Blonde pop/country sensation Taylor Swift took the world by storm with her self-titled debut album, and her second album, Fearless. Speak Now follows these runaway success stories and upholds Swift's reputation for catchy tunes and relatable lyrics, but with a new found maturity. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album four stars and noted, 'she writes from the perspective of the moment…

Born and raised in Norway, Jostein Gulbrandsen has lived in New York City since 2001, where he is an active performer leading his own trio and quartet. He has recorded two albums, Twelve and Release of Tension. Through a blend of European, American Jazz and fusion, he has developed a unique style that is both melodic and harmonically rich. In this book he will teach you to play: lines over dominan…

Par HOLLIGER HEINZ. Here's proof, if you ever needed it, that contemporary music can be humourous. Want to hear Mendelssohn's Wedding March beefed up with Wagner's Tristan? And enjoy listening out for the well-known melody of 'Tea for two' in the escapades of 'Three for two'? The entertaining collection were composed individually, and for a variety of purpose - some were congratulatory messages fo…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Philip Sparke est un compositeur fasciné par les premières années dans l’histoire de l’Ouest américain, dont un épisode précis a retenu toute son attention. Dans la première décennie du XIXe siècle, Meriwether Lewis et William Clark sont mandatés par le président Thomas Jefferson, pour cartographier les sources du Missouri, et tracer une voie vers le Pacifique. Lewis et Clark on…

Par OSWALD GERALD. La composition est enjouée, dynamique, les notes dansent. Elle ne cherche pas à raconter une histoire, mais à représenter un état, un état de gaieté et de légèreté.?Avec ses motifs malicieux et ludiques, In the Air exprime quelque chose de joyeux, d'insouciant et de positif. La pièce donne l'impression d'une brise, d'un vent léger. Gerald Oswald est né en 1968 à Groß-St. Florian…

Par LORENZ RICARDO. Since 2015, approximately 1.9 million Venezuelans have fled their collapsing nation, with the most desparate escaping on foot as they cannot afford a bus or plane ticket. CAMINANTES, meaning “hikers” or “walkers” in Spanish, explores the different emotional stages undergone by any one of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who decide to walk to the border between Venezuela…

Serie III Bd. 8 Kammermusikwerke Weiterer Besetzungen. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. With the exception of the works for violin or violoncello and piano, to each of which a separate volume is devoted, all of Mendelssohn's other works for one or two instruments with piano are collected in this volume. Mendelssohn did not have any of these works printed. They are the viola sonata MWV Q 14, compos…

Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Among the vocal compositions incorrectly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, the cantata has a place of its own, because its tonal language approaches the unmistakable style of the Thomaskantor. This applies especially to its choral movements and recitatives. In the surviving sources, only one of which dates back to the 18th centu…