Par BLOC PARTY. The 2005 album by Bloc Party shows a band transcending their influences, and shaking off the shackles of easy-definition to reinvent the post-punk sound for themselves. Established as part of the DFA-affiliated scene that included LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture, Bloc Party have succeeded in taking this disco/punk crossover to a wider audiences with songs of depth and significance …

TITLE COMPOSER - A FRIEND HAS GONE AWAY MICHEL LEGRAND (CONTRIBUTOR) SHELDON HARNICK (CONTRIBUTOR) - A PIECE OF THE SKY MICHEL LEGRAND (CONTRIBUTOR) ALAN BERGMAN (CONTRIBUTOR) MARILYN BERGMAN (CONTRIBUTOR) - AFTER THE RAIN ALAN BERGMAN (CONTRIBUTOR) MARILYN BERGMAN (CONTRIBUTOR) MICHEL LEGRAND (CONTRIBUTOR) - BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW ALAN BERGMAN (CONTRIBUTOR) MARILYN BERGMAN (CONTRIBU…

Par SIMPLY RED. A secial selection of twelve songs from the greatest hits of Simply Red, in accessible arrangements for Piano, Voice and Guitar. Simply Red have been one of the most successful Pop/Soul acts in British history, combining timeless smooth-groove songwriting with the golden voice and charisma of frontman Mick Hucknell. These twelve songs have been arranged with slightly simplified Pia…

The Complete Winterreise and Seven Other Great Songs. Par LISZT FRANZ. Of the many transcriptions Franz Liszt made of the works of other composers, those he made of the songs of Franz Schubert are among his most inspired. This volume contains the legendary pianist's twelve transcriptions from Schubert's great song cycle 'Winterreise', along with the four songs of 'Geistliche Leider', and the belov…

25 Years of Band Composition. Par DE HAAN JACOB. “Twenty-fi ve years Jacob de Haan”: twenty-five years of music by a passionate and talented composer. A composer of great versatility with an extraordinary knowledge of his craft. A composer who is always looking for a new challenge and a new way to expand his art. New ideas, new themes and new points of departure are his soup du jour, but he also p…

Concerto No.2 'Haydn' A series of works based on the surviving two bars of Haydn's 'lost' Double Bass Concerto. Based on the two surviving bars of Haydn's 'lost' Double Bass Concerto and dedicated to David Heyes, this magnificent new concerto is a tour-de-force from a respected and leading Czech bassist-composer. In a tonal and accessible style, there are musical and technical challenges for the…

SOLO TUNING See RM722 for Orchestral Tuning The 'Dragonetti Concerto' was first published in 1925 by Alphonse Leduc in Paris as No.23 of Edouard Nanny's 'Les Classiques de la Contrebasse'. For many years no one questioned its authenticity, but as more research into Dragonetti's original works for double bass was made, concerns began to arise. Many of Dragonetti manuscripts survive in the British …

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens’ production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia’s Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de Rome that was established in 1803 then cancelled following the events of May 1968. It had been for more than a century and a half, the most co…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Far from being an isolated work in Camille Saint-Saens’ production, Le Retour de Virginie (Virginia’s Return) belongs to a small set written at the beginning of his career in the particular context of the competition for the Prix de Rome that was established in 1803 then cancelled following the events of May 1968. It had been for more than a century and a half, the most co…