Flute Quartet No.4 in D

SKU: BT.DHP-1196061-404

ISBN 9789043156110. English-German-French-Dutch.

The concept of the successful Swing Quartets, Jazz Quartets and Groove Quartets publications is now also available in a Christmas edition: Bert Lochs has arranged four traditional Christmas songs in a swing style with combo accompaniment. The Swingin' Christmas Quartets are available for trumpet, flute, clarinet and alto saxophone quartets, and all four versions can be combined to create whichever instrumentation you require. The online audio for each piece contains not only a demo version with a full line-up—and a pure playback version—but additionally four versions in which each of the four wind voices is omitted in turn, making them ideal forpractice purposes.

Het concept van de succesvolle uitgaven Swing Quartets, Jazz Quartets en Groove Quartets is nu ook toegepast op muziek voor Kerst: Bert Lochs heeft vier traditionele kerstliederen gearrangeerd in swingstijl met combobegeleiding. De Swingin' Christmas Quartets zijn verkrijgbaar voor trompet-, fluit-, klarinet- en altsaxofoonkwartet, en ze kunnen worden gecombineerd in elke samengestelde bezetting. De online audio bevat voor elk stuk niet alleen een volledige demoversie en een meespeelversie, maar ook vier opnamen waarin telkens een van de vier partijen is weggelaten: ideaal om mee te oefenen.

Das Konzept der erfolgreichen Ausgaben Swing Quartets, Jazz Quartets und Groove Quartets ist nun auch im weihnachtlichen Gewand verfügbar: Bert Lochs hat vier traditionelle Weihnachtslieder in einem swingenden Stil mit Combo-Begleitung arrangiert. Die Swingin' Christmas Quartets sind verfügbar für Trompeten-, Flöten-, Klarinetten- und Altsaxophonquartett, wobei alle vier Versionen beliebig miteinander kombinierbar sind. Im Online-Audioteil dieser Ausgabe gibt es nicht nur eine Demoversion in voller Besetzung und eine reine Playback-Version, sondern zusätzlich auch Tracks, bei denen je eine der vier Stimmen weggelassen ist, sodass diese zuÜbungszwecken dazu gespielt werden kann.

Le concept succès des Swing Quartets, Jazz Quartets et Groove Quartets se présente maintenant également en habits de Noël : Bert Lochs a arrangé quatre chants traditionnels de Noël dans un style swingué avec accompagnement de combo. Les Swingin' Christmas Quartets sont disponibles pour quatuors de trompettes, fl tes, clarinettes et saxophones altos, toutes les versions étant combinables entre elles. Dans la partie audio disponible en ligne de cette publication figurent non seulement une version de démonstration avec l’instrumentation complète et une version d’accompagnement, mais aussi quatre versions dans lesquelles chacune des quatre voix estsupprimée tour de rôle afin de permettre chaque instrumentiste de s’entraîner individuellement.

SKU: BT.EMBZ14973

English-German-Hungarian.

The volume contains selected transcriptions from well-known sets that Bartók wrote for children and young people: For Children, Children's and Female Choruses, 44 Duos and Mikrokosmos. Some are based on folk melodies and some on original themes. The volume consists of 16 pieces. In nine, the bottom part is set for alto flute. The collections serve to draw music students into the realm of a great genius of 20th-century music, while concurrently introducing them to the basic techniques of playing chamber music.

SKU: HL.14008374

ISBN 9781846096150. UPC: 884088435202. 8.25x11.75x0.105 inches.

The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel of the Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway, as part of the Olso Chamber Music Festival. Composer Note: The fourth Naxos quartet was written in January and February of 2004, with the intention of producing something lighter and much less fierce than its predecessor, an unpremeditated and spontaneous reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq. I returned to the well-known Brueghel picture of children's games (1560, now in Vienna), which had been the inspiration for my sixth Strathclyde Concerto, for flute and orchestra. These illustrations liberated my musical imagination, but I feel it would limit the listener's perception to be too specific about which game relates to exactly which section of the work. Suffice it to say that there is vigorous play - leap-frog, bind the devil with a cord, truss, wrestling - alongside quieter pastimes - masks, guess whom I shall choose, courting, odds and evens. The single movement juxtaposes these activities as abruptly and intimately as they occur in Brueghel. Rather as the eye is taken into different perspectives and proportions of scale within the picture, taking liberties which would never be present in, for instance, Brunelleschi architectural drawings, so here, with a constant sequence of transformation processes, I have distorted the neat, precise implications of modal progression, expressed in the unison opening phrase (from F to B through A sharp/B flat), so that the ear is led, en route, into the sound equivalents of strange passageways and closed rooms: sicut exposition ludus. As work on the quartet progressed I became aware that I was reading into, and behind the games, adult motives and implications, concerning aggression and war, with their consequences. It was impossible to escape into innocent childhood fantasy. The nature of the F to B progression underlying the whole construction derives from a passage in the development of the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony, and the opening of Schoenberg's Second String Quartet. However, unlike in these models, here a real - if temporary - sense of resolution occurs at the close of the quartet: as when the curtain falls on the reconciled Count and Countess in 'Figaro' one wonders how long the F/B truce will hold, and games break out again. The quartet is dedicated to Giuseppe Rebecchini, Roman architect, and friend since the nineteen-fifties.