The title refers to a Moroccan desert wind, but it was less a figurative association than merely the sound of the word that fascinated Johannes Boris Borowski. The lengthy one-movement work reveals the formal skills and the imagination of the composer born in 1979: A rhythmized melodic cell evolves into a construct with its very own structure, motivic-thematic work leads to two-dimensional sounds …

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. 'Knussens wastes not a note, and though the work lasts only for seven minutes, its density of thought suggests something of sonata structure.'Paul Griffiths, Musical Times, January 1981/ Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Par SCHWAEN KURT. Katze, Schnee und Dudelsack, Zwölf Klavierstücke für Kinder (KSV 196) by Kurt Schwaen is a 10-minute work for solo piano. The twelve piano pieces were written between 15 November 1959 and 2 January 1960. Kurt Schwaen was an extremely productive composer whose style could be classified between Bartók, Stravinsky and Hindemith. Katze, Schnee und Dudelsack (\'Cat, Snow and Bagpipe\'…

Solo for Oboe or Violin. Par BACRI NICOLAS. The title only appears frivolous to those who have lived little. With the passage of time, the seasons that pass, the differences in quantity and quality of light, of temperature and weather, become of ever greater importance in the meaning of our individual existence. This transformation follows the path of our lives and often mimes in front of our very…

Par BRIDGE FRANK. 'Isabella' is Bridge's second symphonic poem, and was completed on January 1907, and was the first orchestral work he chose to acknowledge. It is the only one of Bridge's orchestral work to follow a detailed narrative. It is based on Keats' 'Isabella or the The Pot of Basil', a poetic version of Boccasccio's gruesome Florentine tale./ Répertoire / Conducteur

I. Rêverie / II. Capriccio. Par CASABLANCAS BENET. Work commissioned by the pianists Iván Martín and Alba Ventura, on the occasion of the commemoration of the Centenary of Enric Granados (2016), and lasts approximately 10 minutes. It comprises two pieces of very contrasting character. The first, Rêverie, is a nocturne with broad resonances that unfolds in a recollected and expectant atmosphere, pr…

What is being presented here is the piano vocal score of Le Villi, Giacomo Puccini’s first stage work, the full score of which was published by Casa Ricordi (NR 141755) in 2020.The premiere of Le Villi took place at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 27 December 1884, and was followed by a Milanese performance at Teatro alla Scala on 24 January 1885: both productions were quite well received by critics …

Tito Manlio was performed for the fi rst time in Mantua as second work of the Carnival season of winter 1719. Vivaldi set the libretto of La fi da ninfa, a dramma per musica in three acts by Scipione Maffei, with a view to its use for the inauguration of the new theatre of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, which took place on 6 January 1732, during the Carnival season, elaborate stage sets bein…

Par HARRIS PAUL. The ABRSM sight-reading syllabus for Piano has been completely revised - effective from January 2009. This brand new edition of Paul Harris' 'Improve Your Sight Reading' series, and international best-seller with over 350,000 copies sold, is published to support these new requirements. / Répertoire d'Examen / Etude / Piano

Vocal Score. Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. In the days just before the Christmas of 1816, Rossini was still looking for the subject and the libretto for an opera that he was contractually obliged to stage at the Teatro Valle in Rome in just over a month's time. Jacopo Ferretti proposed a libretto he had himself written based on the famous fairytale by Perrault, Cinderella. Rossini composed the opera in l…