Jeux d'Eau, (The Play of Water) composed in 1901, was Ravel's first important Piano composition. This work brought together a new pianistic technique and daring impressionistic harmonies. It is a marvellous blendofbi-tonality, pentatonicism and impressionism. Ravel wanted the piece played with a crystal clear, bubbling touch, emphasising the lively, sparkling quality of water. The title suggests t…

Tonalité : Es-Dur -. Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. Haydn's so-called Great Organ Solo Mass in E flat major is among those works by Joseph Haydn which early in its history enjoyed widespread dissemination. The E flat major Mass, with an unusual scoring including two English horns in the orchestra, was composed around 1770 during the first years of Haydn’s tenure as Music Director for the Court of Esterház…

The Really Easy Piano Playalong series provides you with Easy Piano arrangements of hit songs by the most popular artists of today, with a unique download card that gives you demonstration and playalong tracks for each tune. With this edition of the bestselling series, you can learn 17 Chart Hits then play along to professionally-recorded backing tracks. Featuring many of the top tunes of today, …

This new edition contains eight pieces by Ludovico Einaudi, including Sarabande, some first-time publications and many new arrangements such as Una Mattina, The Crane Dance and LOrigine. / Violon Et Piano

Par BJARNASON DANIEL. Daníel Bjarnason’s Brothers is an opera in three acts. The 100-minute work, with a libretto by Kerstin Perski, is based on the screenplay of the same name by Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen. Commissioned by the Danish National Opera / Den Jyske Opera, the opera follows a miliary officer after he returns home from the war in Afghanistan, finding that his relationship wit…

aus Böhmische Tänze und Weisen op. 10. Par SEVCIK OTAKAR. The Czech violinist and eminent violin teacher Otakar ?evcík (1852?1934) is the author of a world-renowned violin school, and our publishing house offers a wide range of his educational works in new editions. ?evcík?s only work for concert performances is the series Czech Dances and Tunes op. 10 (1872). The first of these dances, The Girl w…

a cura di Federico Maria Sardelli. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Among Vivaldi’s many flute and recorder concertos, two, both for transverse flute, were known until a few years ago only in incomplete form: RV 431 and 432. Both are written in the comfortable and expressive key of E minor, are transmitted inautograph manuscripts and lack their second movement (RV 432 also lacks its third movement). The seemi…

2nd Edition. Par STROOPE Z. RANDALL. Composer/conductor Z. Randall Stroope has taken this very successful three-movement work for mixed chorus and brass which he published several years ago, and wrote a new first movement, mostly new third movement, and re-orchestrated it in a colorful 16-minute display of choral/instrumental color.ÿ Calls for 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, perc (1), orga…

In 1839 Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879) wrote Violoncelloschule f³r den ersten Unterricht (Violoncello School for Preliminary Instruction), Op. 60. The method has remained a staple of teaching literature ever since. As an appendix to this work, Kummer composed several duets of increasing difficulty that can be paired with the topics and exercises learned in the lessons. As cello technique chan…

1. Violin, 2. Violin (Viola) Violoncello. Par SASSMANNSHAUS EGON / SASSMANNSHAUS KURT. The Sassmannshaus 'Early Start” string methods cultivate playing together as early as possible, initially in duets. However playing in larger mixed ensembles is also encouraged and this tried-and-trusted edition for strings provides the perfect start for this. The first songs can all be performed in canon: each …