For open-minded teachers and inquisitive kidsThese piano miniatures are a distinctive and unusual addition to the teaching literature - genre paintings in contrasting styles with musical wit and inventive sounds and rhythms. They offer glimpses into the musical cultures of different countries ('Hunting in Hungary, Gamelan, Balkan Dance, African Games?) and music history ('Medieval Feast for the Left-Handers?).Besides training finger technique, the pieces help students to think in terms of counterpoint and to develop an expressive delivery.Peter Graham (actually Jaroslav ?tastný, b. 1952) teaches composition at the Janácek Academy of Arts in Brno.- Miniature recital pieces for piano with amusing illustrations by Andrea Tachezy- A welcome addition to the piano teaching literature- Simple and entertaining genre paintings- Easy to moderate level of difficulty / Piano

Harmonische Fantasie über ein Thema von Tallis. Par KNOX GARTH. Thomas Tallis (1505–1585) was one of the great figures of English Renaissance music and the Third mode melody is probably his best known work, largely thanks to Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. In the manner of an illuminated manuscript, I wanted to illuminate this fascinating theme in three ways: from behind with medieval techniques like the ‘hoquetus’ passage of the opening or the dance at letter B, from in front with more contemporary sounds (letter A and similar), and from above with the extensive use of high harmonics. Almost all the notes of the theme fall very neatly on the ‘natural’ harmonics of the viola strings, and my ambition was to combine the ‘normal’ notes of the viola with its soaring harmonics, creating a rich luminous soundscape which reflects the spirituality of the theme. Tallis’s melody returns repeatedly to the note B, and I interpreted this as a gentle invitation to simply be, in the sense of quiet moments of mediation. I decided to include a series of still points in the piece: the first one is in silence, the second reveals a note (B) that oscillates in a harmonic heartbeat, the third is a vibrating chord of B with harmonics, and on the last one the second viola tunes down the C string to B, then explores all the natural harmonics of this new world. The term still point is of course a reference to the words of T.S. Eliot in his Four Quartets: 'At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.' (Garth Knox) / Date parution : 2024-01-06/ Répertoire / 2 Altos

Work for Solo Percussion dating from 1983. Ruders writes: The extraordinary title is a typical example of Poul Ruder’s (b. 1949) peculiar and bizarre sense of humour - Ruders together with Hans Abrahamsen and Bo Holten being one of the most important names within new Danish music after the Nørgård-Holmgreen-Nørholm generation. Although Ruders is influenced by Holmgreen’s absurd simplicity he takes up an original place in new Danish music to which he has conveyed humour and liveliness as well as theatre and virtuosity. Quotations ‘found objects’ play an important part in Ruders’ music for instance in his chamber work MEDIEVAL VARIATIONS (1974) but the old material isbeing varied with adequate audacity and liveliness so as to yield new qualities not unlike Peter Maxwell Davies’ ’music on music’. ALARM is ‘a short shocker a kind of film soundtrack without the pictures’ based on the horror in victor Hugo’s THE BELL RINGER OF NOTRE DAME. To produce the right atmosphere of uneasiness and nervousness Ruders uses among other things the Balinese cymbal-machine ‘ching-ching’ and the snore of the ‘didjeridoo’ from Australia.

Seks Danske Korsange-The songs in this choral collection from 1991 when Nørgård was honoured as Choral Composer of the Year (by the Danish Amateur Choral Association) are composed so that can be performed for equal voices (SSA) or for mixed choir (SSATB) - and combined ad lib. (fx one verse SSA another SSATB).Choral songs no. 2 3 4 are also available separately in English versions (The Year Steep is the path Freezing Nights).1.DU SKAL PLANTE ET TRÆ (Piet Hein)2.ÅRET (Ole Sarvig)3.VÆLDIG ER JORDENS VEJ (Ole Sarvig)4.KOLDE NÆTTER (Nis Petersen)5.STJENESPEJL (Ib Michael)6 a.FLOS UT ROSA FLORUIT (anon. latin medieval)6 b.BLOMSTBRØD UD I ROSENFLOR (freetranslation by Ole Sarvig)

. . . for Choirs Collections. Par ARCHER MALCOLM / CLEOBURY STEPHEN. Cette collection unique d'approches à nouveau l'Avent, réunissant 52 pièces belles et accessibles qui couvrent toute la gamme des périodes, des styles et des traditions. Advent des chorales est la ressource parfaite musicale et liturgique pour tous les église, cathédrale, et des chorales de concert et inclut de nouveaux paramètres d'approche, de la musique injustement négligé, et ne travaille pas facilement disponibles ailleurs. Malcolm Archer a été instruit à l'école King Edward VII, Lytham, le Royal College of Music, et Jesus College de Cambridge, où il a été chercheur d'organes. Il a étudié l'orgue avec Ralph Downes, Gillian Weir et Nicolas Kynaston, et la composition avec Herbert Sumsion et Alan Ridout. Il est un compositeur prolifique avec plus de 200 ouvrages publiés, qui reçoivent régulièrement des spectacles sur la BBC radio et de télévision. Archer était auparavant organiste et directeur de musique à la cathédrale St Paul et est maintenant directeur de la musique chapelle à Winchester College. Stephen Cleobury est un organiste et chef d'orchestre anglais. Il a été chercheur d'orgue au Collège St-Jean, à Cambridge et sous-organiste de l'abbaye de Westminster, avant de devenir maître de musique à la cathédrale de Westminster en 1979. En 1982, il a pris le poste de Directeur de la Musique de la Chorale du Collège King, Cambridge, où il enseigne également la musique. Il a été chef d'orchestre de Cambridge University Musical Society depuis 1983, et a été chef principal de la BBC Singers de 1995 à 2007, et chef lauréat de 2007./ Recueil / Chant