Concertino No. 1 in F major for cello and piano. In The Platinum Series this excellent piece has been published in an edition for clarinet. On the CD that comes with the book you will first hear the piano accompaniment alone, followed by the demo version with both clarinet and piano. It is of course more instructive and enjoyable to play with a live accompanist if you can, using the piano part that is also included. This piece is a great addition to the clarinet repertoire!

Een van de bekendste werken van Jean-Baptiste Breval is het Concertino No. 1 in F major voor cello en piano. Dit is voor The Platinum Series speciaal voor de klarinet bewerkt. Op de fantastische cd zijn eerst de pianobegeleidingente horen en vervolgens de schitterende demoversies - met klarinet en een live ingespeelde piano. Natuurlijk is het nog leerzamer en aangenamer om echt samen met een pianist te musiceren. Een aanwinst voor het klarinetrepetoire!

Das ursprunglich fur Cello und Klavier geschriebene Concertino Nr. 1 in F-Dur des franzosischen Komponisten Jean-Baptiste Breval. Das dreiteilige Werk setzt sich aus einem lebhaften Allegro, einem lyrischen, majestatischen Mittelteil und einem resoluten Allegretto zusammen. Anstelle des Pianisten kann auch zur beiliegenden CD gespielt werden, auf der neben der Begleitung auch eine vollstandige Demoversion zu horen ist.Die Reihe The Platinum Series enthalt bekannte klassische Werke fur verschiedene Instrumente, die nun verschiedenen Holzblasern zuganglich gemacht wurden und sich in ihrer neuen Form wunderbar als Konzertstucke eignen. Die CDs derPlatinum Series bieten Ihnen die Gelegenheit, zu einer schonen Begleitung, die live mit Klavier, Cembalo, Kammerensemble oder gar Sinfonieorchester eingespielt wurde, zu spielen. Auf der CD erklingen jeweils alle Begleitungen und Demo-Versionen. Die Stucke mit Basso continuo, der auf dem Klavier oder Cembalogespielt werden kann, enthalten jeweils eine separate Solo- und Cellostimme, sodass sie auch von einem Ensemble aufgefuhrt werden konnen. Alle sechs Ausgaben sind im Schwierigkeitsgrad mittelschwer - schwer.

La collection Platinum Series rassemble des œuvres classiques composees a l'origine pour divers instrument et idealement adaptees pour des instruments a vent de la famille des bois. Chaque ouvrage de cette collection est enrichi d'un compact disc (version integrale + accompagnement) d'une grande qualite musicale. Pour vous offrir un excellent confort de jeu, les accompagnements ont ete confies au piano, au clavecin, a un ensemble de musique de chambre et quelquefois meme a un Orchestre Symphonique. Les oeuvres avec basse continue (adaptee pour le piano ou le clavecin) disposent d'une partie soliste et d'une partie pour violoncelle separees afin de pouvoir constituer unensemble instrumental.

La collezione The Platinum Series e sinonimo di alta qualita. Troverete le piu importanti pagine di musica trascritte per strumenti a fiato. Sul CD sono registrati dapprima l'intero brano col solista, e poi le sole basi musicali d'accompagnamento, realizzate con strumenti autentici che realizzano il basso continuo al clavicembalo. Da oggi potrete interpretare col saxofono le musiche di grandi compositori come Benedetto Marcello, oppure suonare al clarinetto la trascrizione del Concerto n.1 di Breval per violoncello. Per le composizioni da suonare in duo, troverete sul CD sia l'incisione completa del brano, che la sola seconda voce o il solo Basso continuo, cosi da potersuonare sia da soli che assieme ad un vostro amico.

SKU: PR.31241902A

UPC: 680160690510. English.

