Par . Relax at the piano with this exceptional collection of satisfying and profoundly beautiful pieces to play. These intermediate-level pieces are suitable for the majority of pianists wanting to unwind with a tranquil selection. Includes some of the greatest jazz standards, such as \'Autumn Leaves\', \'Fly Me to the Moon\', \'Misty\', \'Moon River\', \'Satin Doll\', \'Summertime\' and \'The Way You Look Tonight\'. / Date parution : 2022-09-14/ Recueil / Piano

These diverse and entertaining solos are 'character pieces' that create a mental picture of a particular scene or episode. Students will find it easy to relate to the 'picture title' of each solo in order to determine its mood, style, and tempo. By interjecting their own musical ideas (such as dynamics, lyrics, rubato, etc.), students will enjoy using their imagination to help make each scene or episode even more colorful and descriptive. These pieces will inspire students to become more thoughtful and expressive musicians. Book 2 includes 10 pieces for the intermediate pianist. / Piano

Early to Mid-Intermediate Level-Carolyn Miller's gift for writing simple yet beautifully memorable solos comes shining through in her latest collection. Students will want to play them all! There is even a companion piece to the famous Knights of the Castle (from her first Lyrical Solos book) complete with storyline. As usual these sound more difficult than they are and fit perfectly in smaller hands. Titles: Deep Thoughts - Dizzy Fingers - Knights of the Kingdom - Little Tango - Matter of Fact - Meditation in G - Simplicity - Storybook Waltz. Listen to selections here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0ZDdEcg7g

Based on the poems by German poet Carl Hauptmann (late Romanticism) and the English poet William Wordsworth (early Romanticism). Carl Hauptmann was in poor health as a child but highly intelligent. He studied philosophy psychology and biology. In the latter he was admitted to the degree of doctor. His marriage provided financial independence so that he could focus on his studies. Hauptmann wrote various novels plays poetry and scientific works. Night Twilight floats above the valley's night mists are hanging there's a whispering brook. Now the covering veil is lifting quite: come and look! See the magicland before our gaze: tall as dreams the silver mountains stand crossed by silent silver paths shining from a secret land. Noble pure the dreaming country sleeps. By the path the shadow black and hogh of a beach. a wisp of a white smoke creeps to the dark'ning sky. Where the valley is the darkest hued countless little lights shine silently. O my soul! Drink of solitude! Carl Hauptmann Wordsworth 'introduced' a new type of poetry based on the speech of the common man. This was his answer to the poetry of the classicism which was bound by rigid rules. His definition of poetry was: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility. My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began. So is it now I am a man. So be it when I shall grow old Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man. And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth In a truly poetic manner Harrie Janssen has transformed the contemplative thoughts of the poets into two compositions for Concert Band.

The Marbled Midnight Mile is a companion to Bryant's earlier works Dusk and First Light – the three of them together forming a loosely-related “night cycle.” The title evokes an extended journeythrough the myriad wandering thoughts that occur in the solitude of night. The music makes only modest technical demands of the ensemble but is a perfect vehicle to expand the band's musical maturity and sensitivity. Dur: 8:00(Grade 4)

