Par . The most exciting titles in music built around the drum chair. Jim Chapin and Roger Pemberton have arranged these for an all-star aggregation including such players as Clark Terry, Hal McKusick, Hank Jones, George Duvivier, Harold Lieberman, Bob Wilber, Sonny Russo and YOU. Includes a music book containing complete drum charts and online audio with complete demonstration versions with accomp…

Par HINDSON MATTHEW. Matthew Hindson's Rush for guitar and string quartet takes its influence from the music of Felix Mendelssohn. The fast and technically challenging passages found in the final movement of the Mendelssohn String Octet influenced Hindson's decision to compose a work for the Goldner String Quartet that is highly virtuosic in nature. Hindson remarks, 'it is much more the spirit of …

C Major. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. In Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, a piano trio provides the soloists – a first in the history of music. Beethoven’s treatment of the trio is pioneering: he does not apply a typical piano trio setting in contrast to the orchestra, but varies his treatment of the solo parts, allowing each instrument to play alone with the orchestra (particularly the cello), using two…

Arr. Dizzy Stratford. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Antonin’s New World is an excellent piece of musical theatre featuring a comedy act for triangle soloist and band. The music itself does not sound comical, being based on Anton Dvorak’s Symphony in E Minor (‘From the New World’), but the right mix of seriousness and humour brings a surprising effect. With a bit of acting talent from your triangle soloist, …

Par . A wonderful collection of baroque music for brass ensemble, drawn from such composers as Bach, Händel and Purcell. Includes a high-quality printed solo part and a compact disc containing a complete performance with soloist, then a second version with the accompaniment, minus the soloist. Performed by Peter Piacquadio, trumpet Accompaniment: The Illinois Brass Quintet/ Recueil / Divers

Par SZALONEK WITOLD. This work reveals the remarkable world of Szalonek?s imagination. Making use of the traditional form of the chaconne, he leaves the soloist ample possibilities for interpretation ? avec fantaisie ? particularly in terms of agogic shifts, and also in the way the narrative is led. In Chaconne-fantaisie, the soloist displays the whole spectrum of the violin?s sonoristic capac_x00…

Par . This book, filled with some of the greatest banjo classics, is designed to help musicians develop basic bluegrass techniques, based on the styles of groups such as Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys. The banjo solos, featuring such classics as The Ballad of Jed Clampett, Salty Dog Blues, and Je…

Arrangeur: Michael Drapkin. Par DEBUSSY CLAUDE. A serious clarinetist probably plays, at some point in their career, the famous Debussy Rhapsodie. More often than not, they will play with the piano accompaniment, as Debussy first wrote it. The fortunate few will perform with an orchestra. Drapkin now makes the Rhapsodie accessible for a soloist with string quartet. The solo line is faithful to the…

Julian Anderson's new Violin Concerto - his first ever concerto - extends the conventional exploration of relationships to the spacial. Beginning off stage, the soloist's physical location changes throughout the work, altering the dynamic between soloist, orchestra, and conductor. The work was written especially for Carolin Widmann. / Violon Et Orchestre

Soloist: Fernando Brandão, flute
Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Jazz Conception is the new exciting series of play-along books by award-winning Brazilian flutist and composer Fernando Brandão and features fifteen original tunes in various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles. This edition clearly aims at being more than a simple play-along collection. For each of the tunes a thorough analysis and additi…