Par BRYARS GAVIN. “Apart from the ten 5-minute string quartets that I wrote in 1992 as the original version of A Man in a Room, Gambling, there are 8 years between my second and third quartets. Another element which finds its way into the quartet comes from my work with groups from the world of early music, particularly from the experience of writing for a consort of viols …. In several places I a…

Playing the recorder made easy right from the start! No previous knowledge required! Everything you need to know about the basics of music is explained in a child-friendly way, thus ensuring lasting playing fun. Rapid success will keep your child motivated. / Niveau : Débutant / Children\'s - Methods / Méthode / Flûte à Bec Soprano

Par SUZUKI SHINICHI. The Suzuki philosophy is based upon the idea that children can learn music in the same manner they do their native language, through repetitive listening. This listening is then followed up with 1) Individual Instruction with a trained Suzuki teacher 2) Group lessons on a bi-weekly / weekly basis 3) Parent Involvement 4) Encouragement. Students begin lessons as early as two ye…

With his clarinet quintet, begun in 1915, Reger was remembering his role models Mozart and Brahms, whose works in this genre he particularly admired. This melancholic quintet that is worked through in a strictly motivic way was to be Reger's last opus. Shortly after he had sent it to his publisher, he died of heart attack in May 1916. The quintet was to become his swan song, first performed at a m…

Lyrics included. It has become standard practice today for the professional musician to play at least one Latin tune in each set as added spice to the overall sound. This set contains ten beautiful Bossa Novas that jazz players have been playing for years. Complete with melody, chords and lyrics. Transposed parts, too! These songs, with their crisp, clean tropical flavor, always seem to find a way…

Kyrie-Gloria-Messe (Lutherische Messe). Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. probably composed during the later years in Leipzig / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes ATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Violons,

Par CATTLEY SARAH. Written for baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the five Frances Cornford settings of A Square and Candle-Lighted Boat further enhance Sarah Cattley’s reputation as an exciting young composer acutely sensitive to the nuances of English poetry. In addition to familiar sources ranging from ‘a…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19…

Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Rheinberger’s string quartets, his string quintet and his nonet for winds and strings were often performed and were very successful works during his lifetime. Their density, but also the delicateness of the scherzo movements are in the tradition of Schumann and Mendelssohn and these traits are combined with Rheinberger’s sense for the clear, defined structure of the …

Par MAHLER GUSTAV. An unabridged republication of this work, orginally published by C. F. Kahnt Nachfolger in 1906. The symphony dates from the composer's prolific period of 1903-4. The work incorporates 'portraits' of Alma in the first movement and of children playing in a diabolical Scherzo- some say, a musical prediction of the tragedy that was to strike the Mahler family within three years./ R…