Concert overture for orchestra, first performed in 2007 by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The Times described the five-minute piece as 'an irreverent deconstruction of the two big works heard earlier - the Tchaikovsky 4th Symphony and Mozart's Elvira Madigan Piano Concerto, K467[...]? Stomp ?went through all sorts of wacky distortions before being whisked, ceilidh-sty…

For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef, and C instruments, Jazz Play-Along Volume 163: John Coltrane Standards is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians.With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before.For study purposes, each tune includes a split tra…

Elementary piano lessons focus first on a five-note range, before any finger crossing is introduced. This book of tunes Gib mir 5 (Give me 5) contains 35 easy and progressively arranged original piano pieces in various five-note ranges and keys. The pieces have a broad range of styles, including minuets, folk tunes, sentimental instrumental pieces, pop and rock ballads and pieces in a boogie-woogi…

The Piano Treasury of Hymns is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This tremendous collection contains 400 pages of the best-loved Christian hymns from Europe and America. From traditional favourites to contemporary worship songs, here you'll find the music that has inspired praise and worship for over four centuries. This sacred folio will provide years of enjoyment for…

Description This delightful collection of 99 rounds, canons and partsongs makes a great introduction to part-singing for groups of all ages. The wide-ranging selections are arranged by categories including English Pre-1700 (Secular), Pre-1700 (Sacred), Post-1700, From Around The World and Wordless Rounds. Compiled by the internationally renowned King's Singers. Songlist A Round Of Three Cou…

Par FOSS PETER / CARSON TURNER B.. After composing the unconventional but highly successful Night Piece (Notturno) for the inaugural Leeds International Piano Competition, Marion Harewood, the competition's co-founder along with Dame Fanny Waterman, asked Britten to write a further piece for the 1966 contest. He began a set of variations in the autumn of 1965, but the manuscript breaks off just be…

The so-called Köthener Trauermusik (Cöthen funeral music) was performed at the memorial service for Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen on 24 March 1729. The history of reconstruction begins in the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1873 Wilhelm Rust, co-editor of the first Complete Bach Edition and subsequently Thomaskantor, established the fundamental relationship between the Köthener Trauerm…

Playing music should be as simple and natural as drawing a breath, yet most musicians are hindered by self-consciousness, apprehension, self-doubt, and stress. Before we can truly express our inner self, we must first learn to be at peace andovercome the distractions that can make performance difficult. Kennys remarkable work deals directly with these hindrances, and presents ways to let our natur…