The Facebook Song (add your own lyrics version)

The Facebook Song (add your own lyrics version)

The Facebook Song (add your own lyrics version)

The Facebook Song (add your own lyrics version)

60 Etudes

Johann Baptist Cramer's 60 Selected Studies, for Solo Piano.These studies are an excellent preparation for passage-work, as well as being interesting pieces in their own right.Edited by Bulow.

13 Nocturnes

Just as this remarkable series of works spanned virtually the whole of Fauré's compositional career, so they can give us a lifetime of enrichment. The 'Nocturnes' had a particularly unfortunate publishing history. As aresult, in this new edition Roy Howat identifies literally hundreds of corrections, amendments and alternatives deriving directly from Fauré's own pen. Contents:Nocturne Op. 33, No. 1Nocturne Op. 33,No. 2Nocturne Op. 33, No. 3Nocturne Op. 36Nocturne Op. 37Nocturne Op. 63Nocturne Op. 74Nocturne Op. 84Nocturne Op. 97Nocturne Op. 99Nocturne Op. 104Nocturne Op.107Nocturne Op. 119

Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No.1 In C Op.15

The Concerto For Piano And Orchestra No.1 In C Op.15 is the first of Beethoven’s famous piano concertos and, being one of his earlier works, reflects a youthful and passionate composer, demonstrating his own virtuosicpianistic skills and understanding of the instrument.This version of the score has been edited, with an orchestral reduction for accompanying piano, by Max Pauer and includes Beethoven’s original cadenzas. The orchestralsetting of the second piano will enable the pupil studying the solo part, to follow the orchestra and complete their part.

Miroirs

New Urtext Edition of the music of Maurice Ravel by Roger Nichols. In preparing this Urtext edition of Ravel’s piano music, Roger Nichols consulted no fewer than 14 sources - including sound recordings by Ravelhimself and other pianists with whom the composer worked. As a result he is uniquely qualified to evaluate the complexity of the sources and, with this edition, has provided today’s pianists with the tools to maketheir own well-informed performance choices about this infinitely-rewarding repertoire. “… a definitive edition that will be invaluable for all serious pianists and Ravel enthusiasts” -TheMusical Times

Requiem In D Minor K626

No other work by Mozart is so enshrouded in myth as his final composition, the D-minor Requiem. Mozart died before its completion, and the missing sections had to be added by others. The many handwritten copies circulated afterhis death added to the corruption of the text by contributing errors of their own. Now Peters is publishing a new urtext edition of this staple of the choral repertoire, edited by David Black. The edition relies on Mozart’scomposition and the traditional completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr. For the first time, however, it incorporates sources previously unavailable to earlier editions, including the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.

Nocturnes

John Field is credited as the true 'inventor' of the Nocturne. After experimenting with other names such as Pastorale, Serenade, and Romance, he settled on “Nocturne” when his first one was published in 1812. Field’s Nocturnes follow no known form, nor do they develop a given theme. Instead, they set up a mood and atmosphere of tenderness and dreaminess combined with a continuous flow of beautiful melody that appealsdirectly to the listener's willingness to share an emotion, mostly of consoled sadness. It was Field's Nocturnes that greatly influenced Chopin, who absorbed the emotional characteristics of the Nocturne style and used themtocreate his own unique expressive compositions.

Complete Songs Volume 3 : The Complete Verlaine Settings (1887–1894) Critical edition

Gabriel Fauré’s seventeen settings of the poetry of Paul Verlaine mark the biggest single stylistic leap of his compositional career, and arguably one of the high points of the entire art song repertoire. The present edition contains the threeindividual settings Claire de lune, Spleen and Prison together with the op. 58 “Venetian” songs and the magnificient cycle La Bonne Chanson.With its focus both practical and scholarly, this new Complete Edition of songs aims to encourage creative,confident and wellinformed performance. Founded on study of hundreds of manuscripts and printed sources, it has been tested internationally in masterclasses, workshops, seminars, concerts and recordings. In this it takes a lead from the composer, whoprepared his own editions on the basis fo performing experience. The edition also assimilates interpretative insights from musicians who worked with Fauré, as well as from his documented performing preferences.

