Format : Sheet music
Pianist Cuthbert Whitemore gathered together a committee of four members to choose one hundred short works for Piano that they judged to be the ‘best’ for use in study. This book comprises works by Bach Brahms Chopin Mendelssohn Schubert and Schumann none longer than three pages. Several have sensitive and useful performance notes.
SKU: HL.14036693
UPC: 884088834845. 8.5x11.0x0.08 inches.
A collection of short familiar and unfamiliar pieces for piano. Arranged in order of difficulty and with notes on style and technique. Suitable for pianists from grade 6 standard.
SKU: HL.14071960
SKU: HL.14015640
ISBN 9780853606314. UPC: 884088433413. 9.0x12.0x0.194 inches. English.
A superb collection of standard repertoire for the classical singer. Titles range from Baroque to late 19th century and titles often appear on the ABRSM singing syllabus.
SKU: HL.14009590
Lemare's compositions are uneven in quality, but the best are still active in the repertoire. The Toccata di Concerto is certainly full of fireworks and has the capacity to show the abilities of a great Organ. The upper parts have plenty of French toccata style, but the theme in the pedals gives the piece substance, as does the romantic, chromatic interlude in the middle of the work.Organ virtuoso and composer Edwin Lemare was the world's highest-paid Organist at the height of his career in the early 1900's, drawing bravos from ctritics and the crowds who queued around the block to hear this most famous of Organists. After having served as a church Organist for a relativelyshort period, he began the life of a travelling recitalist, beginning with a hundred-recital tour of the USA and Canada in 1900, a career that continued until the stock market crash of 1929. Lemare was also virtuosic in his ability to transcribe great Orchestral works for the Organ, allowing audiences in those less urban times to hear works played live that they might have heard no other way.
SKU: HL.14040503
UPC: 884088885472. 9x12 inches.
François Devienne (1759 - 1803) was a French flutist and composer, as well as a founding professor at the Paris Conservatory, which was established in 1795. During his lifetime, Devienne composed over 300 works, most of which were scored for Wind Instruments.
Devienne belonged to a line of French flutists and composers who, over a period of a century, had adopted a German transverse Flute and made it a quintessentially French musical instrument. He followed the path of predecessors such as Michel de la Barre and Michel Blavet in establishing a French school of Flute playing and composition.
Devienne wrotehundreds of works for the Flute, as well as a renowned tuition manual. His 7th Concerto is thought by many to be the best of the dozen or more concertos that he composed during his lifetime. This concerto was composed in or around 1787, shortly before the French revolution. As in Mozart's later works, the passions of the time can be clearly heard - particularly in the vigorous opening theme in E minor. In contrast to the stately Allegro, the theme is gentle and lyrical, yet intriguing, with the Flute almost mimicking bird call.