Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. The opera – “a kind of Alice in Wonderland, but for adults”, says Crimp – lasts just over an hour and is cast in seven scenes. It is scored for five voices (S-S-MS-CT-Bar) and twenty-two instrumentalists. It premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2023, conducted by the composer. Picture a day like this is a bittersweet fable of grief and renewal. Benjamin and Crimp tell the story of a Woman who has lost her child: if, before nightfall, she meets one truly happy person and cuts a button from their sleeve, her child will live again. In her search she meets a pair of lovers, a Composer and their Assistant, an Artisan, Collector, and, in a beautiful garden, the mysterious Zabelle. This limited edition of the full score is one of only one hundred and fifty, presented in a cloth-bound hard cover. It is signed by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp and includes facsimile reproductions of pages from the manuscript and Benjamin’s sketches, and a photograph of Benjamin, Crimp and directors Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma in rehearsal at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. ‘Benjamin proves with this taut, sharp miniature that he is the finest opera composer of today…a work of depth of feeling, humanistic artistry and expressive rigor…a drama that is miraculously condensed.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung (Reinhard J. Brembeck) 9 July 2023 ‘…spare, haunting, immediate…a fable of loss and anguish for our times… The whole has the slick perfection of a piece crafted specifically for exceptional performers…the score [is] deft and restrained, its occasional outbursts of passion all the more intense for the careful control of the rest…There is a ritualistic slowness to the movement, resembling an underwater memory or the trance-like dullness of bereavement…For Zabelle’s enchanted garden, video artist Hicham Berrada has created an ambivalent scene of blossoming chemical reactions — toxic and vibrant, sinister and fascinating…It is fiendishly clever…. [the opera] tackles huge subjects with daring economy of means…Its impact is unsettling...For all its beguiling beauty, its moments of dark wit and bitter social observation, Picture remains a voyage beyond all comfort zones.’ Financial Times (Shirley Apthorp) 7 July 2023 / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Choeur et Orchestre

The series Der Junge Pop-Chor has vastly expanded the range of contemporary choral material available to choirs. In Volume 3 of this successful series, five more songs are included for 2-part youth choir (or 2-part women's choir), arranged with Piano Accompaniment.This series is mostly aimed at teenagers and young adults, who want to sing the latest chart-topping hits. The accompanying CD contains professional recordings of the complete Piano Accompaniments, so your choir won't need a pianist. / Choeur SSA Et Piano

Par CAMPBELL LAURA. Sketches for Improvisation provides material for improvisation using the same basic processes as Sketching at the Keyboard. Classroom use of the two companion volumes as part of the National Curriculum will enable teachers of children or adults to keep a mixed ability group working together on the same basic material, through the additional challenge of free improvisation and composition. Sketches for Improvisation is particularly suitable for children in junior departments of conservatoires and music centres, who are expected to produce composition folios from the earliest stages of learning./ Livre / Livre

The series Der Junge Pop-Chor has vastly expanded the range of contemporary choral material available to choirs. In Volume 4 of this successful series, five more songs are included for 2-part youth choir (or 2-part women's choir), arranged with Piano Accompaniment.This series is mostly aimed at teenagers and young adults, who want to sing the latest chart-topping hits. The accompanying CD contains professional recordings of the complete Piano Accompaniments, so your choir won't need a pianist. / Choeur SSA Et Piano

Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM Piano exam pieces from Grades 1 to 8.Book 4 features popular pieces set on ABRSM Grades 7 and 8. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Willie Wagglestick's Walkabout or a Beethoven Allegro. Plus, we've included background information and new ideas for exploring the music. Encore is perfect for:Developing skills and technique between grades.Sourcing music for a concert or recitalLearning or playing for fun, away from the exam format.Adults returning to Piano playing, looking for approachable repertoire they'll recognise.For teachers, we've made sure that the content is perfectly balanced at every level. For quick reference, each piece has a note highlighting skills to focus on. Encore is packed full of music that will:Motivate students - all the pieces have been chosen for their ongoing popular appeal.Form a bank of rich content, so you can pick and choose pieces to help each student improve.Introduce new skills and techniques, to prepare exam candidates for the next level.Whether you're working through our exams, playing informally, or planning a performance, Encore is full of music you'll want to play again and again. / Piano

Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM Piano exam pieces from Grades 1 to 8.Book 3 features popular pieces previously set on ABRSM Grades 5 and 6. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Satie's Gymnopedie #1, or Haydn's Vivace assai. Plus, we've included background information and new ideas for exploring the music. Encore is perfect for:Developing skills and technique between grades.Sourcing music for a concert or recitalLearning or playing for fun, away from the exam format.Adults returning to Piano playing, looking for approachable repertoire they'll recognise.For teachers, we've made sure that the content is perfectly balanced at every level. For quick reference, each piece has a note highlighting skills to focus on. Encore is packed full of music that will:Motivate students - all the pieces have been chosen for their ongoing popular appeal.Form a bank of rich content, so you can pick and choose pieces to help each student improve.Introduce new skills and techniques, to prepare exam candidates for the next level.Whether you're working through our exams, playing informally, or planning a performance, Encore is full of music you'll want to play again and again. / Piano

