Arrangeur: Rachel Jennings. Par JENNINGS RACHEL. Red Hot Violin and nbsp - is an exciting new series of graded performance repertoire with a difference, featuring sizzling arrangements of contemporary show-stoppers for intermediate violin with piano. With pieces in a wide variety of styles, violinists of all ages will enjoy showing off these sparkling takes on popular favourites. They're perfect f…

Par CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO MARIO. Born into a family of bankers that had lived in Florence since the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) studied under Pizzetti at the city' s Conservatoire. He soon became one of the leading members of the young Italian school, which broke with the tyranny of bel canto to return to the instrumental tradition of the Italian …

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Between 1996 and 2000 Bärenreiter published scholarly-critical editions of Beethoven 's Nine Symphonies edited by the first class musicologist Jonathan Del Mar. The editorial process was a huge undertaking because of the complex source situation regarding Beethoven's Symphonies culminating in the Choral Symphony (No. 9) which came down to us in nearly 20 different sources…

Par BARGIELSKI ZBIGNIEW . After the first performance of my Fourth Quartet, in Salzburg in 1997, the artists of the excellent Hugo Wolf Quartett approached me with the appealing proposition that I write a new quartet. Rather problematic, however, proved to be the musicians’ delicate suggestion that I invest the work with elements of a more pungent expression and elements of folklore – ideally Poli…

Actus tragicus. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Mighty God, His time is ever best) BWV 106 'Actus tragicus' Cantata for a funeral service. Since there are no original sources or documents concerning the first performance of the funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV 106, it is impossible to establish the year of origin of this work, called Actus tra…

Fassung Ii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion ranks alongside the St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the B minor Mass as one of the great vocal works from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he substantially revis…

The All Music Guide deems Machine Head part of the holy trinity of English hard rock and heavy metal (along with Led Zeppelin's 4 and Black Sabbath's Paranoid). This classic album has been emulated by nearly every rock band since its release in 1972. Our folio features note-for-note transcriptions of every note played by Ritchie Blackmore on all 7 legendary tracks. / Guitare

Kantate Zum Fest Mariae Reinigung. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Setting in E minor. A new edition of the version for solo soprano by Bach, which can hold a place alongside the version for bass solo. Bach originally composed the cantata for the Feast of Purification for a solo bass in the key of C minor [CV 31. 082/00]. Since its scoring for only one solo voice made it easily adaptable for performanc…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Three Klezmer Miniatures is Philip Sparke’s third work based on traditional Jewish klezmer melodies, after Shalom! and A Klezmer Karnival. Klezmer music originated in the ’shtetl‘ (villages) and the ghettos of Eastern Europe, where itinerant Jewish troubadours, known as ’klezmorim‘, had performed at celebrations, particularly weddings, since the early Middle Ages. In Three Klezm…

Par PINK FLOYD. This masterpiece has undoubtedly become one of the most influential albums from the 1970s to the present day. Groundbreaking sound effects and production techniques have made this a cult album among so many music lovers. Since its release in 1973 it has sold in excess of 34 million copies worldwide and holds the record for the longest consecutive time on the US billboard charts - a…