40 Of His Greatest Hits. Par LLOYD WEBBER ANDREW. 40 of the most memorable songs composed by the inimitable Andrew Lloyd Webber are gathered in this value-packed instrumental solo collection. Songs include: Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life) - Any Dream Will Do - Don't Cry for Me Argentina - I Believe My Heart - I Don't Know How to Love Him - Learn to Be Lonely - Love Changes Everything - Memory - No Matter What - The Phantom of the Opera - Pie Jesu - Starlight Express - Stick It to the Man - Tell Me on a Sunday - 'Til I Hear You Sing - Whistle Down the Wind - With One Look - You Must Love Me - and many more./ Recueil / Violoncelle

John Luther Adams' Canticles Of The Sky for String Quartet. Composer's Note: In the Arctic sky the low angle of the sun and heavy ice crystals in the air often produce vivid halos arcs andsundogs (parhelia). Sometimes these phenomena create the illusion of multiple suns. 'Sky With Four Suns' is a musical evocation of such an apparition from sunrise to sunset. Similar visions also occur at night which isthe image behind 'Sky With Four Moons.' 'Sky With Nameless Colors' and 'Sky With Endless Stars' evoke the extraordinary depth and clarity of Sonoran Desert skies. This music is drawn from Canticles of the Holy Wind– a concert-length work for four choirs and vocal soloists. In this version sixteen separate choral parts have been condensed into the string quartet. String designations should be carefully observed. Frequent stringcrossings are employed to create as lush and continuous textures as possible. All sounds should be legato. Bowing is free and full throughout. Total performance duration is about 18:00

Par COMBIER JEROME. Petite obscurité est composée à partir de l'Offrande Musicale de Jean-Sébastien Bach. Tâche délicate, un peu audacieuse (quoique souvent perpétrée), peut-être impossible, mais qui dit avant tout mon profond attachement à cette musique. Le modèle n'apparaît toutefois jamais ostensiblement, mais toujours de manière voilée, cryptée, déformée, comme une charpente invisible. C'est peut-être avant tout le caractère contrapuntique de la musique qui révèle la filiation et que j'ai souhaité mettre en lumière. Mais les lignes mélodiques qui constituent ces contrepoints sont déformées par des quarts de ton et si intimement unies (canon à la seconde mineure, contrepoint dans le registre aigu, canon dit 'écrevisse') qu'elles finissent par créer entre elles des irisations, des reflets, et par basculer dans le registre du timbre. Elles jalonnent la partition comme autant de salles - obombrées, a giorno - où le temps se fige, mais pour un instant seulement car la musique, loin d'y séjourner reprend son cours. Dans Petite obscurité, il fut question pour moi de ne rompre jamais la fluidité que j'ai souhaité lui donner. Le titre est emprunté aux écrits apocryphes d'Esther Hallam Meynell La petite chronique d'Anna Magdalena Bach : 'Deux chandelles entre nous (je faisais toujours bien attention de les moucher, afin que la fleur de lumière ne soit pas gâtée par une épine d'obscurité), nous travaillions en silence.' / contemporain / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière Clarinette, Guitare, Alto et Vio

Par LESHNOFF JONATHAN. 'The cello is a fantastic instrument to work with,” said Leshnoff. 'Some instruments are more limited, but the cello has so much freedom. It can scream, it can cry, it can sing, it can dance and it can whisper.” The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia commissions a new work for each Spring, and in 2013 they chose to commission Jonathan Leshnoff. In turn, Leshnoff was able to work with the exciting international talent Nina Kotova for the premiere performance under the direction of Dirk Brossé at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.'The cello is a fantastic instrument to work with,” said Leshnoff. 'Some instruments are more limited, but the cello has so much freedom. It can scream, it can cry, it can sing, it can dance and it can whisper.” The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia commissions a new work for each Spring, and in 2013 they chose to commission Jonathan Leshnoff. In turn, Leshnoff was able to work with the exciting international talent Nina Kotova for the premiere performance under the direction of Dirk Brossé at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement. Duration: c. 13' This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized). American-Finnish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality. His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Programme Note This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time. MOTET is a sober cool treatise on rhythm and statics depicted in a Gothic crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys’ choir monks’ processions and the piercing sound of musical glasses. An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today. Poul Ruders 1979

Scored For String Quartet. Commissioned by the New Arts String Quartet first performed in Tokyo November 1996.Quoting Tanaka: The title Metal Strings suggests speed metal rock music which I have been listening to a lotin recent years. I find an explosive energy in its music that people of today thirst for. Previously I have explored solid speedy and metallic sound in pieces such as 'Wave Mechanics' (1994) 'Wave Mechanics II' (1994) and'Metalic Crystal' (1994-95). This idea has been extended and developed in my string quartet Metal Strings.Score only edition separate parts are also available on sale.

This massive collection will keep instrumentalists busy with 101 pop hits to learn and play! Songs include: All About That Bass - All of Me - Brave - Breakaway - Call Me Maybe - Clocks - Fields of Gold - Firework - Hello - Hey, Soul Sister - Ho Hey - I Gotta Feeling - I Will Remember You - Jar of Hearts - Love Story - 100 Years - Roar - Rolling in the Deep - Royals - Say Something - Shake It Off - Smells like Teen Spirit - Uptown Funk - When You Say Nothing at All - and more. / Violoncelle

Arrangement: Legg Pat. Par LEGG PAT. Le monde glamour de la comédie musicale a un appel unique et irrésistible. Dans ce volume 10 grands succès de Broadway et West End de Londres sont classés ici pour violon et piano. Ces chansons connues par les mondes plus beaux montrent écrivains offrent une excellente occasion pour les jeunes musiciens de modeste capacité à jouer les classiques populaires à un stade relativement précoce. Parfait comme charges de concert ou juste pour le plaisir ! / Date parution : 1998-09-17/ Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

The Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello Collection. The Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello Collection combines the artist?s renowned performance repertoire with his own inspirational compositions, all as performed by Sheku himself. Suitable for the intermediate cellist and beyond, this dynamic volume is sure to spark a desire to perform. With commentary from Sheku revealing the stories behind the pieces and his own expert advice, this collection is a must-have for all aspiring cellists.

Graded solos for players of all standards. The pieces are complete in themselves and require no accompaniment. Includes If I Were A Rich Man , Basin Street Blues , Paper Roses and Yesterday . / Violoncelle