SKU: PR.114417610

ISBN 9781491107904. UPC: 680160636051. 9x12 inches.

SONATA CHO-CHO-SAN(Based on themes from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly)In the spirit of the great 19th-century opera fantasies for woodwinds, Michael Webster has created a concert trio on the many great arias from Puccini's Madama Butterfly. However, as its name implies, Sonata Cho-Cho-San is not the typical virtuosic operatic potpourri. Rather, it follows the plot, resembling a sonata mirroring Puccini's use of recurring and developing themes. Webster makes the most of the winds as versatile performers - equally suited to deliver Puccini's beautiful vocal writing, and to ornament and embroider the poignant themes in symphonic style. For advanced performers._______________________________________Text from the scanned back cover:Born in 1944, Michael Webster made his New York recital debutat Town Hall in 1968 with his eminent father, Beveridge Webster, as pianist. In the same year, he won the Young Concert Artists International Competition and succeeded his teacher, Stanley Hasty, as Principal Clarinet in the Rochester Philharmonic, a position he held for twenty years. Webster has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, with the Tokyo, Cleveland, Muir, Ying, Enso, and Dover String Quartets, and with the festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Norfolk, Chamber Music Northwest, Angel Fire, Steamboat Springs, Park City, Sitka, Kapalua, Bowdoin, Orcas Island, Skaneateles, La Musica di Asolo, Stratford, Victoria, and Domaine Forget.As soloist he has appeared with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra under Aaron Copland and the Boston Pops under John Williams. His travels have taken him as performer and teacher to most of the 50 states, as well as Canada, Mexico,Puerto Rico, Central and South America, Europe, Japan, China, Australia, and New Zealand. Webster was Acting Principal Clarinet of the San Francisco Symphony, and has served on the clarinet and/or conducting faculties of New England Conservatory, Boston University, University of Michigan, and the Eastman School, from which he earned his three degrees. Currently he is Professor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and Artistic Director of the Houston Youth Symphony, which has won multiple first prizes in national performance competitions.With his wife, flutist Leone Buyse, and pianist Robert Moeling, he plays in the Webster Trio, which has recorded his arrangements on Tour de France and World Wide Webster for Crystal Records. Otherarrangements were recorded for Nami and Camerata Tokyo in Japan with pianist Chizuko Sawa. Webster has also recorded for Albany, Arabesque, Beaumont, Bridge, Centaur, CRI, and New World. He has played at many ClarinetFests for the International Clarinet Association and written a column entitled “TeachingClarinet” in The Clarinet Magazine since 1998. Michael Webster is a Buffet artist-clinician, performing on Buffet clarinets exclusively.

SKU: BT.2003-14-400-M

ISBN 9789043137058. International.

This edition includes some of the best-loved Christmas melodies from various countries arranged for flute and piano. The melody runs twice through in different versions, each passage preceded by a prelude or interlude on the piano. On the CD, FrancoCesarini plays every piece with piano accompaniment once, followed by a play-along version that only contains the accompaniment.

De meest populaire kerstliederen uit verschillende landen verzameld in een album. De nadruk ligt op Engels kerstliederen zoals The First Noel, The Holly and the Ivy, What Child is This?, e.a. Frankrijk wordt vertegenwoordigd door Les Angesdans nos campagnes en Cantique de Noel. En uiteraard mogen het beroemde Oostenrijkse Stille Nacht en het Amerikaanse Jingle Bells niet ontbreken in deze uitgave. Op de meegeleverde cd staan twee versies van ieder kerstlied:een volledige versie en de pianobegeleiding.

Franco Cesarini arrangierte einige der beliebtesten weihnachtlichen Melodien aus verschiedenen Ländern zu kleinen weihnachtlichen Vortragstücken für Flöte und Klavier. Auf der CD läuft die Melodie in der Regel zweimal in unterschiedlichen Versionendurch, wobei jedem Durchgang ein Vor - bzw. Zwischenspiel des Klaviers vorausgeht. Franco Cesarini spielt jeden Titel einmal selbst komplett vor, dann folgt eine Begleitversion zum Mitspielen.

Les plus beaux noëls ont été rassemblés dans ce livre par Franco Cesarini, idéalement arrangés pour Fl te Traversiére & Piano. La mélodie est jouée deux fois dans des versions différentes, chaque passage étant précédé dun prélude ouinterlude au piano. Sur le CD ci-joint, chaque titre paraît dabord en version intégrale, pous dans une seconde version ne comportant que laccomagnement au piano.

Un´edizione che raccoglie alcune delle melodie natalizie più amate provenienti da vari paesi. L´accento è posto sui canti natalizi inglesi quali The First Noel, The Holly And the Ivy, What Child is this e altri. La Francia è rappresentata daLes Anges dans nos campagnes e dal Cantique de Noel. Non possono mancare l´austriaca Stille Nacht e Jingle Bells dagli Stati Uniti. La melodia è generalmente proposta in due versioni: ogni passaggio è preceduto da unpreludio o da un interludio al piano.

SKU: HL.48180548

UPC: 888680946098. 9.0x12.0x0.052 inches.

The Little White Donkey is a famous piece initially composed by Jacques Ibert (1890-1962). Arranged by the French flautist Marcel Moyse, and part of the set called Stories, this piece is the second one in the list of six. Rated as medium, its scores lasts two pages for flute and four for piano. Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), a neoclassical composer who won the Prix de Rome in 1919, also composed many symphonic suites, operas and seven orchestras, including Angelique (1926) and Entertainment (1930). He was also in charge of the Accademie de France in the Villa Medicis (Roma) and was later administrator for the Paris Opera.

SKU: HL.48180902

UPC: 888680787592. 9.0x12.0x0.047 inches.

Aria, written in 1930 by Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), is a small study initially for voice and piano but arranged in this edition for alto saxophone and piano. This version and the one for flute and piano are the ones most commonly used. The alto saxophone score is one-page long and contains technical difficulties that would make it ideal for an upper intermediate player. Its author, Jacques Ibert (1890-1962), was a neoclassical composer who won the Prix de Rome in 1919. He composed many symphonic suites, operas and seven orchestras, including 'Angelique' (1926) and 'Entertainment' (1930). He also was in charge of the Accademie de France in the Villa Medicis (Roma) and was later administrator for the Paris Opera.