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  • 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 €

  • 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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    39,67 €

  • 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
    Despite his tremendous success, Billy Joel’s gifts as a composer and commentator on American life are long overdue for a thorough investigation. In Billy Joel: America’s Piano Man, music historian Joshua S. Duchan looks at the career and music of this remarkable singer-songwriter, exploring the unique ways Joel channels and transforms the cultural life of a changing America ove...
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    35,13 €

  • Experiencing Herbie Hancock
    Eric Wendell
    The musical output of jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has toppled genre boundaries and influenced generations of musicians. A child prodigy who worked his way up through classical tradition, found a home for his insatiable creativity in jazz, and went on to influence musicians across numerous genres, Hancock’s work continues to be a staple in mainstream music. In addit...
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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 Dean Dixon: Negro at Home, Maestro Abroad, conductor and scholar Rufus Jones Jr. brings to light a literal treasure trove of unpublished primary sources to tell the compelling story of this great American conductor. A testament to Dixon’s resolve, this first-ever full-length biography of this American musical hero chronicles Dixon’s musical upbringing, beginnings as a conduc...
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    47,62 €

  • 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 €

  • 10 Years In SPACE
    Harvey S Tillis
    “SPACE is a club designed by musicians for musicians, which is why musicians love to play there. It’s a warm listening room that makes you feel close to the artists—and Harvey Tillis pulls off that same trick with 10 Years In SPACE. He was there night after night over the club’s first decade as he photographed the performers drawn to this place’s vibe, intimacy, quality of soun...
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    29,67 €

  • Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach
    Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The essays explore Bach’s sacred vocal music from the perspectives of historical theology, music analysis, the study of parody procedures, and reception history. ...
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    149,18 €

  • Obscure
    Andy Vella
    This special edition features a new cover in celebration of Robert Smith's curation of the Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre in London in June 2018. The cover image is Vella's photograph of Robert featured on the posters advertising the festival.The content is the same as the original book.'Fleeting moments… altered faces… unexpected spaces. By turns dreadfu...
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    51,16 €

  • CLOCKWORK SOLDIERS
    Billy Ritchie
    CLOUDS are now acknowledged as having a major influence on what became of music in the 1970s. Yet the band disappeared without trace in history, only to surface decades later, in circumstances that Mojo Magazine described as 'Archaeology' .The man behind it all, Billy Ritchie, somehow vanished from the radar and from the music business completely, going out with a bang, refusin...
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    26,56 €

  • The Crazybrave Songwriter
    Lisa M. Arreguin
    Are you a songwriter who feels frustrated? Do you have unfinished masterpieces sitting in a drawer somewhere? Do you feel stuck, confused and paralyzed in the process? Do you have feelings of inadequacy, comparing yourself to other great songwriters out there? Then youve picked up The Crazybrave Songwriter just in time. In Lisa M. Arreguins breakthrough guide on the craft of...
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    11,58 €

  • The Crazybrave Songwriter
    Lisa M. Arreguin
    Are you a songwriter who feels frustrated? Do you have unfinished masterpieces sitting in a drawer somewhere? Do you feel stuck, confused and paralyzed in the process? Do you have feelings of inadequacy, comparing yourself to other great songwriters out there? Then youve picked up The Crazybrave Songwriter just in time. In Lisa M. Arreguins breakthrough guide on the craft of...
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    24,67 €

  • Do Stand So Close
    Jeffrey Lee Campbell
    A small-town musician from North Carolina tries his luck on the biggest stage of all: New York City. And he hits the jackpot. Mere months into his NYC gambit, guitarist Jeffrey Lee Campbell is catapulted from selling candy in Broadway theaters to touring the world with rock legend Sting. Go behind the scenes with the provincial, wide-eyed rookie as he fakes his way around the g...
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    15,25 €

  • Experiencing Berlioz
    Melinda O'Neal / Melinda P. O’Neal / Melinda PO'Neal / Melinda PO’Neal
    Experiencing Berlioz: A Listener’s Companion is an in-depth entrée into the sound world of Hector Berlioz, recognized today as one of the most profoundly original and engaging composers in 19th-century Europe.Melinda O’Neal offers the non-specialist a pathway into the underlying allure of Berlioz’s music. His views on rehearsing and conducting, bumpy career ride and failures, t...
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    52,83 €

  • Counting Down Elvis
    Mark Duffett
    Over the course of the last six decades, Elvis Presley has sold more than a billion records; his music has touched nearly every modern listener. Despite an avalanche of books on his life, there are, surprisingly, few about his musical creativity. In Counting Down Elvis: His 100 Finest Songs, Mark Duffett urges readers to put aside the misleading stereotypes and rumor-filled deb...
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    47,25 €

  • NIGHTMARES OF THE DREAM #2, The Encore Edition
    Doc Holiday
    Doc Holiday began performing live at the age of 13 with his first band called 'The Harbor Lights'. He has performed & worked with the biggest names in the music industry: Jerry Lee Lewis, The Rascals, Bruce Springsteen, Vito & The Salutations, Randy & The Rainbows, The Duprees, Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, Danny & The Juniors, Ray Charles and The Fifth Dimension.Doc has also w...
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    15,94 €

  • Twenty Israeli Composers
    Robert Fleisher
    Israel’s contemporary art music reflects a modern society that is an intricate fabric of national and ethnic origins, languages and dialects, customs and traditions—a heterogeneous culture of cultures. It is a rich and distinctive environment—at once ancient and modern, spiritual and secular, traditional and progressive. Twenty Israeli Composers, the first published collection...
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    30,36 €

  • Nationalist and Populist Composers
    Steve Schwartz / Steven Schwartz
    Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single book has taken on this period as a direct contradiction to the modernist dichotomy betwe...
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    128,33 €

  • Experiencing Chopin
    Christine Lee Gengaro
    Fryderyk Chopin’s career is intricately entwined with the piano. Although he made forays into orchestral and chamber work, the vast majority of Chopin’s pieces feature the piano. While his relatively brief life shortened his potential contribution as a composer, the originality, richness, and quality of his work is undeniable. His harmonies were often surprising, the rhythms fl...
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    55,95 €


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