Composed in 1917 for viola, string quartet and string orchestra, and first performed that year at the Mons Memorial Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. The work is inscribed to the memory of Francis Purcell Warren, a fellow-student of the composer at the Royal College of Music in the years of the First World War. He was a Viola Scholar, and composer - and also one of the circle of young musicians that included Ivor Gurney, Eugene Goossens, Arthur Benjamin, Arthur Bliss and Howells himself - all fellow-students at one time. Purcell Warren was killed in the 1914-1918 War, and this Elegy was composed soon after his death.Full score and orchestral parts available on hire. / Alto Et Quatuor A Cordes

Corpus Christi With Cat And Mouse is a setting of fragments selected from the Richard Hill Commonplace Book an early 16th century manuscript in the library of Balliol College Oxford. Commissioned by the Master andFellows of Balliol College to commemorate the centenary of the death of Benjamin Jowett Master of Balliol 1870-1893 this work was first performed by the Chapel Choir of Balliol College conducted by Mark Dawes in November1993.For unaccompanied SATB choir. This vocal score includes a piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes.

The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey and Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others.Carefully selected by Iain Farrington, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 3 pianist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:a diverse collection of pieces, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tipgrade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercisesbrand new sight-reading and improvisation activitiesnewly-commissioned aural awareness tasksPackaged with a CD of full performance demonstrations and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.Iain Farrington has an exceptionally busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He has performed across the world, notably at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, and has worked with many leading musicians, including Bryn Terfel and Sir Paul McCartney. As a composer, Iain's music has been performed, recorded and broadcast worldwide, and his wide-ranging catalogue of arrangements receives regular international performances. / Piano

A Shepherd's Carol was written for a BBC feature programme, Poet's Christmas , produced by Edward Sackville-West. It was broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1944, by the BBC Home Service, sung by the BBC Singers and conducted by Leslie Woodgate. The chorus is one of the two portions set by Britten of W.H.Auden's A Christmas Oratorio , the complete text of which was later published as For the Time Being . It was withdrawn by the composer after the first performance, not to be heard again until 1961. / Choeur SATB

Le titre peut être interprété comme une indication de la clé et le genre, d'une part, mais aussi comme une allusion à une humeur dépressive légèrement, d'autre part. Sonate pour piano de Mozart en la mineur, qui peuvent avoir été créées dans la rue parisienne mentionné dans le sous-titre sert pratiquement comme toile de fond pour ce petit, morceau de piano mais un peu délicat. Il n'y a pas de citations directes, mais l'accord dissonant de la barre 2 de la sonate en la mineur plane dans l'arrière-plan. Mosaic-like, légèrement tamponné éléments sonores sont régulièrement interrompues par de brèves, des temps forts. Artistes ambitieux qui veulent explorer de nouvelles techniques de jeu seront apprécier ce morceau autant que le public. / Piano / 8 pages / niveau : Avancé / Partition

Franco-algérien fingerstyle guitariste Pierre Bensusan est un talent unique. Son sound et le style confond classification, être profondément originale et encore familier et expressif. Son empreinte est sur elle que ce soit son folk antérieure et axée sur le Celtic rendus, son matériau improvisation de forme libre, ou dans les paramètres, en solo ou ensemble. Sans aucun doute, il est un des meilleurs joueurs de DADGAD du monde. Sa musique atteint bien au-delà de l'idiome d'une guitare jouée dans un réglage atypique, vivant par la raison d'être que la musique n'est pas faite pour un instrument spécifique, mais sur les ingrédients musicaux et comment vous les combinez. Dans cette deuxième leçon de DVD, Pierre présente sept pièces plus qui caractérise son incroyable talent et style comme il explore les techniques et les compétences nécessaires pour jouer, tout en permettant aussi un aperçu perspicace dans l'esprit de l'un des guitaristes de grands du monde. / Guitare

This well-known collection of 21 arias, some including recitatives, is an ideal introduction to singing in Italian, as well as providing useful material for the advanced performer. The set contains a varied selection of operatic arias, movements from solo cantatas, and songs. / Voix Haute(s)

