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The collection Little Stories consists of 16 short expressively varied piano pieces. The interpretation is suggested by the title referring to the imagination the world of fairy tales everyday children's matters and observation of nature. The majority of the miniatures can be easily performed after few months of study; the level of difficulty corresponds to the last stage of learning with the hadbook by Agnieszka Lasko – First Class Piano. In some of them (Drowsy Cloud Sunrise Cuckoo Song The Princess and the Knight Winter Moon) an element of improvisation is used creatively engaging the young pianist; thanks to the composer's ingenuity any attempt at free music making shall be successful. The advantage of the pieces is their melody factor (memorable naturally wandering themes). The miniatures are also characterized by simplicity of texture and harmony (slightly colored with dissonant chords) a playful tone (e.g. playing with shifting accents in Little Monster Stomp) or dance-like-character (the waltz Ballerina Tarantela). The composer also took care of the fingering and the use of pedals which facilitates the playing. Sophisticated illustrations painted by Ma gorzata Flis help to develop the pupil's sensivity.

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employingthis fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting modality bold harmonic shifts intricate counterpoint augenmusik etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from asingle primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle ofmadrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.--Morten Lauridsen

String Quartet #3 was written for, and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet, February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Duration 16 minutes. A score is available on sale.. Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work, Out of the Ruins , for Agnieszka Piotrowska's BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian, Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television during the later part of December 1989. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed, quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure. / Quatuor A Cordes

