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Unlike most other mineteenth-century Italian opera composers (with the notable exeption of Rossini), the vast catalogue of Gaetano Donizetti's (1797-1848) composition includes a large number of works scored for orchestra and chamber groups. Most of these pieces were composed between 1816 and 1821 - the five-year period, that is, during which the Lombard composer was perfecting the musical education begun in his native Bergamo and making his first attempts at operatic composition. The composition of Etude for B-flat clarinet dates from this period - from 1821, to be precise. It was dedicated to a clarinetist with whom we are unfamiliar but whom the autograph manuscript, housed in the Donizetti Museum at Bergamo designates as <>. Compositions for clarinet were quite rare in the instrumental literature of the time, and not anly in Italy. Taking into consideration the date of composition as well as vartious other compositional analogies, we have cause to believe that Nicoló Paganini's Etude for solo clarinet, published by Giovani Ricordi the year before, i.e. in 1820, served as the model for Donizetti's piece. The composition of Etude is also reminiscent of Paganini's Capricci, in its aim to archive technical virtuosity not as an end in itself but imbued, on the contrary, with an articulated and coberent musical content.

Originally for violin and piano.

This book of jazz scales will develop the skills required in playing jazz. It introduces patterns characteristic of the idiom, such as modes, the blues scale and the minor pentatonic, and explores these on roots and in key centres commmonly found in jazz. Regular and flexible practice of these forms will give you fluency and technical control, making your playing sound effortless.

Mikołaj Górceki was born in 1971. In 1990 he started to study composition at the Academy of Music in Katowice under Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. In 1995 he graduated from his studies with distinction and a year later wa granted a double scholarship by The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In 2000 he received a doctor's degree in composition at Indiana University in Bloomington in the United States. In 2001 - 2002 he lectured at the McGill University in Montreal. At present he is living and working in the USA.

Lista utworów:
Transfiguracje (Górecki Mikołaj)

Twelve great show tunes specially arranged for Clarinet with play-along accompaniments on the included CD.

Lista utworów:
Any Dream Will Do (Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Bring Him Home (Les Miserables)
Can't Help Lovin Dat Man (Showboat)
Climb Ev'ry Mountain (The Sound Of Music)
Dancing Queen (Mamma Mia)
My Favourite Things (The Sound Of Music)
The Candy Man (Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory)
The Impossible Dream (Man Of La Mancha)
Where Is Love? (Oliver)
Written In The Stars (Aida)
The Phantom of The Opera
Don't Cry for Me Argentina