Par HOSAY JAMES L.. At the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Seventies, slowly but surely, a new exciting music style arose in pop music. Pop groups enlarged the musical spectrum by combining jazz harmonies with rock ’n’ roll rhythms. These experiments are now known as ‘fusion’. Fusion Factory combines elements of early fusion with modern fusion sounds. Listen to the excellent result! / …

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. At the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Seventies, slowly but surely, a new exciting music style arose in pop music. Pop groups enlarged the musical spectrum by combining jazz harmonies with rock ’n’ roll rhythms. These experiments are now known as ‘fusion’. Fusion Factory combines elements of early fusion with modern fusion sounds. Listen to the excellent result! / …

Par TRUILLARD R.. French composer, Robert Truillard published his Rêverie in 1986. The work remains popular for intermediate clarinettists. With a typical performance lasting around 2 minutes and 46 seconds, Rêverie is in Ternary Form, with the 'B' section marked 'Scherzando' and containing a short cadenza passage. The solo Clarinet part makes use of variety in articulation, tempo, dynamics and ph…

Par MILHAUD DARIUS. French composer and teacher, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a prolific composer of the 20th Century as a member of 'Les Six'. His compositions remain highly regarded, Four Faces being no exception. Milhaud 's compositions are influenced by jazz and polytonality, as exemplified in Four Faces. The fourth of Four Faces, The Parisian Woman, is an alternative, exciting piece for adv…

Par WEDGWOOD PAM. Playing the recorder has never been so much fun! RecorderWorld is an exciting and creative way to learn the recorder. It is a step-by-step teaching method with over forty pieces in this second book, following on from the notes learnt in Book 1. Concert pieces provide opportunities for performance straight away and there is plenty of opportunity for group work with duets, rounds a…

Soloist: Fernando Brandão, flute
Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Jazz Conception is the new exciting series of play-along books by award-winning Brazilian flutist and composer Fernando Brandão and features fifteen original tunes in various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles. This edition clearly aims at being more than a simple play-along collection. For each of the tunes a thorough analysis and additi…

More String Time Joggers is a welcome addition to the ensemble repertoire for beginner strings from the authors of the award-winning Fiddle Time series. This exciting collection provides inventive and enjoyable ensemble material for all string groups, whatever their size. / Contrebasse (Ensemble A Cordes)

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Jim Palmer's arrangement of Music for the Royal Fireworks is an exciting two-movement work that is perfect for your young string orchestra. The movements work together or are effective played on their own. Terraced dynamics and authentic articulations will help your students gain an understanding of music from the Baroque era. A perfect opener or closer to any concert.…

Par KELTERBORN RUDOLF. Eight short pieces, sometimes markedly rhythmic, sometimes highly cantabile, always sensual in sound, exciting and interesting. Their order is flexible and can be defined by the performers themselves. The work is dedicated to the violinists Bettina Boller and Malvina Sosnowski. Miniatures playable in any combination Interesting timbral effects Also suitable for advanced stud…

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. This regal and stately fanfare-opener is a sterling new offering for band. Sixteen opening bars of thrilling fanfare lead inexorably to a theme expressing dignified momentum. Frequent but simple meter changes help to make this an interesting and educational piece that both the band and the audience will enjoy. A recap of the opening fanfare brings the piece to an exciting finis…

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. This regal and stately fanfare-opener is a sterling new offering for band. Sixteen opening bars of thrilling fanfare lead inexorably to a theme expressing dignified momentum. Frequent but simple meter changes help to make this an interesting and educational piece that both the band and the audience will enjoy. A recap of the opening fanfare brings the piece to an exciting finis…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost originally composed each and every note of ‘Slavia’ (as in case in ‘Puszta’, ‘Rikudim’ and ‘A Highland Rhapsody’). Consequently, ‘Slavia’ does not contain any arrangement of existing tunes, but is an original composition ‘in the style of…’. The introduction has an ABA structure and exposes a broad melodic line. Following a short cadenza, there is a second m…