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…

Par MUIR SAMANTHA. Pieces 1 to 5 were written between 2019 and 2021 as part of my PhD portfolio “New Works for Classical Ukulele”. The final piece, The Fantastic Mr Flea, was composed in 2024. The pieces explore a variety of techniques commonly associated with the classical guitar, but with the over-riding aim of demonstrating how they might be applied and adapted to create unique and challenging…

for Baritone and Piano. Par PHILIPS JULIAN. Swift Partitions by Julian Philips is a 13-minute set of songs for baritone and piano. This setting of eight short poems by American poet Emily Dickinson, each exploring her relationship to the sea, is not narrative, but instead alternates philosophical meditations on the sea (Songs 1, 3, 5 8) with more immediate \'encounters\': a surreal walk with the s…

Par VON SUPPE FRANZ. Preludes and overtures were often written to set the mood of Viennese folk plays and therefore might be used for more than one production. Such was the case for Poet and Peasant, which introduced a comedy of the that name in 1846. The piece had already been heard as the overture to the play Lots of money, short of sleep and may also have prefaced two other plays. This overture…

Par CURNOW JAMES. What a way to open any concert. Fanfare and Flourishes is a spectacular short work that mixes all the pageantry of a military tattoo with the well-known Charpentier (1634-1705) Te Deum, a tune everyone will recognise as the theme tune for the Eurovision Song Contest! A brilliant piece to start a concert with a bang! / Niveau : 4 / Ouverture / Répertoire / Brass Band

Pour la première fois, les belles chansons du compositeur britannique Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) sont recueillies ensemble en un seul volume, dans deux clés. Cette nouvelle collection comprend quelques premières transpositions de temps aussi bien. / Voix Moyenne/Voix Basse Et Piano

Par GASIENIEC MIROSLAW. The first version of the Sonata for violin and piano was written in the autumn of 2008, when I had the opportunity to work with the violinist Robert Bachara, who was pursuing his doctoral studies at Wroclaw Music Academy. A few years later, around the turn of 2016, I revised the musical material, made some changes and shortened the work. It was then that Dr Jacek Ropski, a …