SKU: BT.DHP-1094442-010

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Symfonische gedichten zijn gewoonlijk verhalende of beschrijvende werken die zijn gebaseerd op een verhaallijn - of het nu gaat om poëzie of proza. Naar het voorbeeld van meestercomponisten als Berlioz, Liszt en Debussy zet MaximeAulio het genre voort met Montségur, een klankgedicht dat uitgaat van het dramatische verhaal over de burcht van de katharen, het Ch teau de Montségur (Ariège, Frankrijk). Als een impressionistische schilder gebruikt de componistveel nuances en klankkleuren, steeds perfect in harmonie met de betreffende thematiek. Een schilderachtig solowerk voor trombone!

In der Tradition von Meisterkomponisten, wie Berlioz, Liszt und Debussy, erweitert Maxime Aulio das Genre des Tongedichts um Montségur, einem Werk auf der Grundlage der dramatischen Geschichte der gleichnamigen Festung in Südfrankreich. Wie ein impressionistischer Maler verwendete Maxime Aulio dabei viele Tonnuancen und Klangfarben. Ein malerisch schönes Solowerk für Posaune und Blasorchester!

Un poème symphonique est une composition dont la nature expressive relève d'une intention essentiellement poétique ou descriptive, s'appuyant explicitement sur un thème, un personnage, une légende le plus souvent inspirés par un texte littéraire. Suivant l’exemple d’illustres compositeurs tels que Berlioz, Liszt et Debussy, entre autres, Maxime Aulio fait perdurer le genre dans ce poème de sons qui relate l’histoire tragique du ch teau de Montségur (Ariège, France), bastion de la résistance cathare. Et tel un peintre impressionniste, il choisit, une multitude de timbres et de couleurs tonales toujours en parfaite adéquation avec le motif décrire. Le tableau respire, etl’on perçoit dans les premières mesures, le souffle du vent. La beauté du paysage qui s’enroule autour du gigantesque piton rocheux défile sous nos yeux quand soudain, une volée de carreaux d’arbalète fend l’air en sifflant comme une pluie de fer. On entend les pierres s’écraser sur les murailles du ch teau. La forteresse cathare est assiégée... Dans ce climat musical pesant et poignant, le trombone revêt une dimension tragique servie par une symbolique expressive. Il expose des thèmes cycliques qui reviennent dans l’ensemble de l’œuvre : le thème du ch teau, la prière des Parfaits, le thème du b cher. En mars 1244, 207 Parfaits cathares périrent br lés vifs. Presque huit siècles plus tard, ces flammes d'un autre ge alimentent encore les rumeurs les plus folles.

SKU: AP.36-S014201

ISBN 9781608740055. UPC: 659359973819. English.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his student Hans von Bronsart von Schellendorf. The composer conducted the first performance in Weimar on January 7, 1857 with Bronsart as soloist. Liszt completed a 4th revision in 1861. Less virtuosic than his first piano concerto, it is played without break and serves as a masterful example of thematic transformation. Instrumentation: 3(3rd dPicc).2.2.2: 2.2.3.1: Timp.Perc(1-2): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo Piano. Reprint edition. Study score.

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SKU: AP.36-A164002

UPC: 659359515002. English.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) started work on his CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA No. 2 in A major, S. 125, in 1839 and 1840. Putting it through a series of revisions, he dedicated the concerto to his student Hans von Bronsart von Schellendorf. The composer conducted the first performance in Weimar on January 7, 1857 with Bronsart as soloist. Liszt completed a 4th revision in 1861. Less virtuosic than his first piano concerto, it is played without break and serves as a masterful example of thematic transformation. Instrumentation: 3(3rd dPicc).2.2.2: 2.2.3.1: Timp.Perc(1-2): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo Piano. Reprint edition.

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SKU: CN.S11230

Music of enormous excitement and expectation - marked very animated - with brass blazing a powerful call against a tingling triplet figure in support. In Wagner's own words - awaken the mute lines of this score to bright surrounding life.

