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£593.99Symphony No. 2 - Views of Edo - Franco Cesarini
Edo is the ancient name for the city of Tokyo. Inspired by a series of woodcuts by the artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) entitled 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo', Cesarini's symphony is based upon a few traditional Japanese melodies. The composition is divided into five movements in arch form: a structure in which the individual sections are arranged symmetrically around a centre. Each movement takes its title from a print from the 'One Hundred Views'.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£228.70Symfoni nr. 1 'Fatum' - Symphony No. 1 "Fate" - Johan Halvorsen
Johan August Halvorsen (1864-1935) was born in Drammen and played violin and several brass instruments. He played in both orchestra and wind bands and in 1881 he became a student at Brigademusikken in Oslo. After a brilliant violinist career he proved himself talented as a conductor and composer. From 1899 he became conductor and composer at the National Theatre, where he wrote many of his most famous works. It was in this period in 1924 he wrote Fatum. Fatum means destiny and like Beethoven he opens the symphony with a motif he uses in all four movements. This work shows that Halvorsen was a great composer and a traditionalist.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£109.99A Tribute to Bach - Axel Norman
Johann Sebastian Bach could not have wished for a better accolade. A Tribute to Bach is a daring arrangement of Bach's Partita no.2 for pianoforte and a homage to the grandmaster of Baroque in a modern orchestration. Arranger Axel Norman has achieved this by adding percussion tastefully to the original. The woodwind section of the band, however, plays the leading parts.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£60.99Solveig's Song (from Peer Gynt Suite No. 2) - Edvard Grieg
Composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875, music from Peer Gynt was originally incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's five-act play. The beautiful Solveig's Song is from the second orchestral suite later extracted by Grieg. Johnnie's tender setting opens with a lyric theme scored for the trumpet section. A brief andante section features the woodwinds before returning to the opening melody this time richly scored for full band. A beautiful work for teaching lyric style playing.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£37.95Rockin' a Round
Everyone loves a round, and your audience will too when you put Rockin' a Round on your next concert. John O'Reilly has taken some of the most famous rounds and placed a fun rock-style beat underneath. Your audience's toes will be tapping in no time! Correlated with Yamaha Band Student, Book 1, page 12.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£122.50
A Patriotic Salute - James L. Hosay
No one writes more exquisitely patriotic music than James L. Hosay, the former head arranger for "Pershing's Own" United States Army Band in Washington D.C. Dedicated to the memory of Mr. Hosay's mentor, Dr. Sydney Berg, this moving symphonic setting of THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER is a rich and compelling way to bring a your concert to a close. Of course it works equally well anywhere the National Anthem would be appropriate for performance.The unusual 4/4 meter setting with artfully crafted reharmonizations and lush counterpoint gives each listener cause to reflect on the importance and meaning of this melody to patriotic Americans everywhere.Inspired!
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£67.50
Theme from Symphony no. 4 - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelssohn for band! Mendelssohn is known for the beauty of his melodic themes, and this one from the "Italian" Symphony certainly fits that category. THEME from SYMPHONY #4 gives impressions of the people and landscapes of this beautiful country. A bucolic sense pervades the score and translates into a restful and uplifting musical experience.Douglas Court has done a marvelous job in bringing the orchestral textures to the young band stage. His considerable experience with directing young bands and his many fine compositions expressly for musicians at this level give him the ability to make the music as playable as it is authentic. Don't miss it!
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£79.99
Scherzo from Symphony No. 5 - Dmitri Shostakovich
The second movement of Shostakovich's masterful and subversive Fifth Symphony, written as his career as a composer in communist Russia teetered in the balance, could suggest a barely literate composer from the Bureau of Artists coming to the great Shostakovich to demonstrate, through a most grotesque dance, how simple it is to compose great music under the Soviet System. This transcription of the Scherzo movement was produced by Mark Rogers, who also transcribed the complete symphony. In the transcription of the complete work, all of the music remains in the original key, while in this publication, the second movement is transposed down a whole tone to G minor. Other than the transposition and the removal of some of the more rarely found instruments (E flat clarinet, contrabassoon and harp), the music is intact, and represents the composer's intentions in every way. Conductors who choose to perform this piece will introduce their players to this important voice in Twentieth Century music and bring major issues about political life and its impact on creative life to their students in the most relevant fashion.
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£89.99Symphony No. 1 - Movement 1 - Richard L. Saucedo
Richard's first symphony for winds is a tour de force of orchestrational textures and rhythmic vitality. Movement 1 opens with a virtuosic display of solo statements followed by a layering of sounds and soaring melodies all leading to a dynamic finish. Dur: 4:00 (Includes full performance CD)
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£60.99Fantasy On A Russian air - Johnnie Vinson
Based on a familiar folk tune, Johnnie Vinson has created an appealling set of variations with an occasional nod to Beethoven, who used the same melody in his Theme and Variations for flute and piano (Op. 107, No. 7). With each variation featuring a different section of the band, this work utilizes a mixture of contrasting meters and styles. Dur: 4:00
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