Valdy has been part of the fabric of Canadian pop and folk music for over 30 years. A man with a thousand friends, from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island to Texas to New Zealand, he's a singer, guitarist and songwriter who catches the small but telling moments that make up life. Valdy has sold almost half a million copies of his 13 albums, has two Juno Awards (Folk Singer of the Year and Folk Enter…

Another collection of songs by the hottest bands of recent years, all arranged with full lyrics and Guitar chords. From the classic leather-rock styles of Dirty Pretty Things and The Strokes, to the quirky pop perfection of The Arcade Fire and Panic! At The Disco, the veritable 'who's who' of guitar bands for the new rock generation continues. Parental advisory - explicit lyrics. / Niveau : Assez …

23 Works for Alto Recorder with Piano AccompanimentEdited by Peter Bowman and Gudrun HeyensAusgabe mit CD - CD - Recorder and Keyboard Instrument - English - French - Germanauthor: Bowman, Peterauthor: Heyens, GudrunSérie: Schott Anthology SeriesDifficulté: intermediate topages: 120This anthology presents pieces by 17th and 18th century composers in a variety of different styles, providing an inf…

The melodies of MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) span the entire chronology of his creative output, from his earliest song BALLADE DE LA REINE MORTE D`AIMER (1893), written during his student years at the Paris Conservatory, to the cycle DON QUICHOTTE À DULCINEE (1932-33), his last compositions in any genre. In his songs, Ravel's text settings display a meticulous attention to detail. Ravel´s melodies ar…

Kaija Saariaho is the most successful of contemporary Finnish composers, having won a number of international compositions, and has become best known for her works which exploit electronics. The inspiration for writing NoaNoa came at the time of writing the music for the ballet Maa. and quot - I wanted to write down, exaggerate, even abuse certain flute mannerisms that had been haunting me for som…

Passionskantate. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. In this five-movement Passion cantata dating from Telemann’s Frankfurt years, the vocalist and the violist are each given attractive, though not excessively difficult tasks. This edition contains the original version for voice, viola and bassocontinuo, as well as the version by Telemann’s successor at Frankfurt, Johann Balthasar König [1691–1758], which…

At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns displayed a particular partiality for the violoncello. He composed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after having completed the first cello concerto. It was presumably directly after this that he wrote the 'Allegro appassionato? for Cello and Piano op. 43 that also appeared in a version for orchestra three years later. We do not know wh…

Oratorienfragment. Teil I: Die Geburt Christi - Teil Ii: Das Leiden Christi. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohns unfinished 3rd oratorio in its first critical edition. The parts 'Die Geburt Christi' and 'Das Leiden Christi' are presented with full orchestration. In 1852, five years after Mendelsohn’s death, two independently-performable fragments of an unfinished oratorio were published …

Weihnachtskantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX / LUTHER MARTIN. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas b…

After the phenomenal success of the cycle Eight Inventions for percussion instruments Op. 45, Kabeláč. embarked upon another cycle at the request of the ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg ? EIGHT RICERCARI (written in the years 1966?1967, with minor revisions from 1971). In this case, Kabeláč. did not merely aim for a continuation of the previous cycle ? he wanted to create a work of a…