Live At The Smithsonian Jazz Cafe. Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. Recorded in concert at the Smithsonian Jazz Café - November 11, 2005 Vic Juris and Corey Christiansen, two of the first guitarists on Mel Bay Records, joined bassist Bill Moring and drummer Tim Horner on this remarkable set of standards and originals. Awakening, Corey's first CD as well as the first release on Mel Bay Records, was hailed b…

Extended instrumental solo taken from MacMillan's 70-90-minute 'Since it was the day of Preparation ? ' for voices and ensemble, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble, Edinburgh International Festival, Soli Deo Gloria and Kings Place, and first performed by the Hebrides Ensemble at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival.The parent work sets the Resurrection narratives from St John's Gospel. Five instrumental…

Par BARGIELSKI ZBIGNIEW . After the first performance of my Fourth Quartet, in Salzburg in 1997, the artists of the excellent Hugo Wolf Quartett approached me with the appealing proposition that I write a new quartet. Rather problematic, however, proved to be the musicians’ delicate suggestion that I invest the work with elements of a more pungent expression and elements of folklore – ideally Poli…

Per Soli, Coro, Due Pianoforti E Armonium - Ed. Critica A Cura Di Davide Daolmi - Soft Cover. Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. The Petite messe solennelle, Gioachino Rossini's last composition, which has been elevated to the rank of a kind of Last Work and Testament, is presented here in its original version, which calls for a chamber ensemble consisting of four solo voices, choir, two pianos and harmonium,…

Par TAKE THAT. Progress is Take That's sixth studio album, and the first to feature the full lineup of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, and Robbie Williams since 1995's Somebody Else . The album was released in the UK a week earlier than planned (15th November 2010), as it had become the most pre-ordered album of the year. On the first day of the release it sold over 305,000 co…

Par SAMITZ NICO. Nico Samitz has been composing for chamber ensembles since his school days. For over ten years he has been writing works in a wide variety of genres for the ?BlechReiz BrassQuintett? ensemble, in which he himself plays trumpet and piano. His field of expertise ranges from classical pieces to jazz and meditative music?and even to pop-oriented compositions. While honing his skills i…

Ten more songs recorded before the singer's untimely death, and released since to great acclaim. Piano and vocal arrangements with guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG) (Avec Grille D'Accords)

When Taylor Swift's first official pop album, 1989, was released in October 2014, it quickly achieved record-breaking sales. According to Billboard®, it sold almost 1.3 million copies in its debut week, the largest sales week for an album since 2002 and made Taylor the first artist ever to have three albums top $1 million in sales in a week. Our songbook features all 13 songs from the album, inclu…

Aus: Israelsbrünnlein. Geistliche Madrigale. Par SCHEIN JOHANN HERMANN. Johann Hermann Schein’s Israelsbrünnlein, published in Leipzig in 1623, is a supreme achievement not only among the works of this composer, who had been Thomaskantor in Leipzig since 1616, but also for the entire body of German music written during the first half of the 17th century. Among the 26 motets written “in the Italian…

Par PAVAN CARLOS. Fantasias Concertantes for Bassoon and Guitar by Carlos Pavan. Composer and guitarist Carlos Pavan was born in Argentina and has lived in New York City since the year 2000. In three movements, After Bartók is inspired by Concerto for Orchestra's first movement (the trumpet's theme/quartal harmony/octatonic scale), After Hindemith is based on Symphonic Metamorphosis (2nd movement …