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  • Earl Scruggs
    David L. Russell / David LRussell / Gordon Castelnero
    Earl Scruggs chronicles the life and legacy of the man who revolutionized the five-string banjo and left an indelible mark on bluegrass and folk music. Including interviews with the Scruggs family and more than 60 notable musicians, this narrative biography testifies to Scruggs’s enduring influence and sheds light on the history of bluegrass. ...
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    37,72 €

  • Five Mystical Songs
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Vaughan Williams' setting of poems from George Herbert's 1633 collection, 'The Temple: Sacred Poems' was composed between 1906 and 1911. The premiere was given under the composer's direction on September 14, 1911 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. This newly engraved edition by Richard W. Sargeant Jr. was prepared from the first edition full score issued som...
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    15,31 €

  • Rimsky-Korsakov and His World
    Marina Frolova-Walker
    A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russia-where many of his fifteen operas and various orchestral pieces are still in the standard repertoi...
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    49,66 €

  • Serenade for Strings, Op.48
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Written in September and October of 1880 Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings was completed quickly. While away visiting his sister in Kamenka he 'immediately began to feel cheerful, well and relaxed'. This work is perfectly reflective of warmth and happiness the composer experienced on his Autumn holiday. Though originally intended to be a suite, Tchaikovsky ultimately created a...
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    12,10 €

  • Piano Concerto in B minor, CFF 135
    Cesar Franck
    Franck’s Piano Concerto in B minor is an early work written when he was only 13 years old to showcase his piano talents. A fragment of one of his two piano youthful concertos (likely this one) was performed in Paris at 62nd concert of L’Athénée musical on February 23, 1837 featuring the composer as soloist and the orchestra conducted by J.J. Vidal but there doesn’t seem to be a...
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    22,99 €

  • Ce qu’on entend sur la montagne, CFF 126
    Cesar Franck
    Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (What one hears on the mountain) is a symphonic poem inspired by Victor Hugo's poem of the same name. Composed in 1846, three years before Liszt's tone poem on the same subject, the score remained unknown until 1922. The score offered here is a newly engraved edition prepared by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr. based upon the composer's m...
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    16,24 €

  • La Scala di Seta Overture
    Gioachino Rossini
    La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) is one act comic opera first performed in Venice on May 9, 1812. Although the opera is only rarely performed today, its overture (or sinfonia) has remained a concert-hall favorite and is programed often. The opera’s title comes from one of the character’s lowering a ladder made of silk so that her lover can visit at night. This newly engrave...
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    12,41 €

  • Overture 1812, Op.49
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Despite his overall misgivings about composing music for exhibitions, Tchaikovsky composed what was to become one of his most popular works between September and November of 1880. The commission was for an Arts and Industry Exhibition to be given in the summer of 1881 to commemorate the Russian victory over the Napoleonic forces in 1812. Because of the murder of Tsar Alexander ...
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    13,44 €

  • Donna Diana Overture
    Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek
    Reznicek’s early comic opera Donna Diana, premiered at Prague’s New German Theatre on December 16, 1894, was fairly popular in its day but largely forgotten now. Fortunately, its delightful overture rapidly took on a life of its own in the concert hall, where it soon became part of the standard repertoire. This new edition prepared by Richard W. Sargeant Jr. is based upon the f...
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    16,83 €

  • Lyric Suite, Op.54
    Edvard Grieg
    Grieg’s orchestral setting of five of his 6 Lyric Pieces, Op.54 for piano actually started with an orchestration made of Nos.2, 3, 4 and 6 by Anton Seidl (1850-1898), then conductor of the New York Philharmonic, for an 1894 concert under the title Norwegian Suite. In 1905, the composer obtained a copy of Seidl’s score and set about re-working the orchestration of the four numbe...
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    16,06 €

  • Polovtsian Dances
    Alexander Borodin
    The Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s Prince Igor consist of two numbers from the opera’s second act (8 and 17). The first dance is the ’Dance of Polovtsian Maidens’ while the remaining of the dances come from the second act finale. Borodin worked sporadically for almost 18 years on Prince Igor but it was left in an incomplete chaotic state upon his death in 1887. The dances her...
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    17,05 €

  • Serenade for Strings, Op.20
    Edward Elgar
    Elgar’s Serenade for Strings is a youthful work full of charm and elegance. Completed in 1892, it is most likely a reworking of a suite Elgar had written some years earlier and has been a long-standing favorite of string orchestras and audiences worldwide ever since its publication the same year. Even though the first known public performance was given in Antwerp on July 21, 18...
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    9,22 €

  • Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    There have been several orchestrations of Bach’s famous organ masterwork over the years, including some by notable conductors such as Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, Rene Leibowitz, Andrew Davis plus a couple by composers: Ottorino Respighi and the one offered here by the Russian Aleksandr Gedike. The exact date of Gedike’s orchestration is unknown but could date from before...
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    12,22 €

  • Marche Slave, Op.31
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    The Slavonic March, more commonly known as March Slave is an orchestral tone poem based on Serbo-Russian themes written by Tchaikovsky for a benefit concert given on November 18, 1876 for assisting victims of the conflict between Serbia and Turkey. It soon has become one of his most beloved works and an wordwide audience favorite. This newly engraved edition by Richard W. Sarge...
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    13,50 €