Commissioned by the San Francisco Choral Society and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Terra Nostra is a 70-minute oratorio on the relationship between our planet and humankind, how this relationship has shifted over time, and how we can re-establish a harmonious balance. Part I: Creation of the World explores various creation myths from different cultures, culminating in a joyous celebration of the beauty of our planet. Part II: The Rise of Humanity examines human achievements, particularly since the dawn of our Industrial Age, and how these achievements have impacted the planet. Part III: Searching for Balance questions how to create more awareness for our planet’s plight, re-establish a deeper connection to it, and find a balance for living within our planet’s resources. In addition to the complete oratorio, stand-alone movements for mixed chorus, and for solo voice with piano, are also available separately.
Terra Nostra focuses on the relationship between our planet and mankind, how this relationship has shifted over time, and how we can re-establish a harmonious balance. The oratorio is divided into three parts:Part I: Creation of the World celebrates the birth and beauty of our planet. The oratorio begins with creation myths from India, North America, and Egypt that are integrated into the opening lines of Genesis from the Old Testament. The music surges forth from these creation stories into “God’s World” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, which describes the world in exuberant and vivid detail. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “On thine own child” praises Mother Earth for her role bringing forth all life, while Walt Whitman sings a love song to the planet in “Smile O voluptuous cool-breathed earth!” Part I ends with “A Blade of Grass” in which Whitman muses how our planet has been spinning in the heavens for a very long time.Part II: The Rise of Humanity examines the achievements of mankind, particularly since the dawn of the Industrial Age. Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” sets an auspicious tone that mankind is on the verge of great discoveries. This is followed in short order by Charles Mackay’s “Railways 1846,” William Ernest Henley’s “A Song of Speed,” and John Gillespie Magee, Jr.’s “High Flight,” each of which celebrates a new milestone in technological achievement. In “Binsey Poplars,” Gerard Manley Hopkins takes note of the effect that these advances are having on the planet, with trees being brought down and landscapes forever changed. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “A Dirge” concludes Part II with a warning that the planet is beginning to sound a grave alarm.Part III: Searching for Balance questions how we can create more awareness for our planet’s plight, re-establish a deeper connection to it, and find a balance for living within our planet’s resources. Three texts continue the earth’s plea that ended the previous section: Lord Byron’s “Darkness” speaks of a natural disaster (a volcano) that has blotted out the sun from humanity and the panic that ensues; contemporary poet Esther Iverem’s “Earth Screaming” gives voice to the modern issues of our changing climate; and William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much With Us” warns us that we are almost out of time to change our course. Contemporary/agrarian poet Wendell Berry’s “The Want of Peace” speaks to us at the climax of the oratorio, reminding us that we can find harmony with the planet if we choose to live more simply, and to recall that we ourselves came from the earth. Two Walt Whitman texts (“A Child said, What is the grass?” and “There was a child went forth every day”) echo Berry’s thoughts, reminding us that we are of the earth, as is everything that we see on our planet. The oratorio concludes with a reprise of Whitman’s “A Blade of Grass” from Part I, this time interspersed with an additional Whitman text that sublimely states, “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love…”My hope in writing this oratorio is to invite audience members to consider how we interact with our planet, and what we can each personally do to keep the planet going for future generations. We are the only stewards Earth has; what can we each do to leave her in better shape than we found her?

SKU: CF.YAS210

ISBN 9781491160442. UPC: 680160919031.

In the dim moonlight on a night long past a rider emerges from the fog and slowly dares to cross a mysterious and unsettling bridge. The trembling rider hesitates, unsure whether he is more nervous about the legend of the headless horseman or the creaking and shifting he feels under his own horse's hooves. Haunted Bridges is a work for string orchestra inspired by Washington Irving's Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated ride in Sleepy Hollow. The piece contains allusions to the tune London Bridge is Falling Down, first as a creeping counter-melody and later as a theme in a twisted 3/4 section whose shifting harmonic progression draws to mind the fall of the fabled bridge. Haunted Bridges contains alternating F/C sharps and naturals throughout and devilishly unpredictable harmonic patterns. The piece also calls for numerous extended techniques that students will enjoy, including playing behind the bridge, sul ponticello, portamento, and seagull glissandi. Special techniques: Haunted Bridges calls for a handful of extended techniques, most of which are self explanatory or commonly known. The technique appearing in the Violin II part from measures 58-72 may require some additional explanation. This figure is sometimes referred to as seagull glissando and is achieved by lightly touching the finger to the string and gliding up and down the string, producing many transient natural harmonics as the finger crosses the nodes of the string. It is suggested to start with the 3rd finger on the A string and slowly glissando up beyond the natural A harmonic, then slowly back down, continuing in this pattern until measure 73. It is also intended for each player to vary their speed slightly so that the timing of the glissandi are all a little different, resulting in a shimmering, aleatoric effect.
In the dim moonlight on a night long past a rider emerges from the fog and slowly dares to cross a mysterious and unsettling bridge. The trembling rider hesitates, unsure whether he is more nervous about the legend of the headless horseman or the creaking and shifting he feels under his own horse's hooves. Haunted Bridges is a work for string orchestra inspired by Washington Irving's Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated ride in Sleepy Hollow. The piece contains allusions to the tune London Bridge is Falling Down, first as a creeping counter-melody and later as a theme in a twisted 3/4 section whose shifting harmonic progression draws to mind the fall of the fabled bridge. Haunted Bridges contains alternating F/C  sharps and naturals throughout and devilishly unpredictable harmonic patterns. The piece also calls for numerous extended techniques that students will enjoy, including playing behind the bridge, sul ponticello, portamento, and seagull glissandi.Special techniques:Haunted Bridges calls for a handful of extended techniques, most of which are self explanatory or commonly known. The technique appearing in the Violin II part from measures 58-72 may require some additional explanation. This figure is sometimes referred to as seagull glissando and is achieved by lightly touching the finger to the string and gliding up and down the string, producing many transient natural harmonics as the finger crosses the nodes of the string. It is suggested to start with the 3rd finger on the A string and slowly glissando up beyond the natural A harmonic, then slowly back down, continuing in this pattern until measure 73. It is also intended for each player to vary their speed slightly so that the timing of the glissandi are all a little different, resulting in a shimmering, aleatoric effect.

About Carl Fischer Young String Orchestra Series

This series of Grade 2/Grade 2.5 pieces is designed for second and third year ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
--Occasionally extending to third position
--Keys carefully considered for appropriate difficulty
--Addition of separate 2nd violin and viola parts
--Viola T.C. part included
--Increase in independence of parts over beginning levels