SKU: HL.14010091

SKU: HL.14031819

SKU: HL.14007990

SKU: HL.14062578

SKU: HL.14033302

ISBN 9788759879122. Danish.

This is the original version of The Lady Of Shalott for Viola solo by Bent Sorensen from 1987.

SKU: HL.14002638

SKU: HL.14021092

ISBN 9780711989528.

Written in 1989.

SKU: HL.14015171

ISBN 9788759878224. Danish.

Quartetto Sereno - String Quartet No.21 Op.197 (op. posth.) by Vagn Holmboe.

Holmboe's last quartet work, which is unoffi­cially also String Quartet No. 21, was the last work he ever composed, and was unfinished on his death in 1996. His pupil Per Nørgård has finished the quartet, and himself characterizes his contribution by saying that the score existed “in an only partly completed form, which could however be written out with only a few cases of doubt”. With only two movements and a play­ing time of about nine minutes it is at its exist­ing length the shortest of Holmboe's stringquar­tets. The first movement takes the form of one long arch in a rocking triple time which constantly shifts among different tempo and pulse sensations. At the same time the rhythmic en­ergy increases until the movement, in a faster Con moto tempo accelerates to a more flowing 12/8 time, coloured both rhythmically by cross-­rhythms in duple time and timbrally by harmon­ics in the viola. In its middle section, Con fuoco, the movement culminates in both tempo and expression until it falls calm in brief recapitula­tions in reverse order of the first two sections. The rocking feeling continues in the second movement, but now at a more extroverted level from the outset, Allegro and pizzicato. The en­ergy builds up further as the mood intensifies to Con fuoco, while all instruments go over to bowed playing, but like the first movement, this movement ends Adagio here however not as a gradual attenuation but through a sudden shift in tempo to a calm, imitative passage before the movement slowly thins out to the almost inaudible through a last, dense, open sounding chord with a brief violin solo above it.

The quartet is dedicated to Holmboe's wife MeLa May Holmboe, and was given its first performance by the Kontra Quartet on 22nd March 1997 at the Carl Nielsen Academy of.

SKU: HL.14030734

ISBN 9780853608264. 8.5x11.0x0.158 inches.

Violin Sonata arranged for Viola and piano by Veronica Leigh Jacobs. The piano part is a reproduction of the original Violin Sonata edition.

SKU: HL.14030790

ISBN 9780853604488. 8.0x12.0x0.198 inches.

While Gordon Jacobs composed a vast amount of music - more than four hundred pieces -- he was particularly celebrated for his work for Viola and for woodwinds, as well as for his books on music pedagogy. Jacob had an early success with his Viola Concerto of 1926 which was premiered at a Promenade concert and which was the beginning of a series of strong contributions to Viola repertoire. This Sonatina for Viola and Piano demonstrates his sensitive writing for the instrument. It works very well when performed on clarinet as well.While many composers of the 20th century rejected serialism, atonality and other avant garde effects in favour of Romanticism, Jacob was much morean adherent to the musical models of the classic and baroque eras, while still encompassing modern harmonies. His work Music for a Festival, for symphonic wind band and brass ensemble, was used for the post-war Festival of Britain and he arranged the British national anthem for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

SKU: HL.14012803

ISBN 9780711988231. 8.25x11.75x0.184 inches.

Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 4 was composed as part of the Memorial concert for the artist Brian Buczak. Commissioned by Geoffrey Hendricks, it received its first performance on July 4, 1989 at the Emily Harvey Gallery in New York City.