SKU: HL.48024203
ISBN 9781784542689. 9.0x12.0x0.127 inches.
The composer states: Acequia Madre demonstrates an approach which was somewhat new to the style of my musical expression at the time of its composition [2012]: structuring a work with the focus on its melodic aspects. I drew inspiration from other creative artists through one of my 'rituals': I surrounded myself with the scores of composers who, for one reason or another, were on my mind at the time, like Iannis Xenakis, Alban Berg's 'Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano,' and 'Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano' by Bela Bartok, plus Schubert's haunting final 'String Quartet No. 15.' Conquering technical difficulties is something I find particularly rewarding when playing acoustic instruments: fully aware that today's electronics can triumph over a composer's most demanding technical challenges, I love the idea of performers encountering their instruments with virtuosity ... doing something that seems to defy physical boundaries..
SKU: HL.49019672
ISBN 9790001190497. 9.25x12.0x0.286 inches. English - German.
'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost emphasizes the universal validity of this statement. The intentional bilingualism stands for Hamlet's inner dialogue in which the viola part joins commentating.
SKU: HL.48024948
ISBN 9781784545659. UPC: 840126947205. 9.0x12.0x0.195 inches.
Drawing on the composer's transcriptions for violin (with Samuel Dushkin) and for cello (with Gregor Piatigorsky), Kim Kashkashian has produced a long-overdue viola version of this neoclassical masterpiece. The choice of movements from Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite differs between those for violin and cello; Kashkashian has in turn made a slightly different selection comprising Introduzione, Serenata, Aria, Tarantella, Toccata and Minuetto e Finale. A show-stopping addition to the repertory of modern viola music.
SKU: HL.14027120
Danish.
Piano reduction for Per Norgard's Remembering Child - Viola Concerto No. 1 (1985-86/rev 1987), by Steen Pade.
Piano reduction for Per Nørgård's Remembering Child - Viola Concerto No. 1 (1985-86/rev 1987), by Steen Pade.
SKU: BR.EB-9441
ISBN 9790004189184. 9 x 12 inches.
The two sonatas of Johannes Brahms's op. 120 are widely hailed as crowning points of the repertoire for clarinet and piano. Moreover, in the version for viola and piano arranged by Brahms himself, they rank among the most frequently played viola works of the 19th century. They far surpass in compositional substance the relatively few original sonatas written for these instrumentations during the same period.Of the two fellow works, the Sonata No. 2 in E flat major is the more accessible. Diverging from the classical-romantic tradition, Brahms used the key of E flat major here not to express the heroic or monumental, but to obtain lyrical, chiefly restrained characterizations. The serenade-like beauty of the principal theme, which opens the sonata, has always been particularly admired. In his review of the world premiere, the renowned Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick, a friend of Brahms's, raves with the words it was as if it had fallen from the Heavens. The closing set of variations also follows with gentle gracefulness this lyrical character. However, the middle movement, with its tempestuous outer sections in E flat minor and the hymnic trio in B major provides a passionate and serious contrast, which allows the flanking idyll to unfold its beauties all the more insistently.
SKU: BA.BA11068
ISBN 9790006561988. 35.5 x 25 cm inches.
“... she stood leering hideously, and much dust sodden with tears lay upon her shoulders.â€â€œThese snippets from Johann Heinrich Voss's translation of Hesiod's Shield of Hercules, where the din of battle is brought to a standstill for the wink of an eye, made me think of music that describes the 'inwardness' of a particular feeling, close to the much-cited metaphor of an entire life flitting past the inner eye in the space of a second, when, as in Hesiod, Atropos severs the thread of life. Viola and piano join forces on an equal basis to inscribe ever more lines and shapes which, however, relate in their inmost essence to intertwining circles laden with melancholy.â€(Philipp Maintz)
SKU: AP.36-M174891
UPC: 660355078255. English.
Reprint edition of Four Poems for Voice, Viola and Piano (Quatre poèmes pour voix, alto et piano), Op. 5, written by Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) and published in 1904. The first poem was written by Charles Baudelaire while the last three were written by Paul Verlaine. Songs: 1. La Cloche fêlée; 2. Dansons la giguel; 3. Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois; 4. Sérénade. An English translation by Henry G. Chapman of each of the poems is included.
These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.
SKU: BT.MUSVWP000044
UPC: 894313001065.
Tommaso Vitali's Chaconne as arranged for Viola with Piano accompaniment by Alan H. Arnold.
SKU: SU.80118723
Viola & Piano Duration: 18' Composed: 1979 Published by: SoundSpells Productions Phantom Sonata (1979), a sonata for viola and piano written for Kim Kashkashian and Robert Levin, is one of Kupferman's masterworks. Cast in a single movement, it is a vivid and rhapsodic work (in an contemporary romantic tonal language) requiring great virtuosity from both performers.
SKU: BT.MUSVWP000029
UPC: 890346001683.
Novacek's virtuosic Perpetual Motion has been skilfully arranged for Viola with Piano accompaniment by Alan Arnold, and so can now be performed and enjoyed by advancing and accomplished Violists alike. The solo Viola part is also included on a separate insert.
SKU: BT.MUSVWP000012
UPC: 890346001300.
Claude Debussy's The Girl With The Flaxen Hair has been transcribed for viola and piano by Alan Arnold.
SKU: BT.MUSVWP000046
UPC: 890346001478.
Henryk Wieniawski's Scherzo Tarantella for viola and piano, transcribed by Alan Arnold.
SKU: BT.MUSVWP000014
UPC: 890346001423.
Dvorak's Romance Op.11 has been arranged for viola and piano by Alan Arnold.
