Five Early Piano Pieces. Par EOTVOS PETER. Peter Eötvös completed his early neo-classical Hungarian piano pieces at the age of 17. Now published in one volume, they were created when he studied composition at the Budapest Music Academy between 1959 and 1961, shortly before taking up a scholarship to study conducting in Cologne. A highlight is the witty three-movement Hommage à Haydn in which he hu…

(Spiritus Sancti gratia). Par HAKIM NAJI. Des heiligen Geistes reiche Gnade (Spiritus Sancti gratia) by Naji Hakim is a chorale prelude based on a melody by Melchior Vulpius. It is a contribution to the Orgelbüchlein Project, a major international composition project, led by William Whitehead, to complete Johann Sebastian Bach’s unfinished Orgelbüchlein./ Répertoire / Orgue

Despite his young age (born in 1991), the Russian pianist Vyacheslav Gryaznov has already written quite an impressive number of transcriptions for piano solo or chamber music ensembles, among them many arrangements of chamber music and orchestral works by Russian composers like Borodin, Tchaikovsky or Rakhmaninov. However, Gryaznov also studies intensively the music from J. S. Bach, Mahler and Deb…

A complete new series of instruction book and CD packs for the beginning guitarist, bass guitarist or harmonica player. Master the basics of playing your chosen instrument plus a complete guide to playing in the styles of country, folk, blues and rock. A good introduction to the Fast Forward Series. Step into the exciting world of major, minor, modal, blues, rock, and jazz scales. A complete guide…

Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. «Le soir, nous avons joué pour la première fois chez nous le Quatuor en mi bémol de Robert, et j’ai nouveau charmée par cette belle oeuvre, si juvénile». C’est ainsi que Clara Schumann exprime son enthousiasme en 1842. Pour se préparer, Schumann avait étudié les quatuors à cordes des classiques viennois. Toutes les parties du quatuor sont ainsi équilibrées, selon un style marq…

Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Rheinberger’s string quartets, his string quintet and his nonet for winds and strings were often performed and were very successful works during his lifetime. Their density, but also the delicateness of the scherzo movements are in the tradition of Schumann and Mendelssohn and these traits are combined with Rheinberger’s sense for the clear, defined structure of the …

Little Suite for Orchestra No. 1: Op 53. Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. Malcolm Arnold is one Britain’s best-loved composers. In 1948 he composed a very short suite for the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain - entitled simply To Youth. Seven years later he took To Youth and made some fairly major revisions, including a complete new movement, and the Little Suite for Orchestra was born. The Little Suit…

Par LEIVISKA HELVI. Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902-1982) created a broad-based output of orchestral works, solo songs and chamber music. Her style could be described as moderate modernism, deriving influences from multiple sources such as late Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Existentialism and Neo-Classicism. Leiviskä's output is characterised by philosophical and religious themes, i…

Saint-Saëns completed the Romance in D Flat Major on 25 March 1871. If in his concertos for solo instrument and orchestra Saint-Saëns freed himself from the Viennese classical model (reconfiguring it with originality but in the light, certainly, of the formal experimentations of Schumann and of Biedermeier virtuosity), in the Romance opus 37 and other works of similar form (opus 27, 36 and 48) he …

Vol. 4: Sinfonia In D Major, Si 4/ Recueil / 2 Violons, Alto et Basse