachino Rossini chooses Semiramide as the opera subject of the Carnival season 1822-23, the last of his Italian career. The opera - composed on a libretto by Gaetano Rossi - was performed for the first time in Venice, Teatro La Fenice, on February 3rd 1823. The history of this work is characterized right from the first performances by frequent manipulations, cuts and consecutive adjustments beca…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. In terms of layout and musical text, this scholarly-critical performing edition of George Frideric Handels Complete Organ Works is based on the complete edition volumes of the composers keyboard music edited by Terence Best as part of the HalleHandel Edition (HHA). The HHA Critical Commentary forms the basis of this edition, which however differs from the HHA volumes i…

Par FAURE GABRIEL. Immediately after finishing his second Violin Sonata op. 108, Fauré started work on a sonata for Cello and Piano in early 1917, thus realising a long-conceived plan. In their predisposition and attitude, both works are very closely related. In the Cello sonata, a sombre, dramatic opening movement is also followed by a calm, relaxed slow middle movement and a graceful finale. The…

The Works for one Instrument and PianoJohannes Brahms' compositions for one instrument and piano have been standards in chamber music literature ever since their inception. These works were written with specific performers in mind and Brahms worked closely with them when refining the final texts. Nevertheless, we rarely approach the music taking into consideration the possibilities of the instrume…

Par DOBRZYNSKI IGNACY FELIKS. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski wrote eight nocturnes for piano. Five of them were published in 1833–1834 in two books as Opp. 21 and 24, while the remainder appeared in various occasional collections issued much later. The Nocturne in A major was written in 1846 and belongs to the group of works composed by Dobrzynski during his tour of German cities. That tour was designed…

Création 26/08/2015 - Sion (Suisse) - Finale du Concours International de violon Tibor Varga - Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne Commanditaire Concours International de violon Tibor Varga Notice Le futurisme italien fut, au début du XXe siècle, le premier véritable mouvement d'avant-garde qui, en Europe, refusa l'art dans sa totalité, décréta l'abolition du passé et prétendit rénover tous les asp…

Complete Edition. Par LISZT FRANZ. Supplementary Volume 16 of the New Liszt Edition contains free arrangements and technical exercises. In the first section can be found early versions of three arrangements. The first consists of the first and intermediary versions of a transcription of Die Rose, a song Schubert composed to a poem by Schlegel. The arrangement of the second movement of Berlioz's Ha…

The 'Missa Divi Xaverii? ZWV 12, an expansive and unusually richly scored work, marks a highlight in the oeuvre of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745). It was composed in 1729 while he was working at the Dresden court.The principal source of this first edition is the damaged autograph score which had long been kept under lock and key. Passages missing because of its damaged condition have been suppleme…