SKU: HL.49047343

UPC: 196288201977.

The sea shanty â??The Wellermanâ? became a hit overnight through Nathan Evans. Recorder player Sarah Jeffery takes it up and provides variations that are really fun to play. Two alternative versions, also in the audios (full version and playbacks) are tailored to both an intermediate and an advanced level of difficulty. Sarah Jeffery can of course also be heard on the recording and gives info, tips and tricks in the video. For treble recorder and piano, other accompaniment also possible due to included chord symbols.

SKU: HL.333751

SKU: BR.PB-5650

ISBN 9790004215470. 10.5 x 14 inches.

Daphnis et Chloe is certainly not only one of Ravel's best works, but also one of French music's most beautiful creations, thus, Stravinsky's view of this ballet in his memoirs, published in 1935. Composing the work, commissioned by the Ballets Russes, turned out to be problematic, involving linguistic differences and remuneration disagreements that dragged on among the choreographer, impresario, and composer. Too few rehearsals, a difficult choreography, tricky 5/4-meter, and other oddities in the music probably led, ultimately, to a subdued reception of the work at its Paris premiere in 1912. Only a later production with costumes and set by Chagall significantly contributed to the ballet's success. Today the work is a monument to Impressionist orchestration, incorporating the narration within the sound material. Each instrument is treated in the most effective way possible. Remarkable are the strings' extreme divisi, their harmonics' glissandi, and other enigmatic effects, such as utilizing a wordless chorus. Individual performances without choir likely go back to a makeshift arrangement that Ravel produced to facilitate performance at less prominent venues. The appendix to the Urtext edition includes this alternative version. The Ravel specialist Jean-Francois Monnard has also edited this ballet with detailed attention to the customary Urtext standard. The preface and critical report include numerous references to both genesis and performance history as well as interpretation, correcting also previously handed-down errors. The large format of the conductor's score and orchestral parts are easy to read and support the clarity and transparency of the modern notation without any loss to the magic of Ravel's music. Stay tuned for the publication of the corresponding suites in the upcoming years.

SKU: HL.48025250

UPC: 196288142942.

The composer and conductor Oliver Knussen (1952 - 2018) was loved by many companions for his generosity and musical intellect. To Detlev Glanert, whose works he loved to perform, he was a friend and one of his 'personal heroes'. By his own admission, he learned attention to detail from 'Olly', with whom he worked at Tanglewood as early as 1986. If Glanert's Trumpet Concerto, composed in 2018, is the large-scale symphonic homage to his role model, the solo “Little Letter to Olly” does the same in a small format. Two elegiac adagio sections frame a boisterous presto with all kinds of virtuoso tricks. The 'Letter without Words' owes its existence to a suggestion by the cellist Anssi Karttunen, who asked for commemorative pieces for Knussen's 70th birthday from a number of composers and premiered them at the Aldeburgh Festival 2022.

SKU: CF.PF23

ISBN 9780825879456. UPC: 798408079451. 14 x 11 inches.

One of a series of challenging solos for various instruments, Debussy Variations #2 addresses the viola as performer. Written in 1977, Kavanaugh's composition involves multiple new techniques along with humming vocal sonics, all detailed graphically in the score. His musical notation is a hybrid with his own highly stylized concept, all explained at the outset. In truth, although Kavanaugh's writing is specific, no two performances will be the same. For advanced violists.