100 songs from the past half-century, arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar in this Volume One of Fifty Years Of Hits. Featuring some of the greatest songs spanning decades, genres and entire musical eras, this massive will be a mainstay on any musician's music stand.Featuring many of The Beatles' finest tracks, Fifty Years Of Hits also runs through Joni Mitchell's career, and includes songs by Leo…

Facsimile of the autograph score in the British Library, London. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. The first performance of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” on 13 April 1742 in Dublin aroused unqualified rapture. A newspaper report a few days later declared that it combined “the Sublime, the Grand, and the Tender”. Its success has remained undiminished ever since, and the “Messiah” has taken…

While organ music of the 19th century was not highly regarded in Germany a few years ago [with the exception of a few outstanding works], our understanding of it has grown during recent years. In other countries 19th century organ music has retained its place in the repertoire to a far greater extent. This three-volume collection presents playable organ works of high quality for both liturgical an…

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course o…

Musique du Nancarrow est la plus grande découverte depuis Webern et Ives. ' György Ligeti, le compositeur américain Conlon Nancarrow est devenu célèbre pour ses compositions complexes pour le joueur de piano. Dans son exil mexicain, il écrivit un extrêmement originale et à la musique même émotionnel de temps qui ont contribué au développement de la musique du XXe siècle, au-delà de douze-note tech…

The Complete Piano Etudes is the first ever publication of all 20 of renowned composer Philip Glass's beautifully simple pieces for solo Piano.With their deft rhythmic and dynamic changes, exciting harmonies and moving melodies, the Etudes are a joy to hear and play. Glass has composed 20 pieces that are at once relaxing and musically captivating, making this collection ideal for a committed fan a…

Comme le volume des quatuors facile, celui-ci contient aussi des séquences de danse composées de plusieurs mouvements. Outre ces mouvements de danse populaire (deux danses renaissance, trois valses), cette publication fournit également aux utilisateurs plus vastes pièces de caractère à un niveau intermédiaire. Dans les mouvements comme, par exemple, Soirée carillons, Hobgoblin, la bergère et le co…

Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. Les douze «Symphonies londoniennes» forment le sublime accord final de l’œuvre symphonique de Haydn. Elles ont été conçues pour l’imprésario londonien Johann Peter Salomon, et Haydn lui-même en dirigea les créations, lorsqu’il se rendit, en 1791/1792 et 1794/1795, pour quelque temps dans la métropole anglaise. La première audition de la Symphonie en Si bémol majeur n° 98, en…