The ultimate collection for Latin lovers everywhere! 400 Latin standards in one Real Book collection, including: Acercate Más (Come Closer To Me) Adelita Adios Adios Tristeza (Bye Bye Tristeza) Adoro Afro Blue Água De Beber (Water To Drink) Aguardiente De Cana Águas De Março (Waters Of March) All That's Left Is To Say Goodbye (E Preciso Dizer Adeus) Alla En El Rancho Grande (My Ranch) Alma Con Alma Alonzo Always In My Heart (Siempre En Mi Corazon) Amantes Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) Amarga Navidad Amor (Amor, Amor, Amor) Amor A La Mexicana Amor Artificial Amor Eterno (El Mas Triste Recuerdo) Amor Gitano Amor Prohibido Amorcito Corazon Amparo Ana Luiza And I Love Her Anema E Core (With All My Heart) Anima Anos Dourados (Looks Like December) Antigua Aquellos Ojos Verdes (Green Eyes) Aqui, Oh! Armando's Rhumba Arroyito Asi fue At The Mambo Inn Aunque Me Cueste La Vida Ausencia Ay Cosita Linda Babalu Baia (Bahía) Barbados Begin The Beguine Bella Señora (Bella Signora) Berimbau Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) Bim-Bom Black Orchid Blue Tango Bonita Borzeguim Bossa Antigua The Breeze And I Brigas Nunca Mais Bruca Manigua Burundanga Cachita Call Me Cancion Del Mariachi Cantelope Island Captain Bacardi Captain Marvel Capullito de Alheli Cariba The Carioca Cast Your Fate To The Wind Castigame Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White Chitlins Con Carne Cien Años Cocinando Coisa Feita Comecar De Novo Compadre Pedro Juan Con Alma Con Tu Amor (With Your Love) The Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) Contigo Aprendi Contigo En La Distancia Copacabana (At The Copa) Coracao Apaixonado Corazon Corazon Corazon Corazon Costumbres Cu-Cu-Rru-Cu-Cu Paloma Cuando Vivas Conmigo Cuanto Le Gusta Cuban Lullaby Cumana Cumbia Raza Curves Ahead Dame un cachito pa'huele Dansero De Mi Enamorate De Un Mundo Raro A Deeper Shade Of Soul Déjame Vivir Delicado Desafinado Despues De Ti Deve Ser Amor Dicen Por Ahi Dindi A Dios Le Pido Don't Cry For Me Argentina Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa De Voce) Double Rainbow É Luxo Só Ebony Samba (Sambanegro) Echale Salsita Echame A Mi La Culpa El Cazangero El Choclo El Cumbanchero El Destino El Hijo Del Pueblo El Mexico Que Se Nos Fue El Relicario (Shrine Of Love) El Reloj El Triste Ela 'E Carioca En El Mar En El Muelle De San Blas Encantigo The End Of A Love Affair Eres Tu/Touch The Wind Esa Mujer Esa Triste Guitarra Escape (The Pina Colada Song) Espana Cani Estate Estrada Branca (This Happy Madness) Estrellas De Fania Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar Evil Ways Feelings ('Dime') A Felicidade Festa Do Interior Fijate Bien 500 Miles High Flamingo Flor De Lis (Upside Down) The Fool On The Hill Footprints For Once In My Life Frenesí Friends Gema Gentle Rain The Gift! (Recado Bossa Nova) Ginza Samba The Girl From Ipanema (Garôta De Ipanema) Gitanerias Goodbye Sadness Granada Guadalajara Guantanamera Hasta que te conoci Hernando's Hideaway Hey Himno Nacional Mexicano (Mexican National Hymn) Historia De Un Amor Ho-Ba-La-La How Insensitive (Insensatez) Huracan If You Never Come To Me (Inutil Paisagem) Indestructible Inolvidable Invitation It's Impossible (Somos Novios) It's You Jalousie (Jealousy) Jazz 'N' Samba (So Danco Samba) Jingo (Jin-Go-Lo-Ba) The Jive Samba Jogral Joyce's Samba Key Largo Killer Joe Kiss Of Fire La Bamba La Barca La Camisa Negra La Comparsa (Carnival Procession) La Cosecha De Mujeres La Fiesta La Fuerza De Amar (A Forca Do Amar) La Malaguena (Se Acabo) La Malanga La Murga Panamena La Paloma La Pollera Colorá La Rajita De Canela La Ultima Noche Lágrimas Lagrimas Negras Lamento Lamento Borincano Last Tango In Paris Latin Perspective La Ley Del Monte Libertango Ligia Linda Chicana Linha De Passe Lisbon Antigua (In Old Lisbon) Little Boat (O Barquinho) Livin' La Vida Loca Llorando Se Fue (La Lambada) The Look Of Love Look To The Sky Los Marcianos (The Martians) Love Me With All Your Heart (Cuando Calienta El Sol) Luciana Lucky Southern Luiza Make Me A Memory (Sad Samba) Malaguena Mama Guela Mama Inez Mamblues Mambo Jambo (Que Rico El Mambo) Mambo #8 Mambo #5 A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) Mañana Mangos Mania De Maria Manteca Maria Elena Maria La O Mas Que Nada Me Voy Pa'l Pueblo Meditation (Meditacao) Menina Flor Mexico Lindo Miami Beach Rumba Modinha Mojave Moon And Sand More (Ti Guarderò Nel Cuore) Morning Dance Mucho Corazon Mujer Music To Watch Girls By My Little Suede Shoes My Shawl Negra Consentida (My Pet Brunette) Never On Sunday Nica's Dream The Night Has A Thousand Eyes A Night In Tunisia No Me Quieras Tanto No Quiero Na' Regalao No Tengo Dinero No Volvere Noche De Ronda (Be Mine Tonight) Nosotros Nuestro Juramento Nunca Te Olvidare O Astronauta O Bebado E A Equilibrista O Grande Amor O Me Quieres O Me Dejas (Devaneos) O Morro Nao Tem Vez (Favela) O Nosso Amor O Pato (The Duck) O Xote Das Meninas Oblivion Obsesión On The Border Once I Loved (Amor Em Paz) (Love In Peace) One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So) Only Once In My Life (Solamente Una Vez) Only Trust Your Heart Orchids In The Moonlight Outra Vez Oye Como Va Pa' Gozar Pablo Pueblo Palo Pa' Rumba Paloma Blanca Papa Gato Papa Loves Mambo Para Ti Pare Cochero Passarim Patricia, It's Patricia (Patricia) Paulistana The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) Pensativa Perdoname, olvidalo Perfidia Perfume De Gardenia Photograph Picadillo (a la Puente) Poise 'e Ponteio Por Amor Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste Preciosa Quando, Quando, Quando (Tell Me When) Que Bueno Baila Usted Que Rico Vacilon (Cha Cha Cha) Que Seas Feliz Quedate Conmigo Esta Noche Querida Quien Sera Quiero Dormir Cansado Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) Quiet Village Quijote Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) Ran Kan Kan Recorda Me The Red Blouse (Blusa Vermelha) Resemblance Rhythm Of The Rain Romance de Amor Rum And Coca-Cola Sabia Sabor A Mi (Be True To Me) Sabras Que Te Quiero St. Thomas Samba Cantina Samba Dees Days Samba Pa Ti Sandunguera Say ?Si, Si? Se A Cabo Se Me Olvido Otra Vez Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Voce (Someone To Light Up My Life) Señor Mouse Si Madame Siempre En Mi Mente Similau (See-me-lo) Simple Samba Sin Tu Carino Sin Un Amor So Nice (Summer Samba) So Tinha De Ser Com Voce (This Love That I Found) Son De La Loma Sonambulo Song For My Father Song Of The Jet (Samba do Avião) Song Of The Sabiá (Sabiá) Soul Sauce (Guarachi Guaro) South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) Soy Guajiro Spain Spanish Harlem Speak Low Suavecito Sunshower Taboo Tango Of Roses Te Desafio Te sigo Amando Telephone Song That Look You Wear (Este Seu Olhar) This Masquerade Tico Tico (Tico Tico No Fuba) Tide Tiger Of San Pedro Time Was Tin Tin Deo Totem Pole Tres Lindas Cubanas Tres Palabras (Without You) Triste Tu Solo Tu Um A Zero Un Poco Loco Un Sentimental Usted Usted Se Me Llevo La Vida Ven Y Dame Un Poco Mas Vera Cruz Veracruz Viva Tirado Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer) Voy A Apagar La Luz Watch What Happens Watermelon Man Wave What A Diff'rence A Day Made Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) Y Pensar ' Y Tu Que Has Hecho' Ya no me vuelvo a enamorar (No me vuelvo a enamorar) Yellow Days Yesterday I Heard The Rain You Belong To My Heart (Solamente Una Vez) You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine You're Everything Yours (Quiereme Mucho) Zelao Zingaro (Retrato Em Branco E Preto) / Instrument en do / Hal Leonard