In a letter addressed to My dear Liszt, dated May 1852, Richard Wagner writes: It was you who awakened the mute lines of this score to bright surrounding life. He was referring to a performance of his opera Lohengrin which Franz Liszt conducted at the Weirner Court Theatre on August 28, 1850. The letter was sent from Zurich, since Wagner was exiled from Germany at this time. He had completed his romantic opera, Lohengrin, some five years earlier but doubted whether he would ever hear it performed. The action takes place in Antwerp in the first half of the 10th century. Elsa and Lohengrin are to be married and the 3rd Act opens as they proceed in great splendour, accompanied by their respective noblewomen and noblemen, to the cathedral. As a Prelude to the curtain rising Wagner unleashed music of enormous excitement and expectation - marked very animated - with brass blazing a powerful call against a tingling triplet figure in support. In the opera this magnificent Prelude leads directly into the Bridal Scene as Elsa and Lohengrin make their way solemnly to the betrothal ceremony. Wagner achieves this change of mood and atmosphere most skillfully. In arranging the Prelude for concert performance the challenge was to provide an ending which provides a satisfactory climax to Wagner's blaze of instrumental colour, without proceeding to the solemn betrothal music. This was resolved by using the composer's own mighty flourish to end Act I of his opera. Now, the gauntlet is thrown down to all who perform it to - in Wagner's own words - awaken the mute lines of this score to bright surrounding life..

SKU: CL.012-4102-01

Friska is the traditional Hungarian folk dance which is most famous as the fast section from Franz Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody. One of the most famous themes from the symphonic repertoire, this work is a time-honored classic that will excite performers and audiences alike. This tour-de-force for concert band is a perfect gem for your mature band. Dazzling!

About Gems of the Concert Band

A series of transcriptions and other works in varying styles, representative of the programming of the Great American Classic Concert Band era of a century ago, as exemplified by John Phillip Sousa, Edwin Franko Goldman, Karl L. King, and Leonard B. Smith

SKU: AP.36-A263301

UPC: 660355020445. English.

The idea for Totentanz, S. 126 (Dance of the Dead) was conceived by Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in 1938. Two versions were to follow, the first completed in 1853, and the second version finished in 1864. The flashy virtuosic piece for the solo piano uses the Gregorian plainchant melody Dies irae (Day of Judgement) in a set of variations. The first version, which is nicknamed De Profundis, is most commonly heard in the 1919 edition by famed Italian composer, pianist, and conductor Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924). Instrumentation: 3(3rd dPicc).2.2.2: 2.2.3.1: Timp.Perc(2-3): Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo Piano in the sc.

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SKU: AP.36-A816702

UPC: 659359502255. English.

As an inexhaustible proponent of Beethoven's life and work, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) produced a number of arrangements and transcriptions in homage to the great composer. His FANTASIE ÜBER MOTIVEN AUS BEETHOVENS RUINEN VON ATHEN, S. 122 (FANTASY ON BEETHOVEN'S RUINS OF ATHENS) for piano and orchestra is one of three existing versions, all of which he dedicated to Nikolay Rubinstein. The work on which the piece is based, incidental music for a play by August von Kotzebue, was written in 1811 in Pest, Hungary for the dedication of a new theater. The first performance of the FANTASY took place, also in Pest, on June 1, 1853. Instrumentation: 2+Picc.2.2.2: 2.2.3.0: Timp.Perc(2-3) Str (9-8-7-6-5 in set): Solo Pno in Score. Reprint edition.

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SKU: HL.50606648

ISBN 9781705199800. UPC: 196288153559.

Árpád Balázs (*1937) composed the first version of Rhapsody for Hungarian cimbalom and concert band in 2001; in 2021, on the encouragement by a Japanese marimba player he arranged the solo part for marimba, and therefore the opportunities for the work to beplayed have significantly widened. The Rhapsody follows the one-movement structure created by Franz Liszt. The beginning solo section of the cimbalom (or marimba) returns before the coda as a pillar of the form. The composition, which can be divided into five sections, develops and works with a Lydian tetrachordal motif (G-A-B-C sharp) in different characters, stretching the span of music from a simple, children's song-like appearance to an obstinate ritual dance. In conclusion, the Rhapsody is a passionately emotional lyric orchestral poem rich in colours and characters, which has a place on the repertoire of every concert band playing quality music.

