Par PAREDES HILDA. When Paris abducted Helen and provoked the Trojan War, Agamemnon and Menelaus were absent from home for ten years. Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra had small cause to love him: he had married her by force after killing her former husband Tantalus, and then gone away to war. On his way he sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia at Aulis in order to be able to go ahead with his enterp…

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble…

Par COHEN MARY. Bags Of Fun For Cello is packed with imaginative pieces for absolute beginners: try chattering with skeletons, making a gate creak, admiring an octopus trampolining and watching frogs doing high jump! Written by leading string pedagogue Mary Cohen, this book is gently progressive yet always entertaining, with plenty of material on the open strings and a gradual introduction of firs…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. In this two-volume edition of Bach’s cello suites, Andrew Talle now presents an entirely new view of the relationships between existing sources. The first volume contains the edited musical text, which comes as close to the composer’s original intention as the surviving source material allows: “This edition does not constitute a perfect reconstruction of the lost autogra…

Jake joins the band at school to play clarinet. He continually refuses to play the clarinet correctly as demanded by his band director and private music teacher. Jake is stubborn. All Jake wants to do is play the clarinet his own way until he receives a mysterious letter in the mail from the Clarinet Wizard. The Wizard warns Jake that if he doesn't play his clarinet correctly and folllow his teach…

The Billy Strayhorn Collection brings together 17 memorable pieces written, arranged or made famous by the man of whom Duke Ellington said '(He) was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head'. A shy man who realised early on that his dream of a career in classical music was unlikely to become a reality because of his race, Strayhorn found a father figure and a lifelong employe…

30 favourite pieces selected by teachers. Selected by piano teachers for piano teachers, EPTA Teacher's Choice Piano Collection 1 is a collection of the most popular pieces for Grade 1-4 level students, as voted for by members of the European Piano Teacher's Association (EPTA). Each piece is introduced with a comment from a teacher, providing first-hand insights, tips and technical advice. Selecte…

Après plus de 350 000 albums vendus, le DVD du spectacle arrive enfin ! Filmé dans un lieu magique (les Arènes de Nîmes le 18 août dernier), Roberto Alagna nous offre un spectacle total mis en lumière et chorégraphié. Gérard Pullicino à la réalisation et Yvan Cassar à la direction musicale entourent notre Sicilien préféré pour une étonnante performance musicale unissant naturellement musique popul…

Série instrumentale populaire au monde dans des styles populaires pour plus de 25 ansCélèbre 'Microjazz' série de Christopher Norton a gagné en popularité dans le monde entier pour son mélange de genres contemporains et de valeurs classiques. La série a été élargi pour fournir répertoire passionnant nouvellement aménagée pour la mandoline. Ainsi que comportant en solo ludique et inventive, un cert…