SKU: HL.4007919

And we're off! Otto M. Schwarz takes us on a tour of his native Austria in this six-movement work. Passing by the great landmarks of this beautiful country we're travelling by narrow-gauge railway, by car and finally by high-speed train. Fabled castles, famous gardens in Salzburg (the Mirabell Gardens) and Vienna or the Schloss Esterházy, the palace in Burgenland, where Joseph Haydn worked for many years, are just as important as the mode of transport. As the saying goes, the journey is its own reward. Movements include: The Journey, On the Road, Castles and Legends, Mirabell Gardens, Schloss Esterhazy, High Speed Train.

SKU: HL.3712016

UPC: 196288220589. 4.5x8.5x9.0 inches.

The DT 990 PRO is an open headphone, which is especially suitable for studio applications. Its reduced diaphragm mass means exceptional impulse response, resulting in an excellent reproduction quality. Its robust spring steel headband provides a secure fit and withstands all the stresses and strains of everyday studio use. Soft headband and ear pads ensure a high level of comfort. The single-sided cable makes it easier to handle the headphones when they have to be constantly put on and taken off.

SKU: BR.EB-6773

ISBN 9790004169728. 9 x 12 inches.

The pieces contained in the present volume provide a link between the easy, dance-like movements contained in the Anna Magdalena Bach Book and the two-part inventions. The text corresponds very largely to that of the original source; missing dynamic and tempo markings must be supplied by the player himself in accordance with the character of each piece. The training of the student's feeling for style must begin here, his technical capabilities being taken into account. The occasionally simplified ornaments can also be treated in this manner. The fingerings are intended as suggestions for small hands; they must, of course, be adapted to the particular player's hands, taking tempo and phrasing into consideration. The editor has attempted to solve the problems of phrasing and articulation by means of his own suggestions, but without cluttering the text too much. Various alternative solutions (as indicated in no. 3) are possible, and should - insofar as they make musical sense- be realized in practice. By independently choosing a phrasing and writing it into the music himself, the student improves his unterstanding of the polyphonic structure and the form. Heinz Walter, Salzburg, Spring 1977.

SKU: ST.W182

ISBN 9790220207617.

Antony Herschel Hill's Ave Verum Corpus for unaccompanied SATB is one of a number of liturgical works by this gifted composer. Written for Prebendary John Pearce and the choir of St Simon Zelotes, Chelsea, London, Hill's setting projects the awe and mystery of the text through a rich variety of harmony that particularly exploits the lower registers of the individual voices to great effect. If you have a really good choir, take advantage of this and buy it. For pure musicianship little else has equalled it recently; the sense of architecture is superb, the climaxes are clean, controlled and never contrived, and the final section, 'miserere mei', uses a wonderfully restrained sense of chromaticism. What a magic piece.

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SKU: HL.14008223

Commissioned by the St Magnus Festival with funds from the Scottish Arts Council. First performed by The Fires of London in June 1978 in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. The work takes as its starting-point a sequence of dreams related by Franz Kafka in his diaries of 1910. Eduardova was a Russian ballerina whom Kafka had seen dancing in Prague in the early part of this century. The music of The Dancer Eduardova is based on dancing, particularly the csardas which in his dream Kafka had asked the dancer to perform just one time more. Kafka's dream-sequences contain the uncomfortable contrasts of the grace of the dancer and the loathsome gestures of unconscious intriguers; there are abrupt changes of mood to sorrow and despair. Flowers presented by all the Princes of Europe appear in the dreams, as do trains and trams on which Eduardova travels with two vigorous violinists.

SKU: M7.DUX-710

ISBN 9783868493382.

5 Steps to Music features groovy, original piano compositions with a carefully structured and fun training programme. Exciting preliminary exercises are the guarantee for effective practicing. A fun approach is taken to core pianistic skills such as hand independence, Rhythm and pedal technique. Optional improvisation sections encourage playing freely. Live recordings played by Martin Gasselsberger are available online. 3 pieces for four hands add to the pleasures of playing and listening. Level of difficulty: easy - moderately difficult.