Par ARENS BARBARA. Nothing succeeds like success! The great popularity of Barbara Arens? One Hand Piano (EB 8646) has encouraged the composer to produce a further collection of pieces for left or right hand alone. The forty pieces are playful, lyrical, haunting or romantic; in tango, waltz, or gavotte dance rhythms; in rock, celtic, jazz and film music styles? A very special feature: the four one …

Roméo et Juliette Op.17 Hol.73: Symphonie dramatique
For his third symphony “Roméo et Juliette” (1839) Berlioz turned to his greatest literary passion, Shakespeare, drawing once again on his ownmost fervent experiences.
Berlioz’s discovery of Shakespeare in 1827 had been overwhelming not only for the dramatic force of the poetry and drama, but also because the leading actress of the comp…

Frozen In evokes the icy calm of a placid winter evening walk, not just any walk but the walk of great friends with a long shared history. The crystalline imagery of the poetry is perfectly depicted in this setting for women's voices, evoking the calm of the atmosphere and the icy walk. / Choeur SSA, Violon Et Piano

Par TAN CHEE-HWA. A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of 8 Grade 1 pieces for piano solo. Inspired by eight verses from Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved anthology (published 1883), this collection was composed to encourage young pianists to explore the poetry inherent in music. Titles: Keepsake Mill The Moon Pirate Story The Wind At the Seaside Where Go the Boats My Shadow The La…

Poetry and music at the courts of Mantua and Ferrara. 1. ?Bird Music?. Critical edition Music by Marchetto Cara, Michele Pesenti, Bartolomeo Tromboncino. Foreword by Bonnie J. Blackburn Editor: Gioia Filocamo Publication Date: 2003

Song of the stars. Par RAMINSH IMANT. A strong and sustained song with a beautifully poetic text, which seems to weave rhythmically and effortlessly through the music. This piece is arranged for SAB Choir and Keyboard./ Feuillet / Choeur Mixte (SABar) et Piano

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI. This large four-movement work, written in 1893, was premiered by Rachmaninoff and Pavel Pabst in Moscow. It is dedicated to Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. A few lines of poetry by Romantic poets preface each movement. The theme of love in the first two movements is brought to life by the two pianos with colorful, passionate writing. The final two movements feature the sound of b…

Hal Leonard Recorder Songbook. Par SWIFT TAYLOR. Swifties with recorders, unite! This updated collection features 24 Swift favorites from her whole career through The Tortured Poets Department arranged for recorder. The book includes a handy fingering chart for beginners or those who need a refresher. Songs include: Anti-Hero · Bad Blood · Blank Space · Cardigan · Champagne Problems · Cruel Summer…

The Original First and Second Books including Dowland's Original Lute Tablature. Par DOWLAND JOHN. Considered the greatest lute virtuoso and composer of the English school in the early 17th Century, John Dowland (1563-1626) composed over 80 pieces of solo lute music. His peerless skills as an instrumentalist were hailed by poet Richard Barnfield, who referred to Dowland as one '. . . whose heav'nl…

3 Nocturnes and 2 Interludes For Cello and Guitar. Par HEINIO MIKKO. Mikko Heiniö's Mot natten (Towards night), three nocturnes and two interludes for cello and guitar was composed in 2018. This suite found its inspiration and name in Finnish poet Bo Carpelan's (1926-2011) posthumous poetry collection Mot natten (2013), though the movements are not tied to specific poems. The first nocturne, Obscu…

Par O'REGAN TARIK. This 23-minute work for chorus and strings is setting of texts by Pakistan-born British poet Imtiaz Dharker (When the Copperplate Cracks), the pioneering American Amy Lowell (The Taxi) and contemporary American poet Christopher Bolin (Emigration Song) which are loosely connected by the theme of the movement of humans around the world and the traces left behind. It was commissio…

Par STEPHENSON JOSEPHINE. 'The Sestina is a fixed verse poetic form dating from the 12th century. It has a fascinating, very strict structure, consisting principally of six stanzas of six lines each, and requiring that the six line-ending words of the first stanza be re-used as end-words in each of the following stanzas in specific places, determined by an algorithm. In this musical Sestina, which…

Par FAURE GABRIEL. Nine songs on the poetry of Paul Verlaine./ Répertoire / Voix Elevées et Piano