Cantus Missae. Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. According to Otto Ursprung, Cantus missae is the “most beautiful, pure vocal music of the 19th century”. This is Rheinberger’s only Mass written for double choir. It obtains its special character through the use of compositional techniques of ancient classical vocal polyphony, which are combined with functional harmony and expressive, songlike voice-le…

Edward Bunting fell into his destiny when, at the age of 19, he was commissioned to write down the tunes performed at a gathering of traditional harp players in Belfast in July 1792. This innocent beginning signaled the start of a100-year process of enormous importance: the preservation of a country's music, which otherwise might be lost forever. In time, Bunting passed the torch to apprentice Geo…

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. Higglety Pigglety Pop! is the second of Knussen ’s two extraordinary fantasy operas created in collaboration with the acclaimed author Maurice Sendak. Composed between 1984-5 but finding its final form, after a number of substantial revisions, in 1999, the opera – subtitled ‘There Must be More to Life’ – is the story of a well-fed Sealyham terrier, Jennie, who escapes boredom t…

François Rabbath was born into a musical family in Aleppo, Syria, in 1931. Self-taught, he discovered the Double Bass at the age of thirteen. After moving with his family to Beirut in 1946, he played in a quartet with his brothers in restaurants and hotels. At the age of twenty-two, with the encouragement of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and pianist José Iturbi, he developed an original approach to the…

Par PALLOT NERINA. Bridging the gap between pop phenomenon and protest singer, Nerina Pallot combines a classically trained background with a sharp eye for questioning social comment. With influences ranging from Carol King to Tori Amos, Fires is an unpredictable set of songs that span a wide variety of styles, from the raw protest of Everybody's Gone To War to the lush and anthemic Idaho . Every …

Approuvé par Eddie Gomez, Jimmy Haslip, John Goldsby, Ben Allison, etc.. L'un de la méthode quelques livres qui se concentre exclusivement sur la façon de créer des lignes de basse marche authentiques et de son. Conçu pour les joueurs de début ou toute personne voulant une basse de jazz foning solide. Contient des discussions détaillées sur : les quatre principes cruciales de construction de la li…

for String Quartet Score and Parts. Par HARTKE STEPHEN. THE FIFTH BOOK of the title refers to what Stephen Hartke considers his fifth book of madrigals, only two of which books are actually for voices, with the others being for string instruments. Hartke writes madrigals for string instruments due to their inherent singing quality, but also due to the fluid structural character of the madrigal as …

Le spectacle démarre au moment où le destin de Mozart bascule : Colloredo succède au Prince-archevêque de Salzbourg. Le nouveau souverain est un homme austère et autoritaire qui est insensible à la musique de Mozart et allergique à la fougue et l'impertinence du personnage. Pour Mozart, la vie à Salzbourg devient vite intenable. Il a 20 ans quand il décide de quitter sa ville natale en compagnie d…

Par CASABLANCAS BENET. The Seven Haikus, lasting some 8 minutes, were written for the Composers Portrait that closed the author's two-season residency at L’Auditori de Barcelona (2015). The work is inspired by the conciseness and essentiality of theJapanese poetic form, which aspires to capture the epiphanic moment with the immediacy of a calligraphic stroke. The Haikus are compact statements, wit…

First Movement. Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI. Der russische Komponist Sergei Rachmaninov, geboren 1873 in Novgorod, studierte an den renommierten Konservatorien von St. Petersburg und Moskau. Er erlangte bereits in jungen Jahren großen Ruhm als Pianist in Russland - und bald darauf auch international. Auch als Dirigent und Komponist war er erfolgreich. Im Jahr 1917 ging er in die Vereinigten Staaten, wo…