'Alan Ridout composed this Duo Concertant whilst he was still in Canterbury finishing the work on 6th October 1986. The first performance was given by myself and the pianist Vanessa Latarche at Herne Bay Music Club in 1987. Alan Ridout was born in West Wickham in Kent attending Haberdashers' Aske's School then in Hampstead. A precociously gifted musician by the age of 12 he had already written over one hundred works and passed his Grade VIII Piano with distinction. He then studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal College of Music in London under Herbert Howells Gordon Jacob Peter Racine Fricker and Michael Tippett. Inhis autobiography 'A Composer's Life' (1995) he refers to his time at the Guildhall from the age of 15 as 'the happiest time of his life' since he had known from childhood that all he wanted to do was to compose. In 1958 he was awarded a Netherlands Government Scholarship to study with Henk Badings who introduced him to electronic music and a wide range of European music. Leaving the RCM aged 20 he became Director of Music of a preparatory school in Kent. Teaching was to remain important to him throughout his life. In 1964 he became Professor of Theory and Composition at the Royal College of Music and he also taught at the Universities of Birmingham Cambridge and London and at the Cathedral Choir School and King's School Canterbury where he lived in the precincts of the Cathedral. It was during my time as a schoolboy at King's Canterbury that I got to know Alan as a teacher and friend. He made a great impression on me both as a teacher of harmony and composition and as a composer from the musical 'outside world'. Whether in his beautiful works for choirs his instrumental works or the entertaining theatre pieces his music communicates with almost na ve simplicity and honesty. The Duo Concertant was one of a number of works I commissioned around this time as a companion

for mezzosoprano, flute, viola and violoncello. Par SCHULHOFF ERWIN. Der dreiteilige Zyklus des späten Schulhoff für Mezzosopran, Flöte, Viola und Violoncello enthält die Vokalkompositionen Wiegenlied und Der Bettler sowie das kurze Instrumentalstück Die Drähte. Die Vokalwerke basieren auf sozialkritischen Texten von Jindrich Horejs?i´ und Joseph Hora in tschechischer Sprache, eine deutsche Übersetzung ist unterlegt. / Date parution : 2016-11-20/ Répertoire / Mezzo-Soprano, Flûte Traversière, Alto et Violonce

To every pupil, the first concert is a special experience. The period of intensive preparation, the mixture of trepidation and joyful anticipation, the concentration during the performance, the applause of the audience and the pride after the successful performance. Such impressions will all stick in the pupil's mind and quite often influence his or her entire future development. The choice of the 'right' performance piece is of vital importance: It should be neither too long nor too short, make a strong impression and give great pleasure in practising.The edition Mein erstes Konzert contains 23 easy pieces for clarinet and piano for music lessons and first auditions. The selection of the original works invites the performer on a trip through various music epochs - starting from classical via Romantic to contemporary music. Further highlights are pieces from the areas of klezmer, jazz, rock and pop music.Most pieces can be played after 1-2 years of music lessons. The first pieces in this volume are exclusively written in the low register - without overblowing.Approaching the works is made easier by the enclosed CD which contains all pieces as a demo version and as a play-along version with just piano accompaniment. / Clarinette Et Piano

Glazunov began to compose this work at the age of fifteen. His diary records: ?I composed and orchestrated the slow movement of Symphony no. 1 (?Andante?) in the summer of 1881 . . . The score of the symphony was completed by the autumn.? It was first performed in St Petersburg on 29 March 1882. Although the composer was still a schoolboy his symphony was the work of ?fully-fledged musician with great technical expertise.? (César Cui). Mily Balakirev once said to Tchaikovsky: ?Apart from Mendelssohn no one got off to such a good start as Glazunov.? In 1932 when the composer looked at his symphony fifty years after the first performance he remarked: ?Not a single note needs to bechanged.?

