SKU: PR.110418380
ISBN 9781491135334. UPC: 680160687497.
THREE FANTASIES is a fantastical escape from reality. The first fantasy (“Preludeâ€) features a luscious and expressive melody accompanied by dark, romantic harmonies. The following fantasy (“Cosmic Lullabyâ€) begins and ends in a serene and introspective manner, with a tumultuous and harmonically rich middle section. To end the set, “Intermezzo†provides reflection and a lively resolution. Gardels’ profound lyricism and masterful piano writing make this set enjoyable for any pianist to perform at home or in the concert hall.The three fantasies here were written during the height of the 2020-21 Coronavirus lockdowns – a time everyone will forever recall as a period of the world standing still and experiencing new degrees of isolation, inactivity, and apprehension.A fantasy is a genre to which a composer can turn as a respite from the constraints of form, tradition, and expectation. What the genre may lack in structure and design it makes up for with spontaneity, capriciousness, and improvisatory musical gesture.I hope performers feel free to take a similarly “fantastical†approach to the interpretation of these works, seeing the score and notation as a point of departure rather than arrival, and proceed with unabashed freedom of spirit in their playing.
Anton n Dvo ák was a Czech composer. Followi...(+)
Anton n Dvo ák was a Czech composer. Following the nationalist example of Bed ich Smetana, Dvo ák frequently employed aspects, specifically rhythms,of the folk music of Moraviaand his native Bohemia. Dvo ák’s own style has been described as ‘the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them’
SKU: HL.14029018
ISBN 9788759868898. English.
Ole Schmidt is best known throughtout the world as a conductor, but he is also a highly talented and productive composer who has worked in nearly every idiom and genre. This piece is typical of his expressive qualities and demonstrates that while his music is often eclectic, sometimes experimental, he forms a basis in the Neoclassical tradition. It is his leaning toward driving rhythm and jazz-inspired harmony that makes his music compelling and attractive to listen to.
SKU: HL.50571244
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: HF.FH-3400
ISBN 9790203434009. 9 x 12 inches.
Die zwolf Stucke dieser Sammlung fuhren die romantische Tradition der virtuosen Klavierparaphrase fort, die ihren Hohepunkt im 19. Jahrhundert durch Franz Liszt erlebte. Als doppelte Hommage bilden sie eine Synthese aus der chromaitischen Melodik des Tango-Altmeisters Carlos Gardel und dem brillanten Klavierstil Franz Lizsts. Die in drei Banden enthaltenen Paraphrasen sind als Konzertmusik zu verstehen und konnen sowohl einzeln aus auch in einer Auswahl aufgefuhrt werden.
SKU: BT.ALHE33237
French.
Extraits des Oeuvres des grands Maîtres
SKU: M2.MOS-18613
ISBN 9790203701415.
Die Literatur fur angehende, junge Klavierspieler, die bildhaft, expressiv, nuancenreich und serios auftritt und zugleich, bei relativ einfachem Spielniveau, hohen kompositorischen Anspruchen standhalt, ist nicht sehr umfangreich. Das Setiner Tagebuch, das 15 leichte Stucke zu zwei und vier Handen enthalt, bereichert das klavierpadagogische Repertoire durch eine gluckliche Mischung aus variablen Spieltechniken und inhaltlichen Anregungen und besticht durch seine musikantische Qualitat, die auch auf den Konzertpodium ihre Wirkung nicht verfehlt. Der kleine Ort Sezze (lateinisch: Setia) sudlich von Rom, ist seit Jahrzehnten Koerppens zweite, setiner Heimat. Hier entstanden im August 1999 die vom Licht und vom Fluidum dieser geschichtstrachtigen Landschaft gepragten Miniaturen. Klassische Mythologie, nachtliche Impressionen, einfache Formen und hintergrundiger Humor sprechen aus den Titeln, die ohne aufdringliche Programmmusik in leicht verstandliche, aber ernst zu nehmende Klaviermusik umgesetzt werden. Anknupfend an die Tradition kompetenter musikalisch-didaktischer Werke (Bach, Schumann, Bartok) werden unterschiedliche Kompositionstechniken vorgefuhrt, die auf altere und neuere tradierte Modelle verweisen. Im zwolften Stuck, Galaxis, benutzt Koerppen nicht ohne ironische Distanz sogar die Zwolftontechnik, die sonst kaum zu seinem kompositorischen Vokabular gehort.
SKU: LO.70-2370L
ISBN 9780787775490.
Continuing our popular tradition of compilation collections, this volume brings together five well-known writers and focuses its attention on the manger. The texts of each carol featured in this collection highlight some aspect of the manger, and the writers carefully and lovingly bring new freshness to each time-honored melody.
SKU: FV.FUE-10286
ISBN 9790501825868.
At the beginning of the 19th century, dances that had a long tradition became modern again. This small collection of 9 dances features the gallop and scotch, which were extremely popular from the 1810s onwards.
SKU: BT.EMBZ1971
'The significance of the Rhapsody composed in 1904 in Gerlicepuszta and Pozsony is well shown by the fact that Bartók subsequently reserved the designation 'Opus 1' of his last, mature opus numbering for this piece. By choosing this genre Bartók was clearly following in Liszt's footsteps. But he did not merely follow the Hungarian Rhapsodies with their parading of folkloristic art songs in a virtuoso instrumental fantasy. The formal coherence of Bartók's work allows us to infer the influence of the large-scale Liszt compositions he then knew, such as the B minor Sonata. Unlike Liszt, Bartók builds his Rhapsody not on familiar melodies but on themes of his own invention, yet hisstyle is still that of nineteenth-century folkiness, and draws on the art-music tradition based on the verbunkos and the csárdás.' (HCD 32524 Bartók New Series Vol. 24, István G. Németh).
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