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. The opera – “a kind of Alice in Wonderland, but for adults”, says Crimp – lasts just over an hour and is cast in seven scenes. It is scored for five voices (S-S-MS-CT-Bar) and twenty-two instrumentalists. It premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2023, conducted by the composer. Picture a day like this is a bittersweet fable of grief and renewal. Benjamin and Crimp tell the story of a Woman who has lost her child: if, before nightfall, she meets one truly happy person and cuts a button from their sleeve, her child will live again. In her search she meets a pair of lovers, a Composer and their Assistant, an Artisan, Collector, and, in a beautiful garden, the mysterious Zabelle. This limited edition of the full score is one of only one hundred and fifty, presented in a cloth-bound hard cover. It is signed by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp and includes facsimile reproductions of pages from the manuscript and Benjamin’s sketches, and a photograph of Benjamin, Crimp and directors Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma in rehearsal at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. ‘Benjamin proves with this taut, sharp miniature that he is the finest opera composer of today…a work of depth of feeling, humanistic artistry and expressive rigor…a drama that is miraculously condensed.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung (Reinhard J. Brembeck) 9 July 2023 ‘…spare, haunting, immediate…a fable of loss and anguish for our times… The whole has the slick perfection of a piece crafted specifically for exceptional performers…the score [is] deft and restrained, its occasional outbursts of passion all the more intense for the careful control of the rest…There is a ritualistic slowness to the movement, resembling an underwater memory or the trance-like dullness of bereavement…For Zabelle’s enchanted garden, video artist Hicham Berrada has created an ambivalent scene of blossoming chemical reactions — toxic and vibrant, sinister and fascinating…It is fiendishly clever…. [the opera] tackles huge subjects with daring economy of means…Its impact is unsettling...For all its beguiling beauty, its moments of dark wit and bitter social observation, Picture remains a voyage beyond all comfort zones.’ Financial Times (Shirley Apthorp) 7 July 2023 / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Choeur et Orchestre

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Dedicated to the memory of Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin?s 2021 Concerto for Orchestra premiered at the BBC proms by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Benjamin said that the piece attempts ?to conjure a trace of the energy, humour, and spirit? of Knussen. It is varied and dynamic across its unbroken 18-minute span ? skittish lines play against still, suspended ones ? and full of star turns for its various instrumental protagonists. Available here as a full score. Parts available to hire from September 2022. ?A terrific 18-minute tour de force, clearly inspired by the virtuosity of the Mahler CO players, but far from being merely a glittering showcase.? The Times (Richard Morrison), August 2021 / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Opera in Seven Scenes. Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. Playwright Martin Crimp’s text for the opera is a bittersweet fable on grief and renewal. It tells the story of a Woman (mezzosoprano) who has lost her child; if she can meet one truly happy person before nightfall, they will return to life. In her search, across seven scenes, she meets a pair of lovers, a Composer and their assistant, an Artisan, Collector, and the mysterious Zabelle. Crimp’s text is both lyrical and immediate, matching the precision and intensity of Benjamin’s music. Picture a day like this premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2023; the 60-minute work is scored for five voices (S-S-MS-Ct-Bar) and twenty-two instrumentalists. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Livre / Choeur Mixte et Ensemble

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human affection inside the dangerous machinery of power.  A king, compelled to choose between love and political hard-headedness, makes a fatal decision, allowing his country to slide into civil war, and setting his own wife and son implacably against him.  Lessons in Love and Violence is Benjamin and Crimp?s third operatic collaboration, following Into the Little Hill and the critically acclaimed Written on Skin. This first edition vocal score is for soloists and piano reduction. / Vocal Music / Répertoire / Voix Mixtes et Piano

Par BIOLAY BENJAMIN. Premier et très attendu Best Of de partitions de Benjamin Biolay. Au total, 21 chansons réunies dans ce songbook glanées parmi les plus emblématiques et couvrant ses presque 20 années de carrière. Un recueil de partitions validées par l'artiste pour piano, chant, guitare tablatures des principaux motifs et diagrammes d'accords guitare personnalisés. Un songbook broché, imprimé sur papier ivoire anti-reflets de qualité supérieure, idéal pour la lecture du musicien. À l'occasion du spectacle de Benjamin Biolay et Melvil Poupaud intitulé 'Songbook?, publier le premier et unique recueil de partitions jamais réalisé de cet artiste s'imposait incontestablement. Cette publication est un évènement dans le monde de l'édition musicale puisque, depuis ses débuts en 2000 avec le titre 'Jardin d'hiver? composé pour Henri Salvador, Benjamin Biolay a publié 8 albums studio et à composé pour de nombreux artistes comme Keren Ann, Raphaël, Elodie Frégé ou encore Vanessa Paradis et aucun songbook n'avait encore été réalisé. C'est à présent chose faite !!/ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare