Music for Royal Occasions is an exciting volume of pieces written for coronations and other royal celebrations over the past five centuries. It includes long-standing favourites, such as Handel's Zadok the priest and Parry's I was glad - and works from earlier years, such an Henry Purcell's I was glad and the delightful Rejoice in the Lord alway . Many well-loved composers were commissioned to wri…

Par GRAINGER PERCY ALDRIDGE. Between 1920 and 1940 Grainger published a loose series of piano transcriptions under the title of 'Free Settings of Favourite Melodies' in order to make a wide audience acquainted with the music of great composers. Five pieces that prove his feel of tone colours and his highly developed understanding of the piano and its possibilities, have been included in this volum…

A Comic Opera. Par BICKERSTAFF ISAAC (Arr. TOMS EDWARD). 'Love in a Village' was first performed on 8 December 1762 at the Covent Garden Theatre (London). It was to become one of the most popular British musical stage works of the century, and by 1791 it had also gained international acclaim. The question of why this pastiche comic opera was able to develop this special attraction can be described…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. The episode from Ovid‘s “Metamorphoses” in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo’s advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, has inspired the masterworks of many artists. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose famous marble sculpture is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, is only one example of this. M…

Schumann 'Scènes Forêt', op. 82 datent de l'année 1848-1849. Ce fut la période la plus créative du compositeur, mais celui qui a été marquée par des troubles révolutionnaires et l'incertitude politique. Ainsi que des compositions chorales et les grandes oeuvres dramatiques, y compris l'opéra 'Genoveva' et 'Manfred' de Schumann créé le piano, Scènes intimes cycle de la forêt, inspiré par les illust…

Handel's dramatic cantata Apollo And Daphne belongs to the composer's early years in Italy. It seems likely to have been written in Rome, where Handel lived intermittently between 1707 and 1710. Opera in Rome had been placed under a papal ban, but musical society in the performance of dramatic cantatas, which possessed most of the features of opera without requiring elaborate staging. Handel's pla…

Nouvellement révisées et transcrites, cette compilation de Richard Walters. / Voix / Partition

Un répertoire des oeuvres pour Clavier les plus faciles de Haendel ainsi qu'une sélection de ses oratoires parmi les plus appreciés. Inclus 'Where'ver You Walk', 'L'Harmonieux Forgeron', 'The Trumpet Shall Sound'. / Piano

Une grande collection de dix-neuf pièces festives, y compris des chants traditionnels, des chansons saisonniers et des extraits de oeuvres orchestrales et vocales, pour piano facile. Caractéristiques musicfrom des compositeurs tels que Tchaïkovski, Vivaldi, Corelli et Handel. Paroles de Incldues où il y a lieu, de sorte que vous pouvez chanter trop ! / Chant Et Piano