Flute & Piano
Willis arr. Faith – It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Flute & Piano) – Digital Download
This beautiful melody arranged by Rebecca Faith is refreshed with nonchalant jazzy harmonies. The main melody is heard but then takes a different turn with a short interlude in an improvisatory style. The main melody is heard in three different keys descending each time, however the opposite effect occurs as the rich sound of the key change lifts the ambience of the music.
This beautiful melody arranged by Rebecca Faith is refreshed with nonchalant jazzy harmonies. The main melody is heard but then takes a different turn with a short interlude in an improvisatory style. The main melody is heard in three different keys descending each time, however the opposite effect occurs as the rich sound of the key change lifts the ambience of the music.
The alternative harmonies in this arrangement by Rebecca Faith make it a highly emotive interpretation. The piano takes control of the main melody, with the flute adding beautiful harmony and decorative features. The phrases O Come All Ye Faithful and Joyful and Triumphant are explored in shifting keys and harmonies adding a unique richness. However, the melody is still strongly present leaving the listener satisfied that they have heard the much loved tune.
Flute & Piano
The alternative harmonies in this arrangement by Rebecca Faith make it a highly emotive interpretation. The piano takes control of the main melody, with the flute adding beautiful harmony and decorative features. The phrases O Come All Ye Faithful and Joyful and Triumphant are explored in shifting keys and harmonies adding a unique richness. However, the melody is still strongly present leaving the listener satisfied that they have heard the much loved tune.
In this arrangement the exploration of register and alternative harmonies, together with the sustain pedal, creates an image of sound reverberation in open spaces. The piano's open fifths in the middle of the piece gives an eastern feel. Rebecca Faith has added a new original theme alongside the main melody that gives a fresh unique quality - this theme immediately sets the atmosphere in the piano introduction and is later heard more powerfully on the flute, returning at the close of the piece in the high register of the piano creating a music box like feel.
In this arrangement the exploration of register and alternative harmonies, together with the sustain pedal, creates an image of sound reverberation in open spaces. The piano's open fifths in the middle of the piece gives an eastern feel. Rebecca Faith has added a new original theme alongside the main melody that gives a fresh unique quality - this theme immediately sets the atmosphere in the piano introduction and is later heard more powerfully on the flute, returning at the close of the piece in the high register of the piano creating a music box like feel.
Flute & Piano
Traditional arr. Faith – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Flute & Piano) – Digital Download
Deliberately fun and slightly tongue in cheek, this arrangement by Rebecca Faith is challenging but highly enjoyable. The new composed melodies become as much loved as the original tune, seamlessly layered and intertwined. The descending bass line, punchy accents and shifting time signatures give this piece a sense of a 'swing' style. Definitely a piece that requires strong drive and attitude.
Deliberately fun and slightly tongue in cheek, this arrangement by Rebecca Faith is challenging but highly enjoyable. The new composed melodies become as much loved as the original tune, seamlessly layered and intertwined. The descending bass line, punchy accents and shifting time signatures give this piece a sense of a 'swing' style. Definitely a piece that requires strong drive and attitude.
Violin & Piano
Terence Johns – Sky Blue (Violin & Piano) – Digital Download
Another piece in the Blue series for solo instruments and piano, this time for violin and piano. Slow, dreamy and written in the high register of the violin, it has a soft fluid middle section suggestive of bird song. It was first performed by Alisdair Savage at the Little Venice Music Festival in London in 2004 and since then at the BBC in Glasgow and the Elgar Society's concerts in Edinburgh. A difficult piece that needs a secure high register.
Violin & Piano
Another piece in the Blue series for solo instruments and piano, this time for violin and piano. Slow, dreamy and written in the high register of the violin, it has a soft fluid middle section suggestive of bird song. It was first performed by Alisdair Savage at the Little Venice Music Festival in London in 2004 and since then at the BBC in Glasgow and the Elgar Society's concerts in Edinburgh. A difficult piece that needs a secure high register.
This work, originally for trombone and piano but including a version for horn and piano, is a delightful composition. The piece was orchestrated by the composer and broadcast by Simon Johnson with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. It is written in the jazz ballad style, sustained and high in register with a little optional improvisation over the final bars.
Horn & Piano
This work, originally for trombone and piano but including a version for horn and piano, is a delightful composition. The piece was orchestrated by the composer and broadcast by Simon Johnson with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. It is written in the jazz ballad style, sustained and high in register with a little optional improvisation over the final bars.
