Trio I, 1936

For Violin Viola and Piano (Reduced from the orchestra version). Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on tothe next piece. This was particularly the case around the time of his Opus 1 Sinfonietta composed in the summer of 1932 his second year as a student at the Royal College Of Music.The Sinfonietta waswritten (in less than three weeks) very soon after Britten had completed the first draft of the Double Concerto; but after finishing the Sinfonietta he went back to revise the Concerto's second movement. He started workon his Op.2 Phantasy for Oboe and String Trio a few weeks later.Although the Concerto follows the same three-movement pattern as the Sinfonietta it is more ambitious in scale; and since the sketchis unusually for Britten complete in practically every detail it is puzzling that he never made a full score of the work after finishing the composition and seems to have made no attempt to get it performed. It is not clear ifhe had particular performers in mind (he was of course a Viola player although he is not likely to have intended the part for himself). He showed the work to his composition teacher at the college John Ireland who as Brittenrecorded in his diary was 'pretty pleased' with it; but it is distinctly possible that his experience in rehearsing the Sinfonietta with a student orchestra in 1932 ('I have never heard such an appalling row!' readsanother diary entry) discouraged him from going on to complete the Double Concerto in score. He was not to hear any of his orchestral works until the first performance of Our Hunting Fathers in 1936.In theabsence of Britten's full score it was necessary for me to prepare the work from the sketch. But the instrumentation is so carefully indicated in the draft that the resulting score is not far from being 100% Britten - only between

Written in two movements this work features La Réjouissance and Minuet and Trio from Handel's masterpiece. This arrangement goes further than others at this level by cleverly including the entire Trio section without pushing the students technically. Set comfortably in two sharps with the only low second finger patterns in Violin 1 students can focus on tone intonation and style.

Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on to the next piece. This was particularly the case around the time of hisOpus 1 Sinfonietta composed in the summer of 1932 his second year as a student at the Royal College Of Music.The Sinfonietta was written (in less than three weeks) very soon after Britten had completed thefirst draft of the Double Concerto; but after finishing the Sinfonietta he went back to revise the Concerto's second movement. He started work on his Op.2 Phantasy for Oboe and String Trio a few weekslater.Although the Concerto follows the same three-movement pattern as the Sinfonietta it is more ambitious in scale; and since the sketch is unusually for Britten complete in practically every detail it ispuzzling that he never made a full score of the work after finishing the composition and seems to have made no attempt to get it performed. It is not clear if he had particular performers in mind (he was of course a Violaplayer although he is not likely to have intended the part for himself). He showed the work to his composition teacher at the college John Ireland who as Britten recorded in his diary was 'pretty pleased' with it; but it isdistinctly possible that his experience in rehearsing the Sinfonietta with a student orchestra in 1932 ('I have never heard such an appalling row!' reads another diary entry) discouraged him from going on to complete theDouble Concerto in score. He was not to hear any of his orchestral works until the first performance of Our Hunting Fathers in 1936.In the absence of Britten's full score it was necessary for me to prepare the workfrom the sketch. But the instrumentation is so carefully indicated in the draft that the resulting score is not far from being 100% Britten - only between bars 70 and 74 of the slow movement did there seem to be any need to add

Otto Albert Tichy (1890-1973), organiste, chef de choeur et compositeur, occupa pendant près de trente ans le poste de maître de chapelle à la cathédrale Saint-Guy de Prague. Fils d'un protégé de Leo? Janácek, élève de Vítezslav Novák puis de Vincent d'Indy à la Schola Cantorum de Paris, il laisse un catalogue considérable, notamment dans le domaine de la musique sacrée (pas moins de huit messes et un grand nombre de motets), mais aussi de la musique de chambre (diverses sonates, des trios et quintettes, deux quatuors à cordes...). Professeur au Conservatoire de Prague, il se distingua également par son activité de critique, de traducteur et d'auteur d'écrits théoriques. Né dans l'empire des Habsbourg et mort après le Printemps de Prague, il vécut quelques années en France et en Suisse avant de retourner dans son pays en 1936. Il connut un destin singulier et tragique, bouleversé par les vents contraires de l'histoire, entre Est et Ouest, entre deux guerres mondiales et deux totalitarismes. / Livre

50 kleine Klavierstücke. La collection Mini Maestro en trois volumes présente de petites pièces pour piano de difficulté progressive de très facile à moyenne, datant de cinq siècles, par ordre chronologique, de la musique baroque, classique, romantique, moderne au jazz, à la pop et à la musique minimale. A la fin de chaque volume se trouvent trois pièces bonus à quatre mains - sous la devise ' Plus de plaisir à deux '. Faciles à apprendre, toutes les pièces offrent un répertoire varié qui constitue un complément idéal à toute méthode de piano et convient à des concerts, leçons, examens et concours. Le volume 1 contient des morceaux dans la gamme pentatonique / dans des gammes pentatoniques changeantes, suivis de morceaux dans l'ambitus d'une octave avec un rythme simple et un jeu d'accords facile. D'autres critères sont la différente articulation, la mélodie à la main gauche, les signes d'octave et les pièces en majeur/mineur jusqu'une armure à un dièse/bémol. Le volume 2 contient des pièces dans l'ambitus étendu de deux octaves et avec un jeu des accords à trois ou quatre voix et des renversements. Les autres critères sont le jeu de pédale, des ornements élémentaires, la polyphonie simple, la différenciation de la mélodie et de l'accompagnement et les pièces en majeur/mineur jusqu'une armure à deux dièses/bémols. Le volume 3 contient des pièces avec un ambitus allant jusqu'à quatre octaves, avec un rythme et une vélocité plus exigeants. D'autres critères sont la différenciation subtile des tons, le jeu expressif, la polyphonie dans une main, la polyphonie avancée et les pièces en majeur/mineur jusqu'une armure à trois dièses/bémols. / Niveau : 1 / Classique / Recueil / Piano