Chorale from the Cantata No. 147 ''Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life''
Arranged by Birtel, Wolfgang
Setting: Oboe and Piano
Publisher: Schott
Item number: ED09868
The ''Air'' by Johann Sebastian Bach at best can rival his setting ''Jesus bleibet meine Freude'' for popularity: The final chorus from the cantata BWV 147 ''Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life'' is really catchy due to its simplicity and perfection of which one can hardly get enough…
Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166 Cantata for the 4th Sunday after Easter
The cantata Wo gehest du hin?, which dates from the first year of Bach's appointment in Leipzig and was givenfor the first time on 7 May 1724, takes as its starting point a phrase from the gospel…
Tired of the same old arrangements? Want to give your pupils something simple yet rewarding to play? Carol Barratt creates easy pieces that are creative, idiomatic, simple yet rewarding to play and that will really get pupils listening and performing musically, right from…
Bagpipers is the first movement of the three-movement Sonatina composed in 1915 (1. Bagpipers, 2. Bear Dance and 3. Finale). The composer said of the piece, ''Originally I planned a group of Romanian folk dances for piano. I selected three parts of this and called it Sonatina…
An Evening in the Village was composed in 1908 as no. 5 of the Ten Easy Piano Pieces. It has become one of Bartók's favorite works, which the composer himself was fond of playing at recitals. As he explained in an American interview, it was ''an original composition that is (...)…
From 1906 on Béla Bartók was collecting folksongs on a regular basis. It was in 1907, during his first collecting trip to Transylvania, that he jotted down those three melodies in Gyergyótekerőpatak, Csík, which he both provided with piano accompaniment (From Gyergyó) and arranged…
Stylish arrangements of selected highlights from the leading 20th century composer
Arranged by Davies, Hywel
Setting: Oboe and Piano
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BH13207
The Boosey & Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy. The Romanian Folk Dances were originally written in 1915 as a suite of six short piano pieces, which…
The work is an attempt at combining, by means of juxtaposition, two aesthetics: one baroque and the other, the aesthetics of French neoclassicism of the first half of the twentieth century: hence the strange title of the work ''Dualistyl''. The whole is a kind of pastiche enriched…
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