Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. In this volume with the Toccatas (and Fugues) as well as individual works the Swiss organist Jean-Claude Zehnder has amply proven his mettle as a Bach specialist here. Of particular interest in this book is the Canzona in d BWV 588. Written before 1707, this early work is found in a contemporary copy by Johann Gottlieb Preller with embellishments, fingerings and a closin…

J. S. Bach's Partita II For Alto Recorder Solo (BWV 1004). Die Diktion der originalen Violine wurde bei der Übertragung weitgehend übernommen. Ornamente wurden vor allem dorthinzugefügt wo sie akzentuierende Akkorde ersetzen. Die Akzidentiensetzung wurde heutigen Gepflogenheiten angepasst. Isa Rühling studierte Blockflöte an der Kasseler Musikakademie bei Ingetraud Drescher undWinfried Michel. Si…

The understanding of ornaments can often provide a great deal of confusion to the musician and examination candidate owing to the variety of interpretations which are possible. William Lovelock offers a clear explanation to Ornaments their abbreviations and how they are realised in performance with comprehensive examples and supporting exercises with solutions.

This Drones Variations Ornaments sheet music is the full score for this innovative and dramatic piece by Nico Muhly. According to Muhly this piece is 'music in constant transformation' featuring steadily evolving melodies from a number of instruments punctuated with hugely original percussive parts with instructions to fill the Cymbal with chain coins and other metal objects in order to mak…

Par BULLA STEPHEN. Playful moods abound in this light-hearted set of holidayvariations based on a traditional Irish carol. Four briefsections portray the colorful “ornaments” of the season. Exciting rhythmic motion, creative and surprising variations, lyrical interludes infused with rich harmonies, and a jovialwaltz-like final section all combine to make a splendid anddistinct offering for your ne…

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Par BULLA STEPHEN. Playful moods abound in this light-hearted set of holidayvariations based on a traditional Irish carol. Four briefsections portray the colorful “ornaments” of the season. Exciting rhythmic motion, creative and surprising variations, lyrical interludes infused with rich harmonies, and a jovialwaltz-like final section all combine to make a splendid anddistinct offering for your ne…

Sixteen cantatas for alto or mezzo voice and keyboard These cantatas includes more ornamentation than any other Handel cantata collection. Most are published here in an ornamented version corrected form or complete for the first time. Included is a full description of the songs and their sources and notes for performers as well as editorial method and critical notes.

Zwei- und dreistimmige Inventionen-Johann Sebastian Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias better known as two- and three-part inventions were an integral part of the teaching repertoire used in the composer’s piano lessons. And they still are! For piano pupils there is no getting away from them for their basic demands that is ‘to learn to play in tune’ and ‘to achieve …

Research has shown that many printed editions from the 18th Century provide more reliable guidance as to the composer’s intentions than Mozart’s own autograph manuscript; the composer himself prepared many of his works for printing marking them with precise performance instructions for dynamics and articulation. He devoted particular care to the slow movements which are often richly ornament…

Organists and keyboard players in search of appropriate music for the Christmas season will welcome this rich selection of noels or carols by three renowned 18th-Century French organ composers Louis-Claude Daquin Jean-Francois Dandrieu and Claude-Benigne Balbastre. Each composition is a set of variations on a French carol popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The music is highly …

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…

Par SCHWEITZER BENJAMIN. The chiaroscuro-technique developed by painters of the Italian renaissance served to intensify contrasts and effects of optical depth. In Klar/Obskur, I tried to transfer the general idea of this technique on the rather unusual instrumentation of two double-reed woodwinds and piano. On the one hand, a clear, well articulated playing is characteristic for these instruments,…

Music Minus One Piano Deluxe 2-CD Set-This impressive concerto has rightfully earned its nickname of 'Olympian' or 'Emperor.' Written in 1786 it enjoys many of Mozart's more mature trademarks as well as relying heavily on counterpoint and offers tremendous opportunity to the soloist. The first movement is majestic and broad in its development the 'Larghetto' second movement is especially lovel…