Beer-Demander, V.. Par TARREGA FRANCISCO. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Mandoline et Piano

Par TOSTI FRANCESCO PAOLO. This unique and exciting series gives you the chance to learn some of the greatest songs of Francesco Tosti with full orchestral backing tracks. 10 operatic showstoppers have been selected including Aprile, La Serenata and L'Ultima Canzone, presented in full notation with concert accompaniments for Piano. Furthermore, a professionally recorded CD is included that features the full-scale orchestral arrangement of each aria so you can experience the power and magic of a grand-scale performance. There's even a version of each featuring an established singer so you can hear the piece in full. An excellent rehearsal tool, or the ideal way to introduceyour voice to the wonders and rigors of the Opera./ Recueil / Chant et Piano

Serenata Notturna by Edward Gregson was first performed by Helena Smart (violin) and Caroline Jaya-Ratnam (piano) at the String Final of BBC Young Musicians 2000 Royal Northem College of Music Manchester 23 February 2000.'As the title suggests my Serenata Notturna evokes the atmosphere of night music. Following a reflective opening where the pitch development outlines a twelve-note series the music gradually becomes more agitated developing into a kind of danse macabre eventually reaching a powerful climax. The music then subsides into a much more tranquil atmosphere and the previous dissonant material transposes itself into a simple melody(like a lullaby) uttered by the violin the outline of which both melodically and in terms of the accompaniment figuration has already been present in the piece since the beginning. Thus the turmoil of the first part of the work becomes transfigured into something much more peaceful - hence the quotation that prefaces the score: ?out of darkness cometh light?. After I finished the work it became apparent to me that it might become the sketch for the slow movement of a Violin Concerto on which I had just begun working. It did indeed form the basis of that slow movement and the concerto was premiered by Lyn Fletcher and the Halle Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano at Bridgewater Hall Manchester in February 2000 the same month as Serenata Notturna itself was first played in public.'Edward Gregson

Par BUSONI FERRUCCIO. Busoni was just sixteen years old when he wrote the extraordinary Serenata, and the quality of the music is exceptional. The work draws inspiration from the serenade as love song, and the interplay between the warm, lyrical cello line countered by its bright and lively piano partner is highly effective. In preparing this new addition, cellist Lowrii Blake has consulted the original manuscript of this undeservedly neglected work. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Busoni was just sixteen years old when he wrote the extraordinary Serenata, and the quality of the music is exceptional. The work draws inspiration from the serenade as love song, and the interplay between the warm, lyrical cello line countered by its bright and lively piano partner is highly effective. In preparing this new addition, cellist Lowrii Blake has consulted the original manuscript of this undeservedly neglected work.

Une superbe édition de quarante des plus importants piano solos ayant marqué la musique de l'Espagne des XIXème et XXème siècles. Treize compositeurs sont représentés dont Manuel De Falla, Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados et Joaquin Rodrigo. / Piano

Easier Piano Pieces 55-Of Polish origin Moritz Moszkowski was a celebrated pianist and teacher during the last twenty years of the 19th century. Paderewski said of him that his piano music embraced the whole gamut of piano technique and that his works were perfect from a pianistic and pedagogic point of view. This is a selection of some of his easier piano pieces