8 Enchanting Pieces from India arranged for String Quartet. Par SHARMA PYARELAL. For the first time The Schott String Quartet Series features a collection of pieces that have been originally composed in a style unique to string quartet arrangements. Internationally-acclaimed Bollywood composer Pyarelal Sharma has provided music and songs for over 450 films. This set of string quartets, composed especially for Schott, is influenced by Indian film music, Indian folk, Arabic and light Indian classical music, thus combining the alluring sound of the East with the stability of a classic Western ensemble. Another new feature that this volume has brought to the series is a special bonus CD containing performances of these charming pieces by leading members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The Schott String Quartet Series With the first books in the series focusing on baroque, classical and romantic styles, The Schott String Quartet Series has expanded to cover music ranging from traditional pieces through to Eastern-influenced works. Aside from 'Indian Summer', which features original compositions, each book contains original arrangements of well known themes, which have often never been arranged for string quartet before. An important characteristic of these arrangements is that they allow all four instruments to demand the attention throughout the music. The pieces are suitable for amateur musicians or school students and are ideal for public performance./ Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes

Brahms completed his Cello Sonata op. 99 during the productive summer of 1886. The first public performance took place in Vienna on 24 November of the same year. Robert Hausmann played the cello part and the composer himself was his partner at the piano. Even though the work was generally received positively, it took some years until it was fully appreciated and gained its irrevocable place in the cello repertoire.Of particular value to the editors were the two early performance editions of the Cello Sonata op. 99 by Hugo Becker and Carl Friedberg, as well as by Julius Klengel. Both cellists, Becker and Klengel, had a connection to Brahms who very much admired and trusted Becker's playing and who performed together with Klengel. This edition not only incorporates Becker's and Klengel's performance markings but also Hausmann's for whom the piece was written. As such, the Barenreiter edition comes with a cello part marked with fingering and bowing by the editors which are based on the practices of Brahms' contemporaries. We also provide an unmarked Urtext part.An important part of this edition is the extensive Preface. Firstly it informs about the work's origin, early performances, its publication as well as early reception. Truly remarkable is the unique Performance Practice Commentary. Here the editors take the premise that already a few decades after Brahms' death, a widening gulf developed between the composer's expectations and the performance practices of the early 20th century. In a very concrete and practical way, the editors summarize some of the key issues in understanding Brahms' notation with regard to rhythm and timing, dynamics and accentuation, dots and strokes, slurring and non legato, piano pedalling and overholding, piano arpeggiation and dislocation, string instrument fingering, string instrument harmonics and vibrato. In this way, the edition offers an exciting and often surprising insight into Romantic musical interpretation.- A pioneering Urtext edition- With an unmarked Urtext part- With a second part including fingering and bowing based on the practices of contemporaries of Brahms- With an extensive Performance Practice Commentary- For further information on Romantic performance practice we recommend the text booklet: 'Performance Practices in Johannes Brahms' Chamber Music?, BA 9600 / Violoncelle Et Piano

This eclectic collection for solo Flute will delight film fans of all ages! 101 Movie Hits contains a dazzling selection of favourites from the silver screen, including Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Eye Of The Tiger (Rocky III), Hallelujah (Shrek), Happy (Despicable Me 2), Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate), The Dreame (Sense And Sensibility), Let It Go (Frozen), Summer Nights (Grease), The Music Of Goodbye (Out Of Africa) and more. / Violoncelle

8 Twentieth-Century Pieces. Having touched on the romantic era in 'To a Wild Rose' and the classical era in 'An die Musik', Kember moves forward to the twentieth-century with this thoughtfully chosen collection for string quartet. The Schott String Quartet Series With the first books in the series focusing on baroque, classical and romantic styles, The Schott String Quartet Series has expanded to cover music ranging from traditional pieces through to Eastern-influenced works. Aside from 'Indian Summer', which features original compositions, each book contains original arrangements of well known themes, which have often never been arranged for string quartet before. An important characteristic of these arrangements is that they allow all four instruments to demand the attention throughout the music. The pieces are suitable for amateur musicians or school students and are ideal for public performance./ Recueil / Quatuor à Cordes