The composer made this arrangement of the Third String Quartet for string orchestra in March 2003. The first performance was given by the Eos Orchestra New York conducted by Ken Selden in the Concert Hall Ethical CulturalSociety New York City on 24 April 2003.Quoting composer: In the summer of 1989 I composed a choral work Out of the Ruins for Agnieszka Piotrowska’s BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responsesof some of the inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake which devastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of KhorenMeykhanejian Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruins into a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no lessprofound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanian revolution on television during the latter part of December 1989.Just as the structure of my Third String Quartet (1990) may connect it with the First so they alsoshare a debt to Thurston Dart (my professor at King’s College London between 1961 and 1965). It was Dart who had the inspiration to send me to Romania in 1965 ostensibly to study folk music. The volumes of transcriptions that Ibrought back with me had remained unopened until with this proposed ‘celebratory’ string quartet (though at the time it was difficult to know quite what to celebrate in postrevolutionary Romania) an occasion arose where I coulduse this material in what seemed to me was a non-exploitative manner. The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would besuperimposed quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes through the demands of the completely pre-formed harmonic structure.

Par LUCIUK JULIUSZ. The Three Miniature Pieces for violin and piano were written in 1984. The composer dedicated them to his daughter Agnieszka, who performed them during her diploma cincert at the end of her studies at Cracow Music Academy. This work forms cycle, to be performed as a whole, although each of the pieces can also function independently. As a cycle, it has an inner logic, based on an organisation modelled on a three-movement sonata. It also displays some similarity to Szymanowski's Mythes, particularly in terms of the combinations of different types of expression. / Répertoire / Violon et Piano

Put the music back into your family's Passover celebration! Seder Songs features 23 fantastic tunes for the Passover seder. You'll find some of the most tried-and-true traditional melodies from both Ashkenazi and Sepharditraditions as well as the newest contemporary settings from artists like Peter and Ellen Allard Noah Budin Max Chaiken Debbie Friedman Eric Komar Steven Sher and Peri Smilow. The collection includes a variety of songstailored to children as well as offerings for adults of all ages. Read along sing along or both! This songbook includes fully-notated lead sheets as well as two CDs – one featuring complete recordings of each tune andanother in “music minus one” format for a musical backdrop to your own spirited seder singing.

Par FARCINKIEWICZ LUKASZ. This work, setting passages from the Song of Songs, was written in 2016 to a commission from the Choir of the National Forum of Music (to which it is dedicated). It has been recorded twice: on the disc Common Europe: Wroclaw and San Sebastián, and then for the album Ubi Caritas. Both discs were recorded under the baton of Agnieszka Franków-Zelazny at the NFM Concert Hall./ Répertoire / Chœur Mixte et Piano

Madrigals by the Renaissance composer Monteverdi provided the inspiration for my own Madrigali. Symbolic images of flames burning and fire recur often in Italian love poems from this era and my cycle on texts employingthis fire motive blends stylistic musical features of the period (word painting modality bold harmonic shifts intricate counterpoint augenmusik etc.) within a contemporary compositional idiom. The music emanates from asingle primal sonority (the “Fire-Chord”) which opens the piece and is found extensively throughout all six movements in myriad forms and manipulations providing motivic unity to complement the poetic. This cycle ofmadrigals has been designated an American Choral Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts.--Morten Lauridsen