SKU: PR.110418500
ISBN 9781491137277. UPC: 680160690039.
DUNHUANG FANTASIA is a fascinating 12-minute drama inspired by art from grottoes in the ancient town of Dunhuang in western China. These frescoes preserve images of music and dance scenes, including the postures and attitudes of performers, and of the musical instruments used. Zhou Long’s music begins with a mysterious introduction driven by drum-like textures, followed by a series of episodes, enhanced by captions of the artwork inspiring each section and evocations of the ancient musical instruments.Commissioned and with fingering by Zou Xiang, Dunhuang Fantasia was composed in the fall of 2017. The music was inspired by the art of the Mogaoku grottoes in the ancient town of Dunhuang in western China. The frescoes of the Dunhuang grottos preserve a number of music and dance performance scenes, including images of the postures and attitudes of performers, and of a number of musical instrument types are used.The most popular form of music indigenous to this region is the huar, a folk-song type current among a number of nationalities. The huar is actually a kind of mountain song. Along with huar, Dunhuang pipa qupu (Dunhuang pipa notation) is also an inspiration for elements in this music.The music begins in adagio as a mysterious introduction. The drum-like rhythm patterns beating in the lowest region of the piano, with a muted-string sonority, creates an expanded space to enhance the echoes from the grottos. This is soon followed by the first main section, Cup of Happiness, featuring the huar and Dunhuang pipa melodies along with the dance rhythm. In the next section, Water Drum, the music becomes medium tempo. In the section Dialogue in Presto, the music becomes more active and contrapuntal. The section Tune: Changsha Girl is in a faster tempo as a dance scene. The Coda starts with dense rhythms, and tension is gradually intensified to reach a climax, culminating in a return of the opening section.
SKU: HH.HH508-SOL
ISBN 9790708185185.
Symphony No. 44 is one of a number of Haydn’s middle period works often regarded as representing the so-called Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress’) style of melodramatic realism taken over from contemporary German literary and dramatic models. The symphony is monotonal – each movement being in the same key, with contrast provided by excursions into the tonic major. Contrapuntal writing pervades the whole work; the second movement, unusually, is a minuet and is a strict double canon at one bar’s interval (‘Canone in Diapason’ is Haydn’s term) which itself is contrasted by the lyrical Trio section in the tonic major. The third movement, an Adagio in the tonic major, prompted the symphony’s long-adopted soubriquet, ‘Trauer’ (‘Mourning’) as it was said to have been requested by the composer himself to be played at his own funeral.2 The monothematic contrapuntal Finale reverts to the tense emotional level of the opening Allegro.
SKU: HL.48024257
Piano reduction for Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No. 3 Gift of Dreams now available for the first time. The concerto is composed for Vladimir Ashkenazy. The opening of the concerto is lyrical and meditative. The second movement, Adagio, drifts into a piano monologue that picks up speed. As the orchestra enters, the dialogue becomes aggressive. The finale begings with an energetic introduction, continues with blazing fanfares and textures. Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No. 3 is a masterpiece of modern concerto literature. It is written is such manner that toe soloist can lead the orchestra from the grand piano. Rautavaaran 3. pianokonserton, Gift of Dreams, pianoreduktio on nyt julkaistu ensimmaista kertaa. Konsertto on savelletty Vladimir Ashkenazylle, ja sen voi esittaa solistin johdolla. Gift of Dreams on takuuvarmaa ja taitavaa Rautavaara; unenkaltaiset elementit, fanfaarit, pulppuileva solistiosuus, jamakka orkesteri seka rautavaara-harmoniat ovat kaikki lasna tassa vuonna 1998 savelletyssa konsertossa.
SKU: SU.95001001
The original edition, formatted 2½ larger than traditional printed music. Published by: Large Print Music.
SKU: HL.14007414
ISBN 9781844499366.
Albums of new musical works by established British and Irish composers. For players of elementary to intermediate standard. Edited, with performance notes, by Richard Deering.
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