String Quartet No.3 was written for and first performed by the Balanescu Quartet February 1990 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London. Duration 16 minutes. Instrumental parts are available on sale.Quoting composer: In thesummer of 1989 I composed a choral work Out of the Ruins for Agnieszka Piotrowska’s BBC2 documentary which dealt with the physical and emotional responses of some inhabitants of Leninakhan to the earthquake whichdevastated Armenia the previous December. When he heard the recording of the work that I made with the Holy Echmiadzin Chorus under the fervent conducting of Khoren Meykhanejian Alex Balanescu suggested turning Out of the Ruinsinto a string quartet. There seemed no reason or opportunity to do this until I felt the need to add to the intensity of my experiences in Armenia the no less profound experience of witnessing the images of the Romanianrevolution on television during the later part of December 1989.The compositional procedure was as follows: to take Out of the Ruins as a template on which the Romanian vocal or instrumental music would be superimposed quite often stretched into new intervallic shapes though the demands of the completely performed harmonic structure.

Commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts Limited with funds provided by the Arts Council of Wales for premiere in August 2012 by the Carducci String Quartet in St. Andrew?s Church Presteigne.Composer's Note'Some years ago I noted down the opening theme of what I anticipated would be a relatively Classical string quartet ?Classical? in the sense of the forms adopted plus perhaps a predominantly lyrical tone of voice. The commission for this work from the Presteigne Festival for their 30th anniversary in 2012 gave me the opportunity of putting into practice this long-held idea. It isdedicated to the Festival and to the Carducci Quartet whose career as much-admired friends and colleagues I have greatly enjoyed.The only break with ?classical? tradition is that there are five movements instead of four with two Scherzi as the second and third though both these are very short and contrasting. I found myself listening to Haydn?s string quartets a lot before and during the composition of this work and I hope the spirit of his delight in writing for this medium is echoed in my own music. The opening movement is in sonata form unusually for me and lyricism is I hope the basis of it though there is a good deal of activity at times. The Scherzo light and marked by frequently-changing rhythms is followed by an equally short but ferocious Perpetuum mobile marked Wild und rasch (one of my favourite German tempo markings). The fourth movement is an intense Adagio in which a single phrase uttered strongly in unison is gradually transformed into gentle diatonic chords before the close intermingled with cadenzas for cello for viola and for the two violins together. The finale (a Rondo) resumes the classical tone of the first movement but apart from one dance-like episode it builds up a fair head of steam towards a final Presto which however ascends slows and quietens towards a gentle summer sky at dusk.'

Instrumentalists will love this collection of Broadway classics, including: Any Dream Will Do - Cabaret - Defying Gravity - Do You Hear the People Sing? - Edelweiss - Getting to Know You - Guys and Dolls - Hello, Dolly! - I Dreamed a Dream - If I Were a Bell - Luck Be a Lady - Mame - The Music of the Night - Ol' Man River - People Will Say We're in Love - Seasons of Love - Send in the Clowns - The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Think of Me - Tomorrow - What I Did for Love - You'll Never Walk Alone - and many more. / Violoncelle

Par STORY MICHAEL. Movie Quartets for All is a versatile, educational, and fun series intended for like or mixed instruments to perform in any size group or combination of instruments. All books are in score format with each line increasing in difficulty from Grade 1 to Grade 3--4. Perfect for concerts with family and friends, recitals, auditions, and festivals. Available for brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion. Titles: Hedwig's Theme * Over the Rainbow * And All That Jazz * The Magnificent Seven * Theme from A Summer Place * Eye of the Tiger * There You'll Be * Blues in the Night * The Pink Panther * You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch * Parade of Charioteers * Hakuna Matata. / Ensemble Music, Miscellaneous, Scores / Recueil / Violoncelle et Contrebasse

