Harpsichord

SKU: OT.21125

Composed by Daniel Akiva. 5 short pieces for harpsichord/cembalo. Classical. Score. OR-TAV Music Publications #21125. Published by OR-TAV Music Publications (OT.21125).

ISBN 9789655051117. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.

The five short movements for solo cembalo are brief, personal prayers that depict how the subject manages a range of feelings and emotions. The miniatures each represent a different emotional state: reflection, searching, meditation, agitation, and resolution. Each is a small-scale representation of a grand, wide-ranging prayer of supplication.
As a composer, performer, and researcher of early music, writing for cembalo allows me not only to express my special connection to the instrument and the period in which it flourished, but also to present its contemporary dimensions as a rich and versatile instrument.
The piece was composed at the request of Hagai Yodan, who performs it with great skill.
Daniel Akiva is a composer, performer, and educator whose performances on guitar and lute have won great acclaim. Mr. Akiva graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1981, where he studied classical guitar with Haim Asulin and composition with Haim Alexander. In 1987 he completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatorium in Switzerland where he studied lute with Jonathon Rubin and composition with Jean Ballisa. For many years, he headed the Music Department at the WIZO High School for the Arts in Haifa, which he founded in 1986, and served as the Artistic Director of the Guitar Gems Festival from 2006-2019. As part of his work at WIZO High School, he has developed a method for teaching free improvisation that has been incorporated into the music program at the school.
Mr. Akiva has appeared in concert as a guitarist and lutist and given master classes in Israel, Europe, Russia, the United States, and Latin America. Daniel Akiva’s compositional output includes works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and guitar, piano, and chamber orchestra. His works have been recorded on twelve CDs, the latest of which, Malchut, was issued by OR-TAV in 2014.
A native of Haifa whose family has lived in Israel for over five hundred years, he was steeped in the Sephardic (Jewish-Spanish) tradition from his youth. Much of his compositional output has been devoted to a dialogue with the music of the Sephardic Jews. Daniel Akiva has also maintained a creative dialogue over many years with the poets and writers Amnon Shamash, Rivka Miriam, and Avner Peretz.

Tenor voice solo (soprano voice), recorder f1, oboe, violin, organ/violoncello(harpsichord)

SKU: CA.3500411

Composed by Georg Melchior Hoffmann and Johann Sebastian Bach. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. German title: Meine Seele ruhmt und preist. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas. Single Part, Violin. 2 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 35.004/11. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3500411).

ISBN 9790007212865. Language: German/English.

Score available separately - see item CA.3500400.

Tenor voice solo (soprano voice), recorder f1, oboe, violin, organ/violoncello(harpsichord)

SKU: CA.3500422

Composed by Georg Melchior Hoffmann and Johann Sebastian Bach. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. German title: Meine Seele ruhmt und preist. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas. Single Part, Oboe. 4 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 35.004/22. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3500422).

Language: German/English.

Score available separately - see item CA.3500400.

Soprano voice solo, flute (recorder f1), organ (harpsichord)

SKU: CA.1010621

Composed by Ernst Arfken. German title: Magnificat. Sacred vocal music, Magnificats, Advent, Christmas, Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Hymns in praise of the Virgin Mary, Daily hours. Single Part, Flute. Composed 1954. 2 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 10.106/21. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.1010621).

ISBN 9790007019303. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.1010600.

Soprano voice solo, 2 violins, cello, harpsichord

SKU: CA.1036312

Composed by Johann Valentin Meder. Edited by Franz Kessler. Arranged by Franz Kessler. German title: Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Psalms, German. Single Part, Violin 2. 2 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 10.363/12. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.1036312).

ISBN 9790007025557. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.1036300.