Par PASSERONE. No. 1 - No. 4 for timpani; No. 5 - No. 7 for snare drum, wood-block, cymbals and tom-tom/ Recueil / Percussions et Piano

Learn fun jazz solos to supplement your piano lessons! Jazz Masters for Piano is a wonderful supplement to the student-level piano repertoire. It introduces you to colorful, fun-to-play pieces in a variety of jazz styles. Take a guided tour through the important styles of the jazz masters. You'll learn how they get their unique sound---while progressively arranged, original compositions give you a…

Par BACEWICZ GRAZYNA. Studying the sketches for works which a composer considers to be finished, perfected, is a fascinating activity. It enables one to penetrate the secrets of creative work, to compare the initial outline of a composition with its final version. A sketch is generally left untitled, but it does occur that a composer enhances the status of such a draft by giving it a title, before…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE / NICHOLAS ELLIS CAMILLE (Arr.. Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre began life in 1874 as a song, then as a tone poem for full orchestra, and quickly became one of his most popular works. It conjures a midnight scene where Death himself plays the fiddle, summoning skeletons to dance until dawn. The music brims with wit and theatrical colour: eerie harp strokes mark the hour, a skel…

The music of this 12-minute piece for the Chinese zither zheng, flute, clarinet, harp, violin and violoncello is a unique mixture of Eastern and Western traditions. The striking instrumentation provides surprising and interesting tone colours which captivate especially Western European listeners.Xiaogang Ye is one of the most renowned and successful composers of China. He receives commissions from…