  • Night on Bald Mountain
    Modest Mussorgsky
    One of the first Russian tone poems, Night on Bald Mountain had its genesis in the late 1850s when Mussorgsky started sketches for a projected opera: St. John's Eve (1858), later changed to The Witch (1860) - based upon a scenario about a witches' sabbath on St. John's Eve. These were abandonded by the early 1860s but Mussorgsky contemplated a tone poem using the ma...
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    12,05 €

  • Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Bach composed the first version of this piece in 1723 using the key of E-flat major for the Christmas Vespers in Leipzig which contained several Christmas texts. Over the years he removed the Christmas-specific texts to make it suitable for year-round performance and transposied it to D major, providing better sonority for the three trumpets, which is the standard version of th...
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    16,86 €

  • In the Steppes of Central Asia
    Alexander Borodin
    Dedicated to the father of the to symphonic poem Franz Liszt, Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia is a musical depiction of a caravan traveling through the steppe lands of the Caucasus under the protection of Russian troops. The premiere took place in St. Petersburg on April 20, 1880 with the Orchestra of the Russian opera under the baton of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The wo...
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    13,25 €

  • L’Apprenti sorcier
    Paul Dukas
    L’apprenti sorcier - also widely known as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - is a symphonic poem originally subtitled as 'Scherzo after a Ballad by Goethe'. Inspired by Goethe’s poem of the same name, Dukas’ musical depiction closely follows the narrative of the original tale. Because of this, Disney animated the story for the film Fantasia which resulted in the work becoming widely k...
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    14,84 €

  • Andante e rondo ongarese, Op.35
    Carl Maria von Weber
    First composed in 1809 as a viola showpiece for his for his step-brother Fritz, Weber’s Andante et rondo ongarese remained unpublished in the composer’s original settng for decades after the composer’s death. In the wake of the touring composer’s great success with his Clarinet Concertino of 1811 - composed for Heinrich Baermann, virtuoso clarinetist of the Munich Court Orchest...
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    12,10 €

  • Andante e rondo ongarese, J.79
    Carl Maria von Weber
    Written in 1809 for his step-brother Fritz for viola and orchestra, Weber’s Andante e rondo ongarese was never published in the composer’s lifetime. In 1813 when Georg Friedrich Brandt asked for another Bassoon Concerto, the composer reworked it featuring Bassoon as the solo instrument, which is the version published as Op.35 and the one generally known today. Using the hologra...
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    13,44 €

  • Serenade in E-flat major, Op.7
    Richard Strauss
    Written when he was only 17 years old, Richard Strauss’ Serenade in E-flat major for winds has been a staple in the wind repertoire since it was premiered by the wind ensemble of the Dresden Court Orchestra on November 27, 1882 under the direction of Franz Wüllner. The Dresden performance also marked Strauss’ first major premiere outside Munich, the city where he was born and r...
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    10,88 €

  • Petite Suite, CD 71b
    Claude Debussy
    Originally composed for piano duet, Debussy's Peite suite was first peformed in Paris by the composer and Jacques Durand at a private hearing on February 2, 1889 and became immediately popular after its publication the same year. Its widespread popularity resulted in demands from the publisher for an orchestral setting. The composer, too busy with new works, ultimately assi...
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    14,94 €

  • Schoenberg and Redemption
    Julie Brown
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    37,51 €

  • The Lion Roars
    Phil Sandford
    By day a mild-mannered accountant, by night a roaring jazz pianist and singer. A boogie and stride pianist, Willie ‘The Lion’ McIntyre was a leading figure in the traditional jazz boom in Melbourne after World War II. He sang in a Fats Waller style or shouted the blues, and was a key member of Tony Newstead’s Southside Gang and the Portsea Trio. Together with clarinettist Geo...
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    17,08 €

  • Billy Joel
    Joshua Duchan / Joshua S. Duchan / Joshua SDuchan
    Joshua Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring the unique ways Joel transforms the cultural life of a changing America over four decades. Original interviews with Joel blend with Duchan’s engaging analysis to provide readers of all backgrounds and ages a new look at Joel’s most beloved songs. ...
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    35,13 €

  • Experiencing Herbie Hancock
    Eric Wendell
    Eric Wendell looks beyond the successes and failures of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock to explore his musical design within the jazz community and mainstream pop culture. Wendell explores how Hancock’s efforts have established new jazz standards while fostering a cross-genre continuity among modern jazz practitioners. ...
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    50,23 €

  • Laugh ’n’ Scratch
    PETER STUART FARLEY
    It's early 1963 in a north of England town. A new pop group called The Beatles are creating a sensation. They have embarked on their U.K. winter tour and are due to play at the town's dance hall. Stuart is a naive teenager.  He starts a job as a trainee projectionist at the local cinema. Before long he encounters eccentric colleagues with dark secrets to share. Amongst ...
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    7,48 €

  • Dean Dixon
    Rufus Jones / Rufus Jr. Jones / Rufus JrJones
    In this book,conductor and scholar Rufus Jones, Jr. brings to light a literal treasure trove of unpublished primary sources to tell the compelling story of the great American conductor, Dean Dixon. ...
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    47,62 €

  • Inside Folk Volume 1
    Liza Mulholland
    Love folk music? Liza Mulholland invites you Inside Folk to share an insight into her experience as a contemporary Scottish musician. Drawing on more than twenty-five years in folk music, she reflects on elements of a typical year - performing, teaching, travelling, launching an album, juggling gigs and children, listening, composing - and offers a heartwarming illustration of ...
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    4,44 €

  • Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis
    Aaron Lefkovitz
    This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture. ...
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    129,19 €


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