15 Intermediate Classical Solos, de Philip Sparke, est un ouvrage qui s'adresse aux jeunes musiciens, maîtrisant un peu plus d'une octave et demie. Il fait suite au recueil 15 Easy Classical Solos, et a été conçu pour être joué en corrélation avec la série Expert Level de la collection Essential Elements ®, publiée par les éditions Hal Leonard. Mais il peut également être utilisé indépendamment.Spécifiquement adapté à chaque instrument, ce volume rassemble quinze mélodies écrites par des compositeurs aussi variés que Hændel, Tchaïkovski, Clémenti et Brahms.Comprenant les parties d'accompagnement de piano et une version d'accompagnement sur compact disc, ces ouvrages représentent une source complémentaire inestimable à toute méthode pédagogique. Largo from 'Xerxes' Songs My Mother Taught Me from 'Gypsy Songs' Minuet No. 2 from 'Notebrook for Anna Magdalene Bach' La Cinquantaine from 'Two Pieces for Cello and Piano' See the Conquering Hero Comes from 'Judas Maccabeus' Sonatina Op. 36, no. 1 Serenata from 'String Quartet Op. 3, No. 5 Tambourin from '2nd Suite in E Minor' Waltz from 'Album for the Young' Sonatina from 'Six Pieces Op. 3' Gavotte from 'Paride ed Elena' Sonata Op. 118, No. 1 Serenade from 'Schwanengesang D 957' Sonatina Anh. 5, No. 1 Bourr'e from 'Flute Sonata HWV 363b'

Edward Gregson completed Tributes in the summer of 2010. Lasting some 16 minutes there are five pieces in the set each dedicated to a different composer and a different clarinettist (with whom Gregson had long musical associations). Each of the dedicatee composers wrote wonderfully for the Clarinet and as a tribute to them Gregson tried to invade indeed imitate their stylistic worlds in these pieces.They are as follows:To Francis Poulenc (for Emma Johnson) a rather dreamy toccata lyrical in feel but interrupted by typically quirky and disruptive rhythmic episodes.To Gerald Finzi (forJohn Bradbury) slow and lyrical with long melodic arches.To Igor Stravinsky (for Linda Merrick) asymmetric rhythms dominate with wide leaps in the solo line and bitonal harmony on the Piano.To Olivier Messiaen (for Nicholas Cox) based on the ravishing slow movement for Cello in his Quartet for the End of Time a seamless melody is woven around ever-changing repeated chords on the Piano.To Béla Bartók (for Michael Collins) the most virtuoso of the set; after a slow introduction a swirling folk-like dance unfolds mirroring Bartok?s penchant for simple modal shapes and ostinati rhythms.

This nocturne was one of a set of six composed for the second wedding of the Duke of Nassau which were published simultaneously as sets of duos or solo pieces for Violin Cello clarinet or concertina with harp or Pianoaccompaniment. Charles Oberthür was a celebrated harpist during his long career in the 1800?s most of which he spent in Britain. Besides being a distinguished instrumentalist Oberthür was a prolific composer creating morethan two hundred works.