A Century Of Piano Music contains pieces graded accordingly to difficulty, originally written variously for concert hall, class, festival or home: miniatures and more extended pieces that show off each composer at their best. Every major artistic movement can be discerned in this collection of easy and accessible piano works by some of the biggest names in British music of the twentieth century. A…

Ce livre est le deuxième et dernier volume d'une véritable encyclopédie musicale de poche dont, lors de la sortie du premier volume, la critique unanime s'est plu à saluer l'ingéniosité de la conception, l'agrément visuel et la valeur pédagogique. Après un premier tome consacré à la théorie et à la technique musicales, ainsi qu'à l'histoire de la musique des origines jusqu'à la fin de la Renais…

The New Robert Schumann Edition (RSA) is intended as a historico-critical edition of the collected works. They will be carefully studied and prepared according to present-day musicological and editorial techniques and presented in their entirety. Drafts, sketches and fragments, in short, everything that has come down to us as being authentically by Schumann and which, in most cases, has been delib…

Haydn's Symphony #26 received its nickname 'Lamentazione? during his lifetime, though it is unclear whether this stems directly from the composer.This work probably originated no later than 1770. Its first and second movements quote excerpts from Gregorian chants used in Holy Week. In Haydn's day it was customary to play individual movements in church services, and it may be assumed that these two…

Walther Dürr presents Volume 8 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert's lieder in separate editions for high, medium and low voice. This volume contains lieder originating during the latter half of 1815, between August and November. Three series of lieder, each based on a particular poet, immediately catch the eye: a number of Ossian settings, a group of Klopstock lieder and finally another set on …

A mon attachement aux mystères des origines s'ajoute mon expérience de père: depuis les premières secondes de la vie de mes deux enfants, Yan et David, j'enregistre leurs expressions vocales et j'observe le développement de leur langage ­ des cris et des petits bruits jusqu'aux premières syllabes.Dans Nids de cigognes, ces enregistrements (enfants) sont exploités comme tissu principal du discours …

J.S. Bach's four Orchestral Suites belong to that select group of works one could truly call classical hits! They stem from Bach's extremely productive time in Cöthen which ended in 1721.Unfortunately the only sources that have come down to us are copyist parts from Leipzig . These originally formed the basis for the critical complete edition volume which was published in 1967 as part of the ' New…

Instrumentation : Fl - Pf (originally for Violin and Orchestra, K.373) Editor :Sonntag

Edvard Greig's 'Air,' in ABA form, is one of his most beautiful and tender works while the 'Rigaudon' is a characteristically playful French baroque-style dance. (9:00) This installment concludes the complete Holberg Suite, Op. 40 including: Praeludium (00-38363) * Sarabande (00-39537) * Gavotte (00-39537) * Air (00-42202) * and Rigaudon (00-42202). All five movements may be performed in order as …

Par FAURE GABRIEL. The Trumpet?s powers of expression are not limited to the pompous accents and ringing tones of the Triumphal March of Verdi?s Aida. To all doubters, we strongly recommend opening Volume 2 ofMélodies Et Pièces Diverses by Gabriel Fauré, transcribed for Trumpet and Piano by internationally acclaimed soloist Guy Touvron. In this volume,gentleness and express­iveness prevail. Wi…