It is particularly in his choral music that Peteris Vasks reveals his strong attachment to his Latvian home country. Nature, customs and traditions and the idea of freedom are the central themes of the texts he sets to music, while carefully using modern techniques of choral singing as well. Alternating with traditional, even archaic singing, the music creates a multi-faceted, immediately effectiv…

Carol Matz's Famous and Fun Jewish Songs, Book 2 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli, and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method and have optional duet parts for teacher or parent. / Piano

Carol Matz's Famous and Fun Jewish Songs, Book 4 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method. / Piano

Lick Library: Tom Quayle And Stuart Bull - Dual Fusion offers guitarists the unique opportunity to learn from two world class players. This DVD includes lessons by Tom Quayle and Stuart Bull, as well as jam tracks and tablature.In this masterclass, you'll get to sit in with Quayle and Bull as they demonstrate their unique approaches to a series of backing tracks. The lessons take you from a more t…

Carol Matz's Famous and Fun Jewish Songs, Book 1 is filled with well-known, beloved Hebrew melodies. The collection contains songs for various Jewish holidays, Israeli, and Yiddish folk songs, as well as treasured traditional pieces. The arrangements can be used to supplement any method and have optional duet parts for teacher or parent. / Piano

Compiled and edited by David Blackwell, Piano Mix 2 is packed full of brilliant music that has been specially arranged for Easy Piano. Featuring a diverse range of styles and genres from centuries ago to the present day, to help pianists progress from Grades 2 to 3.The repertoire in Piano Mix 2 reflects the type of music in the ABRSM Piano syllabuses. In Piano Mix 2 the pieces are mostly at Grade …

Compiled and edited by David Blackwell, Piano Mix 1 is packed full of brilliant music that has been specially arranged for Easy Piano. Featuring a diverse range of styles and genres from centuries ago to the present day, to help pianists progress from Grades 1 to 2.The repertoire in Piano Mix 1 reflects the type of music in the ABRSM Piano syllabuses. In Piano Mix 1 the pieces are mostly at Grade …

Italian composer Franceso Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) wrote more than 350 songs, among which were favorites of famous singers, from Caruso and Tetrazzini in his day to Pavarotti and Carreras in ours. With a direct and simple grace and sensual Italianate vocal lines, his works were in some ways an art music reply to the Neapolitan folk tradition. Featuring 30 Tosti songs available for the first time in…

Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version) Dialogue versions. Par GOUNOD CHARLES. Charles Gounod’s “Faust” secured its international recognition in the version as an entirely sung opera, which from thenceforth has largely obscured the fact that the work was originally composed with spoken dialogues. The early versions staged prior to the 1869 performa…

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Britten's Irish Reel was composed in 1936 as title music for a documentary film made by Marion Grierson and Evelyn Spice. Around the Village Green was made for the Travel and Industrial Development Association, which explored the changes to rural life in East Anglia after the increased mechanisation of agriculture. In his incidental music, Britten incorporated a riotous medley of folk songs and ot…

Par LACHENMANN HELMUT. temA was written in the summer of 1968. In spite of Ligeti's “Aventures” it may be considered one of the first compositions in which the breathing plays a role as an accoustically transmitted energy process (Holliger, Globokar, Kagel, Schnebel and Stockhausen in “Hymnen” have already worked on this phenomenon independently of each other and from different points of view). Mo…

Contest March. Par SPARKE PHILIP. This fantastic contest march was composed for the Alexander Brass Band from Stavanger, Norway, who wanted a brand new march to play when they took part in the world-renowned Whit Friday March Contest. In the march Philip Sparke has followed the traditional brass band contest march format and it is named as a tribute to Alexander the Great, rather than the Alexande…