Journey Through the Classics est une collection de répertoire de piano complète de 98 pièces, conçu pour amener les élèves de façon transparente des plus faciles classiques pour les chefs-d'oeuvre intermédiaires. Cette nouvelle édition comprend deux CD d'enregistrements par l'éditeur de chaque pièce dans le livre. Les morceaux classés sont présentés dans un ordre progressif et disposent d'une vari…

'Marco Polo' is an opera about journeys and marks a further stage in the composer Tan Dun (now best known for his work on the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)'s own journey - an exploration of a new language of musicand performing arts through the fusion of Western avant-garde style with Eastern accent. The spiritual journey - the cycle of the spirit and of Nature - coexists with a physical j…

Musique A Grande Vitesse (MGV ) translates as 'high speed music' and was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North European Paris-Lille line in 1993.The piece runs continuously, but was conceived as an abstract, imaginary journey- or rather five inter-connected journeys, each ending with a slow, mainly stepwise melody which is only heard in its 'genuine' form when…

Luis Tinoco (Composer) and Stephen Plaice (Libretto) wrote 'Paint Me' and Opera for six singers and Chamber Orchestra.Rui Horta and Joana Carneiro are responsible for the stage direction and the musicaldirection.'My idea in writing Paint Me was to bring together six characters all of whom have a prolific imaginative interior life and to explore what they would make of each other in the confines…

'Beggars' Palace' is the name of a fictive railway station a metaphor that can evoke many associations for example as a place from which one journeys on where one is forced to stay for a short or long period or a place where one simply gets stuck and must watch others journey on. The fictive station has something worn-out and shabby about it but the worn and shabby can have its own poetry and…

Star of the East dramatically relates the ancient journey of the wise men to our own journeys of faith. Just as the wise men laid their gifts at the feet of Jesus and worshipped Him so now in the Advent of Christ's return do weanticipate the day when we shall lay our gifts at the feet of Christ. Commissioned for the 20th annual Community Christmas Festival in Corry Pennsylvania this majestic …

Uses: Epiphany Christmas concertScripture: Matthew 1:2-18Anchored by the chorus of We Three Kings the inspired words of this choral anthem guide us to the light of Christ. We mirror thejourney of the magi and discover the Christ-child waiting to receive us. Harmonically interesting the piano part weaves a texture of mystery while the words help us to see a contemporary parallel to our own spiri…

A work for orchestra commissioned by Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. The composer writes 'I have borrowed the title 'Voyages extraordinaires' from the writer Jules Verne and his famous novel series depicting fantastic or in reality impossible journeys. The title seemed fitting as my work is intended as fantastical musical voyages on which the listener encounters new worlds of sound through recurrin…

John Fahey transformed the world of the acoustic flat-top steel-string Guitar by bringing it to the concert stage as a respected solo instrument. Blind Joe Death: Volume 1 looks at theimportant people and genres that shaped him as a composer. This volume focuses on Side 1 of the original 1967 Blind Joe Death LP a collection of mostly traditional music that was adapted for solo Guitar. HintsofHin…

Par HIROSE HAYATO. For this work, the Japanese composer Hayato Hirose dug deep into his own imagination to fi nd the right inspiration. It is about a young boy who dreams about reaching paradise (Arcadia) and sets out on a journey to find it. This journey is long and treacherous, but despite the many challenges he faces, the boy finally does reach his Arcadia. The result is a very dramatic work th…

This work was commissioned by Pembroke College Cambridge to celebrate the 600th anniversary of' their foundation. It was first performed at St. John's Smith Square London on the 18th of March 1998 by Emma Johnson and theVanbrugh Quartet.My idea in writing this piece was to depict a journey. The title comes from a poem of that name by W.H. Auden. I have used one or two simple musical ideas and tr…