Step into the spotlight and play along with the superb backing tracks on the specially recorded CD with a duet partner. Guest Spot Duets includes two CDs containing four tracks for each song: a full performance demonstration, one backing track omitting both duet parts, one containing the first duet part only, and one the second part. So whether or not you have a duet partner, Guest Spot Duets incl…

For String Quartet Volume 1. Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. The idea for these arrangements came to me whilst listening to the Hagen Quartet's beautiful recording of the fugues that form part of Haydn's 'Sun Quartets', Op. 20. The spirit and influence of J.S. Bach, in particular his Well Tempered Clavier, Book II, courses through these three miraculous Haydn fugues. Like the viol consort, the string q…

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. Alexander L'Estrange's New College Service (Magnificat and Nunc dimittis) is a tribute to Dr Edward Higginbottom, Director of Music and organist of the choir of New College, Oxford between 1976-2014. Featured on the Signum Classics recording On Eagles' Wings, performed by Tenebrae. Arranged for treble / soprano and alto voices and organ. Part of Faber Music's Choral Signa…

This three-minute piece for string quartet unites the typical features of Elena Kats-Chernin's compositions: blues harmony, a motor-like rhythm driven by syncopes, bittersweet melodies and austere-poetic sonority. Silver Eucalypt was written in 2006 and recorded in 2012 by the Acacia Quartet on their CD 'Blue Silence' released by Vexations840. Now there is finally a printed edition which may be a …

Inspired by the events of September 11th, this three-movement work incorporates recorded voices of NORAD air traffic controllers (North American Aerospace Defense Command), FDNY (Fire Department New York), and Ground Zero neighborhood residents. / Quatuor A Cordes

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. Entrer dans l'esprit festif avec ce trio de smashing de nouveaux arrangements pour choeur, mettant en vedette les favoris record ' Rockin'autour de l'arbre de Noël ', ' Let it snow' et ' All I want for Christmas est vous '. Garantie d'avoir vos auditoires atteignant pour la GUI et les tartes hachis !/ Feuillet / Choeur

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…