SKU: BR.OB-4965-23
ISBN 9790004327128. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-4965-16
ISBN 9790004327104. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: PR.140401330
ISBN 9781491134412. UPC: 680160684939.
Nathaniel Dett was among America’s leading composers in the early 20th century, and MAGNOLIA SUITE is a beautiful example of his rich, hybrid style. Deeply inspired by the music and mission of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Dett’s piano music springs from the late Romantic traditions of florid texture and embellishment, along with programmatic titles and raw emotion. It is notable for melody writing inspired by and paraphrasing African-American song. The 18-minute MAGNOLIA SUITE contains five movements, any of which may also be performed separately. This edition by Lara Downes provides a clean, new engraving that corrects the many errors and unclear indications appearing in the historical printing.Robert Nathaniel Dett was born in a place that was built on freedom. The little village of Drummondville, Ontario was founded by enslaved Africans – Dett’s ancestors among them – who traveled the Underground Railroad out of the American South into Canada. Their journey brought them to a safe haven, a place where fortunes and futures could be transformed in the span of one generation, to lives full of new possibilities. You could call it “the place where the rainbow ends,†which is the title of the last movement of Dett’s Magnolia Suite.When Dett wrote these pieces, he was a young teacher at Lane College in Tennessee, a historically Black college that had been founded in 1882, the year of his birth. A place built on freedom, with the purpose of educating newly-emancipated slaves – a place designed to nurture the blossoming of ideas, the vibrant flowering of minds set free. This music is inspired by the gorgeous splendor of the magnolia blooms on that college campus, and also by the shared histories, experiences, and aspirations of the community that Dett found there.These five pieces pay affectionate tribute to lineage and legacy. They express gratitude for the bittersweet beauties of the present; nostalgia for the past (a bit romanticized, as the past always is); and an effervescent optimism for the future that awaits us in the place where the rainbow ends.
SKU: BT.1946-13-400-M
ISBN 9789043137317. 9x12 inches. International.
Under the title LUX NORDICA, this edition contains a selection of Romantic pieces by various composers of northern origin. Franco Cesarini collected seven works from Niels W. Gade and Carl Nielsen (Denmark) as well as Johan Svendsen, ChristianSinding and Edvard Grieg (Norway) and arranged them for flute and piano. The enclosed CD provides a demonstration of each piece, followed by the piano accompaniment with which to play along.
Contents: Romance Op. 26 (Svedsen, Johan), Intermezzo (Grieg, Edvard), Novellette from Aquarellen (Water Colors) Op. 19 N° 9 (Gade, Niels), Old Melody - Alte Weise Op. 89 N° 2 (Sinding, Christian), Humoresque from Fantasy Pieces Op. 2 N° 2(Nielsen, Carl August) Romance in E minor Op. 30 (Sinding, Christian) Last Spring from Elegiac Melodies Op. 34 N° 2 (Grieg, Edvard).
Inhoud: Romance Op. 26 (Svedsen, Johan), Intermezzo (Grieg, Edvard), Novellette from Aquarellen (Water Colors) Op. 19 N° 9 (Gade, Niels), Old Melody - Alte Weise Op. 89 N° 2 (Sinding, Christian), Humoresque from Fantasy Pieces Op. 2 N° 2(Nielsen, Carl August), Romance in E minor Op. 30 (Sinding, Christian), Last Spring from Elegiac Melodies Op. 34 N° 2 (Grieg, Edvard).
Inhalt: Romance Op. 26 (Svedsen, Johan), Intermezzo (Grieg, Edvard), Novellette from Aquarellen (Water Colors) Op. 19 N° 9 (Gade, Niels), Old Melody - Alte Weise Op. 89 N° 2 (Sinding, Christian), Humoresque from Fantasy Pieces Op. 2 N° 2(Nielsen, Carl August), Romance in E minor Op. 30 (Sinding, Christian), Last Spring from Elegiac Melodies Op. 34 N° 2 (Grieg, Edvard).
Sommaire: Romance Op. 26 (Svedsen, Johan) Intermezzo (Grieg, Edvard) Novellette from Aquarellen (Water Colors) Op. 19 N° 9 (Gade, Niels) Old Melody - Alte Weise Op. 89 N° 2 (Sinding, Christian) Humoresque from Fantasy Pieces Op. 2 N° 2(Nielsen, Carl August), Romance in E minor Op. 30 (Sinding, Christian) Last Spring from Elegiac Melodies Op. 34 N° 2 (Grieg, Edvard).
SKU: BT.WH32824CD
ISBN 9788759891490. English.
Denmark Revisited - Danish choral works for mixed voices a cappella. The University Choir Lille MUKO and soprano Else Torp, conducted by Jesper Grove Jørgensen. For many years now there has been a broad international interest in performing Danish choral works, not least from the 20th century, but often the Danish lyrics have been a hindrance in realising this goal outside Denmark. With this in mind we have thought it important to make Danish choral music more available through the release of selected works in which the Danish text is translated into English. With the present choice we have endeavoured to present works which fully demonstrate the wide range and originality ofDanish choral music: the particular, lyrical Danish tone of Svend S. Schultz and Jørgen Jersild; the original simplicity of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen; the characteristically Danish late romanticism of P.E. Lange-Müller and Rued Langgaard; and the music of composers with their own particular musical idiom, such as Vagn Holmboe, Bernhard Lewkovitch, and Bo Holten. We have also tried to choose works with lyrics by writers that are specifically Danish in origin, including Hans Christian Andersen, Johannes V. Jensen, and Tove Ditlevsen. We hope that this release will help to spread knowledge and understanding of Danish choral music outside Denmark. (Jesper Grove Jørgensen) Content P. E. Lange-Müller: 3 Madonna Songs Rued Langgaard: 3 Rosengaard Songs Svend S. Schultz: Denmark Revisited Vagn Holmboe: Songs Towards the Deep of Spring, op. 85 Jørgen Jersild: Three Danish Love Songs Bernhard Lewkovitch: 3 Motets, op. 11 Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: 6 Simple Danish Songs Bo Holten: Rain and Rush and Rosebush.
SKU: CA.925200
ISBN M-007-24914-4. Key: A major. Language: French. Text: Hugo, Victor.
The exuberant amorousness of a newly-wed couple pulsates in every note of Gabriel Faure's Dans les ruines d'une abbaye (In the ruins of an abbey). In this piece, the reverent silence of prayer no longer prevails, but within the venerable walls various shouts of joy and sparkling laughter are now heard. The old graves have long been overgrown by stinging nettles, and a new dawn of spring and of love fills the air. Napoleonic post-revolutionary France, which drove the author of the poem, Victor Hugo, into exile, is also building a new world on the ruins of olden days. Although the setting by the composer, 40 years younger than the poet, uses the romanticized backdrop of the old abbey, with its 6/8-meter it reflects the uninhibited happiness of the two lovers, who do not look back. These art songs were originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted them to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing the any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist. The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD Kennst du das Land ... (Carus 83.495).
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