SKU: BT.EMBZ15000N
English-Hungarian.
In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who was his student in earlier years and who, throughout his entire life, was one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course of later decades however, he always used this collection - expanded over 32 years since by Kurtág - whenever he played pieces from Games in concert. Since the time of this 1974 concert, as Kocsis wrote later: ''I didn't know that the spiral notebook I received at thepremiere would later become, as it were, my permanent companion. That I would take it with me from Japan to Canada, from Australia to Iceland, travelling to the world's most prominent concert halls, surviving fire damage, flood, transport catastrophes, theft attempts, forced landings and so on, and that - well beyond the intention of its being 'copied with love' - it would include works and sketches for which this notebook would become the principal source.''The manuscript gives a glimpse into Kurtág's workshop from the viewpoint of both performers and musicologists. The former can understand more from Kurtág's handwriting about the composer's intentions than from the printed score. The musicologists, however, can study the historical origins of the works: some works can be found here in more than one version, others appear in a version different from the printed score.The publication is accompanied by a booklet and a CD supplement. The booklet contains Kocsis's own personal preface, as well as András Wilheim's essay providing information about the collection and the pieces contained therein. On the CD we hear 11 works performed by Kocsis, from a recording made in 1982 which has not previously been commercially issued.
SKU: BT.DHP-0991548-060
English-German-French-Dutch.
These four dances are written in a kind of neo renaissance style. Because of the fact that little technical demands are required from its performing artists, these dances are mainly meant for beginning groups, youth ensembles and also for orchestras in all kinds of small strengths. Jan Van der Roost originally had pedagogical intentions with this piece. Myriam Mees arranged Four Old Dances with the same intention for accordion orchestra with electronium and percussion ad libitum.Deze vier dansen zijn geschreven in een soort neorenaissancestijl. Gezien de geringe technische eisen die aan de uitvoerders gesteld worden, richten deze dansjes zich vooral op beginnende groepen, jeugdensembles en ook op allerhandekleine bezettingen. Jan Van der Roost had in eerste instantie pedagogische bedoelingen. Myriam Mees arrangeerde Four Old Dances met dezelfde intentie voor accordeonorkest met electronium en percussie ad libitum.Diese vier Tänze sind in einer Art Neorenaissance-Stil geschrieben. Da sie in technischer Hinsicht keine großen Anforderungen an die Ausführenden stellen, sind sie für Anfängerensembles, Jugendorchester und alle zahlenmäßig kleinen Orchester besonders gut geeignet. Four Old Dances est une suite de quatre danses originales composées dans le style de la musique de la Renaissance. Simples de structure et accessibles aux Orchestres Juniors, ces quatre danses ont été arrangées pour Orchestre d’Accordéons par Myriam Mees. L’instrumentation est quatre voix avec partie de clavier électronique / synthétiseur ad lib. et partie optionnelle de percussion.
SKU: HL.50600649
ISBN 9790080150009. UPC: 888680895518. 10.25x13.5x0.622 inches. Hungarian, English. Gyorgy Kurtag.
In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course of later decades; however, since then he has used this collection - expanded over 32 years since by Kurtág - whenever he plays pieces from Games in concert. Since the time of this 1974 concert, as he writes: 'I didn't know that the spiral notebook I received at the premiere would later become, as it were, my permanent companion. That I would take it with me from Japan to Canada, from Australia to Iceland, travelling to the world's most prominent concert halls, surviving fire damage, flood, transport catastrophes, theft attempts, forced landings and so on, and that - well beyond the intention of its being 'copied with love' - it would include works and sketches for which this notebook would become the principal source.' The manuscript gives a glimpse into Kurtág's workshop from the viewpoint of both performers and musicologists. The former can understand more from Kurtág's handwriting about the composer's intentions than from the printed score. The musicologists, however, can study the historical origins of the works: some works can be found here in more than one version, others appear in a version different from the printed score. The publication is accompanied by a booklet and a CD supplement. The booklet contains Kocsis's own personal preface, as well as András Wilheim's essay providing information about the collection and the pieces contained therein. On the CD we hear 11 works performed by Kocsis, from a recording made in 1982 which has not previously been commercially issued.
SKU: CF.W2682
ISBN 9781491144954. UPC: 680160902453. 9 x 12 inches. Key: E major.
