Piano Time is a hugely successful series for all young beginners from the very first lesson up to around grade 3. With a complete range of carefully paced and attractive books - tutors books of pieces of all kinds duets and technique books - Piano Time is a highly enjoyable way to learn the piano. Piano Time 3 builds on the techniques acquired in Piano Time 1 and 2 introducing new keys semiquavers in various rhythmic patterns triplets and a variety of finger-twister exercises. It also practises the alberti bass scales with hands together and the melodic minor scale and shows players how to plan their own concert. With ahost of attractive pieces in all styles a gradual pace to suit all players and many wonderful illustrations in full colour this is a superb tutor book for all young musicians.

Travel back in time with Prehistoric Piano Time and encounter an entertaining mix of 20 dinosaur pieces games and puzzles pitched at around the level of Piano Time 2. Lively full-colour illustrations introduce each of the friendly monsters that inhabit the volume. Prehistoric Piano Time is guaranteed to capture the imagination of any youngster and as you would expect from Pauline Hall all the material has a solid musical and tutorial basis as well as being tremendous fun!

Piano Time is a hugely successful series for all young beginners from the very first lesson up to around grade 3. With a complete range of carefully paced and attractive books - tutors books of pieces of all kinds duets and technique books - Piano Time is a highly enjoyable way to learn the piano. Piano Time Pieces 1 presents a sparkling selection of pieces in all styles. Here are classical and jazzy pieces folksongs and specially written tunes and songs and character pieces of all kinds. Practising the range of techniques and keys introduced in Piano Time 1 these pieces provide a wealth of enjoyable practice andrepertoire material for all young pianists. With superb illustrations throughout this is a must have companion volume to Piano Time 1.

A steady unhurried piano tutor which encourages security at every step. The pieces are entertaining and backed up by games theory puzzles and duets. The illustrated colourful pictures enhance the musical material which all young children will enjoy learning from.

Emily Pauline Johnson's poem about a storm forming in the western sky is delightfully set in this concert work for SSA voices. Text painting at its best the vocals sing with unison two-part and full three-part writing and interpret the sound sights and smells of a summer storm. An exquisite choice for concert and contest.

In 1857 and 1858 as Richard Wagner had come to the completion of Die Walkure the second installment in his epic opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen he took time out to write a series of lieder for (and based on poems by)Mathilde Wesendonck with whom Wagner was believed to have been at the very least extremely infatuated. Whatever the truth might have been behind their relationship it is known that Wagner had met Mathilde's husband Otto inZurich and his ensuing friendship with the couple led to this beautiful set of lieder.Wagner himself called two of the set's songs (Im Treibhaus and Traume) 'studies' for his magnificent opera Tristan andIsolde and though originally intended for female voice with piano all of these songs were eventually orchestrated either by Wagner (in the case of Traume) or by other composers. When they were first performed in 1862 they weretitled Five Songs for a Female Voice. In the 20th century they also became very popular songs for some of the greatest tenors.Much earlier in 1839 Wagner had composed a three-song cycle called Trois Melodies. The firstpiece entitled Dors mon enfant was a lullaby that Wagner ascribed to an unnamed young poet of his publisher's acquaintance and of which he wrote that his wife had called 'heavenly for sending one to sleep'. He thenset Ronsard's song Mignonne and Victor Hugo's L'attente (from that author's Orientales) to round out the set. Wagner offered L'attente to the reigning diva of the time Pauline Viardot who is said to have flatly refused it.Wagner wrote in his memoirs My Life 'I have no reason to be ashamed of these small pieces.'Listen to brilliant tenor Jon Robert Cart perform these lieder. Then he steps aside and you take center stage with yourvirtuoso accompanist Narciso Solero at the piano.

This major concert work cosists o five movements.1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the ?Laguna del Shimbe? one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream.2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It?s a proud beautiful andindependent race which has never succumbed to domination not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish fruit plants ... . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways.3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning ?picture? ?soul? ?essence?. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. ?Everywhere the white man goes he leaves a wilderness behind him? wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone 80 tribes have vanished completely).4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water painted with redpaint and covered with feathers after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound.5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by amongst others the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez who murdered in 1988 was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped.

