Or Organ-Born in Geneva of a jeweller father (and excellent flautist) and singer mother Marguerite Roesgen-Champion (1894-1976) was one of those rare women who reconciled family life (in 1926 she settled in Paris with her husband a philately merchant) with a professional activity devoted to music. Her abundant output graced all genres with a predilection for sacred pieces the art song the Piano and chamber music. Published respectively in 1950 and 1953 the two Nocturnes for Oboe and Piano (or Organ) have their place in the glorious tradition of French music from the between-the-wars period. The first Nocturne subtitled 'Noël' is dedicated to Pierre Bajeux(1899-1961) who taught the oboe class at the Paris Conservatoire as of 1941. Of classic ABA construction this piece as simple as it is expressive is in the form of a pastorale: here the gentle opening recitative unfolds its dreamy melancholic volutes of which the modal character would have appealed to Charles Koechlin. The second Nocturne presents subtle modulations that give it a refined elegance. In both cases this tastefully polished music invites us to stroll in an Arcadian landscape bathed in azure: 'There all is order and beauty / Luxury calm and voluptuousness'.

Par MORRICONE ENNIO. La bande sonore du film de 1986, la Mission, mettant en vedette Robert de Niro et Jeremy Irons. Un jésuite espagnol (fers à repasser) va dans le désert du sud américain pour construire une mission dans l'espoir de convertir les Indiens de la région. Robert DeNiro joue un chasseur d'esclaves qui est converti et rejoint les fers à repasser dans sa mission. Lorsque l'Espagne vend la colonie au Portugal, ils sont contraints de défendre tous qu'ils ont construit contre les agresseurs portugais./ Feuillet / Hautbois et Piano

This title is taken from Dvorak. However. The models from which the songs are derived are clearly identifiable as are the composers from whose language they have been derived. The piece appears to be in one movement though it is in fact two with a coda. The first is French in style a sort of Waltz. It is quick and harks upon the likes of Françaix and where its idiom becomes more advanced Messaien. The other is Germanic a slow movement with echoes of German expressionism - perhaps Richard Strauss perhaps Mahler. The two movements are partly complete; the cod reconciles their differences and completes them. I see the piece as my own version of En blanc et noir.

20 Progressive Pieces with Piano Accompaniment. Par SPARKE PHILIP. Starter Solos est un recueil motivant offrant une présentation structurée des techniques de jeu et d?apprentissage. Les solos composés par Philip Sparke constituent les premiers pas plaisants de votre entrée dans le formidable monde de la musique ! Les enregistrements sont disponibles en ligne au format MP3 : vous trouverez une version intégrale de chaque pièce ainsi qu?une version où ne subsiste que l?accompagnement. La version papier des accompagnements de piano est jointe au recueil./ Recueil / Hautbois et Piano