Par WUORINEN CHARLES. Charles Wuorinen\'s Second Piano Trio was found on his desk at the time of his passing in March 2020. A single, nine-minute movement, it is characterized by a complex, lively rhythmic interplay between the three instruments, in particular a wittily repeated figure of sixteenth-note quintuplets. Upon reviewing Wuorinen\'s third and final draft for this piece posthumously, thre…

Par OKPEBHOLO SHAWN E.. Although Zoom! by Shawn Okpebholo was commissioned by the US Air Force Band, its title refers less to the speed of supersonic fighter jets than to the brand of telecommunications software that allowed digital reunions between isolated loved ones during the 2020 pandemic, and to the race for a life-saving vaccine. The seven-minute piece for strings and percussion evokes the …

It's never too late to play piano.. Christmas gives players the chance to explore their favourite Christmas songs in jazzy, easy-to-play arrangements. The pieces are suitable for those who have learnt for approximately one year, or have reached Level 14 of the It's never to late to play piano tutor. The pieces are gently progressive, gradually extending players' technique through playing pieces th…

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Six Duos (op. 48) for two Violins. Par PLEYEL IGNAZ JOSEF. These easy duets were published around 1796/97 by Pleyel's own publishing house both as Six Duos faciles et progressives for two violins and as Six nouvelles Sonatines progressives for piano and violin, though we do not know today which version came first. To this day, the violin duets are favorites for use in violin lessons, but also for …

 Collection Compositeurs Alsaciens Cette oeuvre pour choeur mixte (S-A-T-B), orgue et flûte traversière témoigne de l'engouement qu'à le compositeur à exploiter l'idée de souplesse émanant de la rhétorique grégorienne en la parant d'harmonies 'colorées' et 'chatoyantes', La véhémence de cette prière à l'allure antiphonée se voit ponctuée par une ultime 'voix' bienveillante, celle de la flûte, qui …

A l'occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance de Mozart, les mélomanes vont pouvoir découvrir un texte jusqu'alors peu connu du public francophone : la Description de la vie du maître de chapelle impérial et royal Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, parue à Prague en 1808. ?uvre d'un érudit de Bohême, Franz Xaver Niemetschek, qui connut personnellement Mozart avant d'être le tuteur de son fils aîné, ce récit …

Par ZAHNHAUSEN MARKUS. Markus Zahnhausen’s Lux Aeterna belongs to a very special category in my repertoire. The tender and dangerous beauty of his music has fascinated me for years. In a contemporary musical language Zahnhausen has managed to bring theinstrument back to what it once was: flauto - the flute! His expressive music never takes the instrument beyond its limits, thus avoiding the trap o…

Arr. D. Matthews. Par WAGNER RICHARD. The first performance of The Shorter Ring was given by William Howard, at Shoreditch Church (St Leonard's) as part of the Spitalfields Festival, London, in a programme to mark the 70th birthday of the composer, on 14 June 2013. David Matthews writes: In May 2012 William Howard asked me if I could make a condensed piano version of Der Ring des Nibelungen for …

Born in Erfurt, the composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) achieved success in America as a soloist and teacher. His best-known pieces for young violinists are 'The Infant Paganini? and 'The Boy Paganini?.Both appear here in their original version for violin and piano and, for the first time, in a transcription for cello and piano by Christoph Sassmannshaus.The Mollenhauer fantasia 'The Infant Pa…