Arr. Wil Van Der Beek. Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Tchaikovsky is best known for his purely instrumental compositions. However, we must not underestimate him as a composer of operas. Many of his operas such as ¬Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin are still performed regularly throughout the world. Eugene Onegin (also called Jevgeny Onegin), composed in 1877-1878, was not called an opera by Tchaikovsky …

TWENTY ROMANCES INSTRUMENTATION : HIGH VOICE AND PIANO DESCRIPTION : THE EDITION IS PART OF THE ABRSM SINGING EXAM SYLLABUS (GRADES 7,8). CONTENU : AT THE WINDOW OP6 NO1 - CAN IT BE DAY? OP47 NO6 - LULLABY IN THE STORM OP54 NO1 - NIGHTINGALE OP6 NO4 - SPRING OP54 NO9 - THE CUCKOO OP54 NO8 - AT THE BALL OP38 NO3 - CRADLE SONG OP16 NO1 - HAD I ONLY KNOWN OP47 NO1 - LAST NIGHT OP6 NO1 - SERENADE O…

Originally composed for piano solo, Rubinstein's 'Melody' Op. 3/1 is the best-known work written by the Russian composer. Thanks to the simple, yet tender melody and its expressive harmony, the name of the composer will be remembered forever. The piece makes an excellent encore to a concert.

The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the Russian pianist and composer Igor Stravinsky . With notes by…

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Souvenir d'un Lieu Cher (Memories of a Dear Place) is a collection of three pieces for violin and piano. The first - Méditation - was written in Clarens in Switzerland in March 1878. Tchaikovsky originally intended it to be the slow movement of his violin concerto, but later replaced it with the more substantial Canzonetta and recast it for violin and piano. The other…

Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev commissioned many composers to write music for the theatre. This was what caused Serge Prokofiev to compose the four part Scytische Suite (also known as Ala and Lolli) in 1916, from which The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits can be heard on this CD. This suite is one of Prokofiev's first works, and received negative criticism…

This album for mixed choir and piano contains a selection of richly varied choruses from Italian, French, German, English and Russian operas from the 17th to 19th centuries, illuminating the great diversity of the genre. Included are opera choruses from the following works: · Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo · George Frideric Handel: Acis and Galatea HWV 49b · Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (Vienna…

With its bluesy harmonies and jaunty groove The Beatles ' hit Lady Madonna is the perfect song for choruses seeking a lively, upbeat number to add to their repertoire. Arranged by Jeremy Birchall for SAB with piano accompaniment, this choral take on the Lennon and McCartney classic is sure to inspire audiences and singers alike with its bouncy enthusiasm and toe-tapping vigour. / Sab Et Piano

ecrite dans un style traditionnel et dotée d'une mélodie accrocheuse, You Are My Sunshine est certainement l'une des chansons d'amour américaines les plus populaires du XXe siècle. Dans les années 1940, sa popularité stimula énormément la réputation de ses interprètes d'origine, Jimmie Davis et Charles Mitchell ' au point où elle servit de tremplin à la carrière politique de Davis, qui fut élu, en…

Gabriel Fauré's Chanson De Mélisande for Soprano and Orchestra. Reduction for Voice and Piano. 'An enchanted dream' ' poet Charles Van Leberghe's words give us an idea of the audience's enthusiasm at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Piccadilly on June 21st, 1898, when the first English language performance of Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck was performed, with incidental…