Description The Renaissance Guitar The first in this book-and-CD anthology of solos, duets and songs covering four centuries of composers for the Guitar and Lute family. Songlist Air(John Dowland) Almain [Cutting, Francis] Alman [Johnson, Robert] As I Went To Walsingham (Anon) Ballet (Elias Mertel) Branle De Bourgogne (Adrien Le Roy) Branle Gay (Jean Baptiste Besard) Come Heavy Sleep (John…

Including the Paganini Etudes and Concert Etudes, Ed. Busoni. Par LISZT FRANZ. Series II of the Dover republication in two series of the three-volume edition published by Breitkopf & Hartel. This second volume includes many of Liszt's most important piano works. Edited by Ferruccio Busoni. Series II of the Dover republication in two series of the three-volume edition published by Breitkopf & Harte…

Italie for String Quartet Score and Parts. Par BAKER CLAUDE. Annees de pelerinage: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage: Italy) derives its title from the set of three suites for piano by Franz Liszt in which he musically portrays the strongest sensations and most lively impressions created by his travels to Italy and Switzerland during the period 1835-39. In this composition, each of the four movements ex…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. In this colourful composition, Jan van der Roost recreates the energetic and multi-racial city life in Manhattan, using four contrasting movements. The opening movement is rather short and rhytmical. In the second “Picture”, a variety of musical entities accumulate into a coloured “sound curtain”, on top of which the brass section presents a broad theme. In contrast to the t…

Kantate zu Exaudi. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The cantata 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun', part of Bach's first Leipzig annual cycle of cantatas and the earlier of two compositions of the same name, was probably first performed on the last Sunday after Ascension in May 1724. The text is concerned with suffering and the Antichrist, both of which are overcome by Christian faith. By employing all f…

Par HAYDN JOSEPH. The culture of piano-duet arrangements begins in the early-to-mid nineteenth century, the great epoch of domestic bourgeois music-making, with its easy availability of decent instruments for every front parlour or gilded salon. All the way from the Wittgenstein Palace in Vienna with its eight grand pianos, to the uprights in the suburban best-rooms of Europe and beyond; and above…

Par BUXTEHUDE DIETRICH. This setting of Luther’s hymn perfectly typifies the basic concept of a chorale cantata as Buxtehude probably envisaged it. The first two verses are set, line by line, in a four-part homophonic texture. The two violins add interludes to the chorale, and lead in a kind of ritornello to the next verse. In the third and last verse Buxtehude departs from this model as the violi…

of Jean-Baptiste Miroglio. Eighteenth century France was the center of mandolin composition in Europe, especially of mandolin music for amateurs. Jean-Baptiste Miroglio's Suites des Amusemens des Dames are typical of mandolin duets of this timeâ'challenging, but not too difficult, while rich in feeling and musicality. Intended for mandolin, violin or pardessus de viol, these pieces provide a delig…

Par MARTIN FRANK. Swiss composer Frank Martin was exposed to the two folk songs during a trip into the mountains, and was immediately taken with them. He took pains to transcribe the verses and melodies, then wrote piano accompaniments to complete the settings. The two songs, Chanson de métamorphoses and Il faut partir pour l'Angleterre, are lighter fare from Martin, but fine additions to the voca…

for Double Choir and Orchestra. Par ROXANNA PANUFNIK. Across the Line of Dreams by Roxanna Panufnik is a 17-minute work with a text by Jessica Duchen for double choir and orchestra. The work in three parts celebrates the stories of two extraordinary women Harriet Tubman and Rani Lakshmibai. It requires two conductors. Each heroine is represented by one conductor, one choir and half of the orchestr…