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 BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

The Gig Book: Bob Dylan is a tough and hard-wearing collection of tunes by one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever seen. These handy books feature lyrics, chord boxes and melody line, as well as a few black and white photos, all condensed into a compendium that may look compact but is actually packed full of genius songs.Bob Dylan is one of those rare songwriters who has managed to keep…

The New Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) is intended as a historico-critical edition of the collected works. They will be carefully studied and prepared according to present-day musicological and editorial techniques and presented in their entirety. Drafts, sketches and fragments, in short, everything that has come down to us as being authentically by Schumann and which, in most cases, has been delib…

The 'Missa Divi Xaverii? ZWV 12, an expansive and unusually richly scored work, marks a highlight in the oeuvre of Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745). It was composed in 1729 while he was working at the Dresden court.The principal source of this first edition is the damaged autograph score which had long been kept under lock and key. Passages missing because of its damaged condition have been suppleme…

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ?Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain works such as ?Preciosa', ?Oberon', and ?Euryanthe', the overtures, solo concertos and piano sonatas, the lieder and chamber works enjoyed great popularity and were widely known in Germany and abroad a…

Patchwork, le troisième quatuor à cordes par Barbara Heller, avec son caractère joyeux et léger, est une pièce agréable. Chiffres ludique qui coule, souvent en pizzicato, alternent avec des 'paysages sonores calmes'. Conçu par Heller comme une étude de triton, le matériau tonal compose de l'ensemble de ton des relations partout. La couleur de tonalité inhabituelle de la triton nécessite donc une i…