Original Version - Edition for Cello and Piano. Schumann?s Cello Concerto Rediscovered. In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann?s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 ? a piece he actually called a ?Concertstück? ? removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer?s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków. It is presented in a beautifully printed edition for cello with Schumann?s original piano reduction. Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann?s original 1850 manuscript Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London Cello Part contains Josephine Knight's fingering and bowing suggestions Critical Commentary Matching orchestral material available separately from Edition Peters Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton Robert Schumann?s tragic last years have mired many of his greatest works in unnecessary doubt. The story of the suppression of his Violin Concerto by well-meaning friends is relatively well-known. Few, however, know that the version of the Cello Concerto that is routinely heard today is so far from Schumann?s original conception of the work ? not only in details of phrasing and articulation, but also featuring a different ending with a bold final flourish from the cello. Composed in a burst of inspiration in two weeks in October 1850 shortly after he and Clara had moved to Düsseldorf, Schumann (who in 1850 was still in good health) never heard the piece performed. In an effort to promote a performance of the work, he gave the score to the cellist Robert Emil Bockmühl. Bockmühl made revisions that Schumann resisted, and the hoped-for performance never happened. Schumann?s health failed and he died aged just 46 in 1856. The Concerto, in an already substantially revised form, was premiered in 1860 but it was not given significant recognition until it was championed by Pablo Casals in the 20th century by which time (and since) the text for the work had accreted additions and alterations from generations of soloists. Now Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music, London has returned to the original 1850 manuscript of the work, which is in the Biblioteka Jagiello?ska in Kraków, to reveal Schumann?s original thoughts for the first time in a modern Urtext edition. The edition reflects Schumann?s original conception of the work as a Concertstück and restores Schumann?s musical text, free of posthumous interventions. It is presented in a beautifully printed edition for cello, with Schumann?s original piano reduction. Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher. ?My ultimate wish,? says the editor, ?is to give performers both access to, and confidence that they are playing from, an edition which is a true representation of the piece in its original form, no matter how much more difficult this might be. I found that incorporating the changes enabled the piece to take on a completely different character ? one that is lighter and happier, even ?cheerful?, as Schumann himself described the work.?

Twilight Shadows * Remember Me * Thoughts at Eventide * Chatterers * Two Artists * Reminiscences of Youth * Two Butterflies * Conversation * Boatmen * Witches' Frolic * In Days of Knights * Bat of Monterey * Memories of the Ballet * Shepherd's Dance * Tenderness

The composer:1st movement: Reflections by the Fjord.Overlooking one of the mighty fjords of Norway my mind and thoughts are with an old religious Norwegian folk-tune with words by the famous parson Peter Dass.The majestic fanfare-likeopening reflects the power of God our Father the choral itself heard for the first time on flugelhorn. The choral is repeated a few times separated only by some short variations. The movement ends in thriumph with fanfares and the choral broughttogether.2nd movement: Reflections in the Old Church.In this movement my associations of a summer day finding myself alone in an old deserted stone church. From the old walls I hear folk songs perhaps like the ones sung in the church bypoor fishermen and farmers in days gone by. Suddenly the light from the sun breakes through the small circular window above the altar and a lovely melody is heard before the original figures take us to the end of the movement.3rd movement:Festive Reflections.Any festive occasion can be reflected in this movement. from the bonfire at midsummer-night to the children celebrating the return of the sun in the northern part of Norway. from the traditional sleigh-riding at Christmas tothe Celebrations of the National Day on the 17th of May each year.

The composer:1st movement: Reflections by the Fjord.Overlooking one of the mighty fjords of Norway my mind and thoughts are with an old religious Norwegian folk-tune with words by the famous parson Peter Dass.The majestic fanfare-likeopening reflects the power of God our Father the choral itself heard for the first time on flugelhorn. The choral is repeated a few times separated only by some short variations. The movement ends in thriumph with fanfares and the choral broughttogether.2nd movement: Reflections in the Old Church.In this movement my associations of a summer day finding myself alone in an old deserted stone church. From the old walls I hear folk songs perhaps like the ones sung in the church bypoor fishermen and farmers in days gone by. Suddenly the light from the sun breakes through the small circular window above the altar and a lovely melody is heard before the original figures take us to the end of the movement.3rd movement:Festive Reflections.Any festive occasion can be reflected in this movement. from the bonfire at midsummer-night to the children celebrating the return of the sun in the northern part of Norway. from the traditional sleigh-riding at Christmas tothe Celebrations of the National Day on the 17th of May each year.

