Composed by Piet Swerts.
Sovereign Series. Concert
Piece. Score Only.
Composed 2005. 92 pages.
De Haske Publications
#DHP 1053776-140.
Published by De Haske
Publications
(BT.DHP-1053776-140).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
This
delightful new
composition takes its
inspiration from the
classic French swash
buckling tale of Cyrano
de Bergerac and his fight
to win the love of the
beautiful maiden Roxane.
The subject was a perfect
departure point for
composing a symphonic
poem with a variety of
musical aspects
reflecting the story.
Lyricism (the theme of
Roxane), dramatic
episodes, as well as
Debussy-inspired
impressionist moments are
some of the elements that
give the band and its
conductor the chance to
expose themselves as a
versatile ensemble being
able to create colour, to
sing and to play like
virtuosi. This work is
sure to become a standard
item in the concert band
repertoire.
In
Cyrano verklankt
de componist Piet Swerts
het romantische en
tragische verhaal van de
briljante dichter en
zwaardkunstenaar Cyrano
de Bergerac en zijn
mooie, intellectuele
nicht Roxane, op wie hij
tot over zijn oren
verliefdis. Zijn
uiterlijk, met name zijn
buitengewoon grote neus,
belet hem om zijn
gevoelens tegenover haar
te uiten. De vele
verwikkelingen die uit
deze situatie voortkomen
zijn te herkennen in deze
programmatische
compositie.
Piet
Swerts erzählt hier
musikalisch die
tragisch-romantische
Geschichte von Cyrano de
Bergerac, der einem
verliebten Freund hilft,
seine Liebe zu erobern
und sich dann selbst
unglücklich in dessen
Angebetete verliebt.
Diese Komposition
spiegelt die Geschichte
mit einer Vielfalt an
musikalischen Aspekten
eindrucksvoll wider.
Lyrik, dramatische
Episoden sowie von
Debussy inspirierte,
impressionistische
Momente sind einige der
Elemente, die dem
Blasorchester und seinem
Dirigenten die Chance
bieten, sich als
vielseitiges Ensemble,
das zugleich Farben
entfalten, singen und
virtuos spielen kann, zu
präsentieren.
Cyrano Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire De Haske Publications
Concert Band - Grade 5 SKU: BT.DHP-1053776-040 Composed by Piet Swerts. S...(+)
Concert Band - Grade 5
SKU:
BT.DHP-1053776-040
Composed by Piet Swerts.
Sovereign Series. Concert
Piece. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2005. De
Haske Publications #DHP
1053776-040. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1053776-040).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
This
delightful new
composition takes its
inspiration from the
classic French swash
buckling tale of Cyrano
de Bergerac and his fight
to win the love of the
beautiful maiden Roxane.
The subject was a perfect
departure point for
composing a symphonic
poem with a variety of
musical aspects
reflecting the story.
Lyricism (the theme of
Roxane), dramatic
episodes, as well as
Debussy-inspired
impressionist moments are
some of the elements that
give the band and its
conductor the chance to
expose themselves as a
versatile ensemble being
able to create colour, to
sing and to play like
virtuosi. This work is
sure to become a standard
item in the concert band
repertoire.
In
Cyrano verklankt
de componist Piet Swerts
het romantische en
tragische verhaal van de
briljante dichter en
zwaardkunstenaar Cyrano
de Bergerac en zijn
mooie, intellectuele
nicht Roxane, op wie hij
tot over zijn oren
verliefdis. Zijn
uiterlijk, met name zijn
buitengewoon grote neus,
belet hem om zijn
gevoelens tegenover haar
te uiten. De vele
verwikkelingen die uit
deze situatie voortkomen
zijn te herkennen in deze
programmatische
compositie.
Piet
Swerts erzählt hier
musikalisch die
tragisch-romantische
Geschichte von Cyrano de
Bergerac, der einem
verliebten Freund hilft,
seine Liebe zu erobern
und sich dann selbst
unglücklich in dessen
Angebetete verliebt.
Diese Komposition
spiegelt die Geschichte
mit einer Vielfalt an
musikalischen Aspekten
eindrucksvoll wider.
