Handel, George Frideric
A slightly eccentric and unidiomatic arrangement of this popular piece, the distribution of the parts being somewhat unusual. Notwithstanding, it has proved to be one of the most demanded of all Carlo Martelli's many arrangements.
Brass Quintet
Handel arr. Lawrence – The Celestial Concert from Samson (Brass Quintet) – Digital Download
These ingenious arrangements by Ian Lawrence combine the original instrumental and choral lines to create full and varied textures for brass.
Handeloroma is a panoramic tour of Handelian favourites. Arranged for an ensemble capable of flexibility and expressiveness, this selection explores the wide range of Handel’s techniques and moods.
A lively interpretation by Rebecca Faith, the Joy to the World melody is heard layered with original melodies and motifs. An interesting rhythmic idea binds the piece together making it sparkle and dance, with the underlying semiquaver movement creating an exciting shimmer effect. The constant shifting of key, texture and melodic ideas makes this an arrangement that will keep both the performer and listener on their toes.
These ten short movements of the ever popular Water Music have been attractively arranged, by Eileen Clews, into three suites for three flutes to give interest to each player. The suites are in F, D and G and the various movements, which include bourees, menuets, hornpipes and airs, give a variety of tempo and rhythm to make these suites excellent teaching material and delightful concert pieces. They are ideal for three solo flutes or for a flute choir. Each movement can stand alone and can be used to practise and encourage ensemble playing. For schools, teaching studios and professionals.
This well loved music, arranged by Eileen Clews, is equally suited for solo players or a flute choir. The parts are well balanced for interest and the different movements offer a variety of tempo and style. For studios and schools.
This arrangement by Rebecca Faith is not what is usually expected when labelled with the familiar title Silent Night. This piece of music is more of a variation of themes, the familiar melodies remaining recognisable but treated as small pockets of atmospheric motifs rather than one long lyrical melody. The style and harmonies have a more experimental magical feel whilst remaining easy on the ear, and are created to capture the attention and imagination of the listener.
Each instrument has a turn with the tune, so this arrangement by Roy Thackray is helpful in learning to recognise the sound of the instruments, both together and separately.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
A cunningly contrived arrangement by Carlo Martelli of one of the most well known of Grieg's many short piano compositions. For conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Ibsen, the author of Peer Gynt, commissioned Grieg to compose incidental music for his play in 1874. The two suites that the composer compiled were decisive in winning universal recognition for his work. Death of Åse and Anitra's Dance are here arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Shepherd’s Boy from Lyric Pieces (String Quartet) – Digital Download
Exquisitely touching and beautifully laid out for the four strings by Carlo Martelli, this is one of the more popular of Grieg's Songs Without Words. For secondary schools, colleges, conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Norwegian March from Lyric Pieces (String Quartet) – Digital Download
This arrangement by Carlo Martelli is one of six characteristic pieces originally composed for pianoforte. The composer later orchestrated four of them to comprise his Lyric Pieces of which this is the second movement. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Norwegian Dance Opus 35 No. 4 (String Quartet) – Digital Download
This, the last and liveliest of the set of Norwegian Dances, is characterised by the composers conspicuous gift for melody, nourished by the folk tunes of his native Norway. Arranged by Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Norwegian Dance Opus 35 No. 3 (String Quartet) – Digital Download
This is the third of four national dances by Grieg originally written for the pianoforte. The jauntiness and limpid beauty of the original is perfectly captured in this arrangement by Carlo Martelli. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Norwegian Dance Opus 35 No. 2 (String Quartet) – Digital Download
Grieg was essentially a miniaturist and therefore he tended to excel at this kind of piece, which evokes with a few characterized turns and intervals a deep love for his homeland. Arranged by Carlo Martelli.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Norwegian Dance Opus 35 No. 1 (String Quartet) – Digital Download
This charming and characteristic dance is one of Grieg's many pieces for piano with a distinct national flavour, here expertly transcribed for string quartet by Carlo Martelli. For conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Nocturne from Lyric Pieces (String Quartet) – Digital Download
This is one of more than sixty short piano pieces by the famous Norwegian composer, and is also one of four movements that Grieg orchestrated and incorporated into his Lyric Pieces. For secondary schools, colleges, conservatories and professionals. The Pavão Quartet recorded this arrangement on the CD Dreaming, released in 2008 on Discrete Recordings DISC0801 and re-released in 2010 on Discadia Records DISCA001. Included on the same CD are four more of Martelli’s Elgar, Beethoven, Debussy and Dvořák arrangements also published by Broadbent & Dunn.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – Morning from Peer Gynt (String Quartet) – Digital Download
Grieg's beautiful evocation of dawn is here superbly translated for the four stringed instruments by Carlo Martelli. For conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Grieg arr. Martelli – March of the Dwarfs from Lyric Pieces (String Quartet) – Digital Download
One of six Lyric Pieces, originally for piano, which have been expertly transcribed for the four strings by Carlo Martelli. Better known in its orchestrated version this quiet march has a wistful middle section.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
One of the most difficult problems for an arranger with only a string quartet to deal with is to reproduce and translate into chamber music terms the cumulative effect of a lengthy orchestral crescendo. Carlo Martelli in this case has solved the problem to brilliant effect. For conservatories and professionals.
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
This opus cleverly conjures up the vision of an approaching procession, the wild merrymaking as it passes by and its subsequent fading away into the distance. In the closing bars of this characteristically masterly arrangement Carlo Martelli has introduced sly references to both Mendelssohn's and Wagner's wedding marches. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.
After De Falla, the most distinguished of recent Spanish composers, Granados employs the musical idiom that has come to be considered, in a general sense, Spanish. Granados' fame rests mostly on his piano pieces, with the original of this arrangement by Carlo Martelli being one of the most famous.
Written for Trinity College of Music where the composer Gordon Carr was a professor for eighteen years. Fun music and rhythmically demanding.
Soliloquy was written for Laura Sheppard when she was a student at Trinity College of Music, and was an Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) exam piece, as well as having been a Trinity College of Music grade 7 exam piece between 1998 and 2006. For studios, schools, colleges, conservatories and professionals.
This charming four movement work, that aptly sounds like the title, is heavily influenced by twentieth century masters. The first movement dances between key signatures, creating the feeling of puppets not altogether in control of their faculties, while the second movement is unashamedly intense in character. The third movement includes some very nice jazz-like voicing at the beginning of the movement, with Carr using all the piano registers to add depth and colour. The Latin flavour of the final movement is a total departure from the previous three movements, bringing the ear back to the ballet again, this time in a fiery dance. The asymmetrical rhythms, shifting time signatures and registers, and the once-again intense chromatics jar us back to the herky-jerky puppets as they summon their ersatz dance skills. For the advanced intermediate performer as well as seasoned professionals.
Miniatures like snap shots in an album.
Written for players at the Centre for Young Musicians in London where the composer Gordon Carr taught for thirty years.
Written for Thames Brass, a successful professional brass ensemble in which the horn player at the time was one of the composer's former students. Having spent much of his life as a horn player, and having also had the honour of working with the finest players, in Movements for Brass the composer explores the sonorities of brass in a way that is rewarding to play.
This piece takes its title of Lyric Suite from that by Edvard Grieg, a composer much admired by the arranger. There is no attempt to imitate his style, but Grieg said that he wanted to make houses for people to live in rather than build cathedrals, and that is very much the thought behind these pieces.
Written for Sally Mays and broadcast by her on ABC, each movement is a musical sketch of one of Sally's friends, mostly distinguished musicians.