Par YAGISAWA SATOSHI. Chaque année, la ville de Yokohama célèbre une fête particulière, le “Yokohama Kaikosai”, la date anniversaire de l’ouverture du port maritime qui permit le développement de la ville. L’Orchestre d’Harmonie de Yokohama (Yokohama Wind Symphony) fut spécialement créé en 2006, pour participer au Concert de Bienfaisance « Autour du Brass Band » organisé par l’Association The Bras…

Kantate Zum Epiphaniasfest. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. This six-movement cantata uses the hymn of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch, first recorded in 1698 in the Darmstädter Liederbuch. This places it amongst those chorale cantatas which use a hymn from the repertoire associated with Pietism. As was customary, the hymn text is retained in the outer movements, whereas the text for the inner movem…

Par JANACEK LEOS. One of Leos Janàcek 's last chamber music works was written in the autumn of 1926 at the suggestion of the pianist Otakar Hollmann (1894& 1967), an invalid from the First World War. Like his contemporary Paul Wittgenstein, Hollmann urged composers to write something for Piano left hand; he succeeded in winning over Bohuslav Martinu, Erwin Schulhoff and Janàcek to do this. Janàcek…

Based on Robert Schumann. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, Band II/3. Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. The Fairy-Tale Narratives (Märchenerzählungen) for B-flat Clarinet (ad libitum Violin), Viola and Piano, Op. 132, belong to the few Schumann works that were composed, revised and published in a short time: composed in Düsseldorf, at beginning of October 1853, the new composition was already offered for publica…

Par SHERIDON STOKES. Unlike many flute books which give long series of exercises, but no instruction on how to play the flute, the Illustrated Method for Flute uses the resources of language, illustration, and photography to help you to learn to play the flute quickly and successfully. It is based not only on the musical and teaching experience of its authors, but also on current research in the p…

Par DELISE LOUIS. Louis deLise's Salone del Astor for Flute and Vibraphone was written for flutist Joan Sparks and premiered at the 2018 National Flute Association convention in Orlando, Florida. The movements of Salone are marked, 'Introduction and Tarantella,” 'Slow Dance,” and 'Come una salsa.” Rhythms of the tarantella and the salsa are utilized in the outer movements and develop the melodies …

In the biography Keiko Abe: A Virtuosic Life, author Rebecca Kite tells the untold story of Keiko Abe's groundbreaking influence on the evolution of the marimba and its music. Kite also offers a history of the xylophone, the marimba, and the music, composers, and performers that each instrument was associated with over the centuries. Examples of rare and historic recordings are included on a CD. K…

Par KILLMAYER WILHELM. ‘Humour plays a role, and my pieces are also an attempt to entertain people.’ Words not often associated with contemporary music, but Wilhelm Killmayer wants to place fun and seriousness side by side. Different tonal spheres are found in the “Impromptu” and the jaunty “Scherzo lento” which uses tap tones for example. The “Chorale” that follows allows the music to drift seaml…

For Beat Furrer, the poet Dino Campana (1885-1932) is 'probably the only one of the Italian writers of his time who was capable of bringing to life the new futuristic ideas with a great poetic power and a strong association with the Italian and French literature of the past.' Campana's highly poetic images taking in the night-time view of the skies, for instance, or a town in which the people seem…

Par BUKIN DANIEL. Concerto for Clarinet 'Corona', reduction for Clarinet and Piano, by Daniel Bukin. Recognized as the Honorable Mention composition by the New Music Committee of the International Clarinet Association as part of the 2022 Composition Competition .From the composer: '2020 was a year of colossal uncertainty and instability in nearly every facet of our day-to-day lives. But that uncer…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

for clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion. Par PTASZYNSKA MARTA. Composition was written in 2008 on a commission from the University of Chicago for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen's birth. This tree movement work attempts to refer to Messiaen's work, in particular to the beautiful sonorities of the Quatour pour la fin du temps. From ancient time the rain…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Commissioned by the University of Georgia Bands F. David Romines, Associate Director of Bands Rich modern harmonies and exquisite rhythmic counterpoint make this Grade 3 gem a rich and rewarding project for your ensemble. This remarkable piece is a wonderful and exciting performance piece which at the same allows the director countless opportunities to teach the players about int…