SKU: CY.CC2722

The Chants du Rhin (Songs of the Rhine), a cycle of six pieces, based on poems by Joseph Mery, were written in 1865, and Bizet performed two of them on 16 April 1866 at a soiree of the Beaujolais Philharmonic Society. The songs are grouped symmetrically around La bohemienne as the central piece, framed by two meditatively yearning pieces (in E and D flat major) and two vividly exuberant ones (similarly in E and D flat major), with L'aurore serving as an introduction.

In this cycle Bizet takes up the theme of the gypsy girl which had already entered European music in the operas The Bohemian Girl by the Irish composer Michael William Balfe and Verdi's Il trovatore, as well as in Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano. Bizet will return to it one year later in La jolie fille de Perth and ten years later in Carmen. The fourth piece Les confidences shows similarities in tonality, structure and motifs to the middle part of the third movement of Chopin's Sonata in B minor.

This version includes parts in B-flat treble clef as well as bass clef.

SKU: HL.49016017

ISBN 9780793554218. UPC: 073999496185. 305 X 229 inches.

Contents: Andante & Allegro (Loeillet) • Aria from St. Matthew Passion (J.S. Bach) • Concerto No. 8 (Handel) • Kuruka-Kuruka (Yamada) • Largo (Fasch) • Mazurka (Debussy) • Romanze (Schumann)• Sonata in A minor (Telemann) • Song (Glière) • Theme from Symphony in C (Bizet) • Toadinha (A Little Song) (Berger) • Träume (Wagner) • Two Songs (Liszt) • Vocalise(Rachmaninoff)• 2 Arabian Dances (Laurischkus).Selected and edited by Whitney Tustin. Fifteen pieces offer the player a variety of period and styles. Includes works by Bach, Debussy, Liszt and Rachmaninov. With piano accompaniment.

Contents: Andante & Allegro (Loeillet) • Aria from St. Matthew Passion (J.S. Bach) • Concerto No. 8 (Handel) • Kuruka-Kuruka (Yamada) • Largo (Fasch) • Mazurka (Debussy) • Romanze (Schumann)• Sonata in A minor (Telemann) • Song (Glière) • Theme from Symphony in C (Bizet) • Toadinha (A Little Song) (Berger) • Träume (Wagner) • Two Songs (Liszt) • Vocalise(Rachmaninoff)• 2 Arabian Dances (Laurischkus).

SKU: LM.26660

ISBN 9790230966603.

BEETHOVEN : Feuerfarb - BERLIOZ : La damnation de Faust (Le Roi de Thule) - BIZET : Pastel - BORODINE : Chez les autres - CHABRIER : Villanelle de petits canards - EXAUDET : Menuet - GOUNOD : Le medecin malgre lui (air de la bouteille) - GRANADOS : Amor y Odio - GRIEG : Erstes Begegnen - HAENDEL : Alcina - KOECHLIN : Duo a capella - MASSENET : Manon (1er acte, 3 voix) - MAXWELL-DAVIES : At the shore - MOUSSORGSKY : Sans soleil - RAMEAU : Dardanus (acte II, scene 2) - SCHUBERT : Der Schatzgruber - NEGRO SPIRITUAL : I got a home in-a-dat Rock.

SKU: HL.50572421