The new scholarly-critical edition of the score of Rameau’s “ballet héroïque” Les Indes galantes finally clears up its convoluted source history. At the first performance,on 23 August 1735, it consisted of a prologue and three acts: Le Turc généreux, Les Incas du Pérou and Les Fleurs. But Les Fleurs already proved controversial in the early performances, and from 11 Septemberof that same year it w…

Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Composed during the years 1935/36, the score fell victim to the war, and was lost. In 1946 Shostakovich, using his outline sketches, arranged the work for two pianos. The score was later reconstructed from the instrumental parts which had been preserved./ Répertoire / Orchestre

- Type de produit : Conducteur- Instrumentation : Piano- Collection : - Compositeur : Karol Szymanowski- Arrangeur : - Artiste : - Langue : - Difficulté : - Pages : 0- Année de publication : 2001- Genre : / Médias > Partitions / Edition Max Eschig

- Type de produit : Recueil- Instrumentation : Piano, 4 Hands- Collection : Piano- Compositeur : Ludwig van Beethoven- Arrangeur : - Artiste : - Langue : - Difficulté : INTERMEDIATE- Pages : 212- Année de publication : 1986- Genre : Classique / Médias > Partitions / Schirmer

in Full Score. Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Considered throughout much of his career as the preeminent French composer, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote music that embodies a characteristic French concern for clarity and order, together with his own assured mastery of the composer's craft. These qualities are evident in Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3, widely regarded as the composer's major orchestral work, and…

Par ADLER-MCKEAN JACK. This book on the tuba is a companion for composers and players alike, deepening their understanding of this somewhat neglected family of instruments. It gives tuba players an opportunity to master and employ new performance techniques on their instrument, particularly in contemporary music. Jack Adler-McKean offers helpful instruction in various tuning mechanisms, resonance…

Dans la tradition de la musique écrite en hommage à un artiste mort, cette oeuvre a été composée pour Thomas Trotter en commémoration du peintre français Georges Rouault (1871-1958). Une figure marquante de la Renaissance artistique et intellectuelle de la vie catholique française dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, les travaux de Rouault était sombre, subtil et émouvant dans son observation de…

Par MARTINU BOHUSLAV. Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from this period that four short serenades also originate (1932), each with a different instrumentation. The serenades were issued by the Pr…