Choralkantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX / LUTHER MARTIN. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas based…

An Anthology of Neil's Modern Drummer Cover Stories. Par RUSH / PEART NEIL. Neil Peart's ten appearances on the cover of Modern Drummer magazine span the years 1980, when he was five albums and several tours into his historic run with the Canadian progressive rock band Rush, and 2020, the year of his passing. No other drummer has come close to appearing so many times on the front of a drum publica…

Kyrie-Gloria-Messe (Lutherische Messe). Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. probably composed during the later years in Leipzig / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes ATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Violons,

Par LIANG LEI. Having been interested in Mahayana Buddhism for a number of years, I went to a Buddhist monastery in upstate New York to study meditation in 1999. One evening, while walking alone by the side of the lake, I caught the sight of a “V” shape floating and extending on the surface of the water. It was a beaver taking a swim under the moon. This image gave me insight into my relationship …

In 1887 Antonin Dvorak revised several of the works he had composed in the 1860s and 1870s, most of which he then published for the first time. In this context he asked the music critic Ludevit Prochazka to return a manuscript copy of the Piano Quintet in A major op. 5 (B 28), composed 15 years earlier. But after thoroughly revising the work he declined to publish it - instead, he wrote a new pian…

Erinnerungen, Briefe und Kompositionen zum 80 geburtstag. Clytus Gottwald's importance for contemporary choral music can be measured by his outstanding achievements, including his founding of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, which he conducted for its entire existence of 30 years and with whom he gave numerous first performances of contemporary music. Contemporaries and musical companions relate sto…

Effectuer des solos les plus connus de saxo de tous les temps! Jouer ce bien rendue et méticuleusement détaillé transcriptions vous donnera un aperçu des styles de grands saxophonistes comme Michael Brecker, Kenny G, David Sanborn, Jay Beckenstein, et bien d'autres. L'introduction Berklee professeur Jeff Harrington propose des conseils sur la façon de pratiquer et exécuter.Caractéristiques solos d…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The variation genre occupied Beethoven his whole artistic life. Collected in the second volume of G. Henle Publishers’ complete edition of Piano variations are compositions from his middle and later Vienna years written between 1799 and 1823. Among them are groundbreaking works such as the two sets of variations on original themes opp. 34 and 35, the Variations in C minor…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven completed his String Quartet Op.135 at Wasserdorf Castle in Gneixenhof, where he sought to recuperate with his nephew Karl after the latter?s failed suicide attempt in summer 1826. It stands out among his late quartets owing to the often cheerful, almost pastoral character of its four movements. Since Beethoven?s death it has often been interpreted as an attempt…

Par MARTINU BOHUSLAV. Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from this period that four short serenades also originate (1932), each with a different instrumentation. The serenades were issued by the Pr…