Par HOLMAN PETER. Music for three violins and bass formed a small yet distinctive corpus of instrumental music at the Restoration court of Charles II and in the Catholic chapel of James II. Introduced to England by the German violinist Thomas Baltzar, the genre was adopted by John Jenkins, whose ten late fantasia-suites for three violins, bass viol and continuo, together with Gottfried Finger’s fi…

Active Songs for a Swingin' Classroom. Par ECKERT ROSANA / BURCH SHARON. Experience jazz in the music classroom with this swingin' collection designed for kids! Each song is written and arranged in a distinctive jazz style, or groove, while keeping it fun with movement, a singing game or activity - learning music concepts in the process. The music, piano/vocal arrangements and recordings are authe…

Floyd Cramer's distinctive touch at the piano comes to life in this collection of eight classic country and pop songs featuring his signature 'slip note? style. Transcribed by Floyd's grandson, Jason Coleman, these arrangements capture the 'piano magic? of Floyd Cramer. Songs include: Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Crazy - Flip Flop and Bop - Last Date - On the Rebound - Please Help Me, I'm Falling -…

Par ZELENSKI WLADYSLAW. Wladyslaw Zelenski had the Six Character Pieces for piano, op. 17 ready around 1871, although it is quite possible that he composed them earlier, even in 1864. Such is indicated by the opus number. At that time he was giving opus numbers to works in chronological order of composition. This set is dedicated to Auguste Auspitz-Kolár, a pianist whom Zelenski could have met on …

An Extinction Elegy. Par TIN CHRISTOPHER. The Lost Birds is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and elegaic, it's a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It's a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it's also a warning a…

Par KOLBUSZ ALEKSANDRA. Long before writing Passalega, I harboured the idea of creating some form of organically homogeneous chain of musical tensions evolving ever more distinctly into a musical utterance, although still indeterminate in terms of pitch. The tissues forming the chain of those tensions were of relatively simple design, yet in spite of this ? or perhaps because of it ? they were inc…

Par HERCHENRODER MARTIN. 'Toccata and Lament” was composed on commission in 2008 to inaugurate the large new organ in the Christ Church Cathedral, Rochester, NY, USA. This instrument is a detailed reconstruction of a late Baroque organ of 1776 from Vilnius in Lithuania. The point of departure - a clash of contrasting eras and musical cultures on two continents - already bodes excitement. Martin He…

Aldo Ciccolini est sans conteste l'un des plus grands pianistes contemporains. II fut partenaire des plus grands chefs et interprètes (Mitropoulos, Furtwängler, Cluytens, Schwarzkopf, Thibaud...) - son immense carrière internationale n'a cessée d'être saluée par de nombreux prix et distinctions, depuis ce jour de 1949 où il remporta le 1er prix du concours Marguerile-Long à Paris. Interprète au ré…