Par RAMSOE / KING. German composer, Wilhelm Ramsø e (1837-1895) is best remembered for his compositions for brass. His Quartet No. 5 for 2 Cornets, Horn or Trombone, and Baritone is no exception. As the final of five brass quartets by the composer, Quartet No. 5 remains prominent in the brass ensemble repertoire. Made of of four movements, each part contains a variety of exciting musical features.…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Allegro in B-flat major of a Quintet for Clarinet, two Violins, Viola and Violoncello K. Anh. 91 (516c). This Allegro fragment was possibly sketched in 1787 two years before composition of the A major Clarinet Quintet K. 581. It is 93 bars long and is complete in all instrumental parts but was abandoned abruptly at the bottom of the fourth page. The distinguished Mozar…

Par SUSATO TIELMAN / KING. Tilman Susato (1515-1570) was primarily known for owning a publishing house in Antwerp during the Renaissance era. However, he was also an established composer and his Three Dances from Het derde musyck boexken prove his accomplishment. Much of Susato 's compositions are adaptable to many arrangements, with this score being no exception. The Three Dances, Ronde, Salterel…

Score + Parties. Par MENKEN ALAN. Aladdin, l'un des films d'animation les plus populaires de Disney, est sorti en 1992 et a été suivi, en 2019, de sa version en live action. Trois chansons de la bande originale de cette dernière - ' Nuits d'Arabie ', ' A Whole New World ' et ' Prince Ali ' - ont été arrangées par Robert van Beringenwhich pour quintette à instrumentation variable, permettant ainsi …

Par BLOW JOHN. Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 73. Edited by Robert Klakowich. Amateur and professional players with an interest in Baroque repertoire will welcome this generous selection of 25 harpsichord pieces by John Blow (1649-1708). Blow stands as the dominant figure of English harpsichord composition in the late seventeenth century, the master of an individual school that merged cont…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…

Wonderful for teaching Baroque style and bowing concepts, this piece features limited third position for the violins, cellos, and basses. Violas share in the thematic materials with string basses, mostly sharing the basso continuo line with cellos. This movement from Telemann's Sonata in A for String Quartet has been perfectly set by Robert Sieving. (3:20) / Orchestre A Cordes

Inspired by a love poem by Robert Graves (To Sleep), this four-movement work was also set as a pas de deux by the San Diego Ballet. / Percussions

Twelve pieces by John Bull, Giles and Richard Farnaby, Orlando Gibbons, Leonhard Woodson and others are here collected to make an attractive anthology of English keyboard music found in the precious Lynar A manuscripts, which also contain primary sources for the keyboard music of Sweelinck, Peter Philips and Tarquinio Merula. Edited by Pieter Dirksen. CONTENTS ANONYMOUS: (A toij; Courant; Courant;…