Par HOLMAN PETER. Music for three violins and bass formed a small yet distinctive corpus of instrumental music at the Restoration court of Charles II and in the Catholic chapel of James II. Introduced to England by the German violinist Thomas Baltzar, the genre was adopted by John Jenkins, whose ten late fantasia-suites for three violins, bass viol and continuo, together with Gottfried Finger’s fi…

Piano Voicing Method for All Musicians by Phil DeGreg - Book/CD set Large 248 page spiral-bound book and CD. A practical and systematic method that teaches how to practice jazz piano voicings so that they become automatic and intuitive. The method progresses step by step from 2-voice to 7-voice chord structures with fourths and upper-structure triads. Each chapter presents essential harmonic pro…

?evcík's oeuvre covers every area of violin technique, from the elementary level to special exercises on individual technical problems all the way to analytical studies of the best-known violin concertos. One of his most important pedagogical works is his opus 8, written between 1892 and 1895.This volume of exercises is devoted to changes of position and preparatory studies for scales over three o…

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 …

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 BRAHMS JOHANNES. Alto Rhapsody, une des gloires du répertoire choral, offre un cadre d'un texte de Goethe pour alto solo, choeur d'hommes et orchestre. Cette compilation comprend également trois autres grandes oeuvres chorales de Brahms, fixés à des oeuvres de Hölderlin, Schiller et de Goethe, respectivement. Editions faisant autorité, avec des traductions en anglais./ Répertoire / Partition D…