String Music Of The Baroque Era For String Quartet - Full Score And Parts

This is a wonderful collection of Baroque pieces including works by Corelli Rameau Handel Bach Purcell and Telemann. Each piece has been selected and arranged for String Quartet or String Orchestra by Irma Clarke.

Par SENFTER JOHANNA. The composer Johanna Senfter (1879 1961) from Oppenheim concerned herself with chamber music for strings all her life, even studied violin in Frankfurt herself. Max Reger then gave her lessons in Leipzig, first privately, then in his composition class at the conservatoire and valued her 'extraordinary compositional talent'. The strict teacher more and more became a committed promoter of the works by Johanna Senfter. For a period of 50 years, the composer concerned herself with the string quartet genre, from Quartet No. 1 in D minor Op. 4, composed shortly after the turn of the century, to the sixth and last Quartet in C minor Op. 115 which was performed for the first time in 1960, one year before her death. The Quartet in F sharp minor Op. 28 is her second quartet which was premiered in Darmstadt on 5 November 1922. In this work, as in later works, Senfter combined traditional form models – here Baroque movements like gavotte, saraband, gigue – with expressive, late Romantic musical language. The work, consisting of six short movements, may without doubt be regarded as a valuable addition to the quartet repertoire./ Répertoire / 2 Violons, Alto et Violoncelle

En avant vers le Baroque avec cette collection de 16 morceaux de la glorieuse période baroque, arrangée pour Piano Facile. Ce volume comprend des compositions par plus d'une douzaine de compositeurs incluant Vivaldi, Bach et Handel. Inclus une introduction historique. Comprend les morceaux : Air On The G String, Hornpipe (de Water Music), Autumn (de 'The Four Seasons'), King William's March et When I Am Laid In Earth. / Piano / 32 pages / Partition

Classical music for children: 36 easy pieces from the Baroque to the Romantic era in easily playable arrangements for string trio or beginners' string orchestra. Ideal for early ensemble work, and includes pieces from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mozart's Magic Flute and many more! / 2 Violons Et Violoncelle

This piece is in the Baroque 'Concerto Grosso' style. The idea of The Violinists of the Pieta sprang from the tradition of the Venetian Ospedale della Pieta the orphanage that housed some of the finest musicians in Europe. The piece is in three movements with music in the style of Monteverdi and Vivaldi. It tells a story of the orphans’ lives as they grow up in the jostling city eventually finding freedom through their musical abilities.

Concerto for String Orchestra - the magnum opus of Grayna Bacewicz (1909-1969) the outstanding composer and violinist - was composed in 1948 and at once became one of the most frequently performed works of this Polish artist. This masterpieceof neoclassicism fascinates as much by its invention and virtuosic briliance as its harmonious combination of formal elements of a traditional nature with new tonal ideas. The form of the three-movement Concerto oscillates between that of the baroqueconcerto grosso and the early classical sonata cycle. The neoclassical tendency is evident above all in the articulation of the musical structure in keeping with the rigours of periodicity and the manner of developing thematic threads derived fromthem while the concertato character of particular movements and the generally linear texture indicate baroque connections. The first movement (Allegro) - in the form of an early classical sonata allegro - begins with a subject with energeticfigurations emblematic for the whole piece and based on a constant pendulum-like semiquaver movement anchored securely on D. It is precisely because of the nature of this subject that Bacewiczs work has been compared to the Brandenburg Concertosby Jan Sebastian Bach The second movement (Andante) while retaining its concertato charakter is at the same time an example of the composers ability to create emotionally serene lyrical moods and her sense of cantilena derived from the spiritof romantic song (a motto-subject presented at the beginning by cello solo). In this movement it is both the process of evolution and the instrumental colouring which constitute the constructional agents forming here a self-containedvalue. In thethird movement (Vivo) the composer returns to her favourite type of music understood as an expression of pure motion in the form of figural motives with infinite transformational possibilities. The spontaneity of the music the constant mutabilityof the tonal situations and the sophisticated acerbic harmonies - as Witold Lutosawski described them - form a colourful mosaic built in the structural skeleton of a sonata rondo. Concerto for String Orchestra is not only proof of thestylizing tendency of the composer but also of an unerring intuition concerning the technical and expressive possibilities inherent in a string instruments ensemble. [Magorzata Gsiorowska translated by Ewa Cholewka]