Par NELSON SHEILA MARY. Easy music to encourage ensemble playing from the earliest stages from the world-famous string teacher Sheila Nelson. Designed to give beginners their first taste of group playing. This is the second of 2 brilliant new albums of easy Piano trios for young players, scored for Violin, Cello and Piano. These great books have been specially written and arranged to encourage cha…

Alexander Zemlinsky is mainly known for his operas and orchestral songs with their opulent late Romantic orchestration. His earlier, inspired hit, the Trio for Clarinet op. 3, written in 1896, owes a great deal to his first important role model Johannes Brahms as far as inflection and instrumentation are concerned. And it was none other than Brahms himself who enthusiastically recommended the trio…

per violino solo. Par MEYER KRZYSZTOF. This composition was written as a compulsory piece for the International Tadeusz Wro?ski Solo Violin Competition 2025 in Warsaw. The competition is the only one for solo violin to date and is one of the most difficult of its kind with highly virtuoso works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Eugène Ysaÿe and Henryk Wieniawski. The Polish composer Krzysztof…

The six pieces in this little suite were written between 1893 and 1896. They were inspired by Hélène Bardac, the daughter of a singer with whom he was friends. The girl was born in 1892 and called 'Dolly? on account of her small, delicate figure. The pieces, composed mainly for her birthday or the New Year, reflect the world as experienced by the growing child, from a lullaby to a temperamental da…

Written as a celebration of a wedding anniversary, David Brunner has set this beautiful Rumi text with highly impressionistic harmonies and frequently shifting key centres. The text is full of beautiful sensations: carving gems, dressing the earth, feeling the breeze, scattering gold dust, lighting our path to love. Universal themes from this 13th Century poet that are as relevant today as ever. /…

'Edifice' was written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 6th grade school building in Troy, Ohio City Schools. The opening, majestic block chords recall the strength and endurance of the actual structure, while the faster and more tuneful main theme reflects the youthful energy and optimism of the school's many generations of students. (2:20) 'Edifice' correlates to Book 1, Level 3 of Sou…

Babylonian Prayer. Par MARTLEW ZOE. Salat Babilya was inspired by music from Iraq, in particular the beautiful sonorities of the oud, a variety of Middle Eastern lute dating back to antiquity. An oud-like resonance is evoked without the use of a bow via a combination of “arabic” scales, open strings, ringing harmonics and ornamental inflections. The particular oud piece that inspired this one was…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Written for a Quintet with Violin, Viola, Cello and Bassoon and Piano, the Quintet in A Major (Trout)Op. 114 is a wonderful early composition by these great Austrian master. It was Franz Schubert's first turly significant chamber work and this 1819 piece is indicative of his romantic genius and melodic warmth. / Urtext / Répertoire / 5 Pianos

Par WEDGWOOD PAM. This book presents some refreshingly jazzy arrangements of some favourite Christmas songs - from traditional items such as Silent Night and Away in a Manger to pop classics such as Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus is Comin' to Town , all of which are complemented by some of Pam's own newly written pieces./ Recueil / Piano

Par WYKOFF JOHN. Premiered in 2023 by an American choir and French orchestra in Caen, France, Out of this Darkness: A Normandy Cantata dares to hope for a repentance from the interminable waves of violent conquest. The salty shores of Normandy have washed away more blood than can be measured, and when you perform this work, you can participate in the washing. The new text, written by Charles Antho…