Edited by Elisa Koehler, Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Goucher College, this new edition of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto in E Major for trumpet in E and piano presented in its original key.The concerto by Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)holds a unique place in the trumpet repertoire. Like theconcerto by Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) it was written forthe Austrian trumpeter Anton Weidinger (1766–1852) andhis newly invented keyed trumpet, performed a few timesby Weidinger, and then forgotten for more than 150 yearsuntil it was revived in the twentieth century. But unlikeHaydn’s concerto in Eb major, Hummel’s Concerto a Trombaprincipale (1803) was written in the key of E major for atrumpet pitched in E, not E≤. This difference of key proved tobe quite a conundrum for trumpeters and music publishersin the twentieth century. The first modern edition, publishedby Fritz Stein in 1957, transposed the concerto down onehalf step into the key of E≤ to make it more playable on atrumpet in Bb, which had become the standard instrumentfor trumpeters by the middle of the twentieth century.Armando Ghitalla made the first recording of the Hummel in1964 in the original key of E (on a C-trumpet) after editinga performing edition in 1959 in the transposed key of E≤ (forBb trumpet) published by Robert King Music. Needless tosay, the trumpet had changed dramatically in terms of design,manufacture, and cultural status between 1803 and 1957, andthe notion of classical solo repertoire for the modern trumpetwas still in its formative stages when the Hummel concertowas reborn.These factors conspired to create confusion regarding thenumerous interpretative challenges involved in performingthe Hummel concerto according to the composer’s originalintentions on modern trumpets. For those seeking the bestscholarly information, a facsimile of Hummel’s originalmanuscript score was published in 2011 with a separatevolume of analytical commentary by Edward H. Tarr,1 whoalso published the first modern edition of the concertoin the original key of E major (Universal Edition, 1972).This present edition—available in both keys: Eb and Emajor—strives to build a bridge between scholarship andperformance traditions in order to provide viable options forboth the purist and the practitioner.Following the revival of the Haydn trumpet concerto, acase could be made that some musicians were influencedby a type of normalcy bias that resulted in performancetraditions that attempted to make the Hummel morelike the Haydn by putting it in the same key, insertingunnecessary cadenzas, and adding trills where they mightnot belong.2 Issues concerning tempo and ornamentationposed additional challenges. As scholarship and performancepractice surrounding the concerto have become betterknown, trumpeters have increasingly sought to performthe concerto in the original key of E major—sometimes onkeyed trumpets—and to reconsider more recent performancetraditions in the transposed key of Eb.Regardless of the key, several factors need to be addressedwhen performing the Hummel concerto. The most notoriousof these is the interpretation of the wavy line (devoid of a “tr†indication), which appears in the second movement(mm. 4–5 and 47–49) and in the finale (mm. 218–221). InHummel’s manuscript score, the wavy line resembles a sinewave with wide, gentle curves, rather than the tight, buzzingappearance of a traditional trill line. Some have argued that itmay indicate intense vibrato or a fluttering tremolo betweenopen and closed fingerings on a keyed trumpet.3 In Hummel’s1828 piano treatise, he wrote that a wavy line without a “trâ€sign indicates uneigentlichen Triller oder den getrillertenNoten [“improper†trills or the notes that are trilled], andrecommends that they be played as main note trills that arenot resolved [ohne Nachschlag].4 Hummel’s piano treatisewas published twenty-five years after he wrote the trumpetconcerto, and his advocacy for main note trills (rather thanupper note trills) was controversial at the time, so trumpetersshould consider all of the available options when formingtheir own interpretation of the wavy line.Unlike Haydn, Hummel did not include any fermatas wherecadenzas could be inserted in his trumpet concerto. The endof the first movement, in particular, includes something likean accompanied cadenza passage (mm. 273–298), a featureHummel also included at the end of the first movement ofhis Piano Concerto No. 5 in Ab Major, Op. 113 (1827). Thethird movement includes a quote (starting at m. 168) fromCherubini’s opera, Les Deux Journées (1802), that diverts therondo form into a coda replete with idiomatic fanfares andvirtuosic figuration.5 Again, no fermata appears to signal acadenza, but the obbligato gymnastics in the solo trumpetpart function like an accompanied cadenza.Other necessary considerations include tempo choicesand ornamentation. Hummel did not include metronomemarkings to quantify his desired tempi for the movements,but clues may be gleaned through the surface evidence(metric pulse, beat values, figuration) and from the stratifiedtempo table that Hummel included in his 1828 piano treatise,where the first movement’s “Allegro con spirito†is interpretedas faster than the “Allegro†(without a modifier) of the finale.6In the realm of ornamentation, Hummel includes severalturns and figures that are open to interpretation. This editionincludes Hummel’s original symbols (turns and figuration)along with suggested realizations to provide musicians withoptions for forming their own interpretation.Finally, trumpeters are encouraged to listen to Mozart pianoconcerti as an interpretive context for Hummel’s trumpetconcerto. Hummel was a noted piano virtuoso at the end ofthe Classical era, and he studied with Mozart in Vienna asa young boy. Hummel also composed his own cadenzas forsome of Mozart’s piano concerti, and the twenty-five-year-oldcomposer imitated Mozart’s orchestral gestures and melodicfiguration in the trumpet concerto (most notably in the secondmovement, which resembles the famous slow movement ofMozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467).
SKU: BR.KM-2504
World premiere: Leuven (TRANSIT Festival), October 29, 2006
ISBN 9790004502846. 10.5 x 14 inches.
