Par PARRY CHARLES HUBERT. Edited by Jeremy Dibble A key figure in the so-called English Musical Renaissance, Parry was a considerable composer of chamber music. His three violin sonatas, the first of which, in d minor, is here published for the first time, along with the Fantasie-sonata and Sonata in D major, date from the 1870s and 80s, and are contemporary with his four symphonies and setting of…

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. It remains unclear when exactly Brahms drafted vio…

Arrangement by Morton Feldman for Alto Flute (doubling Piccolo), Glockenspiel and Piano. Par CAGE JOHN. In June of 1980, Aki Takahashi was preparing to leave Buffalo, New York. Morton Feldman, knowing her reputation as a pianist specializing in new music, had invited her to be an artist in residence at the university where he taught. But now it was time for her to go back to Japan. At their last m…

After a twelve-year interval, Dvo?ák once again turned his attention to the string quartet in summer 1893. He had been musical director in New York since autumn 1892 and spent the summer in Spillville (Iowa) where a group of Czech immigrants had settled, thus making him feel at home. The beautiful natural surroundings led him to write this unconventional string quartet in the tradition of Beethove…

KT Tunstall has had a recurring dream since she was a child. She sees a tiger in her garden and goes outside to stroke it. She returns indoors and is seized by the fear that she could have been killed. Over the years, it has occurred to her that the reason the tiger responds so passively is that she herself is disguised as a tiger. That she is wearing a tiger suit.The Brit Award-winning singer has…

In Fa Op.X N.5 - Rv 442, F.Vi-1 - Tomo 46 - . Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Vivaldi's Concerto in F RV 433 for Flute, Strings, and Basso Continuo. Called in both cases 'La tempesta di mare, ' the work's opening Allegro has a characteristic thumping unison repeated-note theme with the flute soloist trading short lines in imitation with the orchestral violins in the outer sections and warbling maniacally abo…

By Mark Ford. Percussion Ensemble. For 3 players on one marimba

Composed by David Maslanka. Percussion ensemble. For glockenspiel, vibraphone I, vibraphone II, marimba I (4-octave), marimba II (4.3-octave), marimba III (4.3-octave), marimba IV (4.3-octave), bass marimba (5-octave) (8 players). Difficulty: Difficult. Duration 14:00. Published …