A collection of ideas and exercises based on fundamental elements of horn playing-Following on from Bob Ashworth's brilliant 'Horn Warm-Ups' (EME635) this A5 booklet offers more demanding challenges for horn players: exploring a wider range pushing some technical demands and offering ways to practise'difficult' bits. Some of the exercises have an obvious reference to standard orchestral excerpts …
A brilliant little A5 booklet of daily warm-up exercises designed to consolidate techniques and achieve a focused sound prior to practising or performance. Fits neatly in any case. Thoroughly road-tested by the Opera North hornsection! 'At last a book that points the aspiring player in all the right directions. The clarity and lay out are exemplary.' - Hugh Potts
Adrien Barthe's Couvre Feu or 'Curfew' for Oboe and Piano. Couvre Feu is No.5 (and the best) of a set of six pieces for Oboe (or Violin) and Piano by French bandmaster AdrienBarthe and probably the only one of the six to be in print. It is dedicated to 'Monsieur Emile Devraine' and there was a Violin maker of that name working in Paris and broadly contemporary with Barthe. He was a goodfriend of t…
A delightfully evocative three-movement suite depicting three town scenes for B flat Clarinet Violin Viola Cello.Contents:Market DayThe Old AbbeyThe Flower Show
Sonatas From Opus 1-This first volume comprises seven of Handel's elegant Flute sonatas from Opus 1. This edition was edited and realised by Lionel Salter and aims to provide Flautists and Recorder players with as authentic atext as possible in a practical form. The Flute part is also included in a separate booklet.
Arnold Cooke was born in Yorkshire on November 4th 1906. He was educated at Repton School and then went to Cambridge University in 1925 where he gained a degree in history. He then transferred to the musicfaculty studying with E.J.Dent and Denis Arundel. In 1929 he went to the Hochschüle für Musik in Berlin and studied for three years with Hindemith. After finishing his studies he became the dir…
Christopher Ball's beautiful arrangements of four folksongs are simple but extremely effective ideal for showing off the lyrical talents of the performer. They have been recorded by Leslie Craven(Principal Clarinettist BBC National Orchestra of Wales) on his recent CD 'Expressions' (on the Clarinet Classics label). Over the Hills and Far Away has been selected for the 2014-2017 ABRSM Grade 5 syl…
These six songs Op.154 originally scored for baritone violin and piano have been adapted for medium voice clarinet and piano by Chris Allen and work incredibly well. An excellent addition to the repertoire for this particularcombination. The set includes a piano score a vocal score and a clarinet part.Contents: Abend-Feier Jagdlied Töne Erlkönig Der Spielmann und seine Geige …
Solo Bass Clarinet-Claude Debussy's Syrinx for Bass Clarinet. Despite being written originally for Flute this transcription of Syrinx by Helen Paskins works beautifully for the Bass Clarinet; the timbre of theinstrument really resonates with the haunting melancholy of the melody. 'Syrinx was written in 1913 by Debussy for the flute as incidental music to Gabriel Mourey's play Psyché. It was firs…
“I wrote Rhapsody in 2000 but it remained unperformed and so I gave a copy to John Orford the Bassoonist and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Some years later to my surprise and delight hecontacted me to ask if it could be the set piece for The Florence Woodbridge Prize. On the morning of Monday the 27th June 2016 I went to The Academy where I heard a succession of fine performance…