Lyrik, dramatische
Episoden sowie von
Debussy inspirierte,
impressionistische
Momente sind einige der
Elemente, die dem
Blasorchester und seinem
Dirigenten die Chance
bieten, sich als
vielseitiges Ensemble,
das zugleich Farben
entfalten, singen und
virtuos spielen kann, zu
präsentieren.
Piano SKU: M7.DUX-644 20 unvergessene Titel für Klavier. Edited b...(+)
Piano
SKU:
M7.DUX-644
20
unvergessene Titel für
Klavier. Edited by
Susi Weiss. Sheet music.
Performance book. Edition
Dux Verlag #DUX 644.
Published by Edition Dux
Verlag (M7.DUX-644).
ISBN
9783868493993.
The
Susi's Piano Collection
series continues with
music from Italy. The
collection contains
moderately difficult
arrangements by Susi
Weiss: unforgettable
Italian hits, canzone and
Italo pop by artists such
as Eros Ramazzotti, Paolo
Conte, Angelo Branduardi,
Lucio Dalla, Zucchero and
many more.
Composed by Piet Swerts.
Sovereign Series. Concert
Piece. Set (Score &
Parts). Composed 2005. De
Haske Publications #DHP
1053776-010. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1053776-010).
English-German-French-
Dutch.
This
delightful new
composition takes its
inspiration from the
classic French swash
buckling tale of Cyrano
de Bergerac and his fight
to win the love of the
beautiful maiden Roxane.
The subject was a perfect
departure point for
composing a symphonic
poem with a variety of
musical aspects
reflecting the story.
Lyricism (the theme of
Roxane), dramatic
episodes, as well as
Debussy-inspired
impressionist moments are
some of the elements that
give the band and its
conductor the chance to
expose themselves as a
versatile ensemble being
able to create colour, to
sing and to play like
virtuosi. This work is
sure to become a standard
item in the concert band
repertoire.
In
Cyrano verklankt
de componist Piet Swerts
het romantische en
tragische verhaal van de
briljante dichter en
zwaardkunstenaar Cyrano
de Bergerac en zijn
mooie, intellectuele
nicht Roxane, op wie hij
tot over zijn oren
verliefdis. Zijn
uiterlijk, met name zijn
buitengewoon grote neus,
belet hem om zijn
gevoelens tegenover haar
te uiten. De vele
verwikkelingen die uit
deze situatie voortkomen
zijn te herkennen in deze
programmatische
compositie.
Piet
Swerts erzählt hier
musikalisch die
tragisch-romantische
Geschichte von Cyrano de
Bergerac, der einem
verliebten Freund hilft,
seine Liebe zu erobern
und sich dann selbst
unglücklich in dessen
Angebetete verliebt.
Diese Komposition
spiegelt die Geschichte
mit einer Vielfalt an
musikalischen Aspekten
eindrucksvoll wider.
Lyrik, dramatische
Episoden sowie von
Debussy inspirierte,
impressionistische
Momente sind einige der
Elemente, die dem
Blasorchester und seinem
Dirigenten die Chance
bieten, sich als
vielseitiges Ensemble,
das zugleich Farben
entfalten, singen und
virtuos spielen kann, zu
präsentieren.
The Cat's Pajamas Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] - Facile Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications
Grade 2 SKU: CL.012-4612-01 A Felicitous Feline Ragtime Novelty. C...(+)
Grade 2
SKU:
CL.012-4612-01
A
Felicitous Feline Ragtime
Novelty. Composed by
La Plante. Concert Band.
Concert Band Series.
Audio recording available
separately (item
CL.WFR395). Extra full
score. Composed 2018.
Duration 2 minutes, 51
seconds. Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
#012-4612-01. Published
by Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
(CL.012-4612-01).
During the Jazz
age of the 1920's, the
cat's pajamas referred to
anything special, unique
or cool. Musically
speaking, the image of a
cat in pajamas might
suggest combining low
clarinets (reminiscent of
Prokofiev's use of a
clarinet to describe the
cat in Peter And The
Wolf) with a jaunty
little tune in ragtime
style, adding a few
instrumental meows, and
you have (what else?):
The Cat’s Pajamas:
A Felicitous Feline
Ragtime Novelty!
