SKU: CA.1819000

ISBN 9790007188337.

Now that the manuscripts of the organ sonatas have resurfaced, it has finally become possible to form an acquaintance with the major part of Giacomo Puccini's early compositions in Lucca, which until now were known only from anecdotes. The present selection with 12 works sheds light on this segment of his oeuvre, scheduled to appear in a complete single-volume scholarly edition in the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini (ENOGP, II/2.1).

SKU: H2.MH3131PK

En samling pianoverker av norske samtidskomponister.
CD-en inneholder samtlige stykker innspilt av Tori Stodle.

FRA FORORDET:

Studier av eksisterende laereverk i klaver avdekker at samtidsmusikkenskar ikke er tilfredsstillende. Med unntak av noen meget fa hefter,ivaretar de fleste laereverk som finnes pa markedet i liten gradsamtidsmusikken. Det er langt mellom stykker som inneholder andrekvaliteter enn de den romantiske klavertradisjonen star for.

EPTA-Norge onsket a bidra til at klaverelever pa mellom-trinnetskulle fa noen helt nye stykker a spille! Norsk kulturrad bidro til avirkeliggjore ideen. 10 norske komponister takket ja til oppgaven, ogher er resultatet.

God spillelyst!

Med vennlig hilsen
Einar Steen-Nokleberg og Tori Stodle
EPTA-Norge

RAG-SONATA - Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
Dette lille stykket folger form som en sonate, med klare hoved- ogside-tema. Temaene horer sammen, og maten de er utledet pa folgerklassiske prinsipper som omvending og variasjon. Pa overflaten er deten tydelig inspirasjon fra ragtime-musikk, derfor ogsa tittelen Rag-sonata.

MOMENTS - Ketil Vea
Satsen er en slags assosiasjon til klaverets uttrykkstradisjoner - memories om instrumentets idiomatiske muligheter slik jeg har bruktdem, men uten a pedagogisere, bortsett fra at jeg bevisst har unngatttekniske vanskeligheter, likevel slik at satsen kunne gis en bredklanglig utpensling. Hele verket bygger pa motivene i de to forstetakter. Satsens emosjonelle foringer vil jeg ikke si noe naermere om,de er ikke avgjorende for interpretasjonen.

INVENSJON OG KORAL - Eyvind Solas
Invensjon og Koral er karakterstykker. Bade fortid og natid ertilstede i denne musikken, men den handler mer om uttrykk enn om stilog teknikk. Hva slags uttrykk? Det er opp til den enkelte utover afinne ut av. For her ligger utfordringen!

ANDANTE CANTABILE - Trygve Madsen
Dette stykket er bare en ovelse i finger-legato-spill, en sterkt forsomt og snart glemt ovelse

KONTINUUM - Bjorn Kruse
Kontinuum betyr en organisk sammenheng, eller en utvikling fra noetil noe annet hvor overgangen er gradvis glidende. I dette stykketville jeg prove en spilleteknikk som handler nettopp om dette, a bindetonene sammen enkeltvis i en slags flytende strom, stadig pa vei motnoe annet.

SPILL - Magne Hegdal
'Spill' er en kombinasjon av spontane ideer og streng struktur. Dettilfeldige kommer til uttrykk i musikkens stadige tilbakevending tiltidligere situasjoner (steder vi har vaert for). Det er som a leteetter vegen i en labyrint; eller som i et spill der terningen forlangerat en ma ga tilbake til et tidligere punkt i forlopet. Jeg synesmusikken har et litt uvirkelig preg - kanskje som et spill itussmorke... Spilleanvisningene i parentes er ment som forslag ellersom paminnelser.