Akkordeon spielen - mein schönstes Hobby is a practical method that aims at young people and adults who wish to get to know the whole multifaceted world of accordion music. Suitable for beginners and false beginners.After Vol. 1 (ED 20951) and Vol. 2 (ED 20952) of the method, Schott now publishes tune book #1 with many beautiful songs and pieces for lessons, ensemble playing at home or auditions. The level of difficulty of the pieces has been adjusted to the progression of the volumes of the method. Many songs come with an accompanying part for the teacher or other accordion players. The enclosed CD serves as an acoustic learning aid and shall motivate the student to practise and play. / 1 A 3 Accordéons

Par MURPHY HENRY. Now on DVD. Having trouble with banjo? Want to play songs that sound like something? Want to play songs your friends might recognize? Songs that aren't so darn fast? Banjo for Misfits is what you need! Designed especially for adults. Uses basic licks to play great arrangements. Basic chording explained. No Tab. Includes Boil Them Cabbage Down, I Saw the Light, Worried Man, Do Lord, and Two-Dollar Bill. (1 hour, 50 minutes) / Niveau : Débutant / Bluegrass - Methods / Méthode / Banjo à 5 Cordes

Adults will enjoy the ease with which they master these well-known tunes skillfully arranged at the beginner level. Optional duet accompaniment parts enhance the richness of the musical color. Titles: Annie's Song * Arabian Nights * As Time Goes By * Beauty and the Beast * Dancing Queen * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * I Could Write a Book * I Only Want to Be with You * Killing Me Softly With His Song * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * Summertime. 24 pages. / Instrumental Music, Miscellaneous, Piano Music / Recueil / Piano

Par ABOULKER ISABELLE. Defenders of the oppressed and fighters against injustice, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola often put their genius to the service of great causes: the abolition of the death penalty and child labor, the advancement of women in society, the awareness of the Dreyfus affair' Conceived in the same years and under the same sky, the much less profound words of Baroness Staffe in her manual of good manners, vehemently denounce both the wearing of white socks and the dangers of orientalism. This musical chronicle will educate and intrigue middle and high school students and amuse adults as well. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte, Narrateur et Ensemble

With the new Urtext Primo series, the Wiener Urtext Edition wants to close the gap arising at the point of transition to additional lessons after having studied a piano method. Beginning with a performance level which is outlined by pieces such as Bach's Minuet in G (BWV Anh. 116), Mozart's Minuet in F (KV 5) or Schumann's Wilder Reiter (Op. 68/8), works by three different composers are selected for each volume of the Urtext Primo series, with the aim of offering piano pupils (or even adults who want to resume piano playing) a wide range of repertoire pieces on the basis of which they can enhance their technical and musical skills. The pieces' range of levels of difficulty is relatively narrow so that the volume can be used continuously over a period of about two years. This is what distinguishes the Urtext Primo approach from almost all common anthologies. The selected repertoire takes into account not only pieces of the classic canon of lessons, but also lesser known works which are in no way of less importance for piano lessons. The Urtext Primo volumes are published in the internationally recognised standard of the Wiener Urtext editions. The explanations included in each volume shall help to deepen the knowledge of musical styles, music history and piano playing. A repertoire chart at the end of each volume gives a rough overview of the levels of difficulty of the selected pieces.Volume 4 combines works of the German Romanticism by Schumann, Brahms and Theodor Kirchner. Apart from well known pieces from Schumann's 'Album for the Youth' and the easiest waltzes from opus 39 (in the easier version) by Brahms, the selection contains the attractive set of variations from Schumann's first Youth Sonata Op. 118/1 and Brahms' Saraband in A minor WoO 5/1 as well as a number of pleasant pieces by Theodor Kirchner which continue the tonal air of Schumann and Brahms in easy playable pieces. / Piano

Vocal coach and choral director Mark De-Lisser, who has edited and arranged the highly acclaimed Sing Out! series, here turns his attention to the a cappella repertoire, with five uplifting songs for SATB choir in this sixth pop repertoire book in the series.As before, these songs have each been selected for their positive lyrics and heart-warming feel, making them ideal to teach to adults and children. With an enticing selection of pop songs, including Sigma's Higher, Jess Glynne's Don't Be So Hard on Yourself, Ronnie Laws' Always There, Coldplay's Paradise and James Bay's Hold Back the River, this compilation has something for everyone.Arranged for the first time for SATB choir, this book includes a download card with access to full demonstrations and individual rehearsal tracks of each vocal line recorded by members of ACM Gospel Choir. The scores feature keyboard reductions for ease of learning. Helpful hints for performing the pieces and an introduction to beat-boxing are also included in this book, giving you everything you need to learn these well-loved songs. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)