Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. Chopin's piano works, renowned for their technical brilliance, also invariably project the composer's mercurial moods. Their complex emotional content often lies close to the surface: a sparkling and graceful passage may be tinged with melancholy, a dark moment may be crowned with a note of triumph. This superb collection of fifteen of Chopin's works for piano reflects these c…

Simon and Garfunkel's anthemic Bridge Over Troubled Water borrowed its central image from a 1958 gospel track by The Swan Silvertones, but melodically and emotionally Paul Simon's 1969 song was a glorious original.It is arranged here for SATB mixed choir with Piano accompaniment.Routinely voted one of the greatest songs of all time, it was sung solo by Art Garfunkel on the duo's final studio album…

Par GIACCHINO MICHAEL. Film composer Michael Giacchino again shows us his stylistic range with the powerful soundtrack to this 2021 box office blockbuster. Along with the dynamic main theme, this medley also features the darker and sinister themes as well as emotional lyric melodies that add so much depth to the story. / Date parution : 2022-11-10/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Tasting Harmony is designed to teach your ear to focus on the sound of each individual chord tone while simultaneously hearing the full chord. This is a new approach to ear-training, utilizing the concept of synesthesia; the mixing of the senses. Tasting Harmony taps into the ability we all possess to discern the different flavors of food items and uses that ability to establish an emotional conn…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Requiem K. 626 The Requiem, completed by Franz Xaver Sussmayr, in its traditional form. Mozart's final work, the Requiem K. 626, was left incomplete and it is fraught with questions and emotions: the expressive depth of its music, sorrow at the great composer's early death, truth and legend, fragments and attempts to complete the work. The completion of the fragmentary…

Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Schönberg?s Suite op. 25 of 1923 refers to pre-classical forms in its movement titles Präludium, Gavotte?Musette, Intermezzo, Menuett?Trio and Gigue, yet at the same time it was the first work to be based entirely on a twelve-tone row. But anyone who believes that emotions can be left out of this completely new-sounding music is mistaken: Schönberg requires the player?s full…

'Locked Out of Heaven' is the lead single off Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), the second studio album from American singer/songwriter Bruno Mars. A new wave, funk, and reggae rock song about the rapturous feelings brought about by a relationship infused with positive emotions, it was a huge commercial success quickly after its release on October 1, 2012. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six co…

Par NISHIMURA JUDY. Flights of Passage by Judy Nishimura for Flute Choir. From the composer: 'In all of our lives there are rites of passage that mark milestones of achievement or herald stages of emotional maturity. In this composition, these ?rites of passage? are celebrated as ?Flights of Passage,? soaring and happy melodies with the occasional minor-key episode thrown in, as in life.' In four …

The ancient Celtic repertoire offers the fingerstyle guitarist a tantalizingly wide range of moods and emotions from sad laments to lyrical ballads to vibrant dance rhythms. This collection presents a vast array of fingerpicking Guitar solos settings on timeless airs, hornpipes, reels, planxties, set dances, jigs, slip jigs, marches, songs and compositions by the renowned 17th century blind Irish …