Quand Tom Adès et le Los Angeles Philharmonic m'a demandé quelque chose, je l'ai dit The Importance of Being Earnest. J'ai toujours aimé les sens extatique Wilde de non-sens - comme Alice au pays des merveilles en quelque sorte. Wilde a un humour noir indifférent, un délice dans le mensonge - et c'est ma maison. Je ne sais pas si c'est une chose irlandais ou pas - tout ce que je sais, c'est que c'…

The Classical Highlights series presents the best-known and most popular performance pieces of the classical repertoire in arrangements for various instruments - and now for string quartet. Apart from 'classic' string quartet arrangements like Pachelbel's Canon, J.S. Bach's Air, Mozart's Ave Verum, or Fauré's Après un rêve, there are also some surprises, such as Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Tárrega…

Noël 2 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed voice choirs, which follows on from the highly acclaimed Noël! Volume 1 (Catalogue No. NOV310800). The contents range from the Renaissance to the present: from Byrd and Sweelinck, via Bach, familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages to Howells and Leighton, and work by today's composer…

A generous bumper collection of the greatest songs ever to grace the silver screen, all arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. It is impossible to imagine Goldfinger without the huge, rich voice of Shirley Bassey, Midnight Cowboy without Nilsson's lilting country whisper, Alfie without the Pop/Jazz of Cilla Black and Sonny Rollins, and Easy Rider just would not be the same without Steppenwolf. The …

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 BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. With final chorus 'An die Freude' (Ode to Joy) 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) whic…

This is a sequel to the highly successful publication entitled Child Prodigy Composers (EMBZ14773). In this second volume the majority of the pieces are works recommended for pupils in the upper music school classes, and indeed some can be used successfully in secondary level teaching as well. Here too, most of the compositions were written before the age of 14 - it is amazing what a highly develo…

Par DE HAAN JAN. Jan de Haan a composé Hispaniola pour célébrer le 500e anniversaire de la mort de Christophe Colomb (1451-1506). Né en Italie, le jeune Christophe Colomb s’installa à Lisbonne. De là, il entreprit ses voyages découverte vers l’Afrique et ailleurs. Adhérent à la thèse que la Terre est ronde, il décida de rejoindre l’Asie (Les Indes orientales) en navigant par l’Ouest. En 1492, il e…

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, …