SKU: BR.SON-442

ISBN 9790004803509. 10 x 12.5 inches.

This volume contains three reworkings and orchestrations of religious works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy which were originally set for smaller ensembles (solo voices, four-part chorus and organ). They were composed at different times and for different occasions, two of them as commissions. The anthem ,,Why, o Lord, delay forever MWV A 19 was originally the sacred vocal piece MWV B 33, published in England in 1841 with the additional title ,,[…] The Thirteenth Psalm, and in Germany in the same year as ,,Lass, o Herr, mich Hilfe finden with the title ,,Drei geistliche Lieder which was composed at the suggestion of the English literature and music lover Charles B. Broadley who also provided the paraphrase of the psalm text. After Mendelssohn had refused an initial request by Broadley to furnish the anthem post festum with an organ prelude, the composer did not want to turn down a second request to orchestrate the work and he even expanded the existing material with a lengthy closing fugue involving additional trumpets and timpani. The ,,Ave Maria MWV B 19 was written in connection with Mendelssohn's appointment as municipal music director, a position which at the same time included the responsibility for the musical organization of church services. The instrumentation of the work with an accompaniment of two clarinets and two bassoons as well as low strings was due to the fact that the organ in Dusseldorf's principal church St. Lambertus was out of order for an extended period of time, and Mendelssohn considered this solution explicitly only as a surrogate for the organ should there be none. A further psalm paraphrase in English, this time by William Bartholomew, of the hymn ,,Hear my prayer MWV B 49 was set to music in early 1844; the orchestration of the organ part commissioned by the distinguished Dublin musician Joseph Robinson was not completed until 1847 so that the premiere finally only took place after Mendelssohn's death. In the further course of the century ,,Hear my prayer would, particularly in the version with organ accompaniment, come to enjoy great popularity in Great Britain and Ireland.

SKU: PR.114419070

ISBN 9781491113493. UPC: 680160671540. 9 x 12 inches.

Martin Amlin’s first recital work for Trumpet and Piano brings all the iridescent excitement that has intrigued other performers. Composed for his renowned colleague Terry Everson, Amlin’s sonata pours new wine into old bottles with its three movements titled: 1. Invention, 2. Chaconne, and 3. Moto Perpetuo. The publication provides solo parts for both C and E-flat Trumpet. Composer and pianist Martin Amlin has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Tanglewood Music Center, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Massachusetts Artists Foundation, St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers and has received many ASCAPlus Awards. He has been a resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Norlin Fellow.Much of Amlin’s music is characterized by a pungent tonality and energetic rhythms. His Sonata for Piccolo and Piano and Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Piano both won the National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition. Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra was premiered by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,and he has had performances of his music by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver Chorale, Back Bay Chorale, Webster Trio, and the American Vocal Arts Quintet. He has had commissions from the Seattle Flute Society, Pacific Serenades, the Chicago Flute Club, ALEA III, the James Pappoutsakis memorial flute competition, pianist Andrew Willis, and clarinetist Michael Webster.Martin Amlin is Chairman of the Department of Composition and Theory at Boston University and Director of the Young Artists Composition Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is also recipient of Boston University’s Kahn Award for his Piano Sonata No. 7. He studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Ecoles d’Art Américaines in Fontainebleau and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, and received masters and doctoral degrees as well as the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Amlin has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra in performances of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and has performed on the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude concerts at both Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. He has also appeared on the FleetBoston Celebrity Series and been pianist for the M.I.T. Experimental Music Studio and the New England Ragtime Ensemble. He has often been heard live on Boston’s WGBH radio station as both performer and composer, and has given world premieres of many new works.Martin Amlin has recordings on the Albany, Ashmont Music, Centaur, Crystal, Folkways, Hyperion, Koch International, Opus One, Titanic, and Wergo labels. .

SKU: SU.00220521

This CD Sheet Music™ collection brings together over 70 sonatinas and nearly 200 standard study works composed during the development of the virtuoso piano repertoire from the 18th through the early 20th centuries. SONATINAS: Beethoven, Clementi, Diabelli, Dussek, Gurlitt, Haydn, Kuhlau, Lichner, Mozart, Reinecke, Spindler STANDARD STUDY WORKS: Albeniz (Danza Èpañola), CPE Bach(Solfegietto), JS Bach (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring), Bartók (For Children, Ten Easy Pieces), Beethoven (Für Elise, Six Ländler, Twelve German Dances), Bizet (Toreador Song, Brahms (Ballade in D minor, Intermezzos, Op. 117), Chopin (selected Mazurkas, Preludes, Waltzes), Couperin (Les Moissonneurs, Debussy (Arabesque No. 1, Claire de Lune, Rèverie), Dvorák (Humoreske), Fauré (Sicilienne), Granados (Danza de la Rose), Grieg (Peer Gynt Suite), Handel (Giga, Sarabamde), Haydn (Andante Grazioso), Joplin (The Entertainer, The Easy Winners), Liszt (Consolation, Liebestraum), MacDowell (To A Wild Rose), Mendelssohn (selected Songs without Words), Mozart (Rondo a la Turca, Fantasy in D minor), Moussorgsky (Meditation), Pachelbel (Canon in D, Prokofiev (Vision Fugitive), Puccini (O mio babbino caro), Purcell (Suite in G), Rachmananoff (Prelude in C# minor), Ravel (Pavance pour une Infante Défunte), Satie (Gymnopédie Nos. 1-3), D. Scarlatti (selected Sonatas), Schoenberg (6 Little Piano Pieces), Schubert (Ecossaise, Marche Militaire), Schumann (selected pieces from Album for the Young and Scenes from Childhood), Scriabin (Preludes), Sibelius (Romance), J. Strauss (Mein Herr Marquis), Tchaikovsky (Album for the Young, None But the Lonely Heart), Verdi (Anvil Chorus from Il Trovetore, March from Aida), Weber (Variations on Vien qua Dorina bella), and more Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1100+ pages

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SKU: BR.SON-454

ISBN 9790004803646. 9 x 12 inches.

The Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64, and the Sonata in F minor, op. 4, are the only works for solo violin that Mendelssohn had had printed during his lifetime. However, his complete oeuvre includes other completed or fragmentary compositions, including two further concertos and several unfinished sonatas and other individual pieces. He himself had an extraordinary command of the violin and entrusted the instrument in several other works, such as the Octet op. 20 or the concert aria Infelice! - Ah, ritorno, eta dell'oro, with special tasks. Nevertheless, with regard to details of playing technique, he usually sought advice from solo violinist friends, first from Eduard Ritz, then, after Ritz's early death, from Ferdinand David. The present volume contains all of the completed and fragmentary compositions for violin and piano that have survived - from the early Prelude and Fugue in D and G minor from Zelter's practice book (1820), which can be assigned without doubt, through to the Sonata in F major (1838) in their various versions.

SKU: GI.G-8246CD

SKU: HL.48016563

UPC: 073999165630. 8.5x11.0x0.035 inches.

Contents: Pastoral on The Voice that breathed o'er Eden * Prelude on Lead us, Heavenly Father * Bridal March (Wagner) * Wedding March (Mendelssohn) * O Rest in the Lord (Mendelssohn) * Dead March from Saul (Handel) * Postlude on Jesus, blessed Saviour * I know that my Redeemer liveth (Handel) * With verdure clad the fields appear (Haydn) * Improvisation on Away in a manger * Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) * Festal March on Onward, Christian Soldiers.