This one-movement piece with a duration of 11 minutes stems from the estate of Giselher Klebe who died in 2009. The work is delightful to play, rich in gesture, easy on the ear and ideal for private music making. Moreover it constitutes a valuable addition to the repertoire for violin, clarinet and piano, an appealing combination of instruments, for which composers such as Ives, Bartók, A. Berg un…

In 1717 Telemann composed his cantata 'Gott der Hoffnung erfülle euch? for the first day of Whitsun based on a text by Erdmann Neumeister. It forms part of the 'Concerten-Jahrgang?, also known as 'Das Harmonische Zion? or 'Italienischer Jahrgang? where all the cantatas are conceived as concertos for vocal and instrumental parts and have been colourfully scored. This particular work includes two ob…

A late starter in music? After the 1841 premiere which was anything but promising, Schumann did not deal with his Fourth Symphony and put the finishing touches to it until 10 years later. One of its most remarkable features is its structure. The individual movements - none of which is really completed - shall follow each other without a break, thus leading to a great one-movement structure. The wo…

Par UROS DOJCINOVIC. In this remarkable video/solo guitar recital, Serbian musician, composer, pedagogue and publisher, Uroandscaron - Dojcinovic, takes the listener on a musical journey through: Russia, Ukraine, Spain, South American, the Far East (Japan and China), and the Balkan countries of his native former Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia). Each piece includes a wealth of photo documen…

Par STANCZYK MARCIN. In the mid-twentieth century, Wladyslaw Strzeminski painted a series of solaristic pictures entitled Powidoki swiatla (?Afterimages of light?), illustrating the optical impressions triggered by gazing at the sun. They can be observed when we look at the sun and then suddenly turn our eyes to a white sheet of paper. We then see a reflection of the light ? a trail in blue, contr…

Par MATHEOS CHRIS. Dans deux mains tapping à la basse électrique, votre droite et gauche mains jouent des notes. Il s'agit d'un concept assez nouveau à la basse. Idées et nouvelles techniques sont créées régulièrement. Tapping est d'être appliquée à toutes sortes de styles musicaux, y compris la solution de rechange, jazz, blues, funk et même classique. Ce livre présente 50 exercices brèves pour l…

Par GRIEG EDVARD. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Norway’s most famous composer, has written a lot of music which is definitely worth playing, and listening to! Play Grieg features a selection of well-known and lesser-known works or themes. Since most of these were originally written for instruments other than the one for which they are intended in this volume, things such as tempi have been carefully a…

Cette anthologie est un ajout utile aux livres de la méthode de piano, sans être un manuel elle-même. Il contient deux pièces composés à l'origine pour 4 des mains et des arrangements de compositeurs de diverses époques, représentant les divers styles. La maison d'édition Belaieff a toujours vu comme un éditeur de musique russe, les oeuvres des auteurs russes représentent une grande partie de ce v…

New findings in Beethoven?s first piano concerto The Bärenreiter editor and Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar who has received international acclaim for his highly successful editions of Beethoven?s works now turns his focus on the piano concertos. In the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15, Del Mar has found no less than 17 corrections in Beethoven?s autograph which were made after the work …