SKU: KU.GM-1454
Rhythmische Tanze for piano duet (two players at one piano)
SKU: AP.6-422003
ISBN 9780486422008. English.
Beloved for his lyric brilliance as well as his rhythmic and harmonic invention, Franz Schubert helped to pioneer the Romantic piano style and exercised a considerable influence over later composers. This convenient compilation of his shorter piano pieces offers a charming variety of impromptus, variations, waltzes, German dances, ecossaises, ländler, minuets, marches, and much more. Contents include selections from the Four Impromptus of 1827 and 1828 (D. 899 and D. 935), Drei Klavierstücke (D. 946), the miniatures known as Six Moments musicaux (D. 780), Allegretto in C minor (D. 915), and selections from the composer's more than 400 dances for solo piano. Dover original compilation of works from Breitkopf & Härtel's Complete Works Edition.
SKU: LO.15-3626H
ISBN 9780787763602.
This sparkling setting of the English carol, On Christmas Night incorporates elegant vocal parts that will bring out the best of your women’s ensemble. Strophic in form, an eighth-note rhythmic motive dances throughout the accompaniment and joins the four verses together. The major second modulation lifts the spirit into the final verse.
SKU: BR.EB-8884
Pieces for young (at heart) cellists
ISBN 9790004184745. 9 x 12 inches. German / English.
Graham Waterhouse created a little series of lovely melodies for his son, which he then successfully performed at violoncello competitions. The eight pieces can be played alone, as well as in a suite with a random sequence. The majority are dances with rhythmical characteristics that are intended to challenge the young string players. This also applies to the expanded performance techniques that are introduced and occasionally used here. The level of difficulty ranges from the first position in Montague's March up to the fourth position in Henry Hornpipe, the most difficult piece in the cycle. Originally conceived for solo voice and piano, this edition also contains an alternative version for two violoncelli.Pieces for young (at heart) cellists.
SKU: FG.55009-539-7
ISBN 979-0-55009-539-7.
One of the finest Finnish chamber works of recent years involving a clarinet is Mikko Heinio's Treno della notte for clarinet, cello and piano (2000). The composer says of his work: I wanted to write a long, fairly fast-moving composition proceeding without a break in which the moods are at least to some extent dream-like, nocturnal. May 'Treno della notte', the term for a night train in Italian, be a tribute to my much-admired Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni, who in the film Citta della donne (City of Women) falls asleep on a train and is led by a representative of the stronger sex along the most fantastic paths. During a journey lasting a good 17 minutes the listener has time to proceed through 12 connected carriages: the composition has five calm, melodic sequences and four rhythmically dashing dances. It begins with an Introduzione, has a Transitio in the middle and ends with a Coda. In addition to its nocturnal shades, the Heinio work is of sizzling virtuosity, hot Latin rhythms and glowing, sustained melody. The clarinettist plays both a normal B flat instrument and a bass clarinet, thus enriching the timbral scale even further. Heinio does not expect the clarinettist to improvise or to master novel techniques, but otherwise the clarinet part is as challenging as many a concerto.
