Sonata Concertante Op. 44 Fl Pft Op. 44

Five sonatas for brass instruments and Piano.For Trumpet in Bb (optional doubling on Flugelhorn) or Trumpet in C.This work was commissioned by Professor James Watson for the brass faculty of the Royal Academy of Music. It was composed between August and September 2008. It is the fifth in a series of six works for brass composed between 2006 and 2009: sonatas for Bass Tuba and Piano (2006) Bass Trombone and Piano (2006) Tenor Trombone and Piano (2007) Horn in F and Piano (2008) and Sinfonia Concertante for Bass Tuba Bass Trombone Tenor Trombone Horn Trumpet Brass and Percussion (2009). The first performance of the Sonata was given on 21 October 2009 at theRoyal Academy of Music by James Woods Davison (to whom the work is dedicated) and Timothy End.

Sonata Eroïca Op. 94 (1930) is a melodious piece composed by Joseph Jongen for Great Organ. Dedicated to Joseph Bonnet who was the organist of the St Eustache Church in Paris this piece is quite difficult (upper intermediate/advanced level) and requires the use of different keyboard divisions and pedals. Lasting around 16 minutes this wonderful work is quite architectural and will astonish you by its grandeur. It is the perfect piece to include in a recital. Joseph Jongen was a Belgian Organist composer and professor of harmony and counterpoint. He won the Belgian Prix de Rome and composed numerouspieces including music chamber works symphonies concertos and songs. His most famous piece is the Symphonie Concertante (1926).

Nos. 1-3-The six Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach fall into two groups of three. In Nos. 1-3 the composer provided a concertante keyboard part where the right hand is as musically important as the flute and bass lines apart from theoccasional passage when he reverts to a figured bass. This edition is has been edited and realised by William Bennett.The solo flute part is also included on a separate insert.

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Seventeen single-movement instrumental works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are referred to as 'church sonatas' or 'epistle sonatas'. Some are simple trios for two violins and bass, others more lavish concertante pieces with obbligato organ. Only Leopold Mozart took up the epistle sonata in isolated pieces that have survived in fragmentary form. Mozart's sonatas thus form a musically significant repertoire without parallels elsewhere./ Répertoire / Instruments à Cordes et Orgue

Work for Oboe Violin Viola and Cello. Parts available: CH56341.This quartet was commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and written in the autumn of 1967. It is dedicated to Lady Norton and is the second of LennoxBerkeley’s three works written with the oboist the late Janet Craxton in mind the other two being his Sonatina OP 61 and Sinfonia Concertante OP 84.The work begins with a fairly extended introduction leading without a breakinto an Allegro. The whole composition is based on the internal of a third (sometime major sometimes minor) which is heard in the opening phrase of the introduction and again in the main theme of the Allegro though here in atotally different context. The allegro is in more or less traditional sonata form. The middle movement is a kind of Scherzo growing out of a rhythmical figure for the strings and a rapid arpeggio (major and minor chords) forthe oboe. This is a Presto; a more relaxed middle section corresponding to the Trio in a classical work is followed by a much shortened version of the Scherzo. The last movement is brief but very slow all four instrumentstaking up in turn a gently rocking figure that moves to and fro between two notes always a major or minor third apart. The music becomes more animated but returns to the opening figure and dies away each instrument droppingout one after the other leaving the cello alone in the last bar.