Arr. Toshio Mashima. Par LENNON / PAUL MCCARTNEY. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da est un titre des Beatles présent dans leur albume de 1968 souvent surnommé Album blanc. Bien que crédité à Lennon et McCartney, cette chanson a été écrite uniquement par Paul McCartney. L’expression “ob-la-di, ob-la-da, lifegoes on, brah” était utilisée par le joueur de conga nigérian Jimmy Scott-Emuakpor, une connaissance de McC…

Par PELLEGRINO MICHEL. Le Brésil est le plus grand état de l\'Amérique latine et sa population se caractérise par une grande diversité ethnique et culturelle. Sa musique est donc d\'une grande richesse grâce à ce triple héritage : américain, européen et africain. On ne saurait limiter la musique brésilienne à la samba ou à la bossa-nova qui sont récentes. Au Brésil, chaque région possède une tradi…

Par JOLLIFFE EDMUND. Although the English madrigal has been fairly described by John Rutter as a completed historical form, its younger sibling the partsong still flourishes in the hands of sympathetic composers like Edmund Jolliffe, who can clothe secular texts with music a cappella that fits their sentiments like a glove. In fact John Donne 's verse, though of a later period, receives a setting …

Par RAVEL MAURICE. New Urtext Edition of the music of Maurice Ravel by Roger Nichols. In preparing this Urtext edition of Ravel's piano music, Roger Nichols consulted no fewer than 14 sources - including sound recordings by Ravel himself and other pianists with whom the composer worked. As a result he is uniquely qualified to evaluate the complexity of the sources and, with this edition, has provi…

Reconstruction by Anssi Mattila. Par TULINDBERG ERIK. The first composer to warrant a place in the musical history of Finland, Erik Tulindberg (1761-1814) was an excellent violinist, and he also played the cello. His musical reputation spread all the way to Stockholm (Finland was at that time part of the Kingdom of Sweden), and in 1797 was there admitted as a member of the Royal Academy of Music. …

Symphonische Dichtung. Par MAHLER GUSTAV. Gustav Mahler’s “Funeral Rites“ (literally translated: “Celebration of the Dead“) was initially conceived as the first movement of a symphony in C minor and completed in 1888. After certain alterations, – mainly cuts and extensions regarding the instrumentation – the piece became the First Movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (study scores available with th…

Par PURCELL HENRY. This, the first of Purcell's Operas for the professional stage, is edited in Vocal Score format by Margaret Laurie. The first performance of this work was produced by Betterton, with great success, at the Dorset Garden Theatre in June 1690. The text was an adaption, almost certainly by Betterton himself, of Flethcer and Massinger's play, 'The Prophetess'. / Opéra-opérette / Rép…

Par CORP RONALD. Among the UK's most noted choral composers and conductors, Ronald Corp does not hesitate to bring his own musical vision to a much-loved poem by the sixteenth-century lutenist songwriter and 'Doctor of Physick' Thomas Campion, following the example not only of Campion himself but also of Charles Wood and Hubert Parry. Eschewing the manner of Parry's resonant polyphony for a simple…