Par GAYE MARVIN / LONGFIELD ROBERT (Arr.). Though initially written over 50 years ago, Marvin Gaye's plea for peace and understanding is a message that still resonates strongly and needs to be heard. This arrangement for string orchestra by Robert Longfield maintains the original's easy cool and RandB rhythms in a format that allows modern-day students to find a way to bring some loving here today…

Grade 5. Par . ABRSM’s on-demand Music Theory exams give learners the best opportunity to demonstrate their musical knowledge and understanding, when and where they choose. Music Theory Practice Papers 2023 (Grades 1-5) are essential resources for candidates preparing for the online exams. They fully support the question types that candidates will see during their exam and reflect the new mark sch…

Josef Suk played second violin in the Bohemian String Quartet. Since 1914 the ensemble was obliged to perform the Austrian national anthem at the opening of every concert.Suk decided to supplement this obligatory piece with a work inspired by the ancient sacred Bohemian 'St. Wenceslas? hymn. The hymn's message - a plea for the well-being of the Czech people, directed at their patron saint - was im…

It is impossible to imagine today's cello lessons without the works by Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753-1823).This sonata is the first of the Six Sonates non difficiles pour le violoncelle Op. 40 (1795). To this day it remains popular among cello teachers and pupils alike. Because of its comfortable tonality and technical simplicity, it is an interesting classical sonata for cello students who are exper…

Jesu bleibet meine Freude from Cantata 147. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach’s appointment as the Cantor at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche in 1723 required him to produce a new cantata for every Sunday service. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring is taken from his Cantata No. 147 and is unusually elaborate, treated more like an aria than a chorale. It is perhaps the best-loved cantata movement from Bach’s entire o…

This Beatles medley combines four favourites that show the group in a playful mood: a Caribbean pastiche, a trip down a fondly-remembered Liverpool street, Ringo's musical plea for help from his bandmates and Paul's then-youthful look forward to his mid-sixties. Arranged here for SATB with Piano accompaniment. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. Five multi-movement trios for piano and two string instruments by Sibelius are known from the years 1883?1888. The ?large? trios, such as the Havträsk and Korpo Trio (JS 207, JS 209), were written for the classical piano trio scoring of violin, violoncello and piano. Apparently, Sibelius kept composing trios to play among his family and friends, having in mind to be one of the m…

Gesamtausgabe, Bd 48. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN / MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Pianists and lovers of piano music will be pleased with volume 48, which contains Rheinberger’s arrangement for two pianos [WoO 3] of Bach’s Goldberg Variations BWV 988. Through the doubling of voices, the contrapuntal thickening of the thematic material and by distributing the writing of the original over two pianos, Rhein…

First Movement. Par KUHLAU FRIEDRICH. This edition of the first movement of Friedrich Kuhlau's Grand Sonata in F major features a newly engraved and much more functional solo flute part (inconsistencies involving articulations and dynamics have been cleared up). Also, measure numbers have been added to the piano part, making the edition much more rehearsal friendly than any other version out there…

A variety of different bowings are introduced so that the pupil learns how to use and become familiar with every part of the bow. Every exercise and piece introduced in this book is designed to improve some aspect of technique. Violinists will also enjoy playing these melodies, which with their attractive piano accompaniments and violin duet parts, have been carefully selected to give pleasure at …