Par DAVIS OLIVER. 'For many years the violinist Kerenza Peacock and I have been discussing the concept of a piece about trees. One day I received in the post from her a book by Annie Davidson entitled, ‘How to be More Tree’. This brilliant book became the inspiration for the Arboretum Suite. The first tree I decided to write about was Aspen. I read that Aspen trees work together sharing water and …

for String Orchestra Score. This toe-tapping polka is originally for piano solo and transposed to the keys of A and E major. The melody and harmony float between the violins, with a brief appearance for cello and bass. The viola section provides a strongrhythmic drive. This work was written and published in 1860 while Bares was still enslaved. Not only is it a strong example of a composition by a …

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Aucun amateur de musique ne peut se soustraire à la force expressive de cette oeuvre écrite par Schubert dans la dernière année de sa vie. Avec l’extraordinaire puissance des 1er et dernier mouvements, le caractère mélodieux, intime de l’«adagio», mais aussi le coloris exceptionnel de sa palette sonore, ce quintette est unique en son genre: à la formation instrumentale classiqu…

Avec ses symphonies de l'orgue, le compositeur acteur Schneider (né en 1950) de Munich a été une profonde sensation dans ces dernières années et vu les premières mondiales lors d'événements majeurs organe européen. L'orgue Symphonie #6 'Te Deum' (première à St. Florian de Bruckner ci-dessus tombe de Bruckner y 2008 et enregistrée sur CD) adopte la structure de cinq parties et plusieurs motifs de '…

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 HOWARD JAMES NEWTON. This remarkable collection features piano solo arrangements of selections from composer James Newton Howard's brilliant film score to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Presenting the major musical themes within this second Harry Potter series prequel about J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World, the hauntingly beautiful pieces are packaged with full-color artwork from …

This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes 'Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man's overwhelming arrogance.'Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Fri…

Henle Publishers Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F major op.35: set of parts, Urtext, edited by Peter Jost, advanced level of difficulty, ISMN 9790201809625, HN 962, 77 pages, 23.5 x 31 cm / Henle Verlag

for piano quartet. Par DAVIES PETER MAXWELL. The two nocturnes were composed immediately after major surgery, against a deadline, and, despite the music sounding unlike anything I have written before, I decided to keep them exactly as they turned out. 2010 is a Chopin year, and I made this pair of nocturnes into a little tribute, after playing through and listening to most of his output. Never bef…

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