SKU: HL.219853

UPC: 888680669164. 5.25x5 inches.

Lift High the Cross features five creative sola-themed piano arrangements by Jenny Jee-El Park. These challenging, artistic arrangements portray a wide spectrum of emotions and styles related to these important tenets of the Christian faith. The book includes additional information in the score to assist the performer's knowledge of what they are expressing. This demonstration CD of all the songs is performed by the arranger.

SKU: ST.C463

ISBN 9790570814633.

This volume contains contrasting works by Federico Ruiz spanning quite a large and rich period of his compositional output that goes from his early Micro-Suite (1971), to lilting, sweet and rhythmic Venezuelan waltzes passing by the mysterious, intimate, and intense Nocturno (1994) plus pieces originally composed for film, and theatre. Real eclecticism in styles, moods and atmospheres that show Ruizâ??s talents and scope.

The Nocturno is a deep, intriguing, substantial piece presenting a satisfying length which moves from different paths of the mind and the heart written in an abstract, chromatic idiom, that does not dissociate itself from the Venezuelan waltz and the joropo. One could perhaps say that there is a deconstruction of the latter. For the interpretation, the composer has suggested to me that it is allowed to have some flexibility in the tempo. Ruiz kindly dedicated it to me, and I have had the pleasure of performing it in many concerts.

Although all highly expressive, the Three Venezuelan Waltzes present in this collection as well as the piece titled Aliseo, are works that are close to the colourful Venezuelan folk tradition. Federico Ruiz had given me two of them when we first met: â??Tu Presenciaâ?? (1981) and â??Eloísaâ?? (1989) and then I attended a performance of the play â??Office Number Oneâ?? by Miguel Otero Silva with a fantastic actor, Elba Escobar in the role of Carmen Rosa and, I just fell in love and was very moved by the incidental music that I later discovered, by reading the programme, had been written by Federico Ruiz. Later that evening, I called him and asked to please make a piano score of the composition, so I could have the desired piece in my hands. That is how â??Carmen Rosaâ? waltz (1987) came to exist in a piano version.

â??Eloisaâ?? is another Venezuelan waltz with more jazzy harmonies where precision in the rhythm and elegant playing is also essential, as it is in most of his pieces.

â??Tu Presenciaâ?? was dedicated to his mother, Margarita. It is written with the structure of the Venezuelan waltz, which consists of a nostalgic subject that leads to a faster, happier middle section where the typical graceful rhythm is given by the left-hand accompaniment figure of a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver and a crotchet.

The craft and magic found in the five movements of the Micro-Suite is based on a dodecaphonic row by Ernst Krenek. They remind us of the idiom of the Second Viennese School. These real miniatures seem to tell short stories. The â??Preludioâ?? is full of humour. I imagine dancing figures given by the jumps all over the keyboard and extreme dynamics; the phrases give the impression of a conversation with many questions and answers. The â??Invenciónâ?? is a kaleidoscopic piece where the hands mirror each other. The â??Passacagliaâ?? is the longest movement, at just over a minute where the prime motif is repeated three times on the bass line. For its construction Federico Ruiz uses as well the retrograde and the retrograde inversion of the twelve-tone series. It must be played expressively with dynamic contrasts between pianissimo and louder events. The â??Scherzoâ?? has repetitive motifs of a minor third in both hands and the â??Finalâ?? displays virtuosic passages for the pianist.

Aliseo was originally written for the film â??Aire libreâ? (1995), by Luis Armando Roche. It contains elements of diverse types of Venezuelan joropo. In the film, the character of Aliseo Carvallo is played by the composer himself who performs this piece on a harpsichord to welcome scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland one day at the turn of the 1800â??s, as a sample of the new music from the South American land. It presents the refinement of the late European classical era in fusion with Venezuelan folk music.

SKU: ST.C203

ISBN 9790570812035.

Pat Goddard was left to ponder what the great composers were doing in their early years. Following meticulous research, the result was a new series for piano: Great Little Composers.

Mozart was a prolific composer from such an early age, and died so young, that so much of what he wrote could be bracketed into the â??young composerâ? category!The works in this book however, begin with those composed for harpsichord and notated by his Father Leopold when Mozart was only 5 years old, and conclude with works for fortepiano written when he was 18.

SKU: ST.C197

ISBN 9790570811977.

SKU: ST.C238

ISBN 9790570812387.

SKU: ST.C465

ISBN 9790570814657.

This album of pieces reunites some of the compositions edited by Heugel in Paris from about 1868, plus two works from Carreño’s maturity.

Part 2 of 2
Edited by Clara Rodriguez
Grades 7–8+ and beyond

CONTENTS

Un Rêve en Mer Op. 28
(A Dream by the Sea / Un Sueño en el Mar)

Esquisses Italiennes No 1: Venise Op. 33
(Italian Sketches: Venice / Venecia)

Mazurka de Salón Op.30 15

Intermezzo-Scherzoso Op. 34.

Le Sommeil de l’Enfant Op. 35
(The Child’s Sleep/ El Sueño del Niño)

Vals Gayo Op. 38
(Happy Waltz)

La Fausse Note
(The Wrong Note/ La Nota Falsa)

Mi Teresita waltz
(Kleiner Walzer, Petitte Valse, Little Waltz).

SKU: ST.C257

ISBN 9790570812578.

SKU: ST.C462

ISBN 9790570814626.

Federico Ruiz finds constant inspiration in the rich popular and folkloric music of his country, the very thing that first attracted Clara Rodriguez to his compositions. They first met in 1993 and she became acquainted not only with his music, but, through it, discovered the precision and the soft expressiveness of each of the numerous rhythms of Latin America and the Caribbean. His music is a sophisticated synthesis of Latin American styles that, amongst many other traits, expresses the subtle interface between â??classicalâ?? and â??popularâ?? music of the continent.

Tríptico Tropical, Merengue and Zumba que Zumba.

SKU: ST.C124

ISBN 9790570811243.

SKU: ST.C340

ISBN 9790570813407.

SKU: ST.C332

ISBN 9790570813322.

SKU: ST.C106

ISBN 9790570811069.

SKU: ST.C194

ISBN 9790570811946.

SKU: ST.C186

ISBN 9790570811861.