Orchestra Trio Op. 1 No. 5

Popular classical and light music-Recapture the lost elegance of a bygone age with this wonderful collection of popular classics. Many of these charming pieces were firm favourites of bands and orchestras that once graced hotel lounges amd luxury liners the world over. In these new highly imaginative arrangements for Piano trio they will once again delight performers and audiences alike.

Morton Gould's Dialogues for Piano and String Orchestra. This work was commissioned by the Little Orchestra Society of New York. The first performance took place on November 3 1958 by the LittleOrchestra Society with Thomas Scherman as musical director and Morton Gould on Piano.Born in Richmond Hill New York on 10 December 1913 Morton Gould was recognised early on as a child prodigy with theability to improvise and compose. At the age of six he had his first composition published. He studied at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School) but his most important teachers were Abby Whiteside (Piano) andVincent Jones (composition).Gould enjoyed an illustrious career. In addition to gaining a Pulitzer Prize for 'Stringmusic' he was Musical America's 1994 Composer-of-the-Year and recieved a Kennedy Center Honor inrecognition of lifetime contributions to American culture.A long-time member of the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers Gould was elected president of ASCAP in 1986 a post he held until 1994.In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He also served on the board of the American Symphony Orchestra League and on the National Endowment for the Arts music panel.

For Violin Viola and Piano (Reduced from the orchestra version). Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on tothe next piece. This was particularly the case around the time of his Opus 1 Sinfonietta composed in the summer of 1932 his second year as a student at the Royal College Of Music.The Sinfonietta waswritten (in less than three weeks) very soon after Britten had completed the first draft of the Double Concerto; but after finishing the Sinfonietta he went back to revise the Concerto's second movement. He started workon his Op.2 Phantasy for Oboe and String Trio a few weeks later.Although the Concerto follows the same three-movement pattern as the Sinfonietta it is more ambitious in scale; and since the sketchis unusually for Britten complete in practically every detail it is puzzling that he never made a full score of the work after finishing the composition and seems to have made no attempt to get it performed. It is not clear ifhe had particular performers in mind (he was of course a Viola player although he is not likely to have intended the part for himself). He showed the work to his composition teacher at the college John Ireland who as Brittenrecorded in his diary was 'pretty pleased' with it; but it is distinctly possible that his experience in rehearsing the Sinfonietta with a student orchestra in 1932 ('I have never heard such an appalling row!' readsanother diary entry) discouraged him from going on to complete the Double Concerto in score. He was not to hear any of his orchestral works until the first performance of Our Hunting Fathers in 1936.In theabsence of Britten's full score it was necessary for me to prepare the work from the sketch. But the instrumentation is so carefully indicated in the draft that the resulting score is not far from being 100% Britten - only between

a minor op. 114-Johannes Brahms?s late chamber works are surely among the most splendid music ever written for the clarinet. In the last years of his life Brahms seems to have become weary of composing but fortunately for posterity in 1891 hemet the solo clarinettist of the Meiningen court orchestra Richard Mühlfeld whose mellifluous art of performance captivated him and inspired him to new works. The Trio op. 114 is melancholy and autumnal in character and isloved by all clarinettists. It is now available from Henle in a revised edition. Brahms?s manuscript of his op. 114 lies in Munich the home city of G. Henle Publishers. The musical text follows that of the New Brahms CompleteEdition and thus guarantees the highest degree of precision and reflects the current state of research. The pianist Klaus Schilde has added valuable fingerings to this Urtext edition.

The virtuosic double concerto Concerto for Violin Horn and Orchestra follows the traditional concerto three-movement form I Allegro moderato II Elegy (In Memoriam) and III Presto. The sheet music includes alternate parts forViola or Cello with Piano accompaniment.Composer Ethel Smyth was a prolific composer of serious music for several decades at the turn of the last century whose works commanded great critical acclaim and earned her the honour ofDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. A fiery powerful personality Smyth pursued her musical studies and career against her family’s wishes travelling to Leipzig to study there. Her style is late Romantic withrich Orchestration which fell out of favour in the 20th century. Sir Thomas Beecham was a champion of her work as was Henry Wood to whom this work is dedicated.

John Williams a continué son succès comme le doyen des compositeurs de film avec de la musique, les films Harry Potter aventureuses, le thème touchant par intérim et les mélodies inspirants, puissants de The Patriot. Ce medley de vitrine est exceptionnelle de programmation pour tout public. / Orchestre

Blockflötentrios À La Carte. Ensemble Dreiklang is a versatile trio of recorder players based in Berlin and this collection of three favourite Latin-American pieces is the latest in their 'à la carte” series. These arrangements will be enjoyed immensely by intermediate players as a change from their usual baroque and renaissance fare, either as a trio or in a full recorder orchestra. The arrangements require soprano (descant), alto (treble) and bass instruments and the pieces are: 'La Paloma” (de Yradier), 'Carmela” (trad) and the evergreen 'Tango” by Albeniz. You might like to try other titles in the series such as 'Amazing Grace” and 'Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”./ Recueil / 3 Flûtes à Becs SAB

Plus vous lirez, plus vous entendre ! La série Eulenburg Audio + Score contient des trésors du monde orchestrale tirés du répertoire baroque, classique et romantique. Chacun des volumes de 50 se compose d'une note de présentation claire et faisant autoritaire, un inf / Orchestre