4 MINIATYRER - Eivind Buene
Musikken i 4 Miniatyrer foreligger i to versjoner: Som her, ifire enkeltsatser, og som Studie no. 3, hvor materialet i de fireminiatyrene utfolder seg mer eller mindre simultant. I 4 Miniatyrer blir de musikalske problemstillingene utforsket med tydeligeavgrensninger. Miniatyr no. 1, 2 og 4 byr pa noen rytmiskeutfordringer, mens no. 3 har en enkel, gjennomsiktig struktur, ogdermed ogsa andre utfordringer for pianisten. I den forste satsenforflytter en akkord seg i paralleller i en ustabil og springenderytmikk, samtidig som den vokser fra to - til firklang. Enkelte lengretoner blir liggende i bakgrunnen som en kontrast. Andre sats spiller pakontrasten mellom en ensom melodi i ytterregisteret og brutale, korteanslag i midtregisteret. Her er ogsa store sprang et tema. Tredje satser en liten koral, hvor forholdet mellom melodi og harmoni folger helttradisjonelle monstre. I den fjerde satsen smyger en rytmisk ustabilmelodi seg rundt en jevn, hard puls med gjentatte toner.

DYRISK STYKKER - Wolfgang Plagge
I tillegg til a vaere musikalske og humoristiske utfordringer erstykkene rent pedagogisk sett ogsa tenkt a forberede elevene pasamspill- og kammermusikk-situasjoner. Elevene blir utfordret til aflytte sine egne grenser ved at de far oppgaver som krever andre formerfor informasjonsopptak. Elevenes fysiske sa vel som mentaleaksjonsradius utvides.

VENT! - Synne Skouen
Hva er dette lille stykket? En smakranglete dialog? Et forsok pa astanse noe eller noen i flukten? En beskrivelse av ulike temperamenter?- Eller kanskje bare en ovelse i a frasere, og lytte mellomnotelinjene?

INTERMEZZO - Terje Bjorklund
I Intermezzo forenes tre korte motiver av tre komponister fra1900-tallets klaver-litteratur (minst to av disse burde vaere velkjentefor pianister). jeg har lenge folt at disse tre motivene horer sammen, og med denne bestillingen fikk jeg anledning til a forene dem.Intermezzo (mellomspill) beskriver vandringen fra det ene motivet ogtil det neste. Musikken kan godt spilles som om den var improvisert.

SKU: HL.49047147

UPC: 196288134060.

The “Easy Concert Pieces” series for Violin and Piano is intended for tuition purposes and are particularly suitable for performanceat auditions and school concerts, for competitions, examinations - and for music making at home too, of course. Recordings and backing tracks for all the pieces are included on the accompanying Audio-Download. Volume 3 (intermediate) requires familiarity withthe first four positions. Besides well-known works such as the famous Air by Bach, the Largo from Handel's opera “Xerxes” and a movement from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, there are rewarding concerto and sonata movements by Küchler and Fiocco, as well as less familiar Romantic compositions by Rieding and Trowell. Modern music is represented in two lovely pieces by Hermann Schroeder, also inspired by the theme of the seasons. Young violinists will enjoy the four pop pieces that round off the selection.

SKU: SU.00220529

This CD Sheet Musicâ?¢ collection brings together over 400 piano works by the prolific virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt. Includes original compositions as well as Liszt's many arrangements and transcriptions for solo piano. Works Include: Années de Pèlerinage, Ballades, Consolations, Grandes Ã?tudes de Paganini, Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses, Hungarian Rhapsodies, Liebestraum (Nos. 1-3), Mephisto Waltz, Piano Concertos Nos. 1and2, Sonata in B minor, Sonetti del Petrarca, Réminiscences de Don Juan, Transcendental Etudes, Transcendental Etudes after Paganini, Valse Mélancolique, and more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Groveâ??s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 3700 pages [2 CDR Set]

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SKU: OU.9780193735293

ISBN 9780193735293. 12 x 8 inches.

Sensing was written partly as a 'prelude' to Scriabin's 9th Piano Sonata ('Black Mass'). In tribute to Scriabin the music explores a variety of keyboard 'touch' and 'colour/taste', in terms of harmony and texture, moving from a hesitant, fragmentary opening towards music more sustained and expressive.

