Par CHOPIN FREDERIC. Chopin’s Study (or Etude) In C Minor Op. 10 No. 12, also known as the Revolutionary Study, is a wonderfully powerful piece for Solo Piano. The demanding left-hand maintains a constant semi-quaver movement, which requires some strength to play, and gives the piece a tremendous impetus. The melody is created around beautiful crescendos and diminuendos in the right hand. This is …

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others. Carefully selected by Janet Way,…

Par JEFFREYS GEORGE. Publication of the complete English sacred music of George Jeffreys (c.1610?1685) opens a window on the achievement of one of the few pre-Commonwealth composers wholeheartedly committed to the contemporary Italianate stile nuovo. Besides a quantity of sacred works in Latin, there are 26 surviving English anthems and devotional pieces, plus three settings from the Communion Se…

Musica Britannica XIV. Par BULL JOHN. Edited by John Steele & Francis Cameron and revised Alan Brown. Bull's skill as a composer and performer was acknowledged throughout Europe. This volume, the first of two, contains fantasias, ostinati and plainsong settings, keyboard canons, preludes and a group of 'Dorian' pieces by this intriguing and ingenious master of the virginals. First published in 196…

Par BAILEY RAE CORINNE. The long-awaited second album from British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae . Following the huge success of her self-titled debut album, The Sea is a collection of songs about grief and hope, despair and inspiration, loss and love. This artist-approved songbook contains all of the songs from the album arranged for Voice and Piano with Guitar chords boxes. / Niveau : Ass…

For many, the title will awaken memories of the demonstrations against the clearance of the Flörsheim Forest to allow for a new runway at the Frankfurt Airport. Both the poem, which extends beyond this local incident to remind us of the seriousness of our global situation, and the music join together to form an expressive, universally valid call for the conservation of our core values, our future …