Double Bass & Piano
Terence Johns – Deeply Blue (Double Bass & Piano) – Digital Download
A work for double bass and piano that is another title in the 'Blue' series for solo instruments and piano. Written to be played pizzicato throughout for a 'jazz' player or by an orchestral player with a well developed pizzicato technique. The piano is featured in a jazz style that is composed with improvisation in mind. The work was first performed in Tony Alcock's recital at the Scottish Double Bass Congress at the RSAMD in Glasgow in 2004.
Double Bass & Piano
A work for double bass and piano that is another title in the 'Blue' series for solo instruments and piano. Written to be played pizzicato throughout for a 'jazz' player or by an orchestral player with a well developed pizzicato technique. The piano is featured in a jazz style that is composed with improvisation in mind. The work was first performed in Tony Alcock's recital at the Scottish Double Bass Congress at the RSAMD in Glasgow in 2004.
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky arr. Martelli – Waltz from Swan Lake (String Quartet) – Digital Download
Arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this is one of Tchaikovsky's many famous waltzes in which the lyrical side of his genius is always to the fore.
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky arr. Martelli – Waltz from Swan Lake (String Quartet)
Arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this is one of Tchaikovsky's many famous waltzes in which the lyrical side of his genius is always to the fore.
This piece won the 1995 Gregynog Composers Award at the Gregynog Music Festival, Wales. It was inspired by Miles Davis's version of George Gershwin's Prayer from Porgy and Bess.
Brass Quintet
This piece won the 1995 Gregynog Composers Award at the Gregynog Music Festival, Wales. It was inspired by Miles Davis's version of George Gershwin's Prayer from Porgy and Bess.
Like the music of the more famous operettas, this fine concert overture is rich in spontaneous melody, humorous, rhythmically subtle, harmonized and orchestrated in perfect taste. Carlo Martelli, the arranger of this string quartet reduction has captured the spirit of the original to perfection.
Sullivan, Arthur
Like the music of the more famous operettas, this fine concert overture is rich in spontaneous melody, humorous, rhythmically subtle, harmonized and orchestrated in perfect taste. Carlo Martelli, the arranger of this string quartet reduction has captured the spirit of the original to perfection.
Smetana, Bedřich
Smetana arr. Martelli – Polka from The Bartered Bride (String Quartet) – Digital Download
This polka rounds off the first act of Smetana's ever popular homeland opera. Carlo Martelli's arrangement captures the infectious festive spirit of the original to perfection.
This polka rounds off the first act of Smetana's ever popular homeland opera. Carlo Martelli's arrangement captures the infectious festive spirit of the original to perfection.
Starting out as a competition piece Conversations by Shawn Meloy is a set of clarinet duets played as though the instruments are conversing. Elements of our own way of speaking are represented, from agreement to frustration, question and answer etc. At times beautiful, at others quite harsh, but in the end a fun, interesting and challenging new work for the versatile clarinet. For colleges, professionals and libraries.
Starting out as a competition piece Conversations by Shawn Meloy is a set of clarinet duets played as though the instruments are conversing. Elements of our own way of speaking are represented, from agreement to frustration, question and answer etc. At times beautiful, at others quite harsh, but in the end a fun, interesting and challenging new work for the versatile clarinet. For colleges, professionals and libraries.
Schubert, Franz Peter
Schubert arr. Martelli – Marche Militaire, Opus 51 No. 1 (String Quartet) – Digital Download
One of the most charming of all the miniatures that Schubert composed originally for piano. This one has a particularly nostalgic association for the present arranger Carlo Martelli as it is the first piece of music he remembers being enchanted by at the age of four!
Schubert, Franz Peter
Schubert arr. Martelli – Marche Militaire, Opus 51 No. 1 (String Quartet)
One of the most charming of all the miniatures that Schubert composed originally for piano. This one has a particularly nostalgic association for the present arranger Carlo Martelli as it is the first piece of music he remembers being enchanted by at the age of four!
Brass Quintet
Fast and furious with all the excitement expected in a finale. Good luck! Arranged by Tom Whitehurst and suitable for colleges, conservatories, professionals, amateurs and community performing groups.
Fast and furious with all the excitement expected in a finale. Good luck! Arranged by Tom Whitehurst and suitable for colleges, conservatories, professionals, amateurs and community performing groups.
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Saint-Saëns arr. Martelli – Danse Macabre (String Quartet) – Digital Download
The devil summons the dead from their graves with his fiddle, and skeletons clatter about in waltz rhythm - a scene skilfully evoked by the composer, and here translated to the quartet medium with equal talent by the arranger Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.
Saint-Saëns, Camille
The devil summons the dead from their graves with his fiddle, and skeletons clatter about in waltz rhythm - a scene skilfully evoked by the composer, and here translated to the quartet medium with equal talent by the arranger Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.