SKU: HL.48185213

UPC: 888680850999. 9.0x12.0x0.121 inches.

Leslie Bassett: Sonata (Trombone & Piano).

SKU: CY.CC2578

The Cello Sonata No. 2 was published in 1887, more than 20 years after his first. The Sonata is dedicated to Robert Hausmann who had premiered the 1st Sonata and was a collaborator with Joseph Joachim in the premier of the Double Concerto.

The work is in four movements:

Allegro vivace
Adagio
Allegro passionata
Allegro molto (rondo)

Sonata No. 2 is a major work of over 30 minutes in length, having been exquisitely arranged by Ralph Sauer for advanced performers,

Cherry Classics is the distributor for Balquhidder Music.

SKU: M7.KECF-3

ISBN 9790502360030. German English.

Eine Sonate in frischer moderner Tonsprache ohne atonal zu sein, die auf dem Motiv F-B-Es-C-F aufgebaut ist und aus den drei Sätzen Allegro, Adagio und Allegro con brio besteht.

SKU: KN.12552

UPC: 822795125528.

This Johann Friedrich Fasch piece, originally composed for bassoon, has been performed by instrumentalists other than bassoonists for decades. This edition for tenor trombone requires a skilled trombonist (grade 6) who possesses great dexterity with the slide. The tessitura has been carefully altered so that it falls within a range that is more suitable for the tenor trombone, eliminating notes that were below the staff. Trombonist Gerald Felker has carefully edited this piece so as to not compromise the musical integrity. Total duration 15:45.

SKU: CY.CC3086

ISBN 9790530110638. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

Purcell's Sonata was originally written for Trumpet in D about 1694 and has been deftly arranged in the original key for alto trombone and piano or organ by Jeremy Niles Kempton. The 5-minute work for moderately advanced performers is in three movements: Fast - Slow - Fast.

SKU: CY.CC2543

Granados was a Spanish composer whose music had the unique style of his homeland burned into his soul. He was also a very talented painter in the style of Goya.

The Two Dances, 1. Oriental and 2. Fandango are taken from the 12 danzas espanolas, volume I from 1890, for Piano.

Mr. Sauer has brilliantly taken the solo Piano part and divided it between solo Trombone and Piano.

Trombonists will enjoy working on this style of Spanish Nationalist music of which there is none in the solo repertoire.

The Two Dances (in tenor clef) are about 6 1/2 minutes in length and can be performed by advanced musicians.

The mp3 sample is an excerpt of the Bass Trombone version taken from a live performance at the 2012 Academy of the West Festival performed by David Hagee and Luis Ortiz, Pianist.

SKU: BT.EMBZ5143

The manuscript of the here published work by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger has been preserved at the Music Collection of the National Széchényi Library, Budapest, as part of the former Esterházy Archives. The year of its composing 1769.

Das Originalmanuskript des vorliegenden Werkes von Johann Georg Albrechtsberger ist in der Musiksammlung der Nationalbibliothek Széchényi, Budapest - als ein Stück aus dem ehemaligen Musikarchiv Esterházy - aufbewahrt. Das Entstehungsjahr des Werkes ist 1769.

SKU: CY.CC3136

ISBN 9790530111055. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

This fine work has sat dormant for many years and has now come to light thanks to the efforts of Charlie Vernon, Bass Trombonist of the Chicago Symphony, who performed this virtuoso work as a young performer. The concerto is in the standard three movement form: Fast, slow, fast. This publication is a reduction from the original orchestral version (to be released at some point in the future). Here is a description of the Concerto by the composer, John W. Ware. I started on the trombone concerto in my junior year studying composition at Indiana University. While working on it, I learned of an opportunity to make it sort of a thesis piece (though students didn't write a thesis in composition while an undergrad). The original version was for trombone with string orchestra, and it was performed by the IU String Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Arthur Corra, with Robert Priez, trombone, as part of my senior composition recital. I thought the performance was quite good (Priez played extraordinarily well), and the piece received a newspaper review in the Indiana Daily Student, in which the reviewer wrote that the work was almost too exciting. I thought at the time that he had given me and my music a fine compliment. I made a piano version of the accompaniment, shortening and tightening the first movement, for performances in 1966; I made a second revision in 1967 for a performance by E. J. Eaton, trombonist at the University of Tennessee at Martin, arriving at the form in which the work exists now. The first movement is in fairly normal sonata-allegro form, in the key of A minor. It alternates between assertive and more thoughtful moods. There is no introduction; the soloist enters immediately and dominates much of the movement. The main theme is--by some manipulation--a source for most of the other themes, and all of the themes are used in close proximity to each other, including contrapuntal combinations, especially near the end. Originally the movement included a lengthy fugato, now much shortened and including a stretto that builds and subsides before a cadenza leading to a coda based on both the principal and secondary themes. Key relations in this movement, as in the other two, are quite free and often chromatic, with frequent third-relations; but returns to the tonic at the end are emphatic. The writing is challenging for both soloist and accompanist; the piece is substantial, requiring technique and stamina. The second movement is in F minor and is also built on both contrast and close relationships between the main and secondary themes. The main theme is heard in the piano part before the soloist enters. The mood is more lyric than in the first movement, but with dramatic episodes also. In this movement are some definite derivations from themes in the first movement. The ending is a sort of lengthened shadow of the opening. The finale returns to A minor, with themes slightly related to polonaise rhythms, but with strong echoes of first-movement themes. Here, too, dramatic and lyric episodes alternate, with dotted rhythms frequently propelling the music forward. The introduction is a brief and simple preparation for the solo entry. Later in the movement, a very brief, slightly slower section is soon overtaken by the original tempo. Toward the end, there is a second cadenza, again leading to a swift and energetic coda. The work is about 20 minutes in length and is appropriate for advanced performers.