Colorful Colorado provides a musical tour of this western state. The suite opens with 'Aspen Leaf Rag,' a buoyant ragtime number inspired by the colorful tree that covers many of Colorado's mountainsides. Technical challenges in this piece include a stride bass pattern in the left hand and heavy syncopation. 'Moonlight on the Slopes' is a lyrical piece that oscillates between 3/4 and 6/8 meter. Fl…

The 1990s saw a long-running feud between Oasis and Blur as well as the rise of Britney Spears. It began with Sinead O'Connor taking time out from expressing opinions to remind us that she had an angelic voice with her cover of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U . The 90s proved a vintage decade for Canadians with Alanis Morissette's hit album Jagged Little Pill, Bryan Adams' Everything I Do (I Do It F…

In 1922 Maurice Ravel heard the young Hungarian violin virtuoso and niece of Joseph Joachim, Jelly D'Aranyi, in concert in London. Following the performance, Ravel spent the remainder of the evening requesting D'Aranyi to play numerous gypsy tunes on her violin, probing her on the technical limits of the instrument. The result of this encounter is Ravel's virtuoso classic 'Tzigane?. Written origin…

Par BRIDGE FRANK. These three pieces were written seperately between 1901 and 1910 for cello and piano, but are arranged here for Violin and Piano. Three of Frank Bridge's more popular and familiar works from his early days of composition are included here and, although masterful and beautiful, are rather conservative in the use of traditional techniques. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Répertoire / Vi…

Handel's dramatic cantata Apollo And Daphne belongs to the composer's early years in Italy. It seems likely to have been written in Rome, where Handel lived intermittently between 1707 and 1710. Opera in Rome had been placed under a papal ban, but musical society in the performance of dramatic cantatas, which possessed most of the features of opera without requiring elaborate staging. Handel's pla…

Arrangeur: Klaus Hofmann. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. This psalm setting was originally the opening and concluding movement in the Epiphany cantata from the annual cycle “Musicalisches Lob Gottes in der Gemeine des Herrn, ” published at Nuremberg in 1744, and it is also from the “Biblische Sprüche” [see p. 12]. As in the cantata, here the vocal bass part may also be omitted. The lively alternation…

A colourful piece culminating in an exciting sea battle between the English and the French at the time of Henry VIII / Ensemble A Cordes

'Vltava? (The Moldau) is Smetana's most famous and frequently performed tone poem. It was written between 20 November and 8 December 1874, but only in 1879-1880, with the completion of the entire cycle 'Má vlast? did it appear in print, when Urbánek issued it in full score and a version for piano duet.Owing to the large number of misprints in the Urbánek first edition, Hugh Macdonald has based his…

Par DEPECHE MODE. 21 Depeche Mode's songs recorded between 1986 and 1998. Includes a discography. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Date parution : 2006-03-27/ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

All the songs from the album, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. The project is a collaboration between Damon Albarn (Blur and Gorillaz), Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong (The Verve) and Tony Allen (Fela Kuti). The band are currently unnamed, only going by this album's title when advertised. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Tonalité : D-Dur - Tvwv 52:D3. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. The D-major Concerto for Two Violins belongs to a group of concertos that Telemann wrote between 1707-8 and 1712 while serving as concert master and later as Kapellmeister of the court musicians in Eisenach. Telemanns double conertos for Eisenach are music-histroical documents of the first order on the early eighteenth-century concerto in …

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled, yet notated improvisation. / Piano

Variationen über die Caprice Nr. 24 im Stil des Modern Jazz. Par SAY FAZIL. The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Fazil Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, and was originally designed as a charming encore work (1988); following the appreciative response of music lovers and, in part…

Par GOUNOD CHARLES. A lifelong resident of Paris, Gounod can hold a claim to being the most important figure in late 19th century French music on account of his influence on later composers. Studying at the Paris Conservatoire, Gounod left in 1839to travel through Europe, initially to Rome but then on through Austria and Germany. He was profoundly struck by the music he heard at the Sistine Chapel…

Par PRITCHARD FIONA. Cooking up a Classic is a set of 10 pastiche pieces for Horn for the early grade player between grades 1 and 4. Each piece has been written in the style of a particular composer and incorporates the stylistic elements of their compositions and hints at well-known themes in some cases. This will introduce the young player to the style of music written by composers and also give…