Audiences and performers
will love it from head to
tail!
The Cat's Pajamas Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Facile Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications
Grade 2 SKU: CL.012-4612-00 A Felicitous Feline Ragtime Novelty. C...(+)
Grade 2
SKU:
CL.012-4612-00
A
Felicitous Feline Ragtime
Novelty. Composed by
La Plante. Concert Band.
Concert Band Series.
Audio recording available
separately (item
CL.WFR395). Score and set
of parts. Composed 2018.
Duration 2 minutes, 51
seconds. Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
#012-4612-00. Published
by Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
(CL.012-4612-00).
During the Jazz
age of the 1920's, the
cat's pajamas referred to
anything special, unique
or cool. Musically
speaking, the image of a
cat in pajamas might
suggest combining low
clarinets (reminiscent of
Prokofiev's use of a
clarinet to describe the
cat in Peter And The
Wolf) with a jaunty
little tune in ragtime
style, adding a few
instrumental meows, and
you have (what else?):
The Cat’s Pajamas:
A Felicitous Feline
Ragtime Novelty!
Audiences and performers
will love it from head to
tail!
The Cat's Pajamas Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur] - Facile Opus III Wind Orchestra Publications
Grade 2 SKU: CL.012-4612-75 A Felicitous Feline Ragtime Novelty. C...(+)
Grade 2
SKU:
CL.012-4612-75
A
Felicitous Feline Ragtime
Novelty. Composed by
La Plante. Concert Band.
Concert Band Series.
Audio recording available
separately (item
CL.WFR395). Oversized,
spiral-bound score.
Composed 2018. Duration 2
minutes, 51 seconds. Opus
III Wind Orchestra
Publications
#012-4612-75. Published
by Opus III Wind
Orchestra Publications
(CL.012-4612-75).
Chamber Music Piano SKU: PO.PEL13 Composed by Douglas Lilburn. Performanc...(+)
Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PO.PEL13
Composed by Douglas
Lilburn. Performance
Score. Promethean
Editions #PEL13.
Published by Promethean
Editions (PO.PEL13).
ISBN
9781776605538.
This
gathering of shorter
pieces includes music
that Lilburn composed in
his initial years as a
freelance composer, as
well as the very last
work to come from his
pen. Clear-eyed and
felicitous, they are
nevertheless shot through
with something
transcendental
– a
strange and beautiful
excitement.
Piano SKU: HL.48025440 Piaon Solo Part. Composed by Leokadiya Kash...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.48025440
Piaon
Solo Part. Composed
by Leokadiya Kashperova.
BH Piano. Classical,
Concerto. Softcover.
Duration 2040 seconds.
Boosey and Hawkes
#M060142024. Published by
Boosey and Hawkes
(HL.48025440).
ISBN
9781784549060. UPC:
196288216391.
Leoka
diya Kashperova
(1872–1940), hitherto
consigned to a footnote
in musical history as
Stravinsky's piano
teacher, is undergoing
rediscovery. A double
graduate of the St
Petersburg Conservatoire,
she emerged as a virtuoso
pianist and composer in
the romantic tradition.
She was associated with
some of the great
musicians of her day,
including Balakirev and
Auer. She performed in
both Germany and the UK
in the 1900s, but her
career petered out after
1920. The Piano Concerto
(1900) is Kashperova's
earliest surviving
orchestral work, and it
was premiered by the
composer the following
year in Moscow and St
Petersburg, bringing her
much wider recognition
and paving the way for an
international career.
Cast in three movements
and in a Romantic idiom,
pianistic virtuosity is
often channelled into the
pianist's left hand,
which is required to
negotiate widely-spaced
'extreme' arpeggios –
awkwardly angular when
adagio, fiendishly
technical when molto
allegro. Kashperova's
orchestral colours are
achieved by felicitous
solos for the woodwind,
horns and brass.
Noteworthy, too, are
unexpected glimpses of
chamber music when, in
the last movement for
example, the piano
combines fleetingly with
solo violin and solo
cello in passages. The
concerto's quick music
(Molto allegro and
Allegro con anima)
admirably portrays the
vivacious personality of
their composer, described
in 1906 as offering those
around her 'an abundance
of joy, excitement and
fun'. The central
movement, by contrast, is
a tender Adagio which
offers the listener a gem
of musical poetry.
