SKU: PR.110406720
UPC: 680160001316.
I have always been fond of writing works for specific people or organizations. It has been my good fortune during most of my creative career to be asked to compose for many extraordinary performers. The Sonata for Harpsichord Solo is such a case in point: it was written in 1982 for Barbara Harbach, a superb performer, close friend, and collaborator on many musical projects. The Sonata was premiered on March 2, 1984, in a recital given by Dr. Harbach at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. During my formative years as a composer, one seldom heard of the harpsichord as a modern instrument, though while I attended undergraduate school at Boston University, some of us banded together to construct a small harpsichord from one of the first do-it-yourself kits which began to appear in the late '40s. It was also during this time that I heard the Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord by my teacher Walter Piston and consequently specified that the accompanying instrument for my second violin sonata could either be a piano or a harpsichord. It was not until recently, however, that my interest in the harpsichord as a solo instrument for new music was aroused. This was because of the emergence of so many young virtuosi, such as Barbara Harbach, who are interested in the performance of new music besides the great harpsichord music of the Classical, Baroque, and pre-Baroque eras. The keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti has always intrigued and fascinated me. The brevity, excitement, and clarity of this sparkling music is charming as well as exhilarating. It is this type of Baroque sonata that inspired the conception and form of my harpsichord sonata. The entire work is loosely based on the musical translation of Barabara Harbach's name, especially the conflict of the B (B-flat) and H (B-natural in German notation). This secondo rub or dissonance especially pervades the first movement, which is in a modified sonata form, pitting jagged and tense melodic elements against most lyrical and smooth lines. This second movement is a song-like melody accompanied by rolled chords which may be played on the lute stop of the instrument if this sonata is performed on a two-manual harpsichord. The final movement is an ever-driving joyous toccata which brings the work to an exciting close with a coda made up of accelerating repeated chords. --Samuel Adler.
SKU: SU.00220551
This CD Sheet Music™ collection makes available over 200 works for flute with piano accompaniment by over 80 composers from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. Works include: Adam (Hongroise), Anderson (Three Cadenzas for Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2), CPE Bach (5 Sonatas), JCF Bach (Sonata Nos. 1&2), JS Bach (Sonatas, BWV 1030-1035), Barrère (Nocturne), Beethoven (6 Themes with Variations), Bizet (Minuet from L'Arlésienne), Blavet (Les Tendres Badinages), Booth (In the Woods at Evensong), Boulenger (D'un matin de Printemp, Briccialdi (Il Carnevale di Venezia, Bergmüller (Chanson), Busoni (Album Leaf), Caix d'Hervelois (La Bagatelle,Musette), Catherine (Arabesque), Daquin (Rigaudon), Debussy (Le Petit Berger, Rêverie, Arabesque No. 2), Donjon (Adagio Nobile, Invocation, Offertoire), Doppler (Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise), Duvernoy (Intermezzo), Enesco (Cantabile & Presto), Fauré Berceuse, Sicilienne), Foote (3 Pieces for Flute & Piano), Gabriel-Marie (La Cinquantaine), Ganne (Andante & Scherzo), Gluck (Aria from Orphée, Ballet from Armide), Godard (The Idylle), Gossec (Timbourin), Graupner (Sonata Nos. 1&2), Grétry (Air lent), Griffes (Poem), Hahn (Variations on a Theme by Mozart), Handel (Sonata Nos. 1-7, Sonata Nos. 1-3 for Flute & Continuo), Hotteterre (Échos), Hullmandel (Menuet Champêtre), Kirchhoff (Rigaudon), Köhler (Valse Allemande), Krieger (Bourrée), Kuhlau (Divertimento Nos. 1-6, Grand Solo Nos. 1-3), Kuhnau (Gavotte and Bourrée), Latour (Theme in G major), Locatelli (3 Sonatas), Loeillet (Adagio, Gavotte), Lully (20 Pieces for Flute & Keyboard), Maganini (Sérénade), Marais (Les Folies d'Espagne), Marcello (Cantabile, Largo, Massenet (Meditation from Thaïs), Matheson (Sonata Nos. 1-12), Mendelssohn (Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream), Molique (Andante), Moszkowski (Spanish Dances), Mouquet (La Flute de Pan), Mozart (Concerto Nos. 1&2, Sonata Nos. 1-6), Müthel Sonata in D), Offenbach (Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann), Pergolesi (Aria), Pessard )Andalouse), Popp (Birdsong), Quantz (Sonata Nos. 1-6, Concerto in G), Rameau (La Livri), Reger (Burleske, Menuet and Gigue, Romance), Reinecke (Concerto for Flute in D, Sonata in E), Rheinberger (Rhapsodie), Rietz (Sonata), Rimsky-Korsakov (Flight of the Bumblebee), Sacchini (Andantino galante from Dardanus), Saint-Saëns (Romance, Odelette), A. Scarlatti (Minuet), Schers (Sarabande), Schubert (Introduction & Variations on a Theme), Schumann (Humming Song), Tafanel (Andante, Pastoral and Scherzettino, Telemann (Dolce, The Trusty Music Maker, Tosti (Good Bye), Verdi (La Traviata), Vivaldi (Sonata in C), Weber (Adagio), and more. Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2000+ pages
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SKU: HL.14015640
ISBN 9780853606314. UPC: 884088433413. 9.0x12.0x0.194 inches. English.
A superb collection of standard repertoire for the classical singer. Titles range from Baroque to late 19th century and titles often appear on the ABRSM singing syllabus.
SKU: CF.ATF123
ISBN 9780825811319. UPC: 798408011314. 9 X 12 inches. Transcribed by Leopold Godowsky.