Silver Silence wurde im Auftrag des TRANSIT Festivals Leuven (Belgien) komponiert. Silence bei Altmeister Cage signalisiert das Aufgeben jeglicher Absicht. Da kann die Musik schweigen und alles andere Horbare in diese ,,veranstaltete Zeit hinein lassen. Da kann aber auch unendliche Vervielfaltigung von Musik und damit von Intentionen die gewunschte Intentionslosigkeit erreichen. Das notige Anfang- und Ende-Setzen hat dabei immer noch werkartige Reste. Nono uberwolbt Schweigen mit riesigen Fermatenturmen, um Zeit ins Werk konzeptionell als Freiheit zu setzen, in der man auf das Ungehorte oder auf das Unerhorte horchen soll, um seine eigenen Beschrankungen zerbrechen zu konnen - soziale, menschliche Impulse, Naturentdeckungen, Farben, Wege ... In ,,Covered with music und in ,,Solo mit Koonstuck habe ich versucht, nicht das Schweigen, sondern das Lautlose in die Musik zu integrieren. In ,,Silver Silence ist Schweigen nicht nur silbrig, sondern wie Silber oft ist - dunkel, braunschwarz. Ich hatte in diesem Stuck von Anfang an ein insistierendes Tempo von Viertel = 138. Diese Zahl untersuchend kam ich auf 69 und 23 (6 x 23 = 138), die Zahl Alban Bergs, des Komponisten grandioser Stillen im ,,Wozzeck. 77 x 23 (plus 1 Viertel) ist denn auch die Zeitstruktur, die dem Stuck zugrunde liegt. Die Ereignisse schwimmen in diesen Zeitklammern und halten sich am Ende fast ganz aus ihnen heraus. Silence wurde fur mich zum interessanteren Wahrnehmen von Zeitverknupfungen. Es gibt eine einzige Stelle exakter TRIO-Synchronitat, daneben eine einzige Stelle genauer Streichersynchronitat und die ins silbrige Schweigen hinubergleitenden Teilsynchronitaten, Verwacklungen, blockartigen Solos der einzelnen Instrumente, Verlassen der instrumentalen Tonpositionen usw. ,,Silver Silence ist also eine Hor- und Auffassungseinstellung fur die zeitlichen und musikalischen Neins im Makrobereich. Und beim Komponieren hatte ich oft den Eindruck, sie wurden verwundert mit den Achseln zucken uber die Arten der Jas und ihnen das Silberdunkel dringend empfehlen. Wie schreibt der Brockhaus: Silber ist weicher als Kupfer und harter als Gold. Von allen Metallen leitet es Elektrizitat und Warme am besten, ist in der Luft bestandig, bester Reflektor fur sichtbares und infrarotes Licht ... Da kommt auch Silence manchmal ins Schwitzen!!! Nicolaus A. Huber (Mai 2006)World premiere: Leuven (TRANSIT Festival), October 29, 2006.
SKU: BA.BA05365-82
ISBN 9790006469536. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: C major.
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SKU: BA.BA09071-79
ISBN 9790006527632. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
SKU: BA.BA09054-79
ISBN 9790006522941. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
SKU: HL.49019896
ISBN 9790220133824. UPC: 888680633110. 9.0x12.0x0.166 inches.
Largo Siciliano is a slow dance movement in a simple metre comprising a sequence of variations, separated by a refrain; a single idea is continually reworked and recast. This idea, or little siciliano, is a reference to Mode de Valeurs et d'intensites, written in 1948 by Messiaen with whom the composer studied. He writes: 'From this piece sprang the whole development of 'total serialism'. But Messiaen's piece was not serial, and nor is mine. What was originally considered as a study or experiment is, for me, a point of departure for quite different expressive intentions'.
SKU: BA.BA10068-75
ISBN 9790006490462. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
SKU: BA.BA05355-82
ISBN 9790006468980. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: D major.
SKU: BA.BA08341-30
ISBN 9790006522057. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: G minor.
SKU: BA.BA06999-79
ISBN 9790006531875. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: D minor.
SKU: BA.BA05624-75
ISBN 9790006472352. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: F major.
SKU: BA.BA09079-85
ISBN 9790006531431. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Text: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Latin text from the Vulgate (Psalm 113). German text by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy after Psalm 115 from the Lutheran Bible.
SKU: BA.BA05656-82
ISBN 9790006566488. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: G minor.
Praktische Ausgabe zum Band Kleinere kirchenmusikalische Werke II (Neue Ausgabe samtlicher Werke I/9) BA 5569-01.
SKU: BA.BA05382-75
ISBN 9790006469956. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: B-flat major.
SKU: BA.BA10078-79
ISBN 9790006490578. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
Study score = TP 1078.
SKU: BA.BA10039-79
ISBN 9790006541423. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
Partitur siehe TP 1039.
SKU: BA.BA10158-67
ISBN 9790006491285. 24 x 32 cm inches.
SKU: BA.BA10134-74
ISBN 9790006491117. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
SKU: BA.BA04201-86
ISBN 9790006444878. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: B-flat major.
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