Belkis, Queen of Sheba-Suite for Wind Orchestra. Par RESPIGHI OTTORINO. In 1931 Ottorino Respighi began composing the music for his most ambitious theatre work: Belkis, regina di Saba. The ballet describes the journey of Belkis, the Queen of Sheba, to Solomon, the King of Israel, with whom she was in love. She travels with a large caravan including elephants, camels, slaves and many valuable treas…

from opus 170 - Edizione a cura di Luca Ciammarughi. Par CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO MARIO. Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco composed 52 Greeting Cards for various instruments between 1953 and 1967, collectively catalogued as opus 170, which he developed in a non-systematic manner up to the year before his death. These pieces were conceived as gifts for his interpreters and students, whom the author meant to gra…

13 transcriptions from this Americana folk and country duo, including: Barton Hollow · Devil's Backbone · Dust to Dust · Falling · From This Valley · I Had Me a Girl · I've Got This Friend · Kingdom Come · My Father's Father · The One That Got Away · Poison and Wine · To Whom It May Concern · 20 Years. / Guitare

The Trois Pièces de Société, Op. 36 was Fernando Sor's second set of 'society pieces'. Published in 1828, these consisted of six small characterful and entertaining pieces grouped into three pairs. They may have been composed for a specific occasion, perhaps as a musical bouquet for a soirée in a Parisian salon hosted by a certain Monsieur Paston, to whom they are dedicated. / Guitare

Kantate Zum 1. Advent. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. The Advent cantata Machet die Tore weit has long been one of the most frequently performed of Telemann’s sacred works. Among the copies of this cantata which have been handed down is a copy by J. S. Bach which bears testimony to the high respect he paid to his then more celebrated colleague from Hamburg: It is a copy of the score in the hand of th…

Méthode pour Clavecin. Guide pratique pour Pianistes, Organistes et Clavecinistes Langue française Enrico Baiano is considered one of the most interesting artists on early music scene. He was born in Naples in 1960 and subsequently graduated in piano and composition at Naples? Conservatorio ?San Pietro a Majella? before specialising in harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano with Emilia Fadini …

Par SADELER GEORGES. Schola Vitae, dedicated to the former director of UGDA Music School in Luxembourg, Paul Scholer, describes in an 8-minute piece that learning and playing music is a school for life. Starting with popular scales that ascend and descend through various keys, an essential tool familiar to every musician appears: the metronome. It sets the tempo, and musicians practice their them…

Par CASKEN JOHN. From One Thread for solo viola is in a single movement but with three clearly defined sections that draw on the Baroque suite. The first section is a capricious Fantasia which is followed by a short Sarabande, rather stately but with irregular metres, and the piece ends with an urgent Courante. Writing for a solo instrument is about tracing a single line and this reminded me of th…

Toccata, Adagio e Fuga per quartetto di clarinetti. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has h…

Par HIMES WILLIAM. This rousing, jubilant overture mixes five original themes with the well-known doxology Old Hundredth, which is also known as Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow. The hymn is presented in short lyrical, energetic motif fragments, which combine until the complete hymn is presented in the form of a chorale prelude. This is a wonderful and truly uplifting concert work. / Nivea…

Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. Joseph Haydn?s popular Piano Sonata in D major comes from a group of six sonatas which Haydn had published as a collection by the Viennese publisher Artaria in 1780. The edition was dedicated to the sisters Katharina and Marianna Auenbrugger, two Viennese pianists whom the composer greatly admired: ?The approval of the Misses von Auenbrugger is most important to me; for thei…

of the concerto for flute, harp and orchestra KV 299. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. In the unparalleled series ‚Cadenza‘, Schott Musik International presents cadences of well-known instrumental concertos of classical and Romantic music, composed by major composers and soloists of our time. The cadences of Mozart‘s Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra in C major KV 299 were created by Nino Rota. I…

Jemmy Bluestein is a well-known teacher and performer on many instruments. He has a number of albums with the Bluestein Family and his brother Evo with whom he often performs. You will learn tuning, picking techniques, chording techniques, rhythms, basic chords for the keys of D, G, A and C, embellishments, variations and singing accompaniment. / Mandoline