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Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Jazz Conception is the new exciting series of play-along books by award-winning Brazilian flutist and composer Fernando Brandão and features fifteen original tunes in various...

This arrangement is a more contemporary version of the original version while at the same time maintaining its perfection. A set of performance notes which offer conceptual and technical insights is i...

New 'cross over' arrangement, as recorded on 'Cafe Paradiso'. Transposed to A minor, a more 'guitar friendly' key. Aside from the introduction, the coda, and some slight rhythmic and phrasing variatio...

The main body of the piece stays true to the original composition, as true as possible that is, considering that is has been adapted for the guitar. With this arrangement comes a set of performance no...

The piece stays true to the original except for a few slight harmonic variations, and the repetitive ending. This arrangement is a more contemporary version of the original version while at the same t...

While in college, Ludmila Ulehla, already an accomplished pianist, chose to learn to play the flute as her minor subject. She composed Capriccio shortly after graduation. It is a happy, brilliant piec...

This well-crafted adaptation features four of the most acclaimed movements of the Peer Gynt Suite. It is truly great literature for woodwind quintets and celebrates a wide range of moods and styles, f...

Dream Trio a été inspiré par le concept des pensées uniques qui se développent pendant le sommeil. Les deux mouvements du trio dépeignent ces fantaisies changeantes pour le plus grand plaisir des inte...

Johann Sebastian Bach's 6 Suites for Solo Cello (BWV 1007–1012) are among the most timeless masterpieces in music history. Since their first publication in 1825, these captivating compositions have en...

Each sonata is written in a three movement form (fast-slow-fast), and are equally successful and satisfying when played by any two instruments of matching pitch.Editorial metronome markings, articulat...

Each sonata is written in a three movement form (fast-slow-fast), and are equally successful and satisfying when played by any two instruments of matching pitch.Editorial metronome markings, articulat...

Immerse yourself in the magic of French Impressionism: "The Girl With The Flaxen Hair" (La fille aux cheveux de lin) is undoubtedly one of the most graceful and beloved masterpieces of this musical er...

A slow introduction, a fast part featuring two contrasting themes, a key change, once again an increase in tempo leading up to an effective close - that's the pattern the composition of many overtures...

Everyone knows it: the initial part of the 'Toccata' of Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Giant Fugue' in D minor. That is the reason why I have decided to attend to the complete work.Furthermore, it proves to...

An arrangement of the Adagio from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto by klezmer clarinetist Helmut Eisel. By adding a section in a blues style, he exposes the solemn character of this popular piece to its bes...

What would Mozart think of this Helmut Eisel's klezmer-style arrangement of the well-known 12 Kegel-Duette [Bowling Duets] KWV 487 for two clarinets? With imaginative variations on the original melodi...

The four parts of this new work by Mike Curtis are delicately interwoven. Alternating between melancholy-solemn and lively, the movements tell of festivities under the starry sky, of wonderful friends...

In 1999, with leftover time at the end of a record date for which Clare had written the string arrangements, he was able to record The Early Years (Movement II), with Cecilia Tsan as cello soloist. Ce...

Mike Curtis' stay in the city of Guanajuata in Central Mexico inspired this great musical celebration, filled with evocative, ethnic textures and colours.

Mike Curtis' stay in the city of Guanajuata in Central Mexico inspired this great musical celebration, 'Souvenir of Guanajuato.' This arrangement for string orchestra is filled with evocative, ethnic...

5 short movements: Good earth, Dance, Birds, River Song, PagodaSketches of China is an evocation of that ancient land, written followinga 5-province performing tour of China by Mike (with his wife Ann...

Each sonata is written in a three movement form (fast-slow-fast), and are equally successful and satisfying when played by any two instruments of matching pitch.Editorial metronome markings, articulat...

Experience Baroque masterpieces in a vibrant new sound: With the "15 Two-Part Inventions BWV 772–786" by Johann Sebastian Bach, renowned arranger Trent Kynaston presents a masterful edition for saxoph...

One of the most often performed works in the repertoire for oboists. In this edition for saxophone the arranger has included a decorated melodic line for the second movement and provides a good study...