SKU: KP.IT198

SKU: PE.EP73479

ISBN 9790577019888. 297 x 210mm inches. English.

At First Light was commissioned by Eric Bruskin, a resident of Philadelphia, USA, in memory of his mother. Eric had a longstanding enthusiasm for my work, and I was touched to be the person he approached for a task which is both a privilege and a daunting responsibility. In a sense, no music can ever measure up to the weight of love or the hope of consolation vested in it under such circumstances - but in memory I carry the deaths of both my own parents, and I was able to draw upon that. Eric's fondness for my Cello Sonata (itself written in memoriam) led him to ask that I include a solo 'cello part in the new work - but his attachment also to my polyphonic sacred choral writing meant that he wanted a centrepiece which would be both a showcase of that approach and the celebration of a life well lived. Therefore, the seven movements of At First Light arrange themselves as a series of slow meditations surrounding an exuberant 9-minute motet in which the lamenting cello falls temporarily silent.

Eric's Jewish faith meant that approaching an agnostic humanist brought up within the Anglican tradition was hardly free of problems! Gradually, though, I was able to win his approval for a collated mosaic of texts. This embraces some liturgical Latin (necessary for the motet) as the shared preserve of broad western culture in general, but balances it with a secular approach to loss, celebration, remembrance and the many shades of our mourning those whom we see no longer. Eric was adamant that he did not want the title Requiem; but what has emerged is still a form of semi-secular Requiem in all but name, taking its title instead from a phrase in the poem by Thomas Blackburn set as the third movement. This seemed to suggest succinctly how the loss of one very close to us is an awakening into an unfamiliar world where everything is changed. Following the exuberant central movement, the texts by the Lebanese-born Kahlil Gibran and the US, Kentuckian poet Wendell Berry first address the departed loved one directly, then place us within an imaginary funeral cortege, where the perennial and universal in human experience become personal without subscribing explicitly to any particular faith (or lack of it). The final text of all is a translation of a Hebraic prayer, requested and provided by Eric Bruskin, which serves to mirror its Latin counterpart heard at the outset.

Throughout, the lamenting cello represents a commentary on the experience articulated in the text. It evokes and, in a sense, tries to embrace and sanctify the individual existential journeys of the bereft, as they in turn seek to make their own sense of what the short-lived Second World War poet Alun Lewis called 'the unbearable beauty of the dead' (movement 5).

In a modern world hostage to ever greater menace, displacement, bloodshed and anguish, I hope fervently that this music not only brings a measure of solace to the person who commissioned it, but also makes its own small contribution to bailing out the sinking ship of humanity.

SKU: BT.EMBZ14110

ABRSM Syllabus title, Grade 5 The original source of these sonatas for cello and double bass duo was a collection created by G.A. Perti and his pupils in Bologna around 1695. Among the easy and small-scale movements (at most 28 measures long), the most quintessential dances of the Baroque era are represented.Some of these compositions can be played after a mere 3 years of instrumental study, therefore music students can use them as an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of baroque style. The simple development of the continuo allows for it to be played by a pupil performing alongside their teacher. The pieces also sound great when played on two cellos.

SKU: SU.00220504

This CD Sheet Musicâ?¢ collection makes available the wide range of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano music, both familiar and less well-known. Includes: Bagatelles, 32 Sonatas, Sonatinas, 5 Piano Concertos, Triple Concerto, Diabelli Variations, Contradances, Ecossaises, German Dances, Ländlers, Minuets, Rondos, Variations, Waltzes, and more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Groveâ??s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1500 pages

Please note, customers using Macintosh computers running macOS Catalina (version 10.5) have reported hardware compatibility issues with this product. If you encounter these issues, we recommend copying the entire contents of the disk to a contained folder on a thumb drive or other storage device for use on your Mac.