Par HIMES WILLIAM. And now for something completely different! Who but William Himes would think of deconstructing and the reconstructing the 'birthday' song into this amazingly creative overture? And, who else could do it so well? The cognitive and the affective domains are both in for a treat as you prepare this intriguing new work for performance. Be sure to hear the CD demo and look closely at…

Par WILHELMJ AUGUST. August Wilhelmi est né à Usingen (Taunus) en 1845. À un âge étonnamment précoce, il a développé en virtuose du violon éminent. Il était sur ??la recommandation de Liszt qu'il avait reçu une éducation musicale au conservatoire de Leipzig entre 1861 et 1864e complets Pendant cette période, il a aussi joué au Gewandhaus. Ayant pris connaissance avec Richard Wager depuis 1862, il …

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course o…

Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. Written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the legendary oboist Leon Goossens, and first performed by him and the Carter Trio in 1958, this delightful 13-minute quartet is a fine showcase of Malcolm Arnold?s melodic gifts.  The work unfolds over three elegant movements, always engaging and directly communicative. / Ensemble Music / Répertoire / Hautbois, Violon, Alto et Vio…

Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. Written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the legendary oboist Leon Goossens, and first performed by him and the Carter Trio in 1958, this delightful 13-minute quartet is a fine showcase of Malcolm Arnold?s melodic gifts.  The work unfolds over three elegant movements, always engaging and directly communicative. / Ensemble Music / Répertoire / Hautbois, Violon, Alto et Vio…

Aure is a work by Kaija Saariaho for Violin and Viola, originally composed as an homage to Henri Dutilleux's 95th birthday. Aure was first performed on 19th August 2011, as part of the festival 'Les Inou and iuml - es' in Arras, France. Lasting around 4 minutes, these are the Parts. / Violon Et Alto

Un chord songbook (paroles et accords) regroupant 195 classiques des Beatles!

A great collection of 75 songs perfect for children of all ages. Songs include: Addams Family Theme - Anchors Aweigh - Be Our Guest - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Edelweiss - Ghostbusters - God Bless America® - Happy Birthday to You - Heart and Soul - I Won't Grow Up - If I Only Had a Brain - Linus and Lucy - Over the Rainbow - Put on a Happy Face - Sing - So Long, Farewell - The Star Spangled Banner…

This book contains both exercises and songs for performance. Intonation, articulation, phrasing, and rhythm are strengthened in the exercises, and the conditioning is extended so that the playing of the songs and the recital pieces will be a pleasure for players as well as for listeners. The first and second parts are of the same degree of difficulty, so that the parts can be exchanged in the repe…

Par ARMAN HOWARD. Howard Arman, director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, has been actively engaged with international Christmas carols through various Christmas-related CD productions of his choir in the past years. This has resulted in a number of original arrangements for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella, shedding new light on well-known classics such as O du fröhliche [O, you joyful], St…

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos). The special tuning in this case is not that the tonality moves in an ultra-chromatic direction, rather that it makes the cont…

Par TIPPETT MICHAEL SIR. For The Birthday Of Prince Charles/ Répertoire / Fanfare