Contemporary Japanese composer, Yuko Uebayashi moved to Paris in 1998. Uebayashi 's works have been met with much success in both Japan and France, Sonata for Flute and Piano being no exception. Flautist Jean Ferrandis described Uebayashi 's works as 'gems that, although they are so different, they yet belong to the same world, a world of vivacity, dreams, tenderness, humour, and one that is subtl…

Simon Holt is one of Britain's leading composers, standing out among hi peers with his bold and imaginative compositions. This piece, for Flute or Alto Flute, is inspired by a sculpture of the same name by Constantin Brancusi, dating from 1915. Maiastra (or Pasarea Maiastra) is a magic golden bird from Rumanian folklore noted for its marvellous song which had miraculous powers. / Flûte Traversière

Par FARKAS FERENC. “I wrote this Christmas cantata from Köröshegy at the request of the Council of the Komitat Somogy. When I visited the still unrenovated little church at Köröshegy about ten years ago I had no idea that this beautiful Gothic building would one day be the scene of the world première of one of my works. - The cantata is founded on four pillars: four organ soli which could be descr…

Par HOLMAN PETER. Music for three violins and bass formed a small yet distinctive corpus of instrumental music at the Restoration court of Charles II and in the Catholic chapel of James II. Introduced to England by the German violinist Thomas Baltzar, the genre was adopted by John Jenkins, whose ten late fantasia-suites for three violins, bass viol and continuo, together with Gottfried Finger’s fi…

a 6 et a 8. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Serenade in E-flat, K. 375, exists in two versions, one for two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons, and another for the same forces plus two oboes, forming an octet. From Mozart himself we know a fair amount about the occasion that led to the first, six-instrument version of this work and about its early performances. Written for the sister-in-law of…

Cet ouvrage recense précisément 100 riffs de basse. Mais pas n?importe quels riffs... des riffs dans l?esprit des plus grands tubes de la musique moderne, ces morceaux qui ont traversé les décennies, qui font partie de la culture «bassistique», qu?il faut absolument connaître et savoir jouer. Chacun des 100 riffs de basse présentés dans ces pages est agrémenté d'une explication pouvant être techni…

Dan Levenson's Old-Time Favourites For Fiddle And Mandolin contains 62 more tunes to play at festivals and jams or just sittin' at home with a friend or two. The songs in this book are written in both basic and advanced standard notation, with suggested chords as well as a Mandolin tablature line to get you going in the right direction when playing these old-time favorites. As in 'Old-Time Festiva…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn's contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise” in the same breath as Beethoven's Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper, in his extensive Introduction to this new Urtext edition, shows that the comparison is completely unfounded: with this work Mendelssohn created a new genre to which he…

The quartet in a minor is one of the chamber music works with which Schubert wanted to 'pave the way to the great symphony? in spring 1824. At the same time he was paving his way to a wider audience, as the 'Rosamunde? Quartet was the first and only string quartet that was not only publicly performed in Schubert's lifetime but also published in parts. It is fortunate for us that this was the case …

ré mineur. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. It owes its much-quoted nickname 'Tempest' to a note by Beethoven's famulus Anton Schindler, whom the composer advised to 'read Shakespeare's Tempest' as a key to the work. But Schindler had also asked for the Sonata op. 57 in the same breath, so that in the end it remained unclear which of the two sonatas was really meant. The preface of the new edition explai…