Arrangeur: Martin Tourish. Martin Tourish is an accordionist, composer and musicologist from Co. Donegal, now based in Dublin. Celtic music is in his blood, for his ancestors were noted collectors of dance music manuscripts dating back to the 19th century. With many recordings to his credit, he now offers his expertise to performers wishing to explore the rich culture of Irish and other Celtic music on a variety of instruments. 'World Music - Celtic? presents material from the Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish and Breton traditions. It makes no great technical demands on the players, but Tourish points out that notation of this music is often 'skeletal?, hence it is important to gain a knowledge of the individual traditions in question and, naturally, he offers plenty of information on performance practice. The collection spans three centuries, from the blind bardic harpists of the 18th century to the international performers of the present day. Tourish accepts that this volume can only scratch the surface of a multi-faceted genre but hopes you will see it as a stepping stone to delve deeper into recordings, festivals and the very communities whence this music comes. 'World Music - Celtic? is available in six formats, each with complete recordings and backing tracks on CD: as solo versions for violin, violoncello, flute, clarinet or saxophone (with piano) and in an ensemble version for two melodic instruments (C, Bb or Eb), piano, guitar, bass and bodhrán./ Recueil / Violoncelle et Piano

Instrumentalists will love this jam-packed collection of 101 holiday favorites! Songs include: All I Want for Christmas Is You - Believe - Christmas Time Is Here - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Feliz Navidad - Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - I Saw Three Ships - Jingle Bells - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Merry Christmas, Darling - O Come, All Ye Faithful - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Silent Night - The Twelve Days of Christmas - We Wish You a Merry Christmas - and more.

Selections from the Cello Repertoire-Solos for Young Cellists is an eight-volume series of music compilations with companion CDs available separately. The series ranges from elementary to advanced levels and represents a truly exciting variety of musical genres and techniques. This collection of wonderful music offers young cellists the opportunity to work in various positions techniques meters keys and musical styles. Many of the works have long been recognized as stepping stones to the major instrumental repertoire while others are newly published pieces and original compositions providing an exciting and diverse choice of study. The collection will become a valuable resource for teachers andstudents of all ages and levels.Contents:Cradle Song-SquireBerceuse-JarnefeltDrei Leichte Stucke-HindemithRunning of the Bulls-E. W. CheneyNina-PergolesiElfintanz-JenkinsonAt Twilight-SquireNeopolitan Dance-Marcelli

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy nostalgic a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book at its simplest is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for allits musical material to become distorted either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning' a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific this change of heart doesn't really matter.© David Blake

Par BLACKWELL KATHY / DAVID. 31 chansons de Noël pour violoncelle (solos et duos) - de nombreux airs de violon compatible avec Temps de Noël. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Violoncelle