Par BEATLES THE. In over one thousand pages, the complete music and lyrics, in full 'rock score' transcriptions, of all the 203 songs they wrote and recorded as The Beatles, plus nine by others which they covered on their early albums. All transcribed with separate staves for vocals, each guitar (in tab and standard notation) and all other instruments...the essential Beatles collection. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Rép International / Recueil / Conducteur

King Arthur (Arr. Laurie). Par PURCELL HENRY. King Arthur was the only one of Purcell's professionally produced operas to have been designed as a semi-opera - the others were all adaptations of earlier plays. Dryden made a real attempt to integrate the music into the drama, but since he ascribed to the dramatic conventions of the period which virtually confined music to allegorical or supernatural beings and thier worshippers, or servants, shepherds and similar characters, the main action mostly occurs in the spoken sections, and even the two singing characters, Philidel and Grimbald speak more than they sing. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Rép Classique / Répertoire / Conducteur

Par KNUSSEN OLIVER. Edward Greenfield says 'Taking the word Hum literally, Knussen has subjected A.A.Milne to some lighthearted but intense expressionist treatment, even developing a series of aphorisms which present such incidents as Piglet meeting the Heffalump with an economy and compression that Webern might have envied' The Guardian 15th June 1983, / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Conducteur

The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most dramatic libretti, premiered in Verona in the spring of 1737 in a setting by Vivaldi, contain some of his finest, most mature, and most original arias, and are published here for the first time. They evince a potential dramatic intensity that makes us regret all the more the loss of the first act. Only one aria of Act I can be definitely recovered from a surviving opera, but the rest has now also been successfully reconstructed by Alessandro Ciccolini, whose intimate knowledge of Vivaldi's working methods, combined with brilliant stylistic insight won universal acclaim for his work on Vivaldi's Motezuma and Ercole sul Termodoonte. Ciccolini has also composed cadenzas and da capo variations for all the arias, published here in an appendix.A complete recording under the direction of Alan Curtis is available from Naïve Records(OP30545).Press Quotes:'[For his completion,] Alessandro Ciccolini, who, mindful that Vivaldi frequently adapted vocal music for his instrumental works and vice versa, has composed the missing passages using themes from the concertos as his starting point. His arias dovetail beautifully with Vivaldi's scheme of things...' The Guardian'Ciccolini and Curtis deserve enormous credit for transforming an incomplete obscurity into a coherent and compelling opera.'Gramophone'The opera survives incomplete, but this is a fascinating and apt reconstruction and there is some marvellous stuff here.' BBC Music Magazine / Conducteur

Arrangeur: Larry Foster. Pianiste de formation classique, Roberta Flack fait partie, avec Donny Hathaway ou Bill Withers, d'une génération de chanteurs soul intimistes qui s'est imposée au début des années 70. En 1973, le titre Killing Me Softly (qui sera revisité par les Fugees en 1996) caracole en tête des hit-parades du monde entier. Killing Me Softly a définitivement mis une étiquette sur cette chanteuse à la voix délicate, caressante et envoûtante qui n'est pas sans rappeler Carole King, Carly Simon et Janis Ian. La suite appartient à la légende. / Niveau : 3 / Répertoire / Conducteur

Par HARVEY JONATHAN. Bhakti was written in 1982, to a commission from IRCAM, Paris. It is in twelve short movements totalling about fifty minutes. There are 36 subsections - each one defined by a certain number of instruments playing a certain pitch cell. As there are only 12 types of subsection, each occurs (with variation) 3 times, thus making for repetitions over the course of the work. Scored for a chamber group fo 15 instrumentalists and quadraphonic tape./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Par MAW NICHOLAS. For Cello and string orchestra and commisioned by the 1985 Kings Lynn Festival with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Maw's highly individual musical voice is basically tonal, blending the familiar with the unfamiliar, and characterised by a natural lyricism. a great many remarkable qualities. . . it contains numerous precise and beautiful images. Paul Griffiths, The Times, 22 September 1986/ Répertoire / Conducteur

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. The Full Score of George Benjamin's Jubilation for Orchestra and mixed children's groups. 'Overall, Benjamin's score aspired towards an exalted kind of jubilation - almost evoking angels in the music of the spheres: and as such it sounded vivid and imaginative.' The Guardian (Meirion Bowen), 19 February 1991/ Répertoire / Conducteur