SKU: AP.36-52703436
ISBN 9781621569671. UPC: 660355152016. English.
Settings of Debussy's most popular works, moderately difficult (Violin 1 to 5th position). Contents: Clair de Lune; Arabesque #2; Romance; Girl with the Flaxen Hair; and Golliwog's Cakewalk.
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SKU: HL.49045660
ISBN 9790001192187. UPC: 841886019911. 9.0x12.0x0.056 inches.
The famous Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the final piece from Debussy's cycle Childrens Corner which consists of 6 miniatures for piano, written for his daughter in the years 1906-1908. The style corresponds to that of ragtime, a dance which was in vogue around the turn of the century. In the middle section, he parodies several times the beginning of the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner with whom Debussy had a rather ambiguous relationship. The present arrangement now allows musicians to play the popular movement in a version for melodic instrument with accompaniment.
SKU: HL.50485111
ISBN 9790080138809. UPC: 073999492514. 9.0x12.0x0.073 inches. Claude Debussy; Zoltan Kocsis; Miklos Perenyi.
The work by Debussy of 1910 was adapted to cello and piano by Zoltan Kocsis. Fingering and bowing were provided by Miklos Perenyi. Latest volume of the series 'Transcriptions by Zoltan Kocsis'.
SKU: HL.49045974
ISBN 9790001192132. UPC: 841886020023. 9x12 inches.
The famous Golliwogg's Cakewalk is the final piece from Debussy's cycle Children's Corner which consists of 6 miniatures for piano, written for his daughter in the years 1906-1908. The style corresponds to that of ragtime, a dance which was in vogue around the turn of the century. In the middle section, he parodies several times the beginning of the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner with whom Debussy had a rather ambiguous relationship. The present arrangement now allows musicians to play the popular movement in a version for string quartet.
SKU: HL.50487683
ISBN 9790080136225. 9.0x12.0x0.124 inches. French. Claude Debussy; Zoltan Kocsis; Miklos Perenyi.
Debussy's Small Suite written for piano duet in 1889 is being published by Editio Musica Budapest in a transcription for cello and piano for the first time. A guarantee for the quality of the transcription is the name of the two outstanding artists Zoltan Kocsis and Miklos Perenyi who make us forget the difficulty of the task and exploit the full capabilities of their respective instruments, enchanting thereby the audience.
SKU: HL.50566030
ISBN 9798350104448. UPC: 196288168393. 9.0x12.0x0.147 inches.
Debussy composed the Sonate for cello and piano in Normandy, in July 1915. At the age of 53, distressed by the war and afflicted by an illness that prevented him from composing, he resumed his work with the writing of this Sonate. Though his intention of assertinga French style in the tradition of the great masters of the 18th century, Debussy repeatedly affirmed the absence of a programmatic idea in the sonata: “I have written nothing but pure music. [...] in the old form, so flexible (without the grandiloquence of modern sonatas)â€. This volume is part of “Musique françaiseâ€, a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals; it offers historical introduction and performance suggestions by the notable cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand.
SKU: HL.50485105
ISBN 9790080133712. UPC: 073999851052. 9.0x12.0x0.075 inches. French. Claude Debussy; Zoltan Kocsis; Miklos Perenyi.
SKU: WN.PXD002
ISBN 9790570746224.
Completed in 1893, Debussy's String Quartet is widely considered to be a masterwork of the chamber music repertory. The 3rd mvt: Andantino, doucement expressif seems well suited to the varying timbres of the wind quintet, with its lyrical themes heard on each of the five intruments. A stunning recital piece for an advanced ensemble.
SKU: PR.16400272S
UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.
My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change. I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla. Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional. II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture. This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream. III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts] The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this. Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1. String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.
SKU: BT.EMBZ13622
Debussy's Small Suite written for piano duet in 1889 is being published by Editio Musica Budapest in a transcription for cello and piano for the first time. A guarantee for the quality of the transcription is the name of the two outstanding artists Zoltán Kocsis and Miklós Perényi who make us forget the difficulty of the task and exploit the full capabilities of their respective instruments, enchanting thereby the audience.
SKU: BT.EMBZ13880
The work by Debussy of 1910 was adapted to cello and piano by Zoltán Kocsis. Fingering and bowing were provided by Miklós Perényi. Latest volume of the series 'Transcriptions by Zoltán Kocsis'.
SKU: PR.164002720
UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: SU.00220545
This CD Sheet Music™ collection features the numerous, varied works for solo and duo piano by Claude Deubssy and Gabriel Fauré. DEBUSSY: Children's Corner, Deux Arabesques, Estemps, Etudes (Books I & II), Images (Books I & II), L'isle Joyeuse, Preludes (Books I & II), Pour le Piano, Suite Bergamasque, and more FAURÉ: Ballade, Barcarolles, Impromptus, Nocturnes, Preludes, Valses-Caprices, Dolly, plus more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1200+ pages
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SKU: CF.CY3256
ISBN 9780825881947. UPC: 798408081942. 8.5x11 inches.
Reviewers, trying to find a label for Godfrey's music, will compare him to Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, even Barber, using words such as lyrical, lush, and always tonal and melodic. 2004 saw the release of an all-Godfrey CD, including String Quartet No. 2, by the Cassatt String Quartet, an album that the New Yorker hailed as one of the 10 best of that year. Formerly available only on a rental basis, String Quartet No. 2 is now available for sale. Real sensual warmth, with a touch of the sensibility of Schoenberg's Transfigured Nightà These very touching works are completely tonal and basically pick up from the point where music was derailed some four score years ago... It is remarkable that music like this is being written, recorded, and widely celebrated. Robert Reilly, Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music (Ignatius Press).