A Premiere Vue Vol.5

SKU: M7.GHE-905

ISBN 9783890449050. English.

The piano played an important part in Llobet's life. He and his wife Anita Aguilar were accomplished pianists. This volume concentrates on the piano's Central European classical repertoire, which Llobet knew well. These arrangements are absolute gems, and this volume contains two unpublished works.

SKU: HL.48182471

UPC: 888680830410. 6.0x9.0x0.197 inches.

Progressive lessons of reading and rhythm - Volume 5 is the fifth volume out of six theory books that focus on reading notes and rhythms. This complete method for reading and learning rhythms features both staves for theory explanations and exercises. This fifth volume follows the previous ones and requires some strong basics. It includes the C key third, first or fourth and a mix of the five keys. Alain Weber is a French musician who received the ?Premier Grand Prix de Rome?. He taught music theory in many different countries and created some excellent methods..

SKU: LM.28668D

ISBN 9790231701647.

BACH C.P.E. : Andante - BACH J.C. : Andante (Sonate Op.5 n. 2) - BACH W.F. : Menuet - BACH J.S. : Gavotte (Suite anglaise en Sol mineur) - Menuet (Suite francaise en Si mineur) - BADINGS : Scherzo Pastorale - BARTOK : For Children Vol.1 n. 29 - For Children Vol.2 n. 27 - For Children Vol.2 n. 33 - Lied (Mikrokosmos n. 116) - Nocturne (Mikrokosmos n. 97) - BEETHOVEN : Bagatelle Op.33 n. 3 - Tempo di menuetto (Sonate n. 20) - BURGMULLER : Berceuse - CHOPIN : Polonaise en Sol mineur - CONSTANTINESCU : Le Renard et le corbeau - FRANCK : Canon - GRIEG : Arietta - HAENDEL : Courante - HAYDN : Sonate en Sol majeur (Hob XVI :G1) - HELLER : Etude Op.47 n. 9 - HUMMEL : Scherzo - IBERT : Premier bal - KULLAK : Tanzchen im freien - LIGETI : Musica ricercata (n. IV Tempo di valse) - MENDELSOHN : Romance (Kinderstuck Op.72 n. 2) - MOZART : Rondo (Sonatine viennoise en Re majeur) - PROKOFIEFF : Cortege de sauterelles - Sur les pres la lune se promene - REGER : A toutes jambes - REGNER : Dans la caverne - ROSSI : Andantino - SCHUBERT : Allegretto en Ut mineur - SCHULHOFF : Invention Op.36 n. 10 - SCHUMANN : Theme et variations (1re sonatine) - STOLZEL : Menuet - TCHAIKOVSKI : La Sorciere dans la foret - TURINA : L'Enfant s'endort - Boite a musique.

SKU: HL.48180908

UPC: 888680984274. 9.0x12.0x0.15 inches.

This first volume of Twelve Pieces by Gaston Litaize is a set of six pieces for organ. With a difficulty that would fit the skills of upper intermediate players, these pieces require the use of pedals. This first tome includes: 1. Prelude, dedicated to Lauret Bolli, his friend 2. Double Fugue 3. Lied, dedicated to Guy Lambert 4. Intermezzo Pastoral, dedicated to Miss Line Zilgien 5. Final, dedicated to his professor Marcel Dupre 6. Lamento, dedicated to his friend Maurice Dalphin. And the second tome consists of: 7. Scherzo 8. Toccata sur le veni creator 9. Priere 10. Jeux de rythmes 11. Interlude 12. Variations sur un Noel angevin. This piece is quite famous among Gaston Litaize's compositions. Gaston Litaize (1909-1991) was a French organist and composer, blind since his youth. Considered as one of the organ masters of his times, he toured and worked on many recordings. He was also a good professor, and composed many pieces for solo organ and for organ with other instruments.

SKU: HL.49007918

ISBN 9790001084680. 8.25x11.75x1.57 inches.