Sinfonia VI: The Four Elements Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire Manhattan Beach Music
By Timothy Broege. Concert band. Suitable for advanced middle school, high schoo...(+)
By Timothy Broege.
Concert band. Suitable
for advanced middle
school, high school,
community and college
bands. Grade 3. Conductor
score and set of parts.
Duration 5:45
Critical Edition
Practical Series
Score. Composed by
Antonio Vivaldi. Arranged
by Michael Talbot.
Choral. Baroque,
Classical. Softcover. 48
pages. Ricordi #PR1449.
Published by Ricordi
(HL.50601273).
7.75x10.5
inches.
This
single-movement setting
of the Vesper psalm
Laetatus sum was
discovered by Michael
Talbot in the spring of
2017 among the online
collection of digitized
scores of sacred music
held by the SLUB in
Dresden. Four works by
Vivaldi deliberately
misattributed to
Baldassare Galuppi by the
Venetian copyist Iseppo
Baldan had already been
uncovered in the previous
decades, and it was
during anexploratory
examination of scores
sharing a paper type and
copyist (Baldan himself)
with them that this fifth
such work came to light.
Vivaldi's single movement
pieno settings (for choir
alone without soloists)
form an important subset
of his sacred vocal
music, and this new
setting is the most
elaborate and expansive
of any of them. It
features effective
musical contrasts, and
its many felicitous
examples of word-painting
show what a complete
master of vocal
composition he had become
by the 1730s, the decade
from which this setting
clearly originates. As
usual in Vivaldi's choral
compositions the
ever-changing
relationship between the
vocal and instrumental
components constantly
fascinates, as each in
turn captures the
listener's attention.
This previously unknown
Laetatus sum promises to
become a much-performed
work.
Composed by
Brice Pauset. Classical:
20th Century
(Contemporary). Score.
Editions Henry Lemoine
#26686. Published by
Editions Henry Lemoine
(LM.26686).
Piano SKU: M7.DOHR-10151 Composed by Cesar Auguste Franck. Edited by Heri...(+)
Piano
SKU:
M7.DOHR-10151
Composed by Cesar Auguste
Franck. Edited by
Heribert Koch. Sheet
music. Op.15. 32 pages.
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) #DOHR 10151.
Published by MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
(M7.DOHR-10151).
(Richard Stoltzman 21st Century Series for Clarinet). By Franz Schubert (1797-18...(+)
(Richard Stoltzman 21st
Century Series for
Clarinet). By Franz
Schubert (1797-1828).
Edited by Richard
Stoltzman. LKM Music.
Softcover with CD. Hal
Leonard #S131009.
Published by Lauren
Keiser Music Publishing
By Timothy Broege. Concert band. Suitable for advanced middle school, high schoo...(+)
By Timothy Broege.
Concert band. Suitable
for advanced middle
school, high school,
community and college
bands. Level: Grade 3.
Conductor Full Score.
Duration 5:45. Published
by Manhattan Beach Music.
Orchestra; Piano (Score) SKU: HL.48025216 Piano and Orchestra Score(+)
Orchestra; Piano (Score)
SKU: HL.48025216
Piano and Orchestra
Score. Composed by
Leokadiya Kashperova.
Boosey & Hawkes
Scores/Books. Classical.
Softcover. 116 pages.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060140273. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48025216).
ISBN
9781784548124. UPC:
196288133445.
9.0x12.0x0.371
inches.
Leokadiya
Kashperova
(1872–1940),
hitherto consigned to a
footnote in musical
history as
StravinskyÂ’s piano
teacher, is undergoing
rediscovery. A double
graduate of the St
Petersburg Conservatoire,
she emerged as a virtuoso
pianist and composer in
the romantic tradition.
