The Gibbons Hymnal contains the 17 hymn tunes composed by Orlando Gibbons for George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church (1623), many of which are still popular today. This is the first modern edition which incorporates Wither's hymn texts beyond the first verses. Gibbons composed treble and bass lines for the hymns - editor David Skinner has constructed the inner voices to create a collection of pieces that can be performed either as hymns or as simple anthems. Also in this volume are Gibbons's ten surviving full anthems, including popular works such as Almighty And Everlasting God and his masterpiece, O Clap Your Hands , alongside lesser-known compositions such as the beautiful miniature, O Lord, I Lift My Heart To Thee , and, presented here in a new reconstruction, I Am The Resurrection And The Life . / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Une sélection de 125 incontournables de l'artiste en transcription 'real book' ligne mélodique et accords chiffrés internationnaux. Titres : Acknowledgement - Africa - Afro Blue - After The Crescent - After The Rain - Airegin - Alabama - All Blues - All Or Nothing At All - Amen - Ascension - Ascent - Attaining - Bessie's Blues - Big Nick - Black Pearls - Blue Train (Blue Trane) - Blues Minor - Blues To Bechet - Blues To Elvin - Blues To You - Body And Soul - Brazilia - But Not For Me - By The Numbers - Bye Bye Blackbird - Cattin' - Central Park West - Chasin' The Trane - Compassion - Consequences - Cosmos - Countdown - Cousin Mary - Crescent - Dahomey Dance - Dear Lord - Dearly Beloved - The Drum Thing - Dusk-Dawn - Eclypso - Equinox - Evolution - Exotica - Expression - The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost - Fifth House - Giant Steps - Goldsboro Express - Grand Central - Greensleeves - Harmonique - I Want To Talk About You - I'm Old Fashioned - Impressions - In A Sentimental Mood - India - Jupiter - Just For The Love - Lazy Bird - Leo - Liberia - Like Sonny (Simple Like) - Living Space - Locomotion - Lonnie's Lament - Love - Lush Life - Manifestation - Mars - Mary's Blues - Miles' Mode (The Red Planet) - Mr. Day - Mr. Knight - Mr. P.C. - Mr. Syms - Moment's Notice - My Favorite Things - My One And Only Love - Naima (Niema) - Nita - Offering - Ogunde - Olé - Oleo - Omicron - Paul's Pal - Peace On Earth - Pristine - The Promise - Psalm - Pursuance - Resolution - Reverend King (Rev. King) - Russian Lullaby - Satellite - Saturn - Selflessness - Serenity - The Sleeper - So What - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - Some Other Blues - Song Of Praise - Song Of The Underground Railroad - Soul Eyes - Spiral - Spiritual - Summertime - Sun Ship - Syeeda's Song Flute - Theme For Ernie - To Be - Transition - Tunji - 26-2 - Up 'Gainst The Wall - Velvet Scene - Venus - Vigil - Vilia - Village Blues - We Six - Welcome - Wise One - Witches Pit - Your Lady / Tout Instrument

Par ODELL TOM. Best day of my life is the matching artist approved songbook to Tom Odell?s fifth studio album, released 28th October 2022. The album is intentionally minimalistic, with just Tom?s voice and piano. He says: ?One year ago, almost exactly to the day, I set myself the challenge to write and record an entire album using only my voice and my piano with absolutely nothing else. I found myself digging deeper than I ever have before both with my words and piano playing. I am so proud of the way this record has turned out and I really cannot wait for you all to hear it.? Featuring an introduction from Tom himself, these songs are transcribed for piano and voice, with guitar chords and match the original recordings. / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Recueil / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Par VASKS PETERIS. The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra, “Cantabile”, “Musica dolorosa” and “Voices”, is concentrating increasingly on chamber music: his latest works are the “Partita” for cello and piano, the “Fifth String Quartet” and a piano quartet. Vasks has brought elements of ancient and folk traditions in Latvian music into his compositions. While most of his works have programmatic titles relating to natural processes, Vasks is not concerned with a poetic homage to Nature, nor with depiction of landscape as an aesthetic ideal. The main themes which Vasks explores in his most recent musical work are the reciprocal relationship between man and Nature, the beauty of life and the impending ecological and moral destruction of these values./ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par BACEWICZ GRAZYNA. Grazyna Bacewicz realised at a very early age that her main purpose in life was to compose music. Already during the 1920s, as a student of Lódz Conservatoire, as part of her lessons in harmony and counterpoint, she made attempts at composing, in which she tried to resolve nagging technical problems and impart an artistically satisfying form to them. She grew up in an atmosphere of anti-romantic tumult and the emerging neoclassical style. She assimilated the main attributes of that current in a natural way: the need to forge logical formal constructs based on new harmonic principles, not determined by the major–minor system, and also a freedom in the shaping of textures, a fixed element of which was the combining of homophony with more or less strict polyphonic forms. One example of such a strategy is the String Quartet from her student years, signed with the date 1929–1930, which the composer did not include in her official catalogue of works. In the first movement (Allegro moderato), one can distinguish two principal subjects, served in the form of the incomplete exposition of a fugue. The chromaticised first subject, with its strongly highlighted head motif, appears in the cello, with an answer coming four bars later in the first violin. After a short bridge, the first violin intones the second subject, of a different character (dolce), and the answer appears a bar later and an octave lower in the viola. Both subjects can be heard also in the closing coda, and the space between them is filled by counterpoints based largely on ostinato figures of various sorts – a technique that Bacewicz would hone to perfection in her later work. The middle fughetta (Molto adagio), with a subject stated just once, and in only three parts (cello, first violin, viola), acts as an intermezzo. The third movement (Allegro molto moderato) is a double fugue with strongly contrasting subjects. The first subject, in the form of a chromaticised melodic continuum, exposed by the cello, is initially shown with the traditional arrangement retained (answered by the viola and second violin at a fifth, and by the first violin an octave above). The second subject (energico) is a structure shaped by the opening repetition of a motif of perfect fifths, then octaves combined with staccato-tremolo figurations. As the work unfolds, the two subjects appear simultaneously in original and inverted form, coming together in the closing Cadenza in a uniform idea crowned by strong (fff) chords repeated towards the end. - Malgorzata Gasiorowska/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par SCARLATTI / GILBERT. Italian composer, Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is well-known for his Keyboard compositions. His 555 Keyboard Sonatas remain ever popular to this day, and it is for this reason that this fifth volume is indispensable to performers of the genre. Originally composed for the Harpsichord, Organ or early Pianoforte, the Sonatas display the riveting use of discords and unconventional modulations to remote keys. It is also thought that much of Scarlatti 's Keyboard music contains influences of Iberian music, considering that he spent much of his working life in the service of the Spanish and Portuguese royal families. The fifth volume, comprising Sonatas 206-255, includes many of the popular and recognised Sonatas in a variety of keys. Bearing in mind that Domenico Scarlatti was a highly competent and popular Keyboard player in his day, so much so that he was employed in the service of two royal families, his Sonatas are composed with much experience, understanding and expertise, creating an essential addition to the repertoire of all Keyboard players of the Baroque genre./ Répertoire / Clavier

The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartók.
In 1945 Bela Bartok described 'Mikrokosmos' as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for 'didactic' purposes, seeing them as a series of pieces in many different styles, representing a small world, or as the 'world of the little ones, the children'. Stylistically Mikrokosmos reflects the influence of folk music on Bartók's life and the rhythms and harmonies employed create music that is as modern today as when the cycle was written.
The 153 pieces making up 'Mikrokosmos' are divided into six volumes arranged according to technical and musical difficulty. / Classique / Préface : Peter Bartok / Partition /