SKU: BT.ALHE32211

French.

French Baroque organist and composer, François Roberday (1624-1680) is best known today for his Fugues And Caprices collected and published in a superb volume by Le Pupitre.

Roberday's Fugues And Caprices are four-part contrapuntal Organ pieces. Each Fugue is paired with a Caprice on the same subject, and with an exciting 12 Fugues and Caprices included in the collection,Roberday's compositions cannot be missed. Moreover, with a preface in English, French and German, Fugues And Caprices are essential to the repertoire of all Baroque organists.

SKU: BT.YE0036

Four movements, top part advanced. Several recordings and many broadcasts. Duration c.13'.

Programme Notes:

The Swiss composer Joseph Lauber was born at Ruswil near Lucerne in 1864. After studying with Heger in Zürich and Rheinberger in Munich, Lauber worked with Diémer and Massenet in Paris. With Massenet he learnt a great deal about orchestration, a subject that he subsequently taught until the end of his life at the Geneva conservatoire as well as piano and composition. He died in 1952.

Lauber's 193 catalogued works are many and varied. He wrote for all instruments and in every genre except oratorio and opera. Among his output areseveral works for double bass, most written for Prof. Hans Fryba, a personal friend with whom he worked as a double bass and piano recital duo. Fryba was one of the leading players in Europe in his day and was principal of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. First was Theme and Variations (1936-7) and a Rhapsodie with orchestra (1937). Three Walzes followed in 1939, a Gavotte and Gigue, a Sonata and then in 1943 Fantasie de Concert, written for the Geneva Competition. Four Caprices appeared in 1942, the same date as the Quartet for double basses which was dedicated to Fryba and written for the Berlin Philharmonic Double Bass Quartet, one of the first ever such ensembles to exist.

The Quartet for double basses was revived by Klaus Stoll in the 1970s for the Philharmonic Double Bass Quartet at that time to play. It was subsequently published in 1975 by Yorke Edition by kind permission of the composer's son Edmund Lauber.

Rodney Slatford 2004

SKU: SU.00220522

This CD Sheet Musicâ?¢ collection brings together over 60 duets for every technical level by twenty-four composers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Works include: Beethoven (Grosse Fuge, Variations on a Theme of Count von Waldstein); Bizet (Jeux d'enfants, Books IandII); Brahms (Hungarian Dances, Liebeslieder Waltzes); Clementi (Sonata in C major); Debussy (La Mer, Petite Suite); Diabelli (Twenty-eight Melodious Pieces); Dvorák (Slavonic Dances); Fauré (Dolly); Grieg (Norwegian Dances, Waltz-Caprices); Haydn (Il Masstro e Lo Scolare); Liszt (Les Preludes), Mendelssohn (Allegro Brilliant); Moszkowski (Spanish Dances); Mozart (Fugue, Sonatas); Mussorgsky (Sonata); Rachmaninoff (Six Pieces); Ravel (Mother Goose); Rimsky-Korsakov (Sheherezade), Satie (La Belle Excentrique, Parade, Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire); Schubert (Divertissement à la Hongroise, Lebensstürme, Three Military Marches); Schumann (Twelve Pieces for Large and Small Children, Kinderbal); Stravinsky (Five Easy Pieces; Le Sacre du Printemps); Weber (Mazurka, Romanza, Sonata in C), and more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Groveâ??s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1000 pages

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