Frühe Lieder I (1910/1911) - Erstausgabe. Par SIMON KLAUS. All songs and lieder composed in the years 1910-1937 by the composer Erwin Schulhoff from Prague, who was persecuted by the National Socialists, are now published in three volumes for the first time, documenting his very different creative phases and stages of life: Whereas Vol. I and II stand for the emancipation from being a successor to Wagner and Debussy, Vol. III contains not only the well-known atonal Fünf Gesänge from 1919 but also fresh jazzy popular songs and political songs for the masses written after 1933 when he turned to communism./ Recueil / Chant et Piano

for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 c minor op. 37, 1. movement by Ludwig van Beethoven. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The volume unites 11 cadenzas from 200 years of music history to form one of the most frequently performed concertos in the piano literature, including several first publications. Among them are not solely highly virtuoso and, sometimes, even romantic lyrical tributes to the genius of classical music, but also cadences with a humorous and ironic touch: Fazil Say's cadence imitated - a music box! With cadences by: Charles Henri Alkan - Ludwig van Beethoven - Gabriel Fauré - Franz Liszt - Ignaz Moscheles - Michael Rische - Fazil Say - Erwin Schulhoff - Clara Schumann - Bedrich Smetana - Viktor Ullmann/ Répertoire / Piano

One of Leos Janácek’s last chamber music works was written in the autumn of 1926 at the suggestion of the pianist Otakar Hollmann (1894–1967) an invalid from the First World War. Like his contemporary Paul Wittgenstein Hollmann urged composers to write something for Piano left hand; he succeeded in winning over Bohuslav Martinu Erwin Schulhoff and Janácek to do this. Janácek did not want as he put it to compose a “dance for one leg” but finally wrote a four-movement work with associations to military music scored for Piano Flute (Piccolo) two Trumpets three Trombones (preferably valveTrombones because of the fast passages) and a tenor Tuba. The French Horn was allowed by the composer to substitute the Tuba. The Capriccio was premiered by Otakar Hollmann and members of the Czech Philharmonic in Prague on 2 March 1928 in the presence of the enthusiastic composer. The new edition is based on volume E/5 of the “Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leos Janácek ”. Urtext based on the “Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leos Janácek”. New foreword ( Cz /Eng/Ger) by the editor Jarmila Procházková. Includes additional part for French Horn.

Virtuoso and Entertaining Pieces for Violin and Piano. À l'occasion du 250e anniversaire, la maison d'édition Schott a fouillé des trésors dans les archives historiques de la maison et les a réédités. Cette anthologie s'adresse aux musiciens professionnels et aux amateurs avancés qui s'intéressent aux nouvelles découvertes intéressantes au-delà du répertoire standard. Elle contient principalement des oeuvres de la période romantique : des pièces rares et des bis virtuoses, des pièces de caractère expressives, des perles de la musique de salon ou des arrangements élaborés de mélodies (d'opéra) connues. Nombre des compositions originales et des arrangements sont des oeuvres d'importants violonistes du XIXe siècle. / Niveau : 3-4 / Classique / Recueil / Violon et Piano

Virtuoso and Entertaining Pieces for Piano. À l'occasion du 250e anniversaire, la maison d'édition Schott a fouillé des trésors dans les archives historiques de la maison et les a réédités. Cette anthologie s'adresse aux musiciens professionnels et aux amateurs avancés qui s'intéressent aux nouvelles découvertes intéressantes au-delà du répertoire standard. Elle contient principalement des oeuvres de la période romantique : des pièces rares et des bis virtuoses, des pièces de caractère expressives, des perles de la musique de salon ou des arrangements élaborés de mélodies (d'opéra) connues. Nombre des compositions originales et des arrangements sont des oeuvres d'importants virtuoses du piano du XIXe siècle. / Niveau : 3-5 / Classique / Recueil / Piano

Convivalium concentuum Farrago 1609. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik, Sondereihe 1. Par DEMANTIUS JOHANN CHRISTOPH. German/ Répertoire / Voix, Instruments