The music of this 12-minute piece for the Chinese zither zheng, flute, clarinet, harp, violin and violoncello is a unique mixture of Eastern and Western traditions. The striking instrumentation provides surprising and interesting tone colours which captivate especially Western European listeners.Xiaogang Ye is one of the most renowned and successful composers of China. He receives commissions from…

Vienna version 1781. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. Gluck Iphigenie auf Tauris (Vienna version 1781) (Vocal Score) Music drama in four acts Following upon the great success of “Iphigénie en Tauride”, Gluck arranged the popular drama of human passions, guilt and unconditional friendship once again for Vienna’s Burgtheater, where it was premièred in 1781. Especially remarkable is the masterly orche…

For vibes, xylophone, and marimba. Proper holding technique, up and down strokes, striking, pedaling and muffling are all studied. The bulk of the text is dedicated to in-depth harmonic lessons that are designed to reinforce proper techniques and advance improvisation skills for four-mallet performance. A must for keyboard percussionists of all styles of music.

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Boldly reimagined and completed by Martin Yates, The Future, a substantial non finito draft of a major choral setting of words by Matthew Arnold, dates from 1908, immediately after Toward the Unknown Region, and in the crucial year of Vaughan Williams’s three-month tutelage with Ravel in Paris. Urgent ecological concerns – strikingly relevant today no less than in the V…

The Piano Player: Classical Favourites presents 20 of the most popular pieces of classical music, specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams and O mio babbino caro by Puccini. The striking cover features Edward Bawden’s colour linocut Aesop’s Fables: Daw in Borrowed Feathers, 1970, and …

Latvian composer U?is Prauli?? ' striking setting of the Mass has attracted considerable attention following a recording by The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, under Stephen Layton. (Baltic Exchange, Hyperion CDA67747) Scored for SATB unaccompanied and soloists and well within the reach of most choirs, it is by turn devotional, bold, intimate, intense and, ultimately, thrilling, from a choral…

Par DE HAAN JACOB. This composition is based on a passacaglia theme, in which artistic perfection, symphonic drama and oriental melody lines play a role. The passacaglia is originally a dance made up of a series of variations above a bass line constantly present as an ostinato. It is not in this sense that the 'Symphonic Variations' are in the passacaglia form but in the sense of the open form of …

Par BABYSHAMBLES. In 2005, Pete Doherty was the most controversial star in British music and he quickly became a tabloid favourite, courting both fame and notoriety. Known for being a cultural and style icon as much as for his music, his relationship with Kate Moss meant he was never far from the front of the news. Having co-fronted the Libertines and then having exploded onto the live scene and i…

Adele is a singing phenomenon and one of the outstanding artists of the last few years. Now SAB choirs can unleash the powerful, raw emotion of her chart topping hit Set Fire To The Rain with this rich and intense choral arrangement by Chris Hussey. With piano accompaniment, strong, thick harmonies and bold unison parts this is the perfect song for an overwhelming concert finale or to create a str…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's mastery of rhythm and harmony, inventiveness, and genius for composition produced some of the richest and most beautiful music of all time. Those qualities are strikingly evident in his early concerti, which are among the most recorded and performed works in the Baroque repertoire. This volume reprints, complete and unabridged, seven complete concerti for solo key…