She was associated with
some of the great
musicians of her day,
including Balakirev and
Auer. She performed in
both Germany and the UK
in the 1900s, but her
career petered out after
1920. The Piano Concerto
(1900) is Kashperova's
earliest surviving
orchestral work, and it
was premiered by the
composer the following
year in Moscow and St
Petersburg, bringing her
much wider recognition
and paving the way for an
international career.
Cast in three movements
and in a Romantic idiom,
pianistic virtuosity is
often channelled into the
pianistÂ’s left hand,
which is required to
negotiate widely-spaced
'extreme' arpeggios
– awkwardly
angular when adagio,
fiendishly technical when
molto allegro.
Kashperova's orchestral
colours are achieved by
felicitous solos for the
woodwind, horns and
brass. Noteworthy, too,
are unexpected glimpses
of chamber music when, in
the last movement for
example, the piano
combines fleetingly with
solo violin and solo
cello in passages.
TheconcertoÂ’s quick
music (Molto allegro and
Allegro con anima)
admirably portrays the
vivacious personality of
their composer, described
in 1906 as offering those
around her 'an abundance
of joy, excitement and
fun'. The central
movement, by contrast, is
a tender Adagio which
offers the listener a gem
of musical poetry.
Piano SKU: M2.MOS-41150 Klaviervariationen uber das Lied Es fuhrt uber...(+)
Piano
SKU:
M2.MOS-41150
Klaviervariationen
uber das Lied Es fuhrt
uber den Main.
Composed by Felicitas
Kukuck. Hausmusik. 8
pages. Möseler Verlag
#MOS 41150. Published by
Möseler Verlag
(M2.MOS-41150).
ISBN
9790203731504.
Die
aparte Melodie ihres
Liedes mit seinem
herrlichen Spannungsbogen
hat Felicitas Kukuck
mehrfach bearbeitet. In
ihrem Klavierstuck fangt
sie den unzweifelhaften
Reiz dieser Melodie in
verschiedenen
Beleuchtungen ein:
rhythmisch, klanglich und
satztechnisch
abwechslungsreich. Ein
ausgezeichnetes
Vorspielstuck fur
Studierende und
Liebhaber.
Following
the successful
publication of
Homenaje a Rodrigo
(2015), containing four
pieces by Alessandro
Spazzoli – one of
which was performed in
the presence of the
composer’s
daughter, Cecilia
Rodrigo, during her visit
to the International
Convention in Alessandria
–, here is the
second volume. It
contains more tributes to
Rodrigo written on my
input by five well-known
Italian and Spanish
composers, two of whom
are also guitarists and
have therefore written
the fingering for their
own pieces. Giovanni
Podera plunges us into a
typically Rodrigo-like
atmosphere with his
evocative
Fantasia, while
the following three
compositions are full of
direct quotations from
pieces also for guitar by
the great composer from
Valencia. Thus, Marco
Simoni, in his expressive
Junto a Rodrigo
– which also
provides the title to the
volume – plays
with themes taken from
Junto al
Generalife and from
Dos piezas
caballerescas for a
cello ensemble as well as
hinting at reminiscences
of Tiento antiguo.
As for Marco Smaili, in
his impressionistic
Fronda de la
tarde, he evokes
quite evidently
Zarabanda lejana
and Invocación y
Danza, but there are
more hidden references to
Caminos de
Santiago and even to
the very famous
Concierto de
Aranjuez. Marco
Reghezza builds his
heart-breaking Nana
estrellada on a
sequence of chords used
by Rodrigo in the
fantasia ¡Que buen
caminito!. On the
other hand, there are no
direct quotations and
echoes of
Rodrigo’s way of
writing in the Fuga a
quattro voci by Paolo
Ugoletti. However it was
Rodrigo himself who
constructed four-part
imitative passages for
guitar in
Pasacalle and in
the Ricercare of the
Fantasia para un
Gentilhombre. The
close polyphony of the
piece by Ugoletti may be
considered as a tribute
to this kind of craft
shown by Rodrigo who,
like Ugoletti, was able
to write such dense and
idiomatic counterpoint
without being a
guitar-player. I am
pleased that this volume
comes out in the
imminence of the 20th
anniversary of the
disappearance of the
illustrious Spanish
composer who gave so much
to the musicians –
and not only to
them. (Piero
Bonaguri)