Kaptara? Sept lettres qui contiennent ce « mystère du lointain » que j'ai si souvent recherché dans ma musique.C'est le nom donné à la civilisation minoenne dans les écrits de Mari, l'ancienne cité syro-mésopotamienne. La civilisation crétoise est souvent identifiée comme la source du mythe de l'Atlantide : Kaptara est donc le nom possible de cette île, cet Eden englouti, dont j'ai tant rêvé.Ma pi…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Sierra Nevada est une oeuvre de commande de l’Orchestre d’Harmonie californien Sierra Nevada Winds (Bill Hill, dir. ). La première a eu lieu le 19 novembre 2005. Gary Truesdale, clarinettiste au sein de la formation dédicataire, fut chargé de rédiger la note de programme. « Cette oeuvre révèle au public la sublime grandeur de l’une des plus impressionnantes chaînes de montagnes …

Par GRIEG EDVARD. Of Grieg ’s three Violin sonatas, the great C-minor Sonata op. 45 is the best known today. And unjustly so, because the two early sonatas are captivating in their joy to play and their fresh, youthful tone. And what is more, they can also be played by advanced students due to their somewhat lesser technical demands. Written in 1867, the G-major Violin Sonata op. 13, palpably draw…

Additional books to complement the tutor for adults and young people. Play the Piano! Levels 1 & 2, are now available providing specially arranged favourite pieces in keeping with the technical level attained by the end of each course book. Whilst still under Mike's guiding hand, here is the chance for players to explore and enjoy more beautiful music in a variety of styles, confident that the tec…

Arrangeur: Marc Bataini. Par DANDRIEU JEAN-FRANCOIS. / Niveau : Avancé / Date parution : 2018-05-04/ Répertoire / 2 Guitares

Jean-François Tapray (1738-1819), né à Nomeny en Lorraine, fit une bonne partie de sa carrière à Dole puis Besançon avant de servir à Paris où on le signale comme organiste à la chapelle de l'Ecole royale militaire peu avant la Révolution. Il meurt à Fontainebleau vers 1819. Cette sonate à quatre mains, qui date probablement de 1800, est un véritable chef-d'oeuvre très inspiré par l'école viennois…

Epistelsonate. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The autograph of the Epistle Sonata KV 329 was obtained in the Mozart commemorative year of 1991 from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The present new edition is the first critical edition which is based on the autograph./ Répertoire / 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2 Clarinettes, Timbales, 2 Vio

Easy String Quartets Book 3 is the third volume in this highly popular collection of classics. Each piece has been easily arranged for String Quartet by Watson Forbes , and is designed to give developing string players the chance to rehearse and perform in ensemble as early as possible. Each work is well known and relatively straightforward, enabling the musicians to obtain a sense of achievement …

Note by the composer:'Triple Quartet is for string quartet and two pre-recorded quartets, or three live string quartets with no pre-recording. The piece is in three movements, fast-slow-fast, and is organized harmonically on four dominant chords in minor keys a minor third apart: E minor, G minor, Bb minor, C# minor and then returning to E minor to form a cycle.The first movement goes through this…

The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score published in this catalog in 2002 (PR 1362). Although it is not possible to establish with certainty the time and the occasion for which it was composed - between the end of 1716 and beginning of 1717 - the Gloria RV 589 is the best known among the works Vivaldi wrote on this subject, enough to be considered the Gloria by Vivaldi…