Rota, N : The best of Rota

A great selection of 100 of the best film songs ever, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Features fabulous songs from all your favourite movies including: Casablanca, Cabaret, Mary Poppins, Forest Gump, Midnight Cowboy, Footloose, Jaws, Star Trek, Ghost, Titanic, Schindler's List, Saturday Night Fever, Stand By Me, Love Story, Breakfast At Tiffany's... and many, many more!

My Best is a collection of the greatest hits by the French pianist Richard Clayderman. Noted by Guinness World Records as being the most successful pianist in the world Clayderman's oeuvre is hugely extensive and this songbook includes many of his best melodies.

For Marimba And Crotales-Best-known as a member of the alternative rock band The National Bryce Dessner is also a composer in his own right. This sheet music is for his work Tromp Miniature For Marimba AndCrotales. Originally commissioned by the  International Tromp Percussion Competition 2014 the work was a compulsory performance piece for the semi-finals of the competition for competitorsto really showcase their skills. Lasting around 5 minutes the piece predictably presents a challenge for players but is a thrilling work with an exciting climax. With the sheet musicfor the Tromp Miniature you are able to play this composition precisely as Dessner intended it. 

Nino Rota was behind some of the greatest film soundtracks including 'The Godfather' 'War and Peace' and all of Federico Fellini's films. This compilation includes themes from Fellini's warming memory piece 'Amarcord' and 'IlBidone'. The compilation comes with a sample CD.

Pop Special String-The hauntingly beautiful theme from one of Hollywood's best series of films is ideal programming for a string orchestra who enjoys dramatic film music. Robert's new arrangement is written to let your players sound their very best on this memorable melody.

This volume contains several of Debussy's best known and most-admired compositions including some of his most brilliant works for piano: the technically challenging 'Etudes' the witty and appealing 'Children's Corner' and the sparkling 'Images Book II' as well as other intriguing lesser-known works. Pianists will enjoy the extraordinary diversity of these pieces and their rare often surprising musical effects. All of the works included have been reprinted from authoritative French editions.

Opera in three acts. ?Giulio Cesare in Egitto? is by far Handel?s most frequently performed opera owing its success not least to its subject matter, one of the best known love stories in world history. Already during Handel?s lifetime the popular work was often staged and therefore adapted by Handel for each of the performance conditions. The editor Hans Dieter Clausen has succeeded in editorially defining and practically presenting these adaptations ? essentially four versions ? on the basis of a meticulous study of the sources within the framework of the ?Halle Handel Edition?. The new edition allows for a performance of each of the four versions. The version of 1725 is particularly noteworthy because Handel newly devised the role of Sesto for the famous tenor Francesco Borosini. The libretto shows the Roman dictator Cesar in a friendly light. He instructs his enemy, the Egyptian tyrant Tolomeo, how to treat adversaries: he reconciles the widow and son of his enemy Pompeo who was murdered by Tolomeo: he is generous and just, hands on, but also diplomatic, thoughtful, aware of the limits of his power, and susceptible for art and nature. However, the actual protagonist of the opera is Cleopatra. In a masterly way Handel develops her character musically. In his extensive Foreword Hans Dieter Clausen not only decribes the genesis, historical background, reception and the edition of the opera, he also examines the musical and dramaturgical reworking of individual numbers in ?Giulio Cesare?. Handel was such an expert in adapting arias for new purposes and other characters that he did not only meet the needs at hand but often the new version surpassed the original. In this way, the reader gains, in passing, a well-founded insight into Handel?s work methods when designing and redevising his characters. The detailed Critical Commentary includes information on the comprehensive and highly complex source situation as well as on individual editorial decisions.