Anthology of paraphrased opera arias for bassoon and piano. Selected and edited by Paolo Carlini Miscellanea di rivisitazioni ottocentesche di temi operistici in forma di Pout-Pourri, Reminescenze e Fantasie per fagotto e pianoforte. Oltre a divulgare un repertorio apprezzato che contraddistingue una parte importante della musica italiana, il volume si rivela utile tanto per il professionista quan…

A series available as violin duets or violin and piano.Whether a student or a great artist, the desire to make a beautiful sound is a constant in the life of any musician. Sound is the musician's voice, the means of communicating an artistic vision to the audience and it should be the aim for children of any age or standard to be engaged in good tone production.The inspiration for writing these pi…

24 Etudes-Caprices op. 41 par Delphin Alard (1815-1888) sont des matériaux excellente étude. Alard, le professeur de violon de Sasasate, composé de ces études dans les 24 touches. En raison de leur diversité musicale, beauté mélodique et la voix cantabile conduisant, ils sont beaucoup plus que des études techniques '- ils pourraient être décrits comme' pièces de caractère 'dans le meilleur sens du…

Par KASHPEROVA LEOKADIYA. Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, she emerged as a virtuoso pianist and composer in the romantic tradition. She was associated with some of the great musicians of her day, including Balakirev and Auer. She perf…

Concerto for Brass Band. Par SPARKE PHILIP. Perihelion was commissioned by the Cory Band as their own-choice piece for the 2013 European Brass Band Championships, held in Oslo, Norway. Winning the set piece section of the contest and coming second to Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag with their own choice selection, Cory went on to become European Champions for the fifth time. Cory MD Philip Harper had …

Par BANCALARI ROBERT. The German Baroque period featured three virtuosi—Biber, Westhoff and Johann Jakob Walther. Walther (1650-1717) performed as a violinist in the orchestra of Cosimo III from 1670 to 1674 (Medici dynasty) and served as concertmaster at the court in Dresden. Walther's compositions are contained in two books: Scherzi da Violino solo con il basso continuo (1676) and Hortulus Che…

Méthode pour guitare : rappel des principes généraux, les formes, gamme blues, gamme harmonique mineure, gamme mineure mélodique, gamme de Bartok (mode Lydien dominant), gamme altérée (mode Superlocrien), gamme chromatique, gamme unitonique, gammes diminuées, choix de la gamme selon l'accord, tableau récapitulatif, plan de travail, exercices d'improvisation, enchaînements verticaux, enchaînements …

on a Given Theme Most Excellent Composers and Virtuosos Diabelli Variations. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven's 'Diabelli Variations”, written between 1819 and 1823, mark the pinnacle of his oeuvre for variations and next to Bach's 'Goldberg Variations” form one of the most important contributions to this genre. In addition to Beethoven, 50 other composers from Austria, mainly Vienna, followed …

Par SARASATE PABLO DE. Sarasate\'s concert career began at age seventeen after he was awarded the coveted Premier Prix from the Paris Conservatoire for both violin and composition. After his London debut, the playwright and music critique George Bernard Shaw wrote in his review that Sarasate \'left criticism gasping miles behind him.\' Shaw also declared that there were many composers of music for…

Just as Serge Rachmaninoff's piano virtuosity ranked him among the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, his compositions for piano and orchestra won him an important position among modern composers. Among the works that ensure his reputation are the first three piano concertos, reprinted here from the authoritative full-score Russian editions.
Rachmaninoff wrote the stirring Piano Conc…

Par BOULANGER NADIA. Nadia Boulanger's Three Pieces for Viola and Piano Posterity has retained of Nadia Boulanger only her gifts as a virtuoso of the piano and organ, her skill as a conductor (of vocal ensemble and orchestra) and most of all, her incredible charisma as a teacher. For nearly sixty years, 'Mademoiselle' made the most of her famous Wednesdays, bringing rigour and passion to the tra…