Par PURCELL HENRY. A third book of songs by this great English composer, all edited by Maureen Lehane and Peter Wishart. CONTENTS: Evening hymn (C - F) I attempt from love's sickness to fly (C sharp - G (E)) I'll sail upon the dog star (C - G) Nymphs and shepherds (D - G) Oh solitude (B flat - F) Pious Celinda (C - G) Set for the Associated Board and Trinity College examinations./ Répertoire / Cha…

Exceptional singer Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) owes his early successes to the 'songs for voice and piano? genre, whose raison d'être he defines in his journal as follows: 'To highlight a poem, word for word but without uniformity - to emphasize its meaning without distorting it - to shine light upon one idea, obscure another and present it all in vocal, sung form - to produce a sharp, precise sensa…

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky himself, but “lyric sce…

Par SCARLATTI / GILBERT. The third volume of this series of 12 Sonatas, this book contains the Sonatas K. 104 to K. 155. Composed by Domenico Scarlatti, this edition by the harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert regroups the 555 sonatas arranged for Piano. Based on the two sets of books discovered in Venice and in Parma, this edition still contains some of the annotations initially suggested by Kirkpatric…

Sommaire 2000 ans et un jour - A la belle de Mai - A la légère - A nos actes manqués - A part ça - A toutes les filles - ABC pour casser - Accord parfait - Aïcha - Aime-moi encore - Aimer (spectacle musical : Roméo et Juliette) - Aller plus haut - Allumer le feu - Alors regarde - Amour à la machine - Amour des feintes - Amour existe encore - Années guitare - Another love in LA - Argent pourrit le…

  Prélude #1Ecrite à 6/8 et dédiée à Stephen Tharp, cette pièce est une douce et mélancolique cantilène, Prélude #2Ce Prélude, d'écriture contrapuntique (ABA), nous fait entendre une mélodie confiée au Cromorne et accompagnée par des fonds doux, / Orgue

Wladyslaw Szpilman (1911-2000) était une grande star de la radio d'Etat polonaise dans les années 1930. En Septembre 1939, lors d'une émission en direct, il a été défileront Chopin 'Nocture en C Sharp Minow' lorsque le sudio a été bombardé. Echappant de justesse à deportiation et les bouchons de la mort, il a survécu avec l'aide de ses amis polonais et a été épargné par ulitamtely un officier alle…

The Books of 1726-7 and 1741. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This is the first complete edition of the keyboard works of Jean-Philippe Rameau to incorporate all the printed collections of harpsichord music published under his supervision as well as his clavier arrangement of Les Indes Galantes. It also includes many new insights into performance practice (e. g. the handling of repeat signs in the origi…

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble…

Par FISHER KATHERINE. The Advancing Pianist: Technique Book 1 contains technical exercises in major and minor keys up to two sharps and two flats. The technical patterns presented are: Two and Three Octave Scales; Blocked and Broken Chord Inversions; Blocked and Arpeggiated; Chord Progressions; Two Octave Arpeggios; Hanon Exercises and Variations; Harmonic 6ths; Trills; Double 3rds; Octave Scales;…