'Mors et vita' - death and life. This antithesis opens a stanza of the ancient 11th-century Easter sequence 'Victimae paschali laudes', where life and death are locked in mutual struggle. Zsigmond Szathmary's 12-minute composition of 2015, commissioned for the Freiburg Minster, interprets this primal human experience with mighty explosions of sound. Here the organ can show what it's capable of: it…

Par CLARKE JUSTINE. Best-selling children' s singer, accomplished jazz chanteuse, internationally acclaimed film star, seasoned stage actor, and constant, reassuring presence on ' Play School”, Justine Clarke presents the Justine Clarke Songbook. A fantastic collection of 16 Justine Clarke songs, arranged for voice and easy piano, specially selected by Justine herself. The compilation comes from…

Liste des titres : Champagne Problems ? Closure ? Coney Island ? Cowboy like Me ? Dorothea ? Evermore ? Gold Rush ? Happiness ? It's Time to Go ? Ivy ? Long Story Short ? Marjorie ? No Body, No Crime ? Right Where You Left Me ? 'Tis the Damn Season ? Tolerate It ? Willow. / Partitions variété - pop - rock / Variété internationale / Piano voix guitare / HAL LEONARD

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Upon Silence sets Long-legged Fly, a late poem of Yeats which portrays three momentous figures in history absorbed in silent contemplation: Julius Caesar planning a crucial military campaign, Helen of Troy as an adolescent in Sparta and Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel. The verses are set in a syllabic manner, while each successive chorus is set to increasingly lengthy…

Edward Gregson completed Tributes in the summer of 2010. Lasting some 16 minutes, there are five pieces in the set, each dedicated to a different composer and a different clarinettist (with whom Gregson had long musical associations). Each of the dedicatee composers wrote wonderfully for the Clarinet and, as a tribute to them, Gregson tried to invade, indeed imitate, their stylistic worlds in thes…

Par BARRON KENNY. Transcriptions et analyses par Armand Reynaud et Jérémy Brun Je suis honoré d'écrire quelques mots à propos d'un des plus grands pianistes, Kenny Barron. Il a été une figure importante de la scène New Yorkaise durant quarante ans et il fait partie de l'élite des pianistes de jazz dans le monde. J'ai tout d'abord rencontré Mr Barron en 1977 dans un haut lieu du duo piano/basse, au…

Par BALAZS ARPAD. Árpád Balázs (*1937) composed the first version of the work between 1994 and 1996 for tárogató and concert band. Since this traditional Hungarian instrument is rarely found in ensembles abroad, a soprano saxophone can serve as an alternative solo instrument. The composer uses melodies from the early 18th century, from the age of Rákóczi's war of independence. An ambitious framewo…

The Ukulele Play-Along Series has been created to help you to play your favourite songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! This volume includes 8 easy songs in the key of C: Eleanor Rigby, Have You Ever Seen the Rain?, Jambalaya (On the Bayou), La Bamba, Learning to Fly, No Woman No Cry, Sunshine Superman and Surfin' U.S.A. / Ukulélé

Virtuoso jazz in classical form: Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) is an excellent jazz pianist, arranger and composer. His piano sonatas are now published by Schott Music for the first time. Suitable for pianists looking for technically demanding pieces between modern and jazz music which sound like highly skilled, yet notated improvisation. / Piano

Rheinfelden Sketches. Par SPARKE PHILIP. In each of the four movements of this major work for concert band, the composer has tried to capture in music something of the spirit of this beautiful Swiss town of Rheinfelden, which lies on the banks of the Rhein. The opening movement, Promenade, sees woodwind and brass alternating short melodic fragments leading to a noble melody from the horns. The dre…