The French Piano Collection: Piano: Instrumental Album

Alexis Ffrench: The Sheet Music Collection. A selection of pianist, composer and producer Alexis Ffrench?s most-loved pieces for solo piano. This exclusive folio also includes a specially written preface from Alexis, as well as teaching notes and insight on each piece. Includes pieces from Alexis? best-selling albums Evolution and Dreamland as well as pieces from his widely-popular back catalogue.

Two-Part Inventions Sinfonias English and French Suites Partitas Well-Tempered Clavier Goldberg-The most Bach for your buck available! This gigantic 648 page comb-bound volume from the prestigious Schirmer Library of Musical Classics includes the complete Inventions Sinfonias English Suites French Suites Goldberg Variations Partitas 1-3 The Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 and 2 Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor and the Italian Concerto in F Major.

This short melodious piece by the French composer Eric Satie will bring delight to both performers and audiences.

Ernest Chausson's Piano Trio In G Minor Op. 3. Score and parts. Following his early elimination from the Paris Conservatoire's sought-after award for students of composition the “Prix deRome” Ernest Chausson withdrew to the country in summer 1881 and began composing this ambitious work – out of defiance so to speak. During his lifetime the trio remained an insider’s tip amongst thoseclose to his teacher César Franck. It was only after its posthumous publication that it was performed more frequently and was gradually recognized as being one of the best chamber music works of its time. ThePiano Trio In G Minor Op. 3 is closely based on Franck’s principle of the cyclic interleaving of all motives yet still has dark and melancholy inflections all of its own. The Henle Urtext edition is thefirst critical edition and is a welcome addition to their collection of French music.

Including The Sorcerer's Apprentice For Two Pianos-French composer Paul Dukas (1865 1935) was also a critic scholar and teacher. 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' is his most famous creation and this original compilation of Dukas' Piano works ishighlighted by the world-renowned music that was based upon Goethe's Faust and inspired a memorable sequence from Disney's Fantasia. The two-Piano version that appears here was transcribed by the composer himself.Suitablefor intermediate and advanced pianists this collection features four additional pieces: Piano Sonata in E-flat minor; Prélude élégiaque; Variations Interlude and Finale on a theme by Jean Philippe Rameau; and Laplainte au loin du faun. Edited and introduced by renowned pianist Daniel Glover these works were reproduced from authoritative sources.

12 Piano pieces for Grade 7-8 selected and edited by Patrica Carroll. The French Influence is a brilliant collection of unique pieces by more or less-known French composers. Contents: Le coucou(The cuckoo) (Daquin) Feuillet d'album (Album leaf) (Chabrier) Ballabile (Dancing) (Chabrier) Romance sans paroles (Romance without words) (Fauré) Où l'on entend une vieille boîte musique(Listening to an old musical box) (Séverac) Chant sans paroles (Song without words) (Lack) Chanson de mai (May Song) (Godard) Cinquième nocturne (Satie) Le petit berger (The little shepherd)(Debussy) La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair) (Debussy) Valse romantique (Romantic waltz) (Séverac) and Gavotte (Saint-Saëns).

Timeless Cornish Melodies-As I sit myself down to write this brief foreword I ask myself can there be music more stirring than these old Cornish folk melodies? Though not Cornish myself (I confess to being born a little further up the road in Bristol) I feel I have spent sufficient time in these 'ere parts to resonate with the sturdy brass band tradition that continues to permeate this incomparably beautiful rugged county. One can almost detect a French 'accent' when listening to the piano music of Debussy and likewise speaking as a lapsed brass player there is undoubtedly something of the Cornish twang about Trelawny when played on a cornet or euphonium. Then again one gets a different yetentirely convincing effect upon hearing these melodies rendered on woodwind instruments; hence with a little gamesmanship on my part I am pleased to see my collection of these fifteen delectable ditties come to fruition in the form of arrangements for treble clef brass instruments (in B flat and E flat) trombone and tuba (bass clef) horn in F flute clarinet and bassoon.While many will find themselves humming the likes of Going up Camborne Hill Lamorna or The Helston Furry Dance even before they have turned to the first page - for these are indelibly intertwined with Cornish culture I wonder if I might draw your attention to The Cornish Squire The Pool of Pilate and Cold Blows the Wind Today Sweetheart which are quite simply sublime melodies perhaps needing that extra bit of help in bringing them to mind nowadays. In the best tradition of musical hand-me-downs Cornish folk music works equally ideally sung and played and only by doing so on a regular basis can such traditions hope to continue forward with vigour and authority. A legitimate way of achieving this is to revitalise the harmonic scheme of these ancient tunes and bring them up to date for a modern audience; after all it was such an approach that fuelled the imagination of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams in decades past while skilfully paying homage to the

Les cancans, que l'on attribue souvent à Jacques Offenbach, ne sont en réalité que des détournements de ses compositions. Le cas le plus célèbre est celui du galop infernal (nom d'un pas de danse), issu de l??uvre Orphée aux enfers (1858), que l'on se permet souvent de renommer French Cancan. Cette transformation est faite de manière abusive, car l?appellation de French Cancan n'existait pas à l?époque où Jacques Offenbach composait.
Le cancan est une danse populaire, inventée au début du XIXème siècle. Il était à la base exécutée en couple dans les bals et les cabarets, et faisait partie des danses très mal vues par les familles mondaines. Le nom Cancan, attribué semble t?il à l?origine parce que les danseurs imitaient la démarche et le cri de l?oie, est ensuite devenu, par une transformation touristique d'origine anglaise (coincoin / cancan) le French Cancan.
Cette danse donne l'image d'une société parisienne frivole, proche de celle décrite de façon caricaturale dans La vie parisienne. Les femmes sont vite seules à le danser, en rang, face au public, et les nombreux pas de pattes en l?air laissent souvent apparaître les dessous raffinés de l?époque?que le peintre Toulouse-Lautrec aura plaisir à illustrer. / Classique / Transcriptions pour piano de David Neyrolles / Partition / Agrafé /