This major concert work cosists o five movements.1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the ?Laguna del Shimbe? one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream.2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It?s a proud beautiful andindependent race which has never succumbed to domination not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish fruit plants ... . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways.3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning ?picture? ?soul? ?essence?. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. ?Everywhere the white man goes he leaves a wilderness behind him? wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone 80 tribes have vanished completely).4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water painted with redpaint and covered with feathers after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound.5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by amongst others the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez who murdered in 1988 was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped.

Le livre Vocal réelle est la réponse à l'ouvrage de faux. C'est une alternative à la pléthore de volumes mal conçues, illisibles, inexacts, mal edited qui abondent sur le marché aujourd'hui. Le livre Vocal réelle est extrêmement précis, soignée et vise, avant tout, pour un usage pratique. Tous les efforts réalisés pour le rendre agréable à effectuer. La sélection de musiques pour ce volume met en évidence les principaux compositeurs jazz du passé des années 60, avec une attention particulière pour les années 1960 et 1970. Un certain nombre de chansons par Rogers

'Pistacos' : petits diables.'Spices' : les épices.'Les épices des diablotins'...en épis et jubilations, Pistacotiques.Collection 'Percussion Plaisir' proposée par Christian Hamouy.Pianiste, compositeur d'origine portugaise et italo-espagnole, Jean-Marie Machado a passé son enfance au Maroc. Jeune adulte, il étudie la musique auprès de la concertiste classique Catherine Collard et s'initie en autodidacte à la musique pop et au jazz.En 1986, Jean-Marie Machado fait son irruption sur la scène du jazz avec un trio aux conceptions tout à fait originales (Trio Machado avec Louis et François Moutin), et un répertoire entièrement neuf, atteignant, selon Martial Solal, 'un degré de raffinement et de perfection rarement atteint dans ce domaine'. Il est reconnu comme 'l'un des jazzmen les plus inventifs de sa génération'.En 1991, il crée la première version de l'orchestre 'Vibracordes' et enregistre un disque avec le percussionniste Nana Vasconcelos et les cordes du Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France.Dès lors, Jean-Marie Machado s'affirme comme un leader talentueux de formations originales au service d'une musique riche de croisements entre les mondes du classique, du jazz et des musiques traditionnelles.'Septuor Vibracordes' réunit entre 1993 et 1998 la fine fleur de la jeune scène du jazz français (Laurent Dehors, Sylvain Beuf, David Chevallier, François Thuillier, Ramon Lopez, Yves Rousseau, Franck Tortiller) et crée en 1996 le spectacle ' Septuor Vibracordes et les musiques de Bretagne ' (Chants de la Mémoire, Hopi, 1997). En mai 1998, le ' French Piano Trio ' réunit trois pianistes : Martial Solal, Jean-Marie Machado et François Raulin autour d'un répertoire entièrement original. Jean-Marie Machado témoigne de son intérêt pour la poésie et la voix en créant à l'automne 2001 un spectacle en grand orchestre intitulé ' La Main des Saisons ', oratorio profane inspiré des poèmes de Fernando Pessoa, avec la collaboration du metteur en scène Philippe Delaigue et du Choeur Les Solistes de Lyon Bernard Tétu (Leve, leve, muito leve, Hortus distrib. Codaex, 2003).Jean-Marie Machado ne délaisse pas pour autant les petites formations : il se produit en solo dans de nombreux festivals, joue et enregistre avec Jean-Marc Padovani en duo et en quartet (Takiya, Tokaya avec Paul Motian et Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Hopi), ainsi qu'en duo avec le batteur Ramon Lopez ou le percussionniste Keyvan Chemirani (Azul, Hopi, 1998).Parallèlement, son activité de compositeur l'amène à multiplier les collaborations : avec les Percussions de Strasbourg, l'Ensemble de Trompettes de Paris, La Maîtrise du Choeur de Radio France (commande du Festival Présence en 2001), pour la danse (Elsa Wolliatson, Compagnie Taffanel, L'Estampe), le théâtre (avec Enzo Corman, La Cie Le Bruit des Hommes), la radio. En 2005, il crée une oeuvre pluri-artistique pour l'Ensemble, Orchestre régional de Basse-Normandie, (Direction Dominique Debard).Entre 1994 et 2001, Jean-Marie Machado participe à des résidences de création et de sensibilisation (à Quimper, Les Ulis, Chelles, Niort, Lannion, Valence, Foix) qui ont donné naissance, entre autres aventures collectives, au ' Chant des Pierres dans l'eau ' (pièce pour quinze pianistes, un choeur d'enfants et un choeur d'adultes, amateurs et professionnels), L'Autre Rive (Hortus, 2005, pièces pour choeur, violon, accordéon, tuba, deux percussions) et à deux grandes pièces pour soliste et ensemble d'harmonie fréquemment re-crées : présentées dans l'album Hymne (enregistré en 2002 par l'Ensemble Instrumental de l'Ariège, direction Eric Villevière).De ses résidences naissent également des formes artistiques pour la jeunesse comme en 1998 le ' musi-contage ' Double Croche et Sortilège avec le conteur Jean-Jacques Fdida (L'Oiseau de Vérité - conte musique - Editions Didier Jeunesse, 2003) puis en 2004 dans une formule musicale étoffée l'Opéra-Conte 'La Fille du Diable' (deux chanteurs, un conteur, piano, violoncelle, percussion).En 2001, Jean-Marie Machado effectue un retour remarqué vers un format plus ' classique ' du jazz avec la création à Banlieues Bleues du Quartet Lyrisme avec autour de Riccardo Del Fra et Jacques Mahieux des solistes tels Paolo Fresu, Andy Sheppard, Glenn Ferris, Sylvain Beuf, Claus Stötter. Cette formation est à l'affiche des plus grands festivals de jazz de l'été 2002 (Jazz à Vienne, Marciac, LaVillette, Orléans) et effectue un grand nombre de concerts sur les scènes nationales. En 2003, le quartet devient sextet pour interpréter une suite instrumentale de jazz d'aujourd'hui dédiée aux grands thèmes de la musique classique et traditionnelle andalouse (Andaloucia, Le chant du Monde - Harmonia Mundi , 2005)En 2003, Jean-Marie Machado crée un magnifique duo avec le saxophoniste américain David Liebman autour d'un répertoire dédié en partie au fado. Le fado est également au coeur de son nouveau répertoire en piano solo et trio intitulé 'Soeurs de sang' avec Jacques Mahieux et Jean-Philippe Viret. En 2004, une nouvelle collaboration voit le jour avec le chanteur Antonio Placer. En 2008 il crée son nouveau grand ensemble : ' Danzas '. / Vibraphone Et Piano

Par CAMPO REGIS. Peu importe les tensions qui traversent Street-Art de Re´gis Campo, interpre´te´ ici par l'ensemble TM+ sous la direction de Laurent Cuniot : tension entre discours musical savant et formes populaires, entre sophistication des modes de jeu et spontane´ite´ de l'expression, et qu'il he´rite peut-e^tre d'un compositeur comme Ennio Morricone, dont l'influence l'a durablement marque´. Tension serait ici, pluto^t, transversalite´ entre diffe´rents re´gimes du discours musical, qui s'autorise l'accueil de multiples influences (de Steve Reich, John Cage et Ge´rard Grisey a` Leonard Bernstein), mais aussi entre des e´tats musicaux he´te´roge`nes, d'une certaine violence a` une extre^me douceur, d'une vivacite´ parfois taquine a` une tendresse feutre´e... Il s'agit de s'ajuster a` l'aujourd'hui, a` cet urbain ou` nous vivons sous plusieurs re´gimes, sous plusieurs tempi et modes de jeu : fre´ne´sie de nos ta^ches quotidiennes, courses concentre´es et alertes, contemplations lascives, parfois doucement tristes. Pauline Nadrigny/ Répertoire / 12 Instruments ou Orchestre de Chambre