Par DVORAK ANTONIN. For several years following composition of his first piano quartet, Dvorák?s publisher Simrock pushed him to compose a follow-up piece in the genre. The work, written during a few short weeks in summer 1889, fulfilled Simrock?s wishes. With his op. 87, Dvorák delivered a challenging and mature work in which a mastery of form is combined with memorable themes and surprising harm…

Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances. Later the author collected some pieces together forming the suite 'Reminiscences of the Theatre?, the title being of course a reminiscence of Robert Schumann's famous 'Album für die Jugend? (No 25). De…

Description G. Schirmer Opera Anthology - Arias For Mezzo-Soprano Carefully chosen arias to anticipate the needs of singers, teachers and coaches for years to come. Includes historical notes, plot synopses and translations for study. Edited by Robert L. Larsen. Songlist Acerba Volutta (Adriana Lecouvreur) [Cilea, Francesco] Ah, Michele, Don't You Know (The Saint Of Bleecker Street) [Menott…

Choralkantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas based on well-known c…

Description Music for Royal Occasions is an exciting volume of pieces written for coronations and other royal celebrations over the past five centuries. It includes long-standing favourites, such as Handel's Zadok the priest and Parry's I was glad ; and works from earlier years, such an Henry Purcell's I was glad and the delightful Rejoice in the Lord alway . Many well-loved composers …

Music Fundamentals Workbook. Par WIEGAND NEIDHOLD CARYN. Caryn Wiegand Neidhold draws on her many years as a string educator to present fundamentals that a beginning string student needs to know. This student workbook contains exercises on Clefs, Note Naming, Time Signatures, Counting and more! It is laid out in a very student friendly manner and will be a valuable resource for beginning players. …

The great talent of Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) showed very early: At the age of 12, she published her first composition. Georges Bizet, a friend of the family, predicted her great future. After her successful debut as a pianist in Paris in 1877, she began busy concert activities as a solo pianist, chamber musician and conductor in many European countries as well as in the USA and Canada.Although…

Over the Rainbow is a standard that has become forever associated with its most famous interpreter, Judy Garland. Her troubled adult years only added poignancy to her guileless interpretation of the song, preserved on celluloid in The Wizard of Oz when she was seventeen. The song would also do something similar for Eva Cassidy whose 1992 version brought her posthumous fame almost a decade later. A…

Par JOHNSON TIMOTHY. Composer Timothy Johnson spent many years as a school band director. His teaching experience qualifies him to approach the development of this new entry into the CMP Essentials of Musicianship Series with reality-based confidence. Ever so gradually this product takes the band from the simplest forms of syncopation to more and more complex notation. Your students can build thei…

Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Composed during the years 1935/36, the score fell victim to the war, and was lost. In 1946 Shostakovich, using his outline sketches, arranged the work for two pianos. The score was later reconstructed from the instrumental parts which had been preserved./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Arrangeur: Florence Eller. Par STRAUSS RICHARD. The Cello Sonata Op. 6 was composed over an apparently frequently interrupted period of three years, an extraordinarily long time for Strauss's early creative phase. The compositional process spawned two independent versions of the work, the first of which is published for the first time on the basis of the text in the Critical Edition of the Works o…

Solomotette Zum Dreifaltigkeitsfest Oder Zu Weihnachten. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. A good six years following its first performance in Milan [1773] a second version of Exsultate, jubilate was completed for a performance on Trinity Sunday in 1779. It has survived in a manuscript from Salzburg. This “Salzburg version, ” which was discovered in 1978, differs from the “Milan version” primarily thro…

Par MC NEFF STEPHEN. My research for Banished began with a small group of students during a Trinity Laban co-lab period in 2013, though the idea goes back over 30 years when I first saw Steve Gooch’s Female Transport and stored the idea of adapting it as an opera until the right opportunity arose. I have been involved in opera for a long time and it has always been a frustration for me that while …

et autres inédits pour piano. Par HAHN REYNALDO. Having been considered as a 'fashionable' and 'cliche' composer of his day, Hahn 's Piano Works remain unknown. Pièces D'Amour Et Autres Inedits Pour Piano, however, shatter these prejudices held, representing the engaging diversity of the composer's music. Venezuelan born Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) entered the Paris Conservatoire at 10 years old. He…

A four-part collection of songs for female vocalists, as sung by some of the great female artists of the last 50 years, arranged for piano and voice, complete with lyrics and guitar chord boxes. / Pop & rock / Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare