The All Music Guide regards trumpet virtuoso Louis Armstrong as ?the most important musician in (jazz's) history.? This great songbook features note-for-note transcriptions of this legend's trumpet playing on 16 songs he's famous for: Basin Street Blues ? Cornet Chop Suey ? Gut Bucket Blues ? Hotter Than Hot ? Shine ? Tiger Rag ? When the Saints Go Marching In ? and more. Includes a bio and discog…

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled, yet notated improvisation. / Piano

Arr.Collatti Diego. Par GARDEL CARLOS. The name of Carlos Gardel is synonymous with the Tango - his compositions in the genre have long been considered classics. Universal Edition's popular series of arrangements by Diego Collatti is expanded by this new edition for two recorders, expertly edited by the Austrian virtuoso, Thomas List. They can be played on two alto recorders, or alto and tenor, an…

These virtuoso transpositions of themes by Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, and other masters offer unforgettable music for piano. This affordable anthology was published in association with the American Liszt Society.Table of Contents for Piano Transcriptions from French and Italian OperasSarabande and Chaconne from Almira, Concert Arrangement (Handel)[Sarabande und Chaconne aus dem Singspiel Almira]Remin…

Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841) probably was the greatest cello virtuoso of his time and compared to Paganini in his lifetime. He gave cello lessons at the famous Conservatoire de Paris among others.Romberg's popular Trio in E minor originally was the first part of the Trois Trios d'une Difficulté Progressive pour le Violoncelle Viola et Violoncelle Op. 38. The solo violoncello was accompanied by a v…

Description Two of Saint-Saens most popular works appear together in this affordable volume. First composed in a song form Danse Macabre was later rewritten as a symphonic poem. It is important to remember that risque music was considered more daring and controversial than today and audiences at its 1875 debut were resistant to its unconventional charms, but it eventually became a crowd pleas…

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled, yet notated improvisation. / Piano

A cura di Italo Vescovo. Par PAGANINI NICCOLO. Nicolò Paganini?s Minuetto e Trio in F sharp major for violin and viola - the autograph manuscript of which is preserved in the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome - is, together with his Sonata a violino e viola (M.S. 108), one of the rare pieces the Genoese composer wrote for this particular ensemble. In addition to expanding Paganini?s treasured catalog…

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled, yet notated improvisation. / Piano

Par COUNT GUIDO DEIRO. Count Guido Deiro (1886-1950), Italian-born composer and accordion virtuoso. Deiro was a major force in the popularization of the accordion in the early 20th century. Concert accordionist and scholar Henry Doktorski has transcribed and edited all of Deiro's original music for accordion--45 pieces including waltzes, rags, marches, polkas, fox trots, tangos, and popular Deiro …

The Swedish composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell was long viewed as an insider tip among clarinettists- in the meantime, his concertos have found their way to the concert stage. This is hardly surprising considering the enchanting music with which Crusell - himself a clarinet virtuoso of international rank - has enriched the earlyromantic repertoire. Crusell's works needn't shy from a comparison with …

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled, yet notated improvisation. / Piano

This composition for solo violin was written in 1987 for the violinist Roger Zahab who performed the world premiere in New York. As is typical of Ursula Mamlok, the work of about 5 minutes' duration is very short. In one movement, divided into five short sections, she sums up her musical cause in an extremely virtuoso manner: A powerful opening theme, which varies several times, is followed by a q…

Par HULL ANDREW. First premiered in Maui, Hawaii in 2022 at Benjamin Verdery’s annual summer masterclass, the 3 Caprices for Guitar by virtuoso guitarist Andrew Hull is a three-movement, technical tour-de-force in the vein of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Tres piezas españolas. Andrew is a Guitar Foundation of America International Competition finalist, former student of famed composer Dusan Bogdanovic, and F…