Par HINDSON MATTHEW. Matthew Hindson's Rush for guitar and string quartet takes its influence from the music of Felix Mendelssohn. The fast and technically challenging passages found in the final movement of the Mendelssohn String Octet influenced Hindson's decision to compose a work for the Goldner String Quartet that is highly virtuosic in nature. Hindson remarks, 'it is much more the spirit of …

The composer states that'the piece begins with a slowly falling scale of seven notes, thrown from one player to another, repeated nine times and embellished with ornamental flurries which outline a gradually evolving harmonic pattern. The repetitive nature of the music is like a peal of bells or some other kind of evocation. Eventually the music breaks out of this cyclic inevitability and heads in…

Cette partition est dédié à la mémoire de Mieke van Weddingen formidable musicienne belge, flûtiste émérite trop tôt disparue qui fut et demeure une amie très chère, La musique évoque la nature, les oiseaux qui sont au bout de son jardin, comme à portée d'âme, L'interprète s'imagine faire corps avec la liberté du vent, / Flûte A Bec

Par DE HAAN JACOB. Ammerland brings you a vivid impression of this enchanting region by the Zwischenahner Lake (Germany)! The rural landscape of Ammerland combines fields covered with yellow rape blossoms, lush meadows, seemingly endless country roads and an exquisite lake. Let yourself be lured away on a short musical trip to beautiful Ammerland. Enjoy nature, the lake and the brilliant colours o…

Par HANNICKEL MIKE. This addition to the Curnow Music Press GREAT FOUNDATIONS SERIES of pre-Grade 1 publications is accessible to young musicians who have been playing for just a few weeks. A simple, repetitive theme with flashy, but very easy percussion writing ensures that you can have THE CHARIOTEERS ready to perform in time for the concert, even if you have “precious little” rehearsal time. Th…

Ed. Critica A. Borin. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Casa Ricordi Milano in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (Istituto Antonio Vivaldi). Critical edition by Alessandro Borin. The six Concerts op. VI for violin, strings and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi were published in Amsterdam by Roger in 1719. Although the contribution of Vivaldi was probably modest – even to assume that the collection wa…

Ed. Critica A. Borin. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Casa Ricordi Milano in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (Istituto Antonio Vivaldi). Critical edition by Alessandro Borin. The six Concerts op. VI for violin, strings and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi were published in Amsterdam by Roger in 1719. Although the contribution of Vivaldi was probably modest – even to assume that the collection wa…

A setting of the Sara Teasdale poem that opens, 'Life has loveliness to sell,? the composer has crafted a work that does exactly that. A perfect festival piece, it promotes the appreciation of loveliness, beauty, music and nature. The optional string quartet adds an additional measure of beauty to the performance. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Cette pièce est une exploration de la résonance et dans la nature essentielle des premiers harpes. 'Foule' (étymologiquement lié à la crwth de mots celtiques, cruit ou crot) était l'anglais long terme utilisé pour les instruments de la classe de la lyre et finalement pour un cadre de harpe de pré-chrétiennes médiévales à temps. / Harpe

Arr. Klaas Van Der Woude. Par BARRY JOHN. Along with John Williams, John Barry is probably one of today's greatest composer's of film scores. Dances with Wolves was one of his best with the music reflecting the truly panoramic nature of this Kevin Costner epic. / Niveau : 4 / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Recueil / Concert Band ou Harmonie