Par BRAVO LEONARDO. “Tres Norteñas” was born during a journey through northern Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, inspired by the majestic Andean landscape, its villages, and the richness of its ancestral culture. In an overview, the work is not descriptive, but evokes the landscape and the mysteries that inhabit these lands. It consists of three pieces, each based on rhythms from northern Argentina. W…

Par . The Faber Music Women Composers Piano Anthology is an essential collection of music by women from across the centuries. Beautifully presented with Vanessa Bell’s ‘A Conversation’ (1913–1916) on the cover, this timeless collection features over 50 works suitable for intermediate pianists by composers including Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Imogen Holst, Cassandra Miller and Hania Rani.   T…

Par . The Faber Music Piano Duets Anthology is a must-have collection of traditional favourites and appealing new arrangements featuring a wide range of musical styles. Arranged in progressive order, it includes classic duet repertoire from Fauré, Schubert and Debussy as well as lesser-known gems from Chaminade, Ligeti, Danny Elfman and many more. Beautifully presented with cover artwork by L.S. L…

Par PANUFNIK ROXANNA. When the London International Festival of Early Music came to me with a commission to write a solo harpsichord piece for Jane Chapman, they asked me to relate the new piece to Byrd, as it’s the 400th anniversary of his death, this year. Jane introduced me to Byrd’s arrangement of Dowland’s wonderful Pavana Lachrymae (‘Pavan of tears’) – a piece of many layers but simple and e…

Dramma giocoso (Opera) in two acts. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. In early 1787 Mozart made his first visit to Prague, where he attended a performance of Le nozze di Figaro on 17 January and conducted the performance five days later. Thoroughly impressed by the huge success of his opera and the personal triumphs he had enjoyed during his visit, he and his wife left the city on 7 February, but not b…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. For a long time, Camille Saint-Saëns was reluctant to compose a chamber music piece with trumpet for his friend Émile Lemoine and his chamber music association “La Trompette”: “I can happily write you a concerto for twenty-five guitars […] but for trumpet? Impossible.” Finally, he gave in and wrote a Préambule in 1880 and a year later the four further movements of the “Sep…

Classiques populaires, les solos de jazz et de la nouveauté, valses, marches et polkas et chansons préférées. Compilé et arrangé par Agay Denes. Convient pour les pianistes de grade 3 standard. / Piano / 80 pages / Partition

Kantate Zum 3. Weihnachtstag. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The cantata 'Ich freue mich in dir' was first performed during Bach's second year as Thomaskantor, on the 3rd day of Christmas, and belongs to the so-called annual cycle of chorale cantatas. Here the focus of the composition is the hymn of the same name by Philipp Ziegler, in which the first and final strophes were adopted, word for word, in…