SKU: CY.CC2656

--This work is the third from a collection of five short pieces Beethoven wrote for Flotenuhr or mechanical clock, discovered a number of years after his death.

--Their true origin was uncovered by Professor Albert Kopfermann, a German musician/librarian, who solved the mystery about their instrumentation.

--This delightful Allegro movement has been transposed into the key of D from G and arranged for moderately advanced performers by Ralph Sauer.

--Your audience will love this little gem as the clock slows down and stops before the final cadence. It will make a great encore piece.

SKU: CY.CC2722

The Chants du Rhin (Songs of the Rhine), a cycle of six pieces, based on poems by Joseph Mery, were written in 1865, and Bizet performed two of them on 16 April 1866 at a soiree of the Beaujolais Philharmonic Society. The songs are grouped symmetrically around La bohemienne as the central piece, framed by two meditatively yearning pieces (in E and D flat major) and two vividly exuberant ones (similarly in E and D flat major), with L'aurore serving as an introduction.

In this cycle Bizet takes up the theme of the gypsy girl which had already entered European music in the operas The Bohemian Girl by the Irish composer Michael William Balfe and Verdi's Il trovatore, as well as in Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies for piano. Bizet will return to it one year later in La jolie fille de Perth and ten years later in Carmen. The fourth piece Les confidences shows similarities in tonality, structure and motifs to the middle part of the third movement of Chopin's Sonata in B minor.

This version includes parts in B-flat treble clef as well as bass clef.

SKU: BT.DHP-1165692-401

ISBN 9789043150040. English-German-French-Dutch.

This is the dream of every young hippopotamus… to wake up in the sun, have a bath, eat something, play in the water and… to fall asleep again…! The composer Pascal Proust has many years’ experience as a musician and music teacher. His output includes several hundred compositions for the most diverse instrumentations. He wrote Little Hippo for euphonium players at the level of approximately one year’s study and paid special attention to an easy-to-follow, attractive musical style. As a result, Little Hippo is an ideal performance or competition work for young musicians.

De droom van elk jong nijlpaard… wakker worden in de zon, baden, eten, spelen in het water en… weer lekker in slaap vallen…! De componist Pascal Proust kan bogen op een jarenlange ervaring als muzikant en muziekdocent. Zijn oeuvre omvat honderden composities voor de meest diverse instrumentaties. Hij schreef Little Hippo voor euphoniumspelers die ongeveer een jaar les hebben gehad, waarbij hij speciaal aandacht heeft besteed aan een makkelijk te volgen, aantrekkelijke muziekstijl. Daardoor is Little Hippo een ideaal voordrachts- of wedstrijdstuk voor jonge muzikanten.

Der Traum eines jeden kleinen Flusspferdes: in der Sonne aufwachen, baden, essen, im Wasser spielen… und wieder einschlafen! Der Komponist Pascal Proust kann aus seiner langjährigen Erfahrung als Musiker und Musikpädagoge schöpfen; sein Oeuvre umfasst mehrere hundert Kompositionen für verschiedenste Besetzungen. Er schrieb Little Hippo für Euphoniumspieler mit ungefähr einem Jahr Unterrichtserfahrung und legte besonderes Augenmerk auf einen leicht verständlichen, attraktiven musikalischen Stil. Dadurch eignet sich Little Hippo ideal als Vortrags- und Wettbewerbsstück für junge Musiker.

Voici le rêve de tout jeune hippopotame … se réveiller au soleil, se baigner, manger, jouer dans l’eau et … se rendormir !…. Le compositeur Pascal Proust puise volonté dans son immense expérience de musicien et professeur de musique ; son catalogue d’oeuvres englobe plusieurs centaines de compositions pour divers instruments. Il a notamment écrit Little Hippo pour joueurs d’euphonium ayant environ une année de pratique, dans un style musical accessible et coloré. De ce fait, Little Hippo est la pièce idéale pour tout examen ou audition de jeunes musiciens.

SKU: ST.H474

ISBN 9790220222900.

A Short Sonata is a work written at around Grade 8 standard for euphonium and piano. In each of the work's three movements, different qualities of the instrument are utilised and explored. In the first movement, an Allegro in 6/8 time, these qualities are the instrument's general agility, and its ability to play fast-moving melodies in a way that drives the music forward. Throughout, different ways of phrasing similar material are used to create interest and a varied sound. In the second, slow movement, the resonant and majestic way in which the euphonium can deliver lyrical melodic lines is explored. The movement is made up of four long phrases which peak dynamically at the third, giving room for interpretation and feeling. The third movement exploits the instrument's ability to play loudly and aggressively, using lots of accented notes, hairpin crescendos and quick double-tonguing.

A Short Sonata was the winner of the first Stainer & Bell Award for Brass Composition, held at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff in May 2010.