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 YE XIAOGANG. 'Datura was commissioned by Accessible Contemporary Music and was written in a unique way. I composed the piece in installments over the summer of 2006 and emailed them to Seth Boustead who forwarded them on to the ensemble. In this unique way of working I was able to have time between each installment to think about what would come next and to get feedback from the performers abo…

Par HAYDN JOSEPH. According to his dating of the autograph, Haydn composed the Symphony no. 89 in F major in 1787, just one year after the six so-called Paris symphonies. It was written, together with its sister work, the G-major Symphony no. 88, for the violinist Johann Tost, who sold it to the Parisian publisher Sieber. In both works, Haydn continues the compositional achievements of the Paris s…

Threshold of Night (a setting one of Kathleen Raine's Three Poems of Incarnation) was commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge and was premièred under the direction of David Hill in the College chapel on 25th November 2006. Written for Advent, the work aims to highlight the yearning that all societies have, in their time of need, for guidance from beyond their community. By coincidence, howeve…

Cesar Franck's Sonata for Piano and Violin is one of the most treasured works in the violin repertoire, a masterpiece of cyclic form with a gracefulness and expressive force almost paradigmatic for the age of musical Romanticism. This work was composed in 1886 and was dedicated to the Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe.After Franck's death in 1890 the original publisher of the Sonata, the…

Christmas Joy (Easter Joy) is a seasonal anthem that features texts for both Christmas and Easter. Suggested corresponding lectionary readings for Christmas include Psalm 97, Isaiah 62: 11-12, Luke 2: 1-20, and Titus 3: 4-7 - and basic homiletical theme is joining with the heavenly angels to proclaim the good news that the Savior is born! Suggested corresponding lectionary readings for Easter incl…

Par TUZET JEAN-BAPTISTE. Livre sur Django Reinhardt, le jazz manouche ou les 100 ans du 'jazz à la française'. Inclus un CD bonus comprenant des enregistrements de Django Reinhardt, des enregistrements des nouveaux ténors du jazz manouche, des témoignages inédits à propos de Django.Livre au format 26 x 26. Après le succès de son précédent livre 'Jazz manouche', Jean-Baptiste TUZET a souhaité, pou…

for Euphonium and Brass Band. Par SPARKE PHILIP. Pulcinella est une commande du joueur d’euphonium taiwanais Tzu-Hsiang Lin. Lin est un soliste et professeur renommé ainsi qu’un « Besson Euphonium Artist ». Il enseigne à l’Université nationale des arts de Taipei, l’Université nationale des arts de Taiwan, l’Université de Shih Chien et École normale nationale de Kaohsiung. Lin a créé Pulcinella dan…

Tonalité : E-Dur -. Par REICHA ANTON. Zu den großen, wenn auch kaum bekannt gewordenen Te Deum-Vertonungen der Übergangszeit zwischen Klassik und Romantik gehört zweifellos auch das zu seiner Zeit ungedruckt gebliebene Te Deum von Antonin Rejcha von 1825, das hier als Erstausgabe vorliegt. Schon die Grundtonart E-Dur hebt das reich besetzte Werk von vielen anderen Vertonungen des 'ambrosianischen …

Arrangeur: Nico Dezaire. Par DAVIS JIMMIE / MITCHELL CHARLES. You Are My Sunshine est une chanson d'amour dans la tradition de la Old-time music américaine, dont la mélodie simple aux résonnances folkloriques reste dans la tête. Grâce à ce titre, le chanteur Jimmie Davis et le guitariste Charles Mitchell connurent une immense popularité dans les années 1940. Pour Davis, ce succès donna même un tou…

Arr. Rob Wiffin. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Il est regrettable de constater que le compositeur français Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) est essentiellement reconnu de nos jours comme un influent théoricien de la musique. Pourtant, il fut considéré, en son siècle, comme un grand compositeur au style harmonique et mélodique très novateur. En 1725, suite à la venue à Paris de deux Indiens de La Louis…

Sing eleven songs in the style of America's Queen of Song, Billie Holiday! Listen first to world-renowned vocalist Stephanie Nakasian perform these classic tunes, then step in and sing along with the Hod O'Brien All-Star Band, a top-notch group of jazz musicians including Randy Sandke, Harry Allen, Hod O'Brien, and more. It doesn't get better than this!# No Regrets Billie Holiday (2:47, Key: Eb)# …

Inspired by a poem written by Nick Page's father and his father's belief in humanity's capacity for greatness, Nick has crafted a song of love, healing and hope. Therefore the text, which is mainly in English, presents nine different languages that are used to express the word 'Peace? (Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Zulu, Spanish, Indonesian, German, French, and English).Although written for 2 parts, this…

Thierry Desaules (Auteur), Sandra Klein (Auteur) / Leader du groupe Indochine, Nicola Sirkis fêtera ses 50 ans en 2009 avec un nouvel album très attendu. En presque trente ans d'existence, Indochine a survécu à trois générations d'artistes grâce à un univers et des textes singuliers. Malgré le départ de deux des membres originels et le décès de Stéphane Sirkis en 1999, Nicola Sirkis a tenu son g…

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee's (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: 'In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.' Over the last couple of years I moved back to Je…