from String Quartet No.1 Op.11. Par TCHAIKOVSKY PYOTR ILYICH / NICHOLAS ELLIS(Arr.). The slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s First String Quartet is one of his most cherished melodies. Inspired by a Russian folk tune he had heard sung by a house servant, the Andante Cantabile combines heartfelt simplicity with the composer’s gift for lyrical expansion. The movement soon took on a life of its own, admir…

What Child Fantasy réunit deux mélodies traditionnelles de Noël : l'air anglais What Child is This? (Greensleeves) et la mélodie Russian Bell Song. Ces deux airs présentent une particularité commune : ils sont tous deux écrits dans un mode mineur, élément assez inhabituel pour un événement aussi réjouissant.Le Quintette de Cuivres Rekkenze Brass a été fondé par des membres de l'Orchestre Symphoniq…

This album for mixed choir and piano contains a selection of richly varied choruses from Italian, French, German, English and Russian operas from the 17th to 19th centuries, illuminating the great diversity of the genre. Included are opera choruses from the following works: · Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo · George Frideric Handel: Acis and Galatea HWV 49b · Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (Vienna…

Violin and Piano. Par IRELAND JOHN. Although one of Ireland's earliest published works, his Berceuse for violin and piano of 1902 displays the exemplary grace of salon music at its most sophisticated. The finely crafted melody wears lightly the elegance of the genre, as perfectly expressed in Elgar's Chanson de Matin and Salut d'Amour. In the accompaniment, details of harmony suggest the influence…

The Joy Of Rachmaninoff is a collection of 17 original and newly-arranged music by the great Russian Romanticist. Pieces Include Preludes Op.23, Op.32, Morceaux de Fantasie, Piano Sonata #2 and many more. / Piano

Arr. Wil Van Der Beek. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky …

Par IGUDESMAN ALEKSEY. Aleksey Igudesman might reasonably be described as a modern day Victor Borge. With his cabaret partner, Hyung-ki Joo, he has toured concert halls all over the world, wringing all that is humorous out of classical music with just the basic tools of violin and piano. The “Happy Birthday Variations” for violin and piano are dedicated to his good friend, the late Sir Roger Moore…

The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the Russian pianist and composer Igor Stravinsky . With notes by…

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Souvenir d'un Lieu Cher (Memories of a Dear Place) is a collection of three pieces for violin and piano. The first - Méditation - was written in Clarens in Switzerland in March 1878. Tchaikovsky originally intended it to be the slow movement of his violin concerto, but later replaced it with the more substantial Canzonetta and recast it for violin and piano. The other…

Par LEIVISKA HELVI. Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä's output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, i…

With its bluesy harmonies and jaunty groove The Beatles ' hit Lady Madonna is the perfect song for choruses seeking a lively, upbeat number to add to their repertoire. Arranged by Jeremy Birchall for SAB with piano accompaniment, this choral take on the Lennon and McCartney classic is sure to inspire audiences and singers alike with its bouncy enthusiasm and toe-tapping vigour. / Sab Et Piano

Editor: Fabian Kolb Fingering: Pascal Rogé Fing. vn: Igor Ozim Urtext Edition, paperbound with marked and unmarked string parts Pages: 85 (VI, 53, 13, 13), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm Order no. HN 980 · ISMN 979-0-2018-0980-9 Fauré composed his violin sonata in 1875/76 and in so doing opened up a new tradition for this genre in French music. In a review, Saint-Saëns expressed his enthusiasm for this wo…

To mark the band's 21st anniversary, Rammstein are releasing the luxurious songbook Klavier with 13 arrangements for Piano and Voice, including a CD with 13 Piano recordings - all in an elegant hardcover edition.The music of Rammstein has been described as like listening to the construction of monumental buildings in the desert. If that is the case, such an imposing structure has been worked on ov…

Par GRIEG EDVARD. Of Grieg ’s three Violin sonatas, the great C-minor Sonata op. 45 is the best known today. And unjustly so, because the two early sonatas are captivating in their joy to play and their fresh, youthful tone. And what is more, they can also be played by advanced students due to their somewhat lesser technical demands. Written in 1867, the G-major Violin Sonata op. 13, palpably draw…