John Thompson?s Easiest Piano Course-Featuring 11 easy arrangements for 1 piano 4 hands this book is a fun and engaging introduction to piano duets that perfectly complements Books 2?4 of John Thompson?s Easiest Piano Course. Children will love learning classical favourites such as In the Hall of the Mountain King Ode to Joy and The Swan within the rewarding and interactive context of duet playing. First Published in 1954 John Thompson?s Easiest Piano Course is one of the most-loved and best-selling piano methods in the world. John Thompson?s timeless approach to learning has been trusted by generations of teachers to start millions of students on their musical journey.

Piano Solos For All Seasons brings the intermediate pianist over 40 exciting pieces to play whatever the time of year! This collection of solos inspired by the seasons includes music from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Debussy's Children's Corner and Handel's Messiah.

Niveau : Version facile / Contenu : Bach : Air BWV 1068 (Suite n°3) Hirtenmusik BWV 248 Corelli : Pastorale Gounod : Ave Maria Haendel : Halleluja (Messie) Largo (Xerxès) Manfredini : Weihnachtskonzert Mozart : Ave Verum Corpus KV 618 Schubert : Ave Maria Vivaldi : Largo (L?Hiver)

Italian-born composer Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) composed a diversity of music from church music and oratorios to solo cantatas duets and sonatas. Benedetto was a younger contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi and his music can be easily recognised as having a ‘Vivaldian flavour’.Available here is one his first compositions for solo Cello and Continuo the Sonata in F Op.2 No.1 realised here with a Piano accompaniment. This edition has been edited by Walter Schulz and Eberhard Wenzel.

Ed. critica M. Talbot - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di A. Frigé-The Dixit Dominus RV 595 shares a key and some further characteristics with the better-known setting of the same psalm RV 594 but differs from it markedly: first in being scored for an undivided ensemble (i.e. not ?in due cori?): second in belonging to Vivaldi?s first period of sacred music composition around 1715 rather than to a later period. There are stylistic parallels too with Vivaldi?s two Gloria settings RV 588 and RV 589. Three of the eleven movements making up RV 595 use borrowed material which in two instances is taken from movements by unknown composers in Vivaldi?s own collection and in one instance (heavily disguised) from a published madrigal(1705) by Antonio Lotti. The borrowings are absorbed extremely well into the fabric of the setting and do not disrupt its well-unified character. Among the high points of RV 595 are its opening pair of moments ? the first bustling and the second poignantly reflective ? and the fourth movement ?Tecum principium? where two obbligato cellos enter into dialogue with two sopranos. This Dixit Dominus preserved uniquely in Prague ranks among Vivaldi?s finest large-scale sacred vocal compositions. The Introduction and Critical Commentary for this vocal score are based on the Critical Edition by Michael Talbot published in 1993.

La collection ANACROUSE offre aux pianistes novices et confirmés un large choix d'oeuvres classiques, allant de la Renaissance à l'époque moderne.Proposer tout à la fois des 'incontournables' du répertoire classique et des pièces de compositeurs parfois oubliés, toutes d'une valeur pédagogique indéniable, tels sont les objectifs que nous nous sommes fixés. Chaque pièce, vendue à l'unité, a fait l'objet d'un travail éditorial attentif, tant sur le plan de l'établissement du texte musical que de sa gravure, afin de garantir aux musiciens les conditions indispensables aux plaisirs tirés du commerce fréquent de ces oeuvres.Les partitions sont proposées sous la forme d'ouvrages traditionnels (feuillets papier), et disponibles également par téléchargement.Les quatre saisons (opus 8, #1-4) est un ensemble de quatre concertos pour violon soliste et orchestre de chambre à cordes, composé par Antonio Vivaldi, et qui ouvre le recueil La bataille entre l'harmonie et l'invention. Bien qu'édité en 1725 à Amsterdam, la composition de ces quatre concertos est certainement antérieure de quelques années.Cette oeuvre est l'une des plus représentative du genre Concerto, c'est aussi certainement la composition la plus connue d'Antonio Vivaldi. Le printemps est le nom que porte le concerto #1 en mi majeur (op. 8, RV 269). Il est se compose de trois mouvements : Allegro, Largo, Allegro.Son introduction, comme le troisième mouvement de l'oeuvre (L'Eté), sont les passages les plus célèbres de cet opus.Sur la partition, le compositeur précise les correspondances avec les poèmes, il va même jusqu'à expliciter certains détails (aboiements de chien, noms d'oiseaux : coucou, tourterelle, pinson...). L'ensemble de l'oeuvre est accompagnée de quatre sonnets décrivant le déroulement des saisons. Voici celui du Printemps :AllegroVoici le Printemps,Que les oiseaux saluent d'un chant joyeux.Et les fontaines, au souffle des zéphyrs,Jaillissent en un doux murmure.Ils viennent, couvrant l'air d'un manteau noir,Le tonnerre et l'éclair messagers de l'orage.Enfin, le calme revenu, les oisillonsReprennent leur chant mélodieux.LargoEt sur le pré fleuri et tendre,Au doux murmure du feuillage et des herbes,Dort le chevrier, son chien fidèle à ses pieds.AllegroAu son festif de la musetteDansent les nymphes et les bergers,Sous le brillant firmament du printemps. / Piano Solo

