Par CURNOW JAMES. A joyous and exuberant sparkler for your next concert! This bright little bijou from James Curnow is a great way to start the show. It’s as inviting as they get and will engage every listener from start to finish. The easy excitement will motivate your Grade 2 band to their iridescent best. For groups playing regularly at a Grade 3 level EXCURSIONS also works well in the program …

The scope of the genres and styles in Jazz Piano Studies 2 is broader compared to that of Jazz Piano Studies 1, since it also covers the various offshoots of contemporary popular music related only marginally to jazz. The selection of twenty studies is aimed at amateur piano players who are interested in jazz and popular music, and serves, in particular, for the improvement of technique and style…

Alexander Zemlinsky is mainly known for his operas and orchestral songs with their opulent late Romantic orchestration. His earlier, inspired hit, the Trio for Clarinet op. 3, written in 1896, owes a great deal to his first important role model Johannes Brahms as far as inflection and instrumentation are concerned. And it was none other than Brahms himself who enthusiastically recommended the trio…

24 Heine-Vertonungen. Par STEFFEN WOLFGANG. To familiarize oneself with the basics of lied singing and at the same time work on technical and artistic issues using short and varied lieder, there is no way around the German 'Vaccai”. With lieder based on Heine's poems and following the Italian example Nicola Vaccai, Steffen Wolf succeeded in creating a real highlight in voice teaching. Each volume…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's Goldbergs were reportedly written for one of his most talented pupil, who ised them to entertain and soothe his insomniac master during bouts of sleeplessness. Though authenticity of this story is doubted by some historians, they are certainly a diversion for listeners. historians. With virtuosic hand crossing and thrilling sections typical of Bach. Both Arias and…

Ed. Critica Di C. Bacciagaluppi - Riduzione Per Canto E Pianoforte. Par PERGOLESI GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Pergolesi wrote his Mass in D major for an unknown occasion. The composition however is similar in quality and commitment to his other Mass in F major. Numerous manuscript copies all over Europe testify to the fortunate reception of the work in the eighteenth century. As was traditional in Naples, …

Par LAURO ANTONIO. Antonio Lauro is one of the most famous composers to come from Venezuela. He has written many works for orchestra, piano, choir, harpsichord, and guitar. He is most well-known for his guitar works, this being his main instrument. In the early 1980s he gave concerts in London and Paris at the request of John Williams and Paco Pena. The pieces represented in these guitar works are…

Emperor Waltz. Par STRAUSS JOHANN (FILS). Everybody loves a Strauss waltz and they can beguaranteed to put a smile on the face of the audienceduring a concert. This waltz was composed in1888 by Johann Strauss, Jr. and many peopleconsider it to be his best composition - evenrivalling The Blue Danube. The Kaiser-Walzer has a quiet, rather melancholicopening, entirely in character with the personalit…