Premiered in 1992 at Donaueschingen, the 'Sinfonie X' with more than 2 hours duration could be considered an 'Opus terminum'. The movements which can be performed individually are like an historical digest in homage to composers of the 20th century. The piano concerto movement 'Hymnus' for example obviously refers to Oliver Messiaen. But 'Sinfonie X' is far more than just the sum of its parts, the vast scope of the symphony as generic form can be felt in the musique concrete of the 'Stille' sections and in some of the other movements, it's like the design for an Utopia, for a new 'Song of the Earth'.

SKU: FA.MFCD017B

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Contains Le Roi Lear: Prelude,Premiere Fanfare, and La Mort de Cordelia,Toomai des elephants, Rodrigue et Chimene: Prelude a l'acte 1p. Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien: La Passion , and No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence

From Robert Orledge's notes:

My interest in the wonderful music of Claude Debussy began in the 1980s when I researched and published a book with Cambridge University Press entitled Debussy and the Theatre. During the course of my studies in Paris, I was amazed to discover that Debussy planned over 50 theatrical works but only finished two of these entirely by himself (the opera Pelleas et Melisande in 1893-1902 and the ballet Jeux for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1912-13). Of the rest, many were never started musically (like Siddartha and Orphee-roi with the Oriental scholar Victor Segalen, 1907); some had a few tantalising sketches (like the Edgar Allan Poe opera Le Diable dans le beffroi, 1902-03); some were half-finished (like his other Poe opera La Chute de la Maison Usher, 1908-17); while others were musically complete but had their orchestrations completed by other composers (like Khamma, by Charles Koechlin, 1912-13; or Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien and La Boite a joujoux by his 'angel of corrections' ['l'ange des Corrections'] Andre Caplet in 1911 and 1919 respectively).

For it has to be admitted that what some scholars call Debussy's 'compulsive achievement' could equally well be viewed as laziness, especially as far as the minute detail required for calligraphing his orchestral scores was concerned. It was as if creating the music itself was of greater importance than controlling its final sound, even if Debussy was an imaginative orchestrator when he found the time and energy to do it. It also seems true that Debussy also preferred inventing ideas to turning them into complete pieces. However, despite the lack of detail in many of his sketches (missing clefs, key signatures, dynamics, phrasing, etc.) the notes themselves are surprisingly accurate, whether or not they can be compared with a later draft. Thus, a large number of sketches exist for his Chinese ballet No-ja-li ou Le Palais du Silence and it is not too difficult to see which parts of Georges de Feure's 1913 scenario (see below) inspired which ideas. But Debussy hardly made any attempt to join them together after the first few bars.

It was usually up to his publisher, Jacques Durand, to find solutions when Debussy risked a breach of contract. Debussy was supposed to supervise the orchestrations completed by others, but this supervision was usually very light and restricted to quiet, sensitive moments in which problems were easier to spot. Far from jealously guarding every one of his created notes, as Ravel did, Debussy once even went as far as to ask Koechlin to 'write a ballet for him that he would sign' on 26 March 1914 when he was hard-pressed to fulfil his lucrative contract for No-ja-li with Andre Charlot at the Alhambra Theatre in London. In the end, Debussy (through Durand) sent Charlot the symphonic suite Printemps instead, whose orchestration had been completed by Henri Busser in the Spring of 1912.

So, when I was offered early retirement as Professor of Music at Liverpool University in 2004, I seized the opportunity it would give me to spend time trying to reconstruct some of Debussy's lost potential masterpieces from his existing sketches and drafts--then orchestrating them in Debussy's style when this was appropriate. I had begun this mission in 2001 with the most promising project, the missing parts of Scene 2 of La Chute de la Maison Usher and the sheer joy it gave me at every stage persuaded me to tackle other projects, especially when Debussy experts were unable to identify exactly where I took over from Debussy (and vice versa) in Usher.