Par CURNOW JAMES. This work was commissioned in memory of Peter J. Swanson, a trumpet and cornet player who tragically died at the tender age of fourteen. Peter’s favorite gospel song, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, has been used as the basis for this piece of contrasts which takes the listener through many styles and moods. The spiritual character of the original song resounds gloriously in When T…

Ravel's 'Valses nobles et sentimentales? created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris's Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie, or even Kodály!For our new Urtext edition of this work, the famed musicologist Nicolas Southon, a co-editor of the 'oeuvres Complètes de Gabriel Fauré?, has examined a large body of sources to present a musical te…

Violin 3 Solo. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Concerto in F major for 3 Violins, Strings and Basso continuo TWV 53:F1 Tafelmusik II If Telemann was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the greatest of all composers, his star, faced with the overwhelming presence of Bach and Handel, paled in the course of the 19th century to the verge of contempt. This assessment changed radically during the cours…

Par DIGBY ANDREW. the same material is repeated in constantly varying configurations: no two bars have simultaneously the same number of instruments, direction of and number of discontinuities in the glissandi, number of crossings through the octave or unison between instruments. this last is the most important characteristic of the piece. many such crossing points are also punctuated by other ins…

In order to help the many guitarists that are fond of the baroque music, but neither own a baroque guitar, nor baroque lute, nor a theorbe, it was necessary to write this book. The 'suite française? dances (allemande, courante, sarabande, minuet, gavotte, bourree, passacaille, chaconne, gigue?) are initialy presented in a whole, then, for each of them, we are lead to discover first the origin most…

2 Exemplare zur Auffuhrung notig. Par ZIMMERMANN BERND ALOIS. In January 1964 Bernd Alois Zimmermann interrupted the completion of his opera Die Soldaten [The Soldiers] in order to rearrange his orchestral work Dialoge for two pianos. Monologe resulting therefrom takes up the original material but develops it towards a different direction: Zimmermann‘s collage technique based on quotations extends…

12 Songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with texts in Italian, French and German. Mozart's brilliant piano technique and his intimate knowledge of beautiful singing is combined to create cameos of human psychology such as reverence, infatuation, humor, jealously, and playfulness, all in masterful songs. Includes word-by-word translations of the Italian, French, and German text as well as a translation…

Krönungsmesse. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Mozart’s Missa in C K. 317, erroneously dubbed the “Coronation Mass, ” is among the most popular and most often performed works in this genre. The autograph of the Mass, which in many respects is very enlightening, was regarded as having been lost following the end of World War II, but was discovered at the end of the 1970s, it is preserved among the mus…

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…

As one of Hollywood's most memorable films, and perhaps the greatest screen adaptation of a novel ever, the 1939 Wizard Of Oz brought the words to music, entrenching the songs in popular culture and ensuring their timelessness. With this Piano, Vocal and Guitar book, you can learn every song from the hit movie.There were other film adaptations of L. Frank Baum's book before and after it, but the 1…