Par BARTOK BELA. Like so many famous virtuosic works, Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin was said, by its commissioner, Yehudi Menuhin, at first sight, to be unplayable! Of course, Menuhin soon changed his opinion, later describing the work as the most important composition for solo violin since Bach. The original work used the full array of violin techniques such as stopped harmonics, left-hand pizz…

Par STRAUSS RICHARD. À l'été 1888, pendant qu'il travaillait également à son poème symphonique Don Juan, Richard Strauss composa ce court Andante pour son père Franz Strauss, membre de l'Opéra de la cour de Munich, et un des plus grands cornistes de son temps. Cet Andante était prévu pour constituer le mouvement lent d'une sonate 'encore inachevée', que Strauss cependant (au grand regret de tous l…

8 Popular String Quartets. Following the success of 'Beautiful Dreamer', Carson Turner returns with a fresh collection of string quartet arrangements, ideal for intermediate-level players. The Schott String Quartet Series With the first books in the series focusing on baroque, classical and romantic styles, The Schott String Quartet Series has expanded to cover music ranging from traditional piec…

CD Coach Me packs includes a booklet containing:- the sung text in its original language, with a word-for-word translation into English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, plus an international phonetic alphabet transcription of the sung text. On the CD recording the text is spoken slowly and clearly in the original language by carefully chosen native speakers. The melody of each musical number …

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Missa C major K. 220 (196b) Sparrow Mass Arranged for female choir SMezAA Details Edition no.: BA 5693 ISMN: 9790006523382 Volume / Series: Female Choir Arranger: Breuer, Heribert Language(s) of work: Latin Language(s) of text: German, English Product format: Score Includes the following individual parts: Voice, Mixed choir, Orchestra Binding: Stapled Pages / Format: III…

Arrangeur: Sylvia C. Rosin. Par SATIE ERIK. The 'Gymnopédies' from 1888 rank amongst Satie's most popular works for the piano. These arrangements for the recorder will provide the player with a new and unique challenge for capturing the calm, almost simple solemnity of these pieces. The resulting sound experience will prove quite remarkable. Sylvia C. Rosin has managed to maintain the original mus…

To provide greater availability for a work of such importance, the original publishers secured from Gershwin a solo piano version wherein the orchestral parts are fused together with the solo piano part (PS0047). Due to concerns that the composer's arrangement presented too many technical demands to pianists not possessing the requisite technique, a modified arrangement was delicately solicited fr…

Par CURNOW JAMES. Brass Metamorphosis as the title suggests is a set of variations based on an original theme. Each of the five variations is in a different style with the first being a lively rondo, the second slow and intense, the third an agile scherzando, the fourth slow and expressive and the fifth full of majesty as it brings the piece to a triumphal close. Brass Metamorphosis as the title s…

Edward Elgar's Salut d'amour is one of those pieces by the British composer that has a particularly haunting melody. Composed in 1888 for his future wife Caroline Alice Roberts, the work became an enormous success early on. Notes in the surviving autographs for the versions for Violin and Piano (HN 1188), Violoncello and Piano (HN 1189) and Piano solo show that Elgar had intended making arrangemen…

This fifth volume in the Classical Piano Solos series features 19 original pieces from the masters, suitable for pianists at a Grade 5 standard.This series was compiled to correlate loosely with the Modern Course method and can be used to supplement any teaching method or situation. This volume features a mix of well-known pieces such as Beethoven's 'Moonlight? sonata (1st mvmt) and Rachmaninoff's…