Par YE XIAOGANG. 'Datura was commissioned by Accessible Contemporary Music and was written in a unique way. I composed the piece in installments over the summer of 2006 and emailed them to Seth Boustead who forwarded them on to the ensemble. In this unique way of working I was able to have time between each installment to think about what would come next and to get feedback from the performers abo…

Instrument : celloNombre de Pages : 28The award-winning Essential String Method offers an exciting advance in the teaching of stringed instruments, integrating musical awareness, creativity and technical development from the outset. Making their way through the series, pupils encounter an attractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire. The material is present…

Featuring the Academy Award®-winning music of Howard Shore, this folio includes several interior pages of full-color, full-size photo panels from the sensational motion picture and a removable centerfold that is suitable for framing. Printed on antique paper stock, the songbook is a special collector's edition and a must-have for any fan. Features May It Be, composed and recorded by Enya. Titles a…

for solo cello. Par LARCHER THOMAS. I do not compose my pieces for a certain voice range or orchestration, but for musicians, for people. It is almost impossible for me to produce a piece without having a particular person in mind or to hear him/her inwardly. No matter how standardized the interpretation of classical music is, and no matter how many coordinates have been fixed and defined, I do …

Par ANDERSON JULIAN. Written in memory of American composer Steve Stucky and recorded by Grammy winning pianist Gloria Cheng as part of a collection of tributes. A light and optimistic piece filled with bursts of notes rising upwards. The music builds towards a dramatic crash of sound which dissipates into the air. / Niveau : Avancé / Répertoire / Piano

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. In the most literal sense: a piece for an occasion. The actual occasion was Jan de Haan’s twentieth anniversary as a conductor of the top Dutch brass band, “Soli Deo Gloria” (Leeuwarden). To mark the occasion, the band commissioned the Belgian comopser Jan Van der Roost to create a surprise piece: without knowledge of the person being celebrated, a suitable source of inspira…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. In the most literal sense: a piece for an occasion. The actual occasion was Jan de Haan’s twentieth anniversary as a conductor of the top Dutch brass band, “Soli Deo Gloria” (Leeuwarden). To mark the occasion, the band commissioned the Belgian comopser Jan Van der Roost to create a surprise piece: without knowledge of the person being celebrated, a suitable source of inspira…

Canaanite Fantasy No. 3. Par LEEF YINAM. Similiar to its two sister-works, ELEGY looks back to the past and to ancient musical colors and ideals, combining musical ornamentations of nature within contemporary Western modes of expression. The composer accounts that 'the most interesting and attractive challenge for me was to try to relate to the special characteristics of the harpsichord - its rath…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. In the course of the two centuries following the death of Henry Purcell in 1695, no British composer of any statue was apparent. Consequently, the break-through of Edward Elgar (1857-1934) as an internationally known and respected composer at the end of the last century, was of considerable importance. As a composer Elgar was largely self-taught and he looked towards the con…

from Ben Hur. Par ROZSA MIKLOS. Le Hongrois Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) fut un des derniers compositeurs de l’âge d’or hollywoodien. Auteur de plus de cent musiques de films, il fut “oscarisé” à trois reprises pour les bandes originales des films La Maison du Docteur Edwardes (1945), Othello (1947) et enfin Ben Hur (1959), le péplum du cinéaste William Wyler (né à Mulhouse en Alsace). Ben Hur est le …