Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. Brahms conceived an alternate version of the works…

Par DELISE LOUIS ANTHONY. Louis Anthony deLise's Giocara for Flute and Harp was written for flutist Joan Sparks and harpist Anne Sullivan. As the title implies, (giocara means 'to play'), this collection is all about playfulness, and consists of three works: Three Little Dancers, A Preponderance of Sevenths, and Petite Fall Fanfare. Though originally composed for flute and pedal harp, included in …

L?acquisition de nouvelles compétences, au sein d?une démarche structurelle, est indispensable dans l?apprentissage d?un instrument à vent. Un bon professeur est un élément-clé mais il est essentiel de posséder, en complément de la méthode utilisée, des outils pédagogiques motivants offrant une présentation structurelle des techniques de jeu et d?apprentissage. Chaque recueil d?études, de solos et…

für 2 Violoncelli. Par SUSLIN JULIA. For two cellos. For two cellos. / Mottet / Répertoire / 2 Violoncelles

Par WEISSENBORN JULIUS. German bassoonist and pedagogue Julius Weissenborn is known primarily as an author and composer of method and etude books familiar to all bassoonists. However, he also composed a number of solo works, including this Capriccio, Op. 14. Not only is the piece educational to the player, but it is also quite entertaining to the audience. Similar to the Premier Solo of Eugene Bou…

Wq 217. Par BACH CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL. His Heilig Wq 217 is just 6 minutes long. Bach, however, put all his art into these few minutes, as he himself wrote to his publisher: „ Here I have proved the most daring and hard work . . . It will be my swan song of this nature, and serve to ensure that you do not forget myself too soon after my death“. The work requires an extraordinary instrumentation: …

With The Star-Spangled Banner: Charts And Tracks For Singers you can practice and perform The Star-Spangled Banner in your favorite style and in your key.Here are the lead sheets and professional backing tracks you'll need to put your skills on full display.Each style features two tracks and two keys, one high and one low. Sheet music versions for keyboard and acoustic guitar are also included. / …

Italie for String Quartet Score and Parts. Par BAKER CLAUDE. Annees de pelerinage: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage: Italy) derives its title from the set of three suites for piano by Franz Liszt in which he musically portrays the strongest sensations and most lively impressions created by his travels to Italy and Switzerland during the period 1835-39. In this composition, each of the four movements ex…

Cantata for string orchestra and chorus. Triptych represents the concatenation and re-orchestration of two extant works. Movement I was commissioned with funds from The RVW Trust for the inaugural concert of the Choir of London conducted by Jeremy Summerly in Christ Church, Spitalfields on 18th December, 2004 - the work, premièred as Threnody, was subsequently toured by the Choir to Jerusalem and …

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Four original Sonatas with the Variations in G, K. 501 (probably on the composer's own theme and also original duet), the Fugue in G minor, K. 401 (completed by M. Stadler) and two Fantasias originally for mechanical organ, arranged for piano duet. CONTENTS Fantasia in F minor K594; Fantasia in F minor K608; Fugue in G minor K401; Sonata in B flat K358; Sonata in C K52…

Par TYSHAWN SOREY. Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association for a world premiere by the LA Phil New Music Group in January 2019, Tyshawn Sorey's gently tolling chamber work For Fred Lerdahl is dedicated to the elder composer on the occasion of Lerdahl's retirement. Sorey credits Lerdahl as one of two teachers who helped him to find his own voice as a composer. A single, 13-minute m…

Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. Othello (or Otello) is an opera in four acts composed by Giuseppe Verdi, premiered in February 1887. As was customary at the time, a short ballet sequence was composed for the opera, to be inserted into Act III, just prior to the entrace of Lodovico, ambassador to the Venetian Republic. When Verdi sent the original manuscript to his publisher Ricordi, he included this detailed …

for soprano and piano. Par CASKEN JOHN. Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran’s New French Song project. It was as a result of having written one short song to words by Verlaine that I subsequently decided to set two further poems to make a group of three. All three were also set by Debussy: L’…

The Bartók Performing Editions-Instruktive Ausgaben von Béla Bártok. Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. Bartók taught piano at the Music Academy in Budapest from 1907 to 1934. In his first years as a professor the Budapest music publishers Rozsnyai and Rózsavölgyi commissioned him to prepare so-called instructive editions (including suggestions, commentaries and fingerings for the performer) of several cl…

The clarinet method op. 63 by Carl Baermann from 1867 is still a standard work in classical clarinet education today. The thoroughly revised new edition aims at reviewing the educational concept, which is still valid today, for modern lessons, adjusting the music and texts, and sensibly complementing the teaching contents.The editor who draws on many years of experience as a clarinettist in an orc…