The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the English composer Richard Rodney Bennett . With notes by Anthony Meredith. / Piano

Not for sale in North America-This CD is one of several supporting the AB Real Book. It contains 15 Real Book tunes for Jazz Trombone Level/Grade 4 in the form of full performances and 'minus-one' backing-tracks.

Some of the most beautiful and diverse pieces by some of the finest composers in recent history are included in this enormous Library Of Modern Piano Music. Such a comprehensive collection of brilliant works for solo Piano belies the rich quality and sheer amount of music being composed that just begs to be learned. Over 100 fantastic pieces are guaranteed to keep you learning from this truly classic selection until the next century!The Library Of Modern Piano Music boasts an unprecedented volume and variety of amazing compositions, some well-known, some more unfamiliar, some composed as standalone pieces and others as film scores, but the one thing uniting them all is their impeccable musicality and how enjoyable they are to play. Featuring the biggest names in contemporary classical music, composers like Einaudi lend their wonderful compositions (Primavera, Una Mattina), and all-round geniuses like Philip Glass are represented with a generous selection of their finest work (Metamorphosis Five, Opening Piece From Glassworks and more).The varied progression of Piano music through the 20th century to the present day has given rise to an exceptionally vast and diverse repertoire. The unbelievable depth of the composers included here means you'll rarely be stuck for something to play. Kaija Saariaho, Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Dustin O'Halloran, Nico Muhly and Witold Lutoslawski are genuinely just a fraction of the composers featured in The Library Of Modern Piano Music. Some great standalone compositions like Samuel Barber's incomparable Adagio For Strings sit aside excerpts from longer works like a portion of Edward Gregson's An Album For My Friends or Joby Talbot's Once Around The Sun.If you happen to be a fan of film and television scores, a taste of Michael Nyman's distinguished score for The Piano is included, a section from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as parts of Richard Rodney Bennett's score for the now rarely-seen but superb 1980s miniseries of Tender Is The Night. Many established composers are included in this collection who are widely-recognised as masters. However, The Library Of Modern Piano Music also includes many young virtuosos who have not yet achieved that status but are certainly well on their way.These original compositions span standalone pieces, albums, suites and arrangements from diverse talents, making The Library Of Modern Piano Music a collection that is certain to be seen by future generations as a perfect collection of the best of contemporary classical music. / Piano

Bridges: A Comprehensive Guitar Series serves as the official resource for guitar assessments of the Royal Conservatory Music Development Program. Innovative in its structure, Bridges supports students from the beginner to advanced levels with carefully sequenced repertoire, etudes, and technique. Each of the Repertoire and Etudes books in the series spans all major style periods and a variety of genres, presenting an organized compilation of pieces appropriate for that level of technical development. Nine progressive levels of Repertoire and Etudes scaffold student learning at every stage of musical development. Each book contains a balanced and representative selection of works from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and contemporary style periods. From the classics of Aguado to the modern compositions of Zenamon, Bridges connects students to both essential literature and enticing masterpieces never before found together. The Etudes have been carefully selected to support the repertoire and isolate specific technical and musical challenges, making Bridges an ideal collection and a comprehensive teaching resource. / Guitare

This collection of West End Love Songs compiles into one volume thirty-four of the best and most romantic songs from the successful London stage musicals. All songs are arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar with full lyrics and chord symbols. The musicals of the West End have told innumerable romantic stories and regaled us with tales of countless lovers, either happy or heartbreaking. The memorable songs that speak to us emotionally in a way that few other songs do are all collected here so that you can learn them exactly the way you heard them in your favourite West End shows. From Les Misérables to Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera to Mamma Mia!, the best in West End Love Songs are included here for you to learn.Arranged from the original cast recordings for Piano, Voice and Guitar, complete with lyrics and chord symbols, immortal love songs like Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, I Don't Know How To Love Him, Honeysuckle Rose and Some Enchanted Evening are included. If you enjoy musical theatre, and especially those romance-infused showstoppers that bring the audience to floods of tears, then this sheet music song book is for you. As an added bonus, this series has been specially bound so that the pages lie flat when you are playing making it easier to read and play from, so when you get caught up in the moment you won't be dealing with the book closing itself!For a timeless collection of the best love songs from the cream of West End shows throughout the years, you can do no better than this excellent sheet music song book. You'll soon be belting out the ballads and tinkling away over the tear-jerking tunes, playing these sometimes heartbreaking but always heartfelt compositions from the best collection of West End Love Songs available. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

The Boosey and Hawkes Concerts for Choirs series is an innovative approach to concert planning for choirs. Each volume contains a wealth of material to help the choral director assemble a concert programme - all from one volume. The anthology draws on the vast Boosey and Hawkes archive and also includes many specially-composed or newly-arranged pieces.'Christmas in Blue' is a collection of familiar and not-so-familiar festive songs brought together by Nigel Short, former member of the King's Singers and conductor of Tenebrae. His own new arrangements join those by Christopher Norton (Microjazz), Karl Jenkins, Will Todd, Goff Richards, Carol Canning (a former member of the Swingle Singers) and Ward Swingle himself. / Choeur Mixte A Cappella

