Four Early 20th Century Piano Suites: Piano: Instrumental Album

The 'School of Bowing Technique? op. 2 is the second important violin tutor by Otakar ?evcík (1852-1934) and deals with the elementary technical demands of the right hand. Divided into three sections, the tutor contains more than 4,000 systematically arranged bowing exercises in increasing order of difficulty.This new edition of the 'School of Bowing Technique? combines the original six volumes in groups of two. It is largely based on the first edition, published in the early 20th century, and on other sources from ?evcík's estate. The editor, Jaroslav Foltýn, is a professor of violin at the Prague Conservatory, as was ?evcík himself.- New edition of a tutor that generations of violinists have grown up with- Fundamental work by a leading violin educator- Three volumes in increasing order of difficulty: easy - moderate - difficult- Methodological notes by the editor (Cz/Eng/Ger) / Violon

Dedicated to Thurston Dart Michael Nyman?s professor at King?s College London much of String Quartet No. 1 borrows and is inspired by the works of seventeenth century composer John Bull whosecomplete keyboard works Dart gave Nyman as a birthday present. The other main source of inspiration was Schöneberg?s Second String Quartet from the early 20th century.In his introduction to the piece Nymandescribes his two background ideas when composing the work: first to make an almost ?orchestral? chamber music and second to exorcise the impressive and oppressive history of the String quartet by making his work a compendium ofquotations from the quartet repertoire. Commissioned by the Arditti Quartet and first performed by them in 1985 String Quartet No. 1 has a duration of 25:44 minutes.Michael Nyman is an Englishcomposer of minimalist music pianist librettist and musicologist known for numerous film and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to ?The Piano?. He has additionally written a number of operas six concerti four stringquartets and many other chamber works.

Le début du 20ème siècle a été une période de changements dramatiques, où les compositeurs de s'aventurer dans de nouvelles directions et la recherche de nouveaux sons. L'appariement de l'Anthologie de la 20th Century Piano Music avec les pratiques de piano en début du 20ème siècle Piano Music DVD fournit pianistes une occasion unique d'entendre performances informé de la musique qu'ils étudient. Sur le DVD, le Dr Hinson partage des anecdotes historiques sur les compositeurs représentés, en utilisant des exemples de Bartók, Debussy, Joplin, Grainger, Hindemith MacDowell, Coleridge-Taylor, Satie et Schoenberg à partir de l'anthologie. / Piano

Par RAVEL MAURICE. In 1920 Maurice Ravel was asked by his publisher Durand to contribute to an issue of La Revue Musicale dedicated to Claude Debussy. A supplement included the first movement of Ravel’s Sonata as well as works contributed by Debussy’s friends Stravinsky, Satie, Dukas, Bartok and de Falla to name only a few. This 1st movement of Ravel’s Sonata, of which the autograph is lost, then developed into a large scale four movement chamber music work utilizing a more modern music vocabulary than found in almost any other Ravel composition. Bärenreiter’s scholarly-critical edition, the first ever of this masterpiece, presents the work in two performing scores. It contains anintroduction on the history of the work reflecting Ravel’s work and rehearsals with violinist Hélène Jourdan-Morhange and cellist Maurice Maréchal. Sources for this new edition include the engraved copy, the personal autograph scores (with earlier versions of some passages) which were used to rehearse the work and the first edition scores with emendations by Jourdan-Morhange and Maréchal. Included in the appendix are the original fingerings by the performers which are not found in the first edition. They reflect how Ravel must have heard the work in rehearsals and as such are a document of early 20th century performance practice. First Urtext edition of this work Two performing scores (format 25, 5 x 32, 5 cm) The violoncello part does not allow for page turns in the first movement; therefore the edition includes an additional violoncello part in small print presenting the entire first movement on a double page without a page turn Informative introduction to the genesis of the work (Ger/Eng/Fr) Critical commentary with facsimiles and appendices/ Répertoire / Violon et Violoncelle

Score-A masterly composer of music for strings Bloch wrote four string quartets Schelomo--A Hebrew Rhapsody (for cello and orchestra) and A Voice in the Wilderness (for orchestra and cello obbligato) which are deeply emotional works and rank among the most distinguished achievements in the neo-classic and neo-romantic idiom of early 20th-century music.

Preludio contains 130 easy attractive performance pieces from six centuries, thus offering the most important pieces for beginners' guitar lessons in one comprehensive volume. The repertoire is ideal for first performances at music schools, as pieces for competitions and examinations or just as a 'treasure trove' for teachers, pupils, students, and guitar lovers.The selected pieces can be played in the second to fourth year of guitar lessons. They are divided chronologically into five chapters and arranged progressively according to their level of difficulty. Each chapter refers to another epoch: Renaissance - Baroque - Classical period - Romanticism and early 20th century - modern, pop and world music. The result is a tune book which can already be used during or immediately after studying any guitar method.Most pieces can be played in the 1st and 2nd positions, without requiring any barré fingering or ties and slurs. The somewhat more difficult pieces that require small and large barré fingering as well as position playing are placed at the end of each chapter.The majority of the pieces are original works, and the editors have refrained from making any radical simplifications. Only a few difficult passages have alternatively been made easier to play such that the level of difficulty within a piece does not vary too much. / Guitare

Ragtime for piano. Contemporary evocation of early 20th century classic American syncopation. About four and a half minutes just for the fun of it!