Arr. Rob Wiffin. Par CLARKE JEREMIAH. The Royal Duke (“Le Duc royal”) est un arrangement de The Duke of Gloucester’s March (“La Marche du Duc de Gloucester”) de Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707). Ce compositeur anglais, né à Londres, est essentiellement connu pour ses oeuvres pour clavier et notamment The Prince of Denmark’s March (le célèbre Trumpet Voluntary ) qui fut pendant très longtemps attribué à…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Imeneo was premièred at Lincoln 's Inn Field in London on 22 November 1740 and given a second performance on 13 December of the same year. Unlike the varied events and convoluted action otherwise typical of opera seria , it has an uncomplicated plot line with a clear dramatic structure and excellent music. The arranger of the libretto is unknown. Handel wrote this oper…

Sir Edward Elgar was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for Violin and Cello, and two symphonies. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.Composed in 1892, Etudes Caracteristi…

Blue Moon , written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, has had many treatments over the decades. Mel Tormé made a smooth hit version in the 1940s, Elvis Presley put it on his first album in 1956 and The Marcels had a doo-wop hit with it in 1961, but 'An American Werewolf in London' was the first movie to associate this most romantic of songs with lycanthropy. This brand new arrangement by…

In 4 movements: I) Saudação, (Greetings), II) Lamento (Lament), III) Dança (Dance), IV) Despedida (Farewell). The most popular marimba concerto of all time. 'The concerto is superbly written for the unique timbre and virtuoso technical qualities of the marimba.' (Percussive Notes). The Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra was written in June and July of 1986 in Brasília and is dedicated to the compo…

Blue Moon , written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, has had many treatments over the decades. Mel Tormé made a smooth hit version in the 1940s, Elvis Presley put it on his first album in 1956 and The Marcels had a doo-wop hit with it in 1961, but 'An American Werewolf in London' was the first movie to associate this most romantic of songs with lycanthropy. This brand new arrangement by…

Par GILBERT WILLIAM SCHWENCK / SULLIVAN ARTHUR. Vocal score of this popular comic opera composed by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert, which premiered at the London Royalty Theatre in March 1875. Includes full vocal score (The Learned Judge, Angelina (the Plaintiff), Edwin (the Defendant), Counsel for the Plaintiff, Foreman of the Jury, First Bridesmaid) with Piano accompaniment. / Niveau : Elémen…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Of all his early chamber works, the 'Nocturne' is most clearly by the mature Vaughan Williams, almost anticipating the influence of Ravel which followed his lessons from the French composer in 1908. In the veiled beauty of its highly chromatic harmonies we hear already the tone-poet of the slow movement of 'A London Symphony', while in the fleet-footed 'Scherzo' there i…

Attila, Verdi's ninth opera and the second of five that he composed for Venice's Teatro La Fenice, had its premiere on 17 March 1846. Verdi was inspired to compose an opera on the subject of Attila by two rather unusual sources, Attila, König der Hunnen, a curious play by a now-forgotten German playwright, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner, and Madame de Staël's discussion of it in her magisterial…

Par LLOYD WEBBER ANDREW. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of the classic Cinderella fairy tale will premiere in London's West End in 2021. This songbook features standard piano/vocal arrangements with melody in the piano part for 18 songs from the production: Bad Cinderella ' Beauty Has a Price ' The Cinderella Waltz ' Cinderella's Soliloquy ' Far Too Late ' Final Scene ' I Am No Longer Me…