Franz Schubert's Impromptus Op. 90 (D 899) are among the most frequently played of his piano works and have become well-established in music lessons and in the concert repertoire. This Wiener Urtext Edition presents a new edition based on the latest research and performance practice. In this edition, numerous details have been added to the text and fundamental problems like the distinction between…

In Learn To Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar Bob Brozman provides intermediate and advanced level guitarists with a complete toolbox with which to dramatically increase their repertoire and enhance their blues arrangements and improvisations.Brozman gives both a historical and a technical analysis of the styles, innovations and techniques originally created by Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton…

Written in 1943-44 as a ballet for Martha Graham, Appalachian Spring is one of Aaron Copland's most celebrated compositions and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1945. In this edition for concert band, Robert Longfield has skillfully adapted the most striking and beautiful sections from the orchestral suite. The work ranges in scope from delicate and soloistic to the overpowering force of the full e…

Par BRALEY BERNARD. Bernard Braley This volume covers the lives of George Herbert, the seventeenth century religious poet and parson; Edward Plumptre, the nineteenth century educationalist and theologian who became Dean of Wells Cathedral; Robert Bridges, medical man, precentor in a village church, Poet Laureate and eccentric; and Fred Pratt Green, who took up hymnwriting seriously at an age when …

Les trois sonates pour piano de Johannes Brahms op. 1, 2 et 5 font partie des premières oeuvres publiées par le jeune compositeur de vingt ans. Celle en fa mineur, op. 5, a vu le jour pour l'essentiel à l'automne 1853 durant le séjour de Brahms chez les Schumann, à Düsseldorf. Certains éléments de la partition semblent indiquer que le jeune compositeur s'est inspiré de la Sonate op. 14 de Robert S…

Following the publication of Francis Jackson's organ reduction of Finzi's Requiem da Camera in 2014, Robert Gower, chairman of the Finzi Trust, recitalist and organist of Nottingham Cathedral, has created reductions of the full orchestra accompaniments to two more of Finzi's choral works. These reductions broaden the reach of these works to choirs which do not wish to present the works with orches…

Après Six Mélodies pour voix et piano, sur des poèmes de Baudelaire, Hédi Kaddour et Olivier Dhénin, après Nuit mystique, pour voix et quatuor à cordes, sur des poèmes de Jean de la Croix, Mes Heures de Fièvre marquent pour moi une nouvelle incursion dans le domaine de la musique vocale. J'ai été d'emblée séduit par la mélancolie et les climats en demi-teinte qui se dégagent de ce poète, capable d…

Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances. Later the author collected some pieces together forming the suite 'Reminiscences of the Theatre?, the title being of course a reminiscence of Robert Schumann's famous 'Album für die Jugend? (No 25). De…

for alto voice and string trio. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Incipit Vita Nova (A new life is beginning) was written for male alto and string trio and sets those short phrases that appear in Latin rather than Italian in Dante's La Vita Nuova (New Life). It was composed in February 1989 to celebrate the birth of Vita, the first child of my friends Erica and Robert Hewison. I had decided to write the piece lon…