Four ( 4) Frescoes

Description Composed for the famous ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, Maurice Ravel?s Daphnis and Chloe was drawn from an ancient Greek fable. At the time, Ravel announced his intention to 'compose a vast musical fresco, less scrupulous as to archaism than faithful to the Greece of my dreams.' The resulting 'choreographic symphony' features a captivating combination o…

Born in Ireland and musically trained in Germany Victor Herbert (1859-1924) was America's first great composer for the musical theatre. The creator of more than 40 operettas Herbert produced a series of popular and enduring stage works including Babes in Toyland and Naughty Marietta.This treasury of tuneful favourites reprinted directly from rare editions comprises 37 beloved hits from Herber…

PIANO SONATA NO. 4 from the years 1962?1964 is dedicated to the memory of Fiser?s friend, the pianist Antonín Jemelík, who died tragically. As a tribute to their friendship the composer incorporated into the introduction a quotation from their favourite work, Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70,by Alexander Scriabin. The tragedy of the death of the composer?s friend pervades the emotionally intense passag…

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Parts for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sørensen (1988) Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Danish Radio Concert Hall 16 November 1988. Score available: KP00250The composer writes:'Even when I was writing 'Adieu' I knew that I wished to write 'Angel’s Music'. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became …

A 20-minute work written for large orchestra and first performed in 2013. The title is a reference to the Beethoven Frieze by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, a series of frescoes inspired by the finale of the Ninth Symphony, to which Turnage's work makes several allusions, painted on the walls of the Vienna Secession Building. / Orchestre

Arranged by Henry Aaron Following in the successful footsteps of the woodwind quintets this collection puts Mr. Aaron's magic to work in the Brass Quintet idiom! Perfectfor concert or contest. Includes: TRITCH-TRATSCH POLKA by J. Strauss * POLKA by Shostakovich * CAPRICCIO by Haydn * HUMERSQUE by Tchaikowsky * DIARY OF A FLY byBartok * GOLLIWOGG'S CAKE WALK by Debussy * MARCHE LA GUARDE IMPERIAL …

This edition containing Italian (Roman) Organ music is the result of studies done at the Vatican Library in Autumn 1977. Among the numerous manuscripts found in Fondo Chigiano there are several sets of manuscripts which consist of Organ and Harpsichord music written between the years 1630 and 1640. These manuscripts are listed in G. Baronci's hand-written catalogue (1929) as Chigi Q IV 24-29. Th…

Windgeboren belongs to a group of works in which musical conceptions are nourished by the wind as a gathering metaphor of the perceptible but invisible natural forces behind the music. In addition to this image a number of other impressions have arisen during the process of composition which have to some extent left their mark on the three strongly contrasting movements for example wind and spi…

Arranged by Henry Aaron Following in the successful footsteps of the woodwind quintets this collection puts Mr. Aaron's magic to work in the Brass Quintet idiom! Perfectfor concert or contest. Includes: TRITCH-TRATSCH POLKA by J. Strauss * POLKA by Shostakovich * CAPRICCIO by Haydn * HUMERSQUE by Tchaikowsky * DIARY OF A FLY byBartok * GOLLIWOGG'S CAKE WALK by Debussy * MARCHE LA GUARDE IMPERIAL …