Par LAKE STREET DIVE. Lake Street Dive is a multi-genre Brooklyn-based band formed at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Critics describe their music as 'Sounds Like: Llewyn Davis's favourite pop group; Motown meets the Brill Building in jazzy, soulful, woulda-been Sixties chart toppers.' (Rolling Stone, 2014). Arranged for piano, voice and guitar, this artist approved songbook featu…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Fiery sounds of the Spanish Fandango for young bands! Mysterious modal harmonies and stirring Percussion transport us to the mythical kingdom of gold. Intense and rhythmic, your band will be happy to dig in and refine their performance skills as they uncover the hoard of musical enrichment that James Curnow has carefully included in the arrangement. Relentless energy ensures that…

Fantasy for Band. Par BULLA STEPHEN. One can only imagine what it might be like if the animals ran the zoo! This and other questions will be considered in this programmatic original work for band, incorporating all manner of animal and jungle noises. Young bands students will love the opportunity to use some of those carefully rehearsed vocal monkey and bird sounds they’ve been diligently working …

The 8th volume of Kurtág's outstanding piano miniatures includes 16 of his personal musical notes, messages composed between 1982 and 2005. Just as in the case of the earlier volumes Kurtág dedicates most of these pieces to members of his artistic and intellectual circle of friends, although some of them are homages.
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1. Flower we are ... (embracing sounds)
2. One more voi…

Par SCHWARTZ JAY . From the composer: “I composed Music for Saxophone and Piano for Harry Kinrose White in 1992. It is an early attempt in my work at magnifying the barriers between sound and silence, exploring the extreme ranges of pianissimo sounds in the saxophone that seem to appear without recognizable transition out of nothing. Glissandi, sliding tones, have always fascinated me, and in this…

Par SCHWARZ BOUSCH. Melanges was compiled by pedagogues at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatoire as a response to the increase of electro-acoustic music. The compilation provides flautists and oboists with an excellent introduction to playing with electronic accompaniment. As collection of modern works, Melanges addresses extended techniques in the solo Flute/Oboe line. These include embouchure t…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Fiery sounds of the Spanish Fandango for young bands! Mysterious modal harmonies and stirring Percussion transport us to the mythical kingdom of gold. Intense and rhythmic, your band will be happy to dig in and refine their performance skills as they uncover the hoard of musical enrichment that James Curnow has carefully included in the arrangement. Relentless energy ensures that…

Debussy's new string quartet received a very cool reception at its première in Paris in December 1893, performed by the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe. The critics were upset by its unusual harmonies and orchestral sounds, and the musicians who were later presented with it considered it 'unplayable?. Nevertheless the work was able to establish itself in the years that followed and today belongs to the core …

1001 Nights in the Harem. Par SAY FAZIL. 'My Violin Concerto consists of four movements whose inspiration is loosely connected with Scheherazade’s One Thousand and One Nights. The first movement is set inside the harem; a variety of women from the harem are introduced, each with her own different personality. The second movement is a frenzy of dance – in effect a party night with an abundance of d…

Par HENSELT ADOLPH. Following his acclaimed first recording of Adolph von Henselt's piano works for Edition Peters Sounds (EPS005), Daniel Grimwood now presents a unique recording of Henselt's complete Études coupled with the complete Préambules. Henselt can truly be considered one of the founding fathers of the Russian School. He counted among his pupils Nicolai Sergeyvich Zverev, the teacher of …