10 Stücke Für Oboe (Auch Oboe D'Amore und Englisch Horn) und Harfe. This collection contains musical birthday greetings to composers and instrumentalists who are close friends of Heinz Holliger. The very different pieces were created over a period of 15 years for the duo Ursula and Heinz Holliger. Among the recipients of these birthday compositions were Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Robert Suter,…

Anonymous Folk Poem-Soprano, Recorder (Soprano, Treble and Tenor Recorders) 1 player-2 playing score. Par FRANCES-HOAD CHERYL. Commissioned by John Turner for Gordon Crosse's 80th Birthday concert at The Martin Harris Centre, Manchester University, 22nd October 2017. Premiered by Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano) and John Turner (Soprano, Treble and Tenor recorders). I'll have the Whetstone for soprano…

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. Oliver Knussen's concise and effervescent Eccentric Melody occupies a small but important place in the solo cello repertoire, and would enliven any recital. Composed as a double tribute - for cellist Fred Sherry, in his 50th birthday year, to play to Elliott Carter on his 90th birthday - the 2-minute work is presented here in manuscript facsimile. / Classique / Répertoire / Vi…

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. In 1925, Breitkopf & Härtel approached the young pianist Wilhelm Kempff to prepare Clara Schumann’s “Instructive Edition” of her husband’s works for the new engraving. “[…] The comparison with the autograph and the Urtext edition [First Schumann Complete Edition], the results of the Schumann research, the modern principles of notation – all of this would have to be taken into …

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. In 1925, Breitkopf & Härtel approached the young pianist Wilhelm Kempff to prepare Clara Schumann’s “Instructive Edition” of her husband’s works for the new engraving. “[…] The comparison with the autograph and the Urtext edition [First Schumann Complete Edition], the results of the Schumann research, the modern principles of notation – all of this would have to be taken into …

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. These four songs are taken from A Birthday Hansel Op.92 which was written at the special wish of Her Majesty The Queen for her mother's seventy-fifth birthday, 4th August 1975. All of the songs are wonderfully flowing and expressive and are arranged for High Voice with Piano Accompaniment. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Norfolk is one of the most beautiful counties in England, famous for its charming villages and boundless broads, a popular centre for sailing holidays. It is also the home of one of the best known of all British composers, Sir Malcolm Arnold. The date of the premiere of this piece was to fall close to his 80th birthday, so Philip Sparke decided to write something of a birthday t…

This fun-filled and easy-to-use book offers an educational way to celebrate the holidays! Each chant presents three stepping stones to rhythmic reading: practice the spoken ostinatos first, transfer to body percussion next, and then play on classroom instruments. PDF files on the included Data CD make it a piece of cake to print or project the music notation in your classroom. Twenty holidays, fou…

This book presents North and South Indian music in staff notation to whet the appetite of discerning western violin players. The melodies begin at around Grade 4 level, progressing to GCSE and A level music performance material. The explanation of North and South Indian music comes with a variety of ragas and compositions from both systems. Candida Connolly provides an informative introduction to …

Facsimile of the autograph score from the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth. Par WAGNER RICHARD. Knowledge, pity, redemption: Richard Wagner took up these major themes in “Parsifal”, the music drama that he completed 13 months before his death and referred to as his “most conciliatory work”. Already celebrated for its compositional technique and mystical sonorities at the …

Instrument : celloNombre de Pages : 8This tribute piece was commissioned as a birthday surprise to Michael Berman. The first performance was given by Raphael Wallfisch at a private event in 2004 at the Palace of Westminster. Although entirely unbarred the music is fully notated, both rhythmically and melodically. The B flat-B motif derived from the work's title (i.e. H-B in German notation) featur…

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Britten began composing his Quatre chansons francaises in June 1928 and had finished the full score by August of that year, before his 15th birthday. The songs reflect the impact of his lessons with Frank Bridge, which had begun in the autumn of 1927, and he dedicated the work, which was among the most ambitious of his compositions at this time, to his parents, on the occasio…

Par TER-HOVHANISIAN ARTHUR. Réunies et annotées par Arthur Ter-Hovhanisian Ce livre contient des études et des exercices qui ont été composés par d'éminents interprètes et pédagogues tels que Iampolski, Mostras, Pitkuss, Rabinovitch, Sapojnikov... Le but de ce travail est de réunir en une suite logique et en un seul livre une partie de ces exercices et de ces études, que j' ai révisés et annotés…