Selected Works

SKU: A2.S034

ISBN 978-0-89579-775-9. 8.5x11 inches.

This edition includes three piano works by the German-Jewish composer Hans Samuel (1901-76), who was active primarily as an organist and composer of organ music. The selected works - Hassidic Hanukkah Tune: Al hanissim we al hapurkan (1946), Sounds of Slichoth: Paraphrases on S'lichoth Tunes According to the Ashkenas-Western Mode (1957, dedicated to the composer's parents, who perished in Theresienstadt), and Variations on a Yemenite Tune (undated) - were composed after Samuel's emigration to Palestine in 1939. Besides exemplifying the heightened awareness of diverse Jewish musical traditions that characterizes Samuel's music after his emigration, these works are representative of Israeli immigrant composers' early struggles to attempt to define their new nation musically.

SKU: BT.MEX288829A

English.

In Concert contain s nine piano works, selected from the Diploma of the London College of Music (DipLCM) Piano Syllabus. These works give a snapshot of the huge range of repertoire available to pianiststoday,spanning nearly three hundred years of music from all over the world. We hope that this collection of works will provide inspiration for building original and creative concert programmes, be it in the exam room, at anaudition ora professional recital.

In Concert include s an introduction and performance notes from one of the world’s most innovative musicians, Joanna MacGregor — concert pianist, curator,collaborator, Headof Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of the University of London. Joanna’s distinctive insights into the technical and interpretative aspects of each work are drawn from her own extensiveperformingexperi ence. As a director of numerous innovative festivals and concert series, she is also uniquely qualified to write about how to build a programme, one of the most creative and important skills for a musician todevelop.

SKU: CA.1819000

ISBN 9790007188337.

Now that the manuscripts of the organ sonatas have resurfaced, it has finally become possible to form an acquaintance with the major part of Giacomo Puccini's early compositions in Lucca, which until now were known only from anecdotes. The present selection with 12 works sheds light on this segment of his oeuvre, scheduled to appear in a complete single-volume scholarly edition in the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini (ENOGP, II/2.1).

SKU: CA.5600300

ISBN 9790007188047.

The organ is the instrument on which the young Giacomo Puccini began his career as a musician. Through the rediscovery of a considerable number of hand-written pieces, which he composed after 1870 as part of his duties as organist in the churches of Lucca, several primary sources are now available. These give an insight into the beginnings of his musical activities which have only been known about from anecdotes from his first biographers until now. Puccini's organ repertoire includes works which were typical for liturgical organ music at that time: sonatas for the main sections of the mass, versets which were substituted for Gregorian chant, marches, which were played after the mass (exceptionally even waltzes), and even a pastorale for Christmas time. This music was written with the sound of instruments made in Tuscany in mind. These have just one manual, a 8 foot Principale register and a small pedalboard always coupled to the manual. In addition there were several solo stops divided into bass and soprano.Puccini contributed with originality to the renewal of Italian organ practice, which began in his day to discard its operatic style in favor of a style more suited to the liturgy.

SKU: HL.14004585

ISBN 9780853609964.

Sele cted works by Arthur Bliss for solo piano. Suitable for advanced pianists.

SKU: IS.TP7304EM

ISBN 9790365073047.

This volume of selected works for Trumpet and Piano by Belgian composer J.E. De Wolf consists of six titles: Concert Allegro, Andantino, Moderato, Sonatine, Adagio, and Varianten op een Thema (Variations sur un theme). Included in this collection are parts for both B-flat and C Trumpet.