Ablution
Adam's Apple
Affirmation
Air Mail Special
Alfie's Theme
All Alone (Left Alone)
(All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings
Alto Itis
Another Star
April Skies
Are You Havin' Any Fun?
Ask Me Now
At The Mambo Inn
Avalon
Azure
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are (Bolivar Blues)
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Bags And Trane
Bags' Groove
Bali Ha'i
A Ballad
Baltimore Oriole
Barbados
Barbara
Basin Street Blues
Be-Bop
Better Leave It Alone
Beyond The Sea
Big P
Bill's Hit Tune
Billie's Blues (I Love My Man)
Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce)
Bird Feathers
Birdland
Birk's Works
The Birth Of The Blues
Black And Tan Fantasy
Blame It On My Youth
Bloomdido
Blow Mr. Dexter
Blue 'N Boogie
Blue Serge
Blue Seven
Blue Silver
Blue Skies
Blues By Five
Blues For Wood
Blues In The Closet
Blues March
Bohemia After Dark
Booker's Waltz
Bouncing With Bud
Brian's Song
Bright Boy
Brilliant Corners
Budo
Bunko
Buster Rides Again
Bye Bye Blackbird
C-Jam Blues
Candy
Cantelope Island
Caravan
Cast Your Fate To The Wind
Chameleon
The Champ
Chasin' The Trane
Cheesecake
Circle
Close Your Eyes
Cold Duck Time
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Comin' Home Baby
The Cooker
Cool Blues
The Core
Cousin Mary
Crazeology
Crepuscule
Criss Cross
Crosscurrent
Dance Of The Infidels
Dat Dere
Day By Day
Dewey Square
Dexter Rides Again
Didn't We
Dinah
Dindi
Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
Don't Explain
Down For Double
Doxy
The Drive
Duff
Early Autumn
Eclypso
Einbahnstrasse
Elora
Emancipation Blues
Epilogue
Estate
Everything I Have Is Yours
Eye Of The Hurricane
Ezz-thetic
Farmer's Trust
Feels So Good
Fever
52nd Street Theme
Filthy McNasty
First Trip
Five Brothers
Five Spot After Dark
A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
Flying Home
The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Four Brothers
Fox Hunt
Freight Trane
Frenesí
The Frim Fram Sauce
Funky
Georgia On My Mind
Get Me To The Church On Time
Get Out Of Town
Gettin' It Togetha
The Gift! (Recado Bossa Nova)
Girl Talk
Gravy Waltz
Gregory Is Here
Grooveyard
Hackensack
Hallucinations
Happy Little Sunbeam
Havona
Head And Shoulders
Hi Beck
Hi-Fly
Ho-Ba-La-La
Hocus-Pocus
Holy Land
Honeysuckle Rose
Horace Scope
The Hucklebuck
Hummin'
Humpty Dumpty
I Believe In You
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
I Have Dreamed
I Hear A Rhapsody
I Remember Bird
I Remember You
I Thought About You
I Will Wait For You
I Wish I Didn't Love You So
I'll Know
I'm A Fool To Want You
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
I'm Just A Lucky So And So
I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
I've Found A New Baby (I Found A New Baby)
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
Ice Cream Konitz
Idol Gossip
If I Loved You
If I Should Lose You
If I Were A Bell
Imagination
In Case You Haven't Heard
In Pursuit Of The 27th Man
In The Still Of The Night
In Walked Bud
Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)
Infant Eyes
Island Birdie
It Could Happen To You
It Might As Well Be Spring
It Will Have To Do Until The Real Thing Comes Along (Until The Real Thing Comes Along)
It's A Blue World
It's All Right With Me
It's Only A Paper Moon
It's So Peaceful In The Country
Jackie
Jeannine
Jingles
Jitterbug Waltz
The Jody Grind
Joyce's Samba
Jump, Jive An' Wail
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
June Is Bustin' Out All Over
Just A Few
Just A Settin' And A Rockin'
Just In Time
Just The Way You Are
Kary's Trance
Katrina Ballerina
The Kicker
Kids Are Pretty People
Killer Joe
Lady Day
Lakes
Last Night When We Were Young
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Leila
Lennie's Pennies
Let's Cool One
Let's Fall In Love
Let's Get Lost
Like Sonny (Simple Like)
Like Young
Limbo
Little Chicago Fire
Little Rootie Tootie
Little Sunflower
Locomotion
Lone Jack
Lonely Dreams
Look For The Silver Lining
Lotus Blossom
Love Is Just Around The Corner
Love, Look Away
Love Vibrations
A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
Lover
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
Make Someone Happy
Manteca
Memories Of You
Menina Flor
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Miles Ahead
Minor Mishap
Minor Mood
Theme From Mr. Broadway
Mr. Magic
Moanin'
Monk's Mood
Monk's Shop
Moon Rays
Moon River
Moonglow
Moose The Mooche
More Than You Know
Morning Dance
Moten Swing
Move
My Attorney Bernie
My Little Suede Shoes
My Old Flame
Nature Boy
The Nearness Of You
Night Song
No Moe
No Splice
North Atlantic Run
Now See How You Are
Now's The Time
Nutville
Off Minor
Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
Old Devil Moon
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
One By One
One Foot In The Gutter
One Morning In May
Our Language Of Love
Out Back Of The Barn
Oye Como Va
Pannonica
Parisian Thoroughfare
Peel Me A Grape
Pennies From Heaven
People Will Say We're In Love
Perdido
Petite Fleur
Petits Machins
Phase Dance
Picadillo (a la Puente)
Pick Yourself Up
Polka Dots And Moonbeams
Portrait of Jennie
Prisoner Of Love
Pursuance
Question