Complete Songs Volume 3 - : The Complete Verlaine Settings (1887–1894) Critical edition

Gabriel Fauré’s seventeen settings of the poetry of Paul Verlaine mark the biggest single stylistic leap of his compositional career, and arguably one of the high points of the entire art song repertoire. The present edition contains the threeindividual settings Claire de lune, Spleen and Prison together with the op. 58 “Venetian” songs and the magnificient cycle La Bonne Chanson.With its focus both practical and scholarly, this new Complete Edition of songs aims to encourage creative,confident and wellinformed performance. Founded on study of hundreds of manuscripts and printed sources, it has been tested internationally in masterclasses, workshops, seminars, concerts and recordings. In this it takes a lead from the composer, whoprepared his own editions on the basis fo performing experience. The edition also assimilates interpretative insights from musicians who worked with Fauré, as well as from his documented performing preferences.

Ave Maria

'Gounod wrote the first version of this famous song in 1852 and it was published in December of that year by Mayaud as 'Premier prélude de J.S. Bach'. The words were by Lamartine – 'Vers sur un album' fromhis Recueillments poétiques of 1839. Exactly when these words were supplanted by those of the 'Ave Maria' is not clear, but it seems to have happened within the first few years of the song's life. After acentury and a half the piece is still sung, played and loved the world over, and this is surely its own guarantee of musical value, as it is of its composer's more general gift as a songwriter. In the view of MauriceRavel,that sharp critic of everything shoddy or meretricious, 'the true founder of the mélodie in France was Charles Gounod.' ' (Roger Nichols)

A Prayer

British composer Ken Burton uses the writing of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906), the black American son of emancipated slaves, in his 3-minute work A Prayer. The text of the three verses is bitter-sweet, filled with hope andsadness, and the music combines with this to make a rhythmically simple reflective evening hymn. Burton draws on Spiritual, Gospel and Blues to write a piece for SATB with divisi that will be a popular piece both to sing and tohear. New commission from The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers and premiered in their inaugural concert as part of the online LIVE from London Spring Festival 2021. Follows Descend to Earth, VOCES8’s own commission of Ken Burton inthe LIVE from London Christmas Festival 2020. UK-based Ken Burton is known for his work on UK television programmes, particularly in BBC TV’s Songs of Praise. Burton was choirmaster for the multi Oscar winning and Grammywinning Marvel film Black Panther.

Complete Etudes I

The composer and pedagogue Adolph von Henselt (1814–1889) can truly be considered one of the founding fathers of the Russian School of piano playing. He counted among his pupils Nicolai Sergeyvich Zverev, the teacher of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Rachmaninoff considered Henselt’s Etudes the equal of those by Liszt and Chopin for their great beauty. Henselt’s music was well-known in his time, and in the repertoire of the greatest virtuosos of the 19th century, including Clara Schumann (who premiered his F minor Concerto with Mendelssohn conducting), Franz Liszt, Hans von Bülow, Vladimir de Pachmann and Alexander Scriabin. The two sets of Etudes Opp. 2 and 5 were composed just before Henselt moved permanently to Russia and each set was originally published as two books of six études. This new Edition Peters Urtext edition collects each set in its own volume, together with, in volume 1, a selection of Henselt’s Exercices préparatoires and, in volume 2, two additional etudes. It is edited by Daniel Grimwood, one of the composer’s most highly regarded interpreters, whose recording of the complete Etudes is available from Edition Peters Sounds. This is the only available modern Urtext edition of these important piano works.

A Grand Tour of Cello Technique : A practice guide for the modern cellist

A Grand Tour of Cello Technique is a thought-provoking practice guide, enabling cellists at all levels to develop their own style through an exploration of different ways of fingering and bowing. The book not only helps cellists improve their playing, but also promotes an understanding of musical art, through nine stimulating chapters. With a particular emphasis on music of the 20th and 21st centuries, and its connections with earlier music, Fred Sherry takes the reader on a voyage of discovery of the art and science of cello technique, informed by music ranging from Bach all the way through to Berio.Fred Sherry has introduced audiences on five continents and all fifty UnitedStates to the music of our time for more than five decades. He has had close working relationships with Charles Wuorinen, Lukas Foss, Oliver Knussen, Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Toru Takemitsu, Chick Corea, Pierre Boulez, Mario Davidovsky and others whose works he has premiered and recorded. He has been soloist and ‘sideman’ on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings: his discography ranges from Schütz, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms through Schoenberg and Stravinsky to the 20th and 21st century works written for him. He is a member of the cello faculty of The Juilliard School, the Mannes College of Music and the Manhattan School of Music.