SKU: IS.PN7065EM

ISBN 9790365070657.

On January 1st, 2016, Stephane Vande Ginste had an extraordinary intention: he planned to compose a 1-minute piece for piano every single day for the whole year. The result is an impressive collection of piano miniatures which - although contemporary - result in a variety of musical styles: apart from some experimental pieces, there are jazzy- and poppy pieces, more traditional etudes, polyphonic compositions and so on... The 366 pieces also tell various stories: from very emotional events like the terrorist attacks in Brussels over homages in honor of deceased artists (David Bowie,...) to birthdays and festive occasions,... . More than once, even poetry (Heinrich Heine, Anna Enquist, ..) or other pieces of art inspired Stephane to compose his daily one-minute piece. Every single composition originated from the here and now, and therefore capture the unfiltered feelings and emotions of that very unique moment in time: joy, enthusiasm, but also melancholy and sadness.

SKU: LO.70-2257L

ISBN 9780787771539.

John Turner's decades of experience playing and arranging are evident in these imaginative settings of traditional carols. From stunning overtures on Joy to the World and O Come, All Ye Faithful to the jazzy, Brubeck-inspired bounce of O Christmas Tree, this book offers you and your keyboard partner hours of enjoyment and options for a church program or concert.

SKU: AP.1-ADV9026

UPC: 805095090260. English.

This collection serves as an invitation to classically trained pianists who are interested in improvisation, and as a challenge to seasoned improvisers to make each performance fresh and spontaneous. Includes six preludes for solo piano using vocabulary from both the classical and the jazz traditions.

SKU: HL.14029018

ISBN 9788759868898. English.

Ole Schmidt is best known throughtout the world as a conductor, but he is also a highly talented and productive composer who has worked in nearly every idiom and genre. This piece is typical of his expressive qualities and demonstrates that while his music is often eclectic, sometimes experimental, he forms a basis in the Neoclassical tradition. It is his leaning toward driving rhythm and jazz-inspired harmony that makes his music compelling and attractive to listen to.

SKU: BU.EBR-521

ISBN 9790560153902. 8.58 x 12.48 inches.

Les `Kopf Kino Kantaten` (cantates de cinéma dans la tête) sont constituées de 24 pièces pour piano d'une durée d'une minute à une minute trente. Dans la tradition de la musique de salon, ces pièces naviguent entre classique et jazz.

Elles marient le connu à l'inconnu, jouent avec toute l’étendue et la sonorité du piano. Avec des rythmes très variés, des sons et des mélodies plein de coloris, les `Kopf Kino Kantaten` sont censées emmener en voyage celles et ceux qui les écoutent. Elles leur feront vivre des scènes imaginaires, tout en musique, qui expriment des moments de solitude, d'attente, de repos et de pauses.

Les `Kopf Kino Kantaten` doivent leur origine à un travail intense de l'artiste sur l'histoire du piano. Connotations, allusions ou ressemblances avec d'autres musiques pianistiques ne sont ni vraiment recherchées, ni explicitement évitées par le compositeur. Les `Kopf Kino Kantaten` sont là pour ressusciter l'histoire du piano.

Cette édition comprend une sélection de 7 œuvres.

Les `Kopf Kino Kantation` ont été enregistrés sur Compact Disc et Vinyle chez Metaracords (meta059 & meta 060). Le coffret Compact Disc est double, puisqu’il propose 2 versions des enregistrements : la première est une exécution des œuvres sur un piano à queue de concert, la seconde, vsur un vieux piano droit. Le Vinyle comporte juste cette deuxième version.

A chaque coffret est jointe une photo de Nicolas Vermont Petit-Outhenin, censée déclencher des associations, susciter un cinéma immaginaire. Un travail ‘artistes-vidéo’ effectué sur certaines pièces sont proposées à cette adresse : www.kopfkinokantaten.com.

SKU: ST.C463

ISBN 9790570814633.

This volume contains contrasting works by Federico Ruiz spanning quite a large and rich period of his compositional output that goes from his early Micro-Suite (1971), to lilting, sweet and rhythmic Venezuelan waltzes passing by the mysterious, intimate, and intense Nocturno (1994) plus pieces originally composed for film, and theatre. Real eclecticism in styles, moods and atmospheres that show Ruizâ??s talents and scope.

The Nocturno is a deep, intriguing, substantial piece presenting a satisfying length which moves from different paths of the mind and the heart written in an abstract, chromatic idiom, that does not dissociate itself from the Venezuelan waltz and the joropo. One could perhaps say that there is a deconstruction of the latter. For the interpretation, the composer has suggested to me that it is allowed to have some flexibility in the tempo. Ruiz kindly dedicated it to me, and I have had the pleasure of performing it in many concerts.

Although all highly expressive, the Three Venezuelan Waltzes present in this collection as well as the piece titled Aliseo, are works that are close to the colourful Venezuelan folk tradition. Federico Ruiz had given me two of them when we first met: â??Tu Presenciaâ?? (1981) and â??Eloísaâ?? (1989) and then I attended a performance of the play â??Office Number Oneâ?? by Miguel Otero Silva with a fantastic actor, Elba Escobar in the role of Carmen Rosa and, I just fell in love and was very moved by the incidental music that I later discovered, by reading the programme, had been written by Federico Ruiz. Later that evening, I called him and asked to please make a piano score of the composition, so I could have the desired piece in my hands. That is how â??Carmen Rosaâ? waltz (1987) came to exist in a piano version.

â??Eloisaâ?? is another Venezuelan waltz with more jazzy harmonies where precision in the rhythm and elegant playing is also essential, as it is in most of his pieces.

â??Tu Presenciaâ?? was dedicated to his mother, Margarita. It is written with the structure of the Venezuelan waltz, which consists of a nostalgic subject that leads to a faster, happier middle section where the typical graceful rhythm is given by the left-hand accompaniment figure of a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver and a crotchet.

The craft and magic found in the five movements of the Micro-Suite is based on a dodecaphonic row by Ernst Krenek. They remind us of the idiom of the Second Viennese School. These real miniatures seem to tell short stories. The â??Preludioâ?? is full of humour. I imagine dancing figures given by the jumps all over the keyboard and extreme dynamics; the phrases give the impression of a conversation with many questions and answers. The â??Invenciónâ?? is a kaleidoscopic piece where the hands mirror each other. The â??Passacagliaâ?? is the longest movement, at just over a minute where the prime motif is repeated three times on the bass line. For its construction Federico Ruiz uses as well the retrograde and the retrograde inversion of the twelve-tone series. It must be played expressively with dynamic contrasts between pianissimo and louder events. The â??Scherzoâ?? has repetitive motifs of a minor third in both hands and the â??Finalâ?? displays virtuosic passages for the pianist.

Aliseo was originally written for the film â??Aire libreâ? (1995), by Luis Armando Roche. It contains elements of diverse types of Venezuelan joropo. In the film, the character of Aliseo Carvallo is played by the composer himself who performs this piece on a harpsichord to welcome scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland one day at the turn of the 1800â??s, as a sample of the new music from the South American land. It presents the refinement of the late European classical era in fusion with Venezuelan folk music.