The Schott Violin Library contains eleven varied Baroque sonatas for violin and basso continuo. Including both popular sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel and Telemann and lesser known, charming compositions by Dall? Abaco, Pepusch and Finger. Suitable for violinists of intermediate standard. Some of these works can be played entirely in first position, others require only a few position changes and the sonatas by Dall?Abaco, Kirchhoff, Vivaldi and Handel require more fluent shifts between the first three positions. / Violon Et Basse Continue

Opere incomplete Ed. critica e ricostruzione di M. Talbot-Critical edition by Michael Talbot. The vast majority of violin sonatas from Vivaldi?s time including those of Vivaldi himself have come down to us in the form of a score employing two staves: one for violin and one for bass. This guarantees that although portions of the work may be missing what survives is textually complete. Exceptionally five of Vivaldi?s violin sonatas are preserved solely in a partbook for violin held by the Diözesanarchiv Graz the complementary part for cello having disappeared. The sonatas appear to date from the period between the Dresden group (1716-1717) and the Manchester set (c. 1726). Three of the sonatas which all have four movements possess partial concordances in other sources with which they share two or three movements but two of them ? RV 11 and RV 37 ? have so far been found only in Graz (with the exception of an incipit for RV 11 found in a contemporary thematic catalogue). This critical edition makes these two works available for study and performance. The bass part is an editorial reconstruction and there is in addition a realization of the continuo by the editor.

One of the best-loved and most endearing works of the late Baroque Vivaldi's set of Violin Concertos The Four Seasons Op.8 are presented here in an authoritative Barenreiter Urtext edition. This publication of Vivaldi’s masterpiece is a critical performing edition of the Manchester manuscript source which originates from Vivaldi’s circle and represents an alternative (in many cases more explicit) version of these famous concertos than the first printed edition published by Le Cene in Amsterdam in 1725.The Manchester source has until now not been used as the primary basis for a modern performing edition andoffers new readings and evidence for players and listeners alike.With Christopher Hogwood’s new edition a fresh gust of wind has taken hold of The Four Seasons.

The ?Gloria? RV 589 is one of Vivaldi?s most popular compositions today and one of the most regularly performed sacred vocal works from the Baroque era. The work was in all probability composed around 1716 during Vivaldi?s time at the Ospedale della Piet an orphanage for girls in Venice. Although Vivaldi?s ?Gloria? (BA 8953) was written for solo voices and mixed choir it is likely that it was performed at the girls? orphanage with female voices only. Taking this into account Malcolm Bruno?s careful arrangement for choir SSAA is of some relevance. The work when set for female voices or children?s choir remains a true masterpiece.The ?Kyrie? RV 587 (BA8954)for two choirs and two string ensembles as arranged here for female choir displays its own charm. It can be performed together with the Gloria as a type of short mass.Both arrangements are based on the recently published Urtext editions of these works. The piano reductions by editor Malcolm Bruno are easy to play and preserve the character of the works.Effective arrangements for female choirForewords in English and GermanStraightforward idiomatic piano reductionsKyrie and Gloria can be combined for performanceThe orchestral parts for the original SATB version can be used for the performance of these arrangements.

One of the best-loved and most endearing works of the late Baroque Vivaldi's set of Violin Concertos The Four Seasons Op.8 are presented here in an authoritative Barenreiter Urtext edition. This publication of Vivaldi’s masterpiece is a critical performing edition of the Manchester manuscript source which originates from Vivaldi’s circle and represents an alternative (in many cases more explicit) version of these famous concertos than the first printed edition published by Le Cene in Amsterdam in 1725.The Manchester source has until now not been used as the primary basis for a modern performing edition andoffers new readings and evidence for players and listeners alike.With Christopher Hogwood’s new edition a fresh gust of wind has taken hold of The Four Seasons.

One of the best-loved and most endearing works of the late Baroque Vivaldi's set of Violin Concertos The Four Seasons Op.8 are presented here in an authoritative Barenreiter Urtext edition. This publication of Vivaldi’s masterpiece is a critical performing edition of the Manchester manuscript source which originates from Vivaldi’s circle and represents an alternative (in many cases more explicit) version of these famous concertos than the first printed edition published by Le Cene in Amsterdam in 1725.The Manchester source has until now not been used as the primary basis for a modern performing edition andoffers new readings and evidence for players and listeners alike.With Christopher Hogwood’s new edition a fresh gust of wind has taken hold of The Four Seasons.