Par CHYRZYNSKI MARCEL. In 2017, after my monographic concert organised by the Polish Music Center in Los Angeles, I hired a car and drove to Las Vegas. However, I didn’t take the interstate highway, the quickest and most used road, but followed an acquaintance’s advice and headed up the picturesque old route through the Mojave Desert formed partly by the famous Route 66. The Mojave Desert made an …

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos). The special tuning in this case is not that the tonality moves in an ultra-chromatic direction, rather that it makes the cont…

Per Violino, Viola E Orchestra (1966) - Partitura. Par ZAFRED MARIO. / Musique contemporaine / Date parution : 1905-06-06/ Répertoire / Violon, Alto et Orchestre

Par ALBENIZ ISAAC. As one of the leaders in the renaissance of Spanish music at the turn of the twentieth century, Isaac Albéniz was regarded as the founder of the Spanish 'national school.' Always fascinated with the music of Andalucia, Albeniz composed numerous small but beautifully performed portraits of his native Spain. These brightly colored piano pictures of his native land are sufficient r…

Ein Oratorium Nach Worten Des Alten Testaments. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Nur ein Jahr vor seinem Tod erzielte Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy mit seinem Oratorium 'Elias' einen Erfolg, der ihn bis heute zu einem der beliebtesten Oratorienkomponisten gemacht hat. Von packender Dramatik und gleichzeitig von einer Innigkeit des Gottvertrauens, wie sie zu Mendelssohns Lebzeiten durchaus nicht mehr…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE / BUSSER. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) is best known for his Carnival of the Animals and Organ Symphony. Yet, his Fantasy in E flat major arranged for Cornet or Trumpet and Piano remains popular in the advanced repertoire for the instruments. Saint-Saëns entered the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of thirteen, where he studied Organ and composition. He then went on t…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Edited and fingered by Jerry Willard. The complete works for lute solo by Johann Sebastian Bach, newly transcribed and annotated. Historical and performance notes. / Rép International / Répertoire / Guitare

Arranged for Flute (TWV 40: 26-37). Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Georg Philipp Telemann composed thirty-six fantasias for solo instrument: twelve each for traverse flute, violin, and viola da gamba. While those for flute and violin belong to Telemann?s most popular works today, the fantasias for viola da gamba were unknown throughout much of recent history until a copy of these fantasias was redisc…

This string quartet is in five movements, of which the second and fifth are by far the most elaborate. The remaining three movements are rather short, like brief vignettes.The second movement draws its inspiration from Schubert, albeit indirectly- the middle instruments in the quartet (violin 2, viola) play an accompaniment with a motif of two slurred notes, almost always in sixths.In spirit and s…

Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Shostakovich's Op. 6 is a suite for 2 Pianos in four contrasting movements, paired in this edition with the Merry March. The pieces show the great Russian composer at his most accessible, recalling the symmetrical rhythms of older classical works./ Répertoire / 2 Pianos