Par CURNOW JAMES. A major work that’s truly a joy to play! It has taken a lot of hard work to bring your ensemble to this level of performance. Now set them free! High-flying melodies, emotive harmonic structures and an electrifying finale combine into a beautifully crafted and ennobling musical statement. Sparkling; energetic; pensive; playful; reminiscent; heroic; there are so many shades and co…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Without any doubt J.S. Bach’s cycle of the three Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001-1006 represents one of the pinnacles of classical European music. According to C.P.E. Bach a contemporary voice stated that there was „nothing more accomplished in order to become a good violinist“ than his father’s works. The cycle reflects the entire harmonic and polyphonic musical universe …

Variations on a melody by Adriaen Valerius (1575-1625). Par SPARKE PHILIP. Dutch composer, artist and poet Adriaen Valerius is mostly remembered today for his collection of 79 songs for voice and lute or cittern, published posthumously in 1626. Philip Sparke has taken one melody from this collection that tells of the War of Independence with Spain. The beautiful slow melody is followed by a series…

INSTRUMENTATION : ORCHESTRA VERSION : STUDY SCORE DESCRIPTION : THE PREMIÈRE OF DAUDET'S PLAY, L'ARLÉSIENNE, WITH INCIDENTAL MUSIC BY BIZET, AT THE THÉÂTRE DU VAUDEVILLE ON 3 SEPTEMBER 1872, WAS A DEVASTATING EVENT FOR BOTH PLAYWRIGHT AND COMPOSER AND THE PRODUCTION WAS REMOVED FROM THE REPERTORY AFTER 19 PERFORMANCES. THE CRITIC JOHANNÈS WEBER, HOWEVER, WAS ALERT TO THE QUALITY OF BIZET'S SCORE …

Par SCHWARZ OTTO M.. Asteroids and comets have played an important role throughout the history of life on earth. It is quite probable that the dinosaurs have been exterminated by an asteroid's impact in the Gulf of Mexico. Huge tidal waves and fire storms wiped out all life. This is the year 2067 according to the Christian calendar. A collision has just taken place in the asteroid belt between Mar…

The Coole Pianoalbum contains 30 beginner to intermediate original pieces and arrangements from a number of styles including pop, rock, minimalism and new age, which are all united by being hugely fun pieces to play.Some of the pieces in the songbook are taken from well-known and well-loved films, that have become so popular that the music has become famous in its own right. Including pieces from …

'La Mer?, which is an impressionistic work through and through, was composed between 1903-1905. Debussy however refined this work up until at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which Debussy gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previously unavailable to musicologists, resulting in an arra…

Par WENIGER PETER. This CD (including music booklet) has not especially been worked out for the use in musical education. It is, on the contrary, an audio CD which has been recorded for sale as a trio CD under my name. Mixing the recordings at the studio, however, gave us the idea to offer this CD Legal Paradizer also as a play along CD. For this reason I have never taken a pedagogic approach to t…

Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. 50 songs by this great songwriter, set for Piano and voice with guitar chords./ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

Une collection de poche de plus de 70 Great Hits All-Time présentés en format songbook d'accord, disposés dans les mêmes touches que les enregistrements originaux avec les symboles d'accord, les boîtes d'accord de guitare et paroles complètes. / Paroles Et Accords

Par HARRIS PAUL. Improve your theory! Grades 1-5 are the latest additions to the bestselling 'Improve your …' series by Paul Harris. This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 2 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris's Simultaneous Learning approach, it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt, improving every aspect of musici…

Par PURCELL HENRY. Staeps (rightly) believes that the English Baroque is the fountainhead of recorder music, and that Purcell's music is the perfect vehicle. Here, he takes six excerpts from The Fairy Queen (introductions and dances) and fashions a Suite for recorder quartet with basso continuo (keyboard instrument with another bass instrument playing an octave lower than the bass recorder). For a…