Pour Quintette de Vents. Par TOMASI HENRI. French composer and conductor, Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) published Five Secular and Sacred Dances for Wind Quintet in 1963. As with his other wind compositions, Five Secular and Sacred Dances was well-received by audiences. Tomasi was born in Marseille, but his Father and Mother were originally from La Casinca in Corsica. Despite being pressured into music…

These two extraordinary works of late Mozart, KV 594 and KV 608, were both composed to fulfill a commission for a memorial exhibit in Vienna, to be played in a 'mechanical clock organ.? The term 'fantasy? or 'fantasia? came to be affixed to these works later, and is more descriptive and less cumbersome than the term Mozart listed in his own catalogue, 'Ein Stüke für ein Orgelwerk in ein Uhr.? They…

A colourful piece culminating in an exciting sea battle between the English and the French at the time of Henry VIII. / Ensemble A Cordes

Par ALEXANIAN DIRAN. The Classic Treatise on Cello Theory and Practice. An unabridged republication of Diran Alexanian's 1922 classic, Traite Theorique et Pratique du Violoncelle, this volume represents one of the most thorough explorations of cello playing and technique in the literature. It reprints the orginal dual-language edition, featuring French and English instruction side by side on the p…