Written for cello harp and celeste.Clear Music (after John Taverner) was written at the request of the cellist Wendy Law during the summer of 2002. Clear Music is an extended exploration of a single measure in John Taverner’s (1490 1545) motet Mater Christi Sanctissima. What I attempted to do in Clear Music was to suspend this measure for as long as I could imagine in a single texture: the bright clarity of the celeste and harp. As in the Taverner I have structured Clear Music into a series of peaks featuring the highest registers of the treble voice—here the cello. I remember very vividly performing this piece and being struck by how distant the treble was fromthe other voices - sometimes there are spaces of over an octave between the treble and the alto - and I attempted to recreate the somewhat terrifying and exposed contours of these lines. The end result is I hope a prolonged and transparent recollection of the Taverner which exposes not only my appreciation for the music itself but also my response to performing it.Nico Muhly.

Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA London 22nd October 1995. Programme note: SCHREIE UND MELANCHOLIE is dedicated to the Arditti Quartet and was commissioned with support from the Danish Arts Foundation. In the summer of 1993 I worked briefly on some sketches for a choral suite with texts by Georg Trakl. The project was abandoned but the moods from Trakl's poetry in which 'scream' and 'melancholy' are key words stuck in my mind when I began working on my fourth string quartet. This is music full of high siren-like wails and almost infinitely descending glissandi which permeate a landscape of warped tonalharmony. SCHREIE UND MELANCHOLIE is in four movements played attacca. The third movement is a barcarole - a memory of an autumn in Venice. (Bent Sørensen)

In the Summer of 2008, the long-awaited Indiana Jones And The Kingdon Of The Crystal Skull hit our cinemas. Filled with the intrigue and drama characteristic of all the classic Indiana Jones films, Harrison Ford once again reprised his role as our adventerous hero. This book includes selections from that film arranged for cello with a fully orchestrated CD accompaniment as well as a piano accompaniment part. The book contains a carefully edited part that is appropriate for the intermediate level player. The CD includes a demo track, which features a live instrumental performance, followed by the play-along track itself. Also included are eight pages of colour photographs from the movie.Raider's March; Marion's Theme; The Adventures Of Mutt; Irina's Theme; The Journey To Akator.

Par COATES ERIC. This edition of the most popular of Eric Coates' compostions was published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Includes the Dambuster's March and 'By the Sleep Lagoon' (the famous theme tune to Desert Island Discs). All the pieces are arranged for Piano Solo, except for Bird Songs At Eventide, I Heard You Singing, I Pitch My Lonely Caravan At Night, Star Of God and The Green Hills O'Somerset , which are arranged for Voice and Piano accompaniment. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

The 'dumka? is a Slavic folk song or dance of a melancholy character. Dvorák's magnum opus in the piano trio genre takes its name from its 'dumka? movements, which he composed in Prague in 1890-91. After long hesitation Dvorák also prepared a piano reduction while he was in the United States in the summer of 1893. The previous year he had played the work on a forty-concert farewell tour of Bohemia with Ferdinand Lachner and Hans Wihan. / Violon, Violoncelle Et Piano

26 pieces for cello players with audio CD. Par COLLEDGE HUGH / COLLEDGE KATHERINE. La collection Easy String Music de Boosey and Hawkes, dirigée et composée par Katherine et Hugh Colledge, compte quatre volumes d'un répertoire pour cordes destiné aux instrumentistes débutants et en cours d'apprentissage. Ces titres sont très appréciés des professeurs comme de leurs étudiants en raison de leurs vertus pédagogiques : ils introduisent des techniques nouvelles et proposent doigtés, notes et rythmes conçus pour acquérir la maîtrise nécessaire et poser des fondations solides en vue de la suite de l'apprentissage. Chaque titre est disponible en deux versions : l'une est fournie avec un CD de démonstration et de pistes audio d'accompagnement - l'autre comprend un livret d'accompagnement au piano et l'accès à des ressources audio téléchargeables. Les 26 morceaux de Waggon Wheels constituent le deuxième volume de la série. À l'aide d'une musique simple, l'usage des troisième et quatrième doigts ainsi que du lié de l'archet seront exercés lors de l'étude de ces morceaux. / Niveau : Très facile / Recueil / Violoncelle