SKU: CN.R10018

The melodies in Songs of the West differ in styles, keys, and tempos. The nautical nature of the coastal region is evident in many of the melodies.

Gustav Holst did not have much success in getting his early compositions published. In 1905, he began a career as a gifted teacher when he was appointed Director of Music at St. Paul's Girls School in Hammersmith. It was also a time when he developed the friendship of Ralph Vaughan Williams and the two developed an interest in English folk music. This became a turning point in Holst's style as he left behind the heaviness of the Wagnerian style for the simplicity of folk melodies. Vaughan Williams wrote 'we were dazzled, we wanted to preach a new gospel, we wanted to rhapsodise on these tunes just as Liszt and Grieg had done on theirs - we simply were fascinated by the tunes.' Enthusiastic archivist Cecil Sharp, of the Folk Song Society, encouraged Holst to write 'Two Selections of Folk Songs' based on material Sharp had collected in the West of England. Songs of the West was the first of the pair noted as Opus 22 was written in 1906; A Somerset Rhapsody was completed the following year. The melodies in Songs of the West differ in styles, keys, and tempos. The nautical nature of the coastal region is evident in many of the melodies. Originally written for orchestra, noted composer James Curnow was commissioned in 1986 to arrange the work for concert band.

SKU: CL.024-4573-00

We all know and love the wonderful characters from the classic cartoon adventures of yesteryear. David Shaffer has crafted this clever reincarnation of music from those classics. Opening with Brahms’ Hungarian Dance #5 we can all imagine our favorite cartoon rabbit in his many adventures and mis-adventures. With Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries we hear his death defying escapes from his adversaries. Finally, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 gives us the musical tension that brought these cinematic classics to their comic conclusions. Multiple percussion effects and clever instrumental writing will make this a favorite for years to come. Very entertaining!

SKU: BT.AMP-026-140

Edward MacDowell can be regarded as the first great American composer, although he disliked the idea of being classified as any sort of musical nationalist. He composed a large number of orchestral works but it is the charming and unpretentious suite of musical miniatures, Woodland Sketches, that has survived as his best-known work, with To a Wild Rose being the most popular. Philip Sparke has expertly arranged this simple work for concert band.

Philip Sparke bearbeitete dieses Stück des amerikanischen Komponisten Edward MacDowell, der weit über die Grenzen seines Heimatlandes hinaus berühmt ist. To a Wild Rose wurde seinem bekanntesten Werk, den Woodland Sketches, entnommen, einer Reihe anmutiger, unprätentiöser musikalischer Miniaturen. Hieraus ist To a Wild Rose das wohl populärste Stück, dessen Qualität Kritiker zu dem Urteil bewog, es sei so gut, wie der gesamte Rest von MacDowells Klaviermusik.

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) est considéré comme le premier grand compositeur américain de l’histoire de la musique, bien qu’il refusait avec vigueur d’être associé un quelconque courant musical nationaliste. Edward MacDowell a toujours considéré que la musique était une véritable langue internationale, et ses œuvres sont fortement influencées par le style de composition européen, et plus particulièrement par l’écriture allemande. Compositeur adulé de son vivant dans son pays natal et l’étranger, il était également un pianiste exceptionnel dont la virtuosité a impressionné l’un de ses plus brillants professeurs, Franz Liszt. Edward MacDowell a composé de nombreusesœuvres pour piano, un grand nombre de lieder ainsi que plusieurs œuvres orchestrales. Mais l’œuvre la plus connue de son répertoire est une charmante suite de miniatures musicales pour piano, Woodland Sketches, une composition modeste et stylistiquement simple dont est extraite la plus célèbre de ces miniatures To a Wild Rose (“ une rose sauvage”). L’étonnante sincérité de la mélodie fit dire un grand critique musical que cette mélodie valait toutes les œuvres pour piano réunies de MacDowell.