Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's works for violin and harpsichord obbligato pervade his entire compositional oeuvre. The earliest works, like the Sonata in D minor still numbered BWV 1036, date back to the years of study with his father, yet show already a remarkable creative will of his own. The latest work, the fantasia 'C. P. E. Bachs Empfindungen' in F flat minor of 1787 is characterized by the com…

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Since their publication in the New Mozart Edition, Mozart's sonatas K. 10–15 count as piano trios. Furthermore, the title of the first edition, published by father and son Mozart in 1765 reads 'Six Sonates pour le Clavecin qui puevent se jouer avec l'accompagnement de Violon ou Flaute Traversiere”. In other words, these pieces are harpsichord sonatas that may be accomp…

Par COUPERIN FRANCOIS / VIDAL. Leçons De Tenèbres à 1 Et 2 Voix by Francois Couperin is a volume for Soprano and Organ or Harpsichord and Continuo. First published as part of the Harpsichord book in 1713 and 1717, this volume also includes the part for Viola da Gamba. It features two tenebrae lessons. For upper intermediate players, this volume was edited and commented by Pierre Daniel Vidalt. Fra…

These songs were written for the Old Vic production of Shakespeare's The Tempest in 1962. The original instrumentation was Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Timpani, Harp, Bells and Harpsichord. The instrumentation in this edition (Piccolo doubling Flute, Clarinet in B flat, Horn in F, optional percussion (small Bass Drum and Bells) and Harpsichord or Piano) is Tippett's revised version.When the acc…

trascription de Henriette Renié | Préface de Françoise de Maubus. Par PARADISI PIETRO DOMENICO. A pupil of the famous composer of his time Nicola Porpora, Pietro Domenico Paradisi (c. 1707 – c. 1791) gained a reputation through his teaching of singing and harpsichord. In 1754, he published a collection of twelve sonatas for harpsichord in London, which attracted the attention and esteem of connois…

Par MYSLIVECEK JOSEF. Numerous copies of the sonatas for piano/ harpsichord by Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) are scattered throughout Europe, which testifies to their popularity at the time (among others, W. A. Mozart mentioned them approvingly in a letter to his father). Three years after the composer's death, they were published in Edinburgh under the title “Six Easy Lessons for the Harpsichord”.…

David Vine's reconstruction of the lost second harpsichord part was published in 1992. We have used two playing scores in organ format, with the other harpsichord part in cue size notation, so that only one page turn (in the Sarabande) is required during a movement.