Arrangeur: Alexander L\'Estrange. These three Christmas songs are arranged for soprano, alto, and combined men\'s voices with a straightforward piano accompaniment - ideal for choirs in which the male singers are few or at the stage when their voices are changing. Featured are: Rockin? Around The Christmas Tree, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! and All I Want For Christmas Is You. The arrangements are part of the Choral Basics Series, which has been carefully designed to provide rewarding, varied repertoire for beginner choirs. Perfect for singers of all ages, the series offers attractive, idiomatic arrangements for SA and SAMen choirs, with carefully considered vocal ranges and straightforward piano accompaniments that support the singers. Embracing world music, spirituals, folk song, pop classics, hit shows and original pieces, this series offers everything a budding choir could wish for. Get into the festive spirit with this trio of wonderful new arrangements for choir, featuring all-time favorites Rockin\' Around the Christmas Tree, Let It Snow and All I Want for Christmas, Is You. Guaranteed to have your audiences reaching for the mistletoe in no time! Choral Basics is a recently created series that offers straightforward and rewarding repertoire for the beginner choir. Perfect for singers of all ages, the series offers simple 3-part choral arrangements for soprano, alto and a combined male voice part. Consultant editor Alex L\'Estrange has brought together an array of repertoire including world music, spirituals, pop classics, show hits andoriginal pieces. Carefully considered for the level, the arrangements pay particular attention to breathing, vocal ranges and technique whilst straightforward piano accompaniments support the vocal lines. The series offers great value for money, as each volume comprises a set of contrasting songs for easy programming./ Méthode / Piano

Par MALONE GARETH. Gareth returns to his first instrument, the piano, to create this special album featuring solo piano, choir and strings. Each piece is named after a month of the year, reflecting the essential role that the natural rhythms of time play in the process of healing and restoration. Gareth hopes his compositions bring peace and tranquillity into the homes of those who have endured hardships, uniting people with the transcendental power of music, and sharing his own experiences with the wider world. This exclusive folio presents all 14 solo piano pieces from Music for Healing and includes a specially written preface from Gareth Malone./ Répertoire / Piano

The ten pieces of this edition, written varyingly using 2/4, 3/4 or 4/4 time signatures, are entertaining, rhythmically lively and, above all, easy to learn. The pieces, originating in Brazil, Columbia, Peru and Argentina, are all either based on traditional music or are popular works written more recently.

From the contents
?Baila Negra? (Colombia), ?Sambalelê? (Brazil), ?Senora Chichera? (Bolivia), ?Goza mi mambo? (Cuba; A. Arcano)

The author
Jean Kleeb was born in Brazil and lives in Germany, where he is a freelance musician, teacher, pianist and choir director. He completed his music studies in 1988 in São Paulo and began teaching at the University of Gießen in 1992. Since 2005 he has been the conductor of the Brazilian choir ?Vozes do Brasiles?. / Jazz / Partition / Agrafé /

Par FAURE GABRIEL. Gabriel Faure 's Nocturnes, nos. 1-8. Gabriel Faure was born in Pamiers (Ariège) on 12 May 1845. Owing to his precocious musical gifts, he was able, at the age of nine, to enter the celebrated Niedermeyer School, founded in Paris to train organists and choirmasters. For about ten years he received instruction of great quality, centred mainly on the study of sacred music and the great classic masterpieces, into which he was initiated notably by Camille Saint-Saë ns, his Piano teacher. As soon as he left the school, Faure began a brilliant career as an organist. In 1896 he succeededTheodore Dubois as an organist at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris, and was appointed professor of composition at the Conservatory, where his pupils included Ravel, Koechlin, Enesco and Schmitt. Meanwhile, he had met Liszt in Weimar and had been initiated into Wagner's art, which, however, never really influenced him. Appointed director of the Conservatory in 1905 after Theodore Dubois' resignation, a member of the French Institute and music critic, Faure spent his last years in solitude, suffering from an irreversible deafness that obliged him to resign from the Conservatory in 1920. He died in Paris on 4 th November 1924. The music of this sometimes misunderstood composer who wrote in nearly all genres (except Organ music) is of great refinement. An enemy of bombast, Faure put his elegant counterpoint, a highly individual harmonic style, unpredictable turns of phrase, and the secret of an unusual musical sensitivity at the service of music that is both varied and of very high quality./ Répertoire / Piano

Conversations with Frances Clark is a two-video set all about Frances Clark and her teachings. This intimate portrait of America's pioneer of piano pedagogy was filmed at her school, The New School for Music Study and on location at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.

Daid Lanz: Joy Noel contains Piano solo arrangements of all 15 tracks from Lanz' 2012 holiday CD.Daid Lanz: Joy Noel includes songs such as, Angel in My Stocking, Coventry Carol, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), We Three Kings and many more. / Piano