Real Easy Book 2 - Bb Version. Following on from the great success of The Real Easy Book Volume 1, The Real Easy Book Volume 2 is perfect for students with a few years of playing experience, right up to working professionals. From jazz classics like Four, Scrapple From The Apple, and Dear Old Stockholm to contemporary tunes like George Benson's Mimosa and Donald Fagen's Walk Between Raindrops this selection of songs will keep you and your audience smiling. The Real Easy Book Volume 2 will save band directors countless hours of writing out scales for soloing, chord voicings, Guitar diagrams and Bass lines - they are all included with each tune. The educational material in this book has been developed in conjunction with Stanford Jazz Workshop. It works.

Contents : Verdi: Rittorna vincitor! (Aida) - Oh patria mia (Aida) - Tu che le vanita (Don Carlo) - Ernani, involami (Ernani) - Madre, pietosa Vergine (La Forza del Destino) - Pace, pace Mio Dio (La Forza del Destino) - Salce, Salce and Ave Maria (Otello) - Come in quest' ora bruna (Simon Boccanegra) - Tacea la Notte placida (Il Trovatore) - D'amor sull'ali rosee (Il Trovatore) - Gluck: Divinites du Styx (Alceste) - Smetana: Marenka's Aria (The Bartered Bride) - Puccini: Mi chiamano Mimì (La Bohème) - In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut) - Bizet: Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante (Carmen) - Massenet: Pleurez! pleurez, mes yeux! (Le Cid) - Il est doux, il est bon (Herodiade) - Obeissons quand leur voix appelle (Manon) - Offenbach: Elle a fui, la tourterelle (Les Contes D'Hoffmann) - Mozart: Come scoglio (Così fan tutte) - Non mi dir (Don Giovanni) - Deh vieni, non tardar (Le Nozze di Figaro) - Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro (Le Nozze di Figaro) - Ach, ich fühl's (Die Zauberflöte) - Tchaikovsky: Tatiana's Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin) - Gounod: The King of Thule and the Jewel Song (Faust) - Beethoven: Abscheulicher! wo eilst du hin' (Fidelio) - J. Strauss: Klange der Heimat (Die Fledermaus) - Mein Herr Marquis (Adele's Laughing Song) (Die Fledermaus) - Wagner: Traft ihr das Schiff' (Der Fliegender Hollander) - Einsam in truben Tagen (Lohengrin) - Euch Luften (Lohengrin) - Dich, theure Halle (Tannhäuser) - Allmacht'ge Jungfrau (Tannhäuser) - Mild und leise (Tristan und Isolde) - Der Manner Sippe (Die Walkure) - C.M. von Weber: Und ob die Wolke (Der Freischütz) - Wie nahte mir der Schlummer (Der Freischütz) - Ozean! du Ungeheuer (Oberon) - Meyerbeer: Parmi les pleurs (Les Huguenots) - Leoncavallo: Stridono lassu (Pagliacci) - Monsigny: Il regardait mon bouquet (Le Roi et le Fermier).

Arrangement: Harris Richard. Par HARRIS RICHARD. Play Christmas contains ten festive favourites arranged by Richard Harris for Flute solo. Each book contains instrument solo with CD backing and Piano accompaniment. A wide range of tunes from pop hits (Last Christmas, Do They Know It's Christmas) to seasonal standards (Jingle Bells, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer), all carefully arranged for the intermediate Flute player (grades 3-5), with fun backing tracks and piano accompaniments to print from the enhanced CD./ Recueil / Flûte Traversière et Piano

Based on the legend of Tristan and Isolda Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' has long been acknowledged as the beginning of musical modernism. It is said that the entire opera is an attempt to resolve the tension setestablished in the first eight bars. In the story Isolde plots to kill Tristan the man who is taking her to be betrothed to King Marke of Cornwall. She deeply resents him as she had nursed him back to health after abattle only to find he was the slayer of her fiancé Morold. Isolde asks her companion Brangäne to prepare a potion that will cause death but instead she brews a love-potion. Both drink it and fall hopelessly for each other. Theycontinue their affair when they reach Cornwall but are spied on by Mark?s man Melot who wounds Tristan. Tended by Kurwenal he holds onto life just long enough for Isolde to reach him then falls and dies. As Isolde standsstricken by grief Marke and Melot arrive to pardon the lovers but Kurwenal does not believe this kills Melot and is himself killed. Isolde feels Tristan calling to her from the ?realm of night? and even as Brangäne tries topersuade her to live falls dead next to him.

Ten popular stage hits for young performers, perfect for auditions, arranged and recorded in the most suitable keys for young voices. No more searching for an accompanist - the audio CD provides professional quality 'soundalike' backing tracks! Music specially arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

This songbook contains the lyrics for 16 stage hits and includes 2 CDs with backing tracks. All the words to every song are included, the only thing that's missing is you! So, choose your favourite backing tracks and start singing like the stars. / Ligne Mélodique Uniquement