Par VAN NUETEN GUY. Light the fire, James. We'll take our digestive by the crackling of the hearth. Such were the thoughts that came to mind as I started listening to Guy Van Nueten's new record. Because, yes, there is a certain aristocracy to this music. There's the feeling of autumn and you immediately long to warm yourself on the sounds that issue from Van Nueten's bony fingers. But it could just as well be a car ride through soft rain at nightfall, where trees become freakish phantoms, and here and there a villa looms like a light beacon. Pacman is a record that makes you hunt for images, films you have seen before, feelings you have known and wish to relive, like a somewhat forbidden fruit, asecret pleasure. Melancholy? Absolutely. A vague sadness to make a person purr like a contented cat? Certainly. Yet at the same time, Van Nueten is cunning. While ensuring that his music pleases you, at the end of some compositions he'll suddenly come up with a theme that he'll stop abruptly, so that the notes remain hanging like snapshots of aerial acrobats in action. It is also investigative music as if Guy himself does not wish to know just where he will finish up. There is a stubbornness to it, an elegant fight perhaps between composer and pianist. It pursues you - exactly like a Pacman, in fact, chomping away at digital pieces of your heart. Yet it never seems to dissolve into thin air: time and again, right from the first listen, he makes you long to hear more. It is music that should protect a person like a secret, like an illegal fire in a forest that warms your hands and fills your head with dreams. It smells like cedar, this piano music. Or like a nice cigar offered to you by the imaginary James, who whispers: 'The fire is crackling, sir. Just as you like it.' At which point the enchantment begins all over again./ Répertoire / Piano

Instrumentation: piano Edition: score Publisher: Eberhard Mayer OEuvres pour piano/Klaviermusik/Piano Music Edition en 10 recueils/Edition in 10 Bänden/Edition in 10 volumes Volume 1: Femmes de Légende Editor: Eberhard Mayer Item no.: fue 4180 Difficulty: medium ISMN: 979-0-50012-918-9 Contents: Mélisande, Desdémona, Ophelie, Viviane, Phœbé, Omphale und Salomé The pieces for piano represent a great stylistic variety. One gets the impression that Mel Bonis may have intended to give a summary of musical development, not quoting historic styles but adapting the past through her personal tone and to translate it into contemporary musical language. The first volume includes an original series of musical portraits dedicated to legendary women, where Mel Bonis explores the enigmatic feminine universe. „Femmes de légende“ A collection we have called “Femmes de légende” contains seven piano pieces by Mel Bonis named after women whose fates have become legendary. They have not always been arranged in this way. The first piece, “Mélisande”, was published separately by Alphonse Leduc in 1898. In 1909, a collection called “Trois pièces pour piano” (Three pieces for the piano), dedicated to the composer Paul Locard and which included “Phœbé”, “Viviane” and “Salomé”, was published by Leduc. In 1913, “Mélisande” was added to the four last pieces for a final collection called “Cinq pièces”. “Omphale” appeared in a Berlin edition “Signale für die musikalische Welt” in 1910. As to “Ophélie”, it was never published in Mel Bonis’ lifetime and we discovered a manu-script in 1997 without any indication at all of when it was writ-ten. “Ophélie” was first published by the publishing house Ar-miane in Versailles in 1998. Mélisande (1898) Written before Debussy’s famous opera, Mel Bonis’ piano piece “Mélisande” was also inspired by the poet Maeterlinck (Mélisande, 1893). These short pages of magical harmonies, of radi-ant impressionist colours use music to describe Mélisande’s hair as described by Pelleas: “your hair and its beautiful light... It escapes everywhere, it shivers, it shakes, it trembles in my hand like a golden bird.” This piece enjoyed quite a success in Mel Bonis’ lifetime. She noted of it “my favourite” in the margin of her hand-written catalogue. Desdémona (1913) The female heroine in Shakespeare’s “Othello” inspired Mel Bonis to write a nostalgic piece with a fairly easy, rather classical beginning, a kind of romance without words, of great elegance and of a deep and melancholic beauty. Ophélie Ophelia, the lover of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is a deeply melan-cholic character who goes mad and drowns in mysterious cir-cumstances. Ophelia inspired the poet Rimbaud and the painter Millais – each of them created a masterpiece. Mel Bonis too evokes images of water, sadness and death in music for a third work of art. With its delicate and chilling beauty and also with its moments of passion, this impressionist piece - the work which owes most to Debussy - calls for great intelligence when performed. Viviane (1909) The figure of the fairy of the lake is musically described here in a well-structured, many-facetted piece; first of all, the initial dancing theme has an air of the “salon” about it, typical of its time, evoking the fairy’s charm, her smile. Then follow succes-sions of majestic chords and fluent harmonies which represent the underwater castle and the fairy’s power. This piece is easily approachable. Phœbé (1909) The sister of Phoebus, the sun, symbolises the moon, the night, chastity. The piece creates an impression of night. Steeped in twilight, languor and a sense of immense space, the atmosphere is one of unreality. This feeling of alienation is reinforced by the incoherence of rhythm between the two hands. Salomé (1909) Inspired by the Orient, Mel Bonis creates a very original musical illustration of the biblical character of Salome. She is characterised by shifting moods in which slow syncopes follow light glissandos, and urgent, mysterious psalmodies accompany sensual melopeias, where surprising tempo varia-tions lead to outbreaks of violence. With its relatively difficult beginning, this piece is especially interesting from the viewpoint of research into interpretation. Omphale (1910) The queen of Lydia is a female character from the violent depths of Greek mythology. This powerful female is described here with glittering sensuality and Oriental subtlety. The impressive work shows a complex structure both in harmony and rhythm, it is a lively and rich work which calls for much thought and great virtuosity on the performer’s part. “Omphale” was awarded a prize for composition by the Berlin magazine “Signale für die musikalische Welt” in 1910.

Compositeur(S): Simon Buret And Olivier Coursier. Par AARON. Auteur: SIMON BURET/ Feuillet / Chant et Piano

Als ausgeschriebene Improvisationen strahlen die Nachtgedanken eine lyrische - und manchmal etwas melancholische Stimmung aus. Sie erinnern ein wenig an den Stil der wohl bekanntesten Nachtstücke der Musikgeschichte: an die Nocturnes von Chopin. / Flûte Et Piano