Par PEPIN CAMILLE. Ce nonette s'inspire de la série Énergie blanche de Fabienne Verdier. Sur le fond lisse et bleu nuit des toiles viennent contraster des traits de peinture blanche, comme une force opposée. Au fil des tableaux, cette énergie évolue en ondulations nocturnes fluides ou rugueuses, en scintillements légers, en nuages vaporeux ou encore en crépitements. Les toiles semblent emplies de matière en apesanteur et c'est pourquoi j'ai imaginé une musique planante, cherchant un équilibre entre mouvement et immobilité. Pour moi, il se dégage de cette série bicolore l'idée d'une vitalité, d'une force, d'une lumière qui habite le vide infini et lointain du ciel. J'ai recréé cette énergie blanche en aspérités (grains de matière ou frêles touches de lumière) venant perturber ces nappes de bleu vibrant et mystérieux aux valeurs longues et étirées. Mon travail a été d'imaginer des variations de ces deux matière-couleurs grâce à la palette de textures extraordinaire qu'offrent les instruments à cordes. La pièce est ainsi conçue comme un voyage coloré et hypnotique en sept tableaux correspondant chacun à une toile de la série de Verdier. Hors champ est un épisode froid et nocturne au sein duquel de faibles lueurs de lumière tentent à peine de percer l'obscurité de la nuit. Des glissandi inquiétants naissent aux altos et violoncelles en stéréo et présentent le motif qui irriguera toute l'œuvre. La contrebasse émet une pulsation irrégulière et mystérieuse, au loin. Une ondulation douce puis majestueuse s'élève dans Ascendance. Avec l'arrivée des violons, elle traverse la matière sombre en répandant ses faisceaux brillants et lumineux. Turbulence est le lieu des perturbations. L'énergie blanche constituée ici de particules vives et chaotiques se dérègle sans cesse et envahit l'espace. Dans Synchronie I, les violoncelles se partagent le motif fondateur de l'ouvrage en un seul et même souffle, pur et suspendu. Puis, ils s'unissent pour ne former qu'une seule voix et un chant de violon les rejoint. Ce dernier se fait l'annonciateur de lumière durant cette brève accalmie. Mémoires du vent rappelle le début de l'œuvre avec cette palpitation irrégulière de la contrebasse et les glissandi inquiétants des cordes graves. Mais ces mémoires sont aussi l'écho des Turbulences qui se transforment ici en Vortex, dans lequel l'énergie blanche et chaotique devient un véritable tourbillon de lumière liquide. Pour clore la pièce, Synchronie II reprend Synchronie I avec la couleur plus froide et mystérieuse des altos, toujours en stéréo. Les touches de lumière des cordes aiguës s'affaiblissent avant de s'éteindre complètement, au loin. Cette pièce appartient au même cycle que mon quatuor à cordes Feuilles d'eau de Silvacane inspiré par la série du même nom de Fabienne Verdier. Camille Pépin / Date parution : 2022-06-08/ Répertoire / Orchestre à Cordes

The composer writes:Pilgrim was inspired it will be no surprise to learn by reading Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Vaughan Williams's great opera on the subject had fascinated me from its first performance yet it was a long time before I caught up with this essential item in any well-stocked library of English classics. It made a great impression not least because of its theme of a journey of self-discovery and a rediscovery or renewal of faith. These are ideas which have a strong interest for me not in religious terms but in their application to every aspect of human life (including great journeys) and this piece reflects my response in musical terms to this concern. The tempo of the whole piece which lasts about 18 minutes is basically slow. There are two quick episodes but these act somewhat like the trio sections of a classical scherzo save that the tempo relationships are inverted (the classical trios would have been slower not quicker) and the canvas is much larger being that of a single substantial slow movement. The form of the whole is perhaps fantasia-like rather than having any relationship to classical forms such as sonata or rondo - some motifs and themes are varied as the work develops and the opening chords are of primary importance throughout the work. There has been no attempt to convey any pictorial elements deriving from Bunyan's great book. There is however one feature which upon completion of the score struck me with some force which is that almost all the thematic material is essentially striving upwards - there is a constant upward movement (sometimes over a lengthy period) throughout the work. Pilgrim was commissioned by the Luton Music Club for the Raphael Ensemble with funds provided by the Eastern Arts Board and Bedfordshire County Council and is dedicated to the Luton Music Club. The first performance was given in Luton on February 10th 1997 and followed as part of a joint scheme by performances in the same week at the Music Clubs of Bedford and Leighton Buzzard.

I Give You The End Of A Golden String was commissioned in 2013 by the Royal Philharmonic Society/Britten-Pears Foundation to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Brittenand the bicentenary of thefoundation of the Royal Philharmonic Society.The piece was first performed on 8th June 2013 by the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.'My aim when I began this piece was to create a long length ofstring music out of a single strand of melody.While experimenting at the beginning shaping and extending a melody in many possible directions I cameacross William Blake???s lines???I give you the end of a goldenstring;Only wind it into a ball It will lead you in at Heaven???s gate Built in Jerusalem???s wall???and this became my working method winding a single tune around itself so that it gradually formed itselfinto amuch richer more complex texture. The process happens three times producing the equivalent of acontinuous three-movement concerto.The ???first movement??? is engendered by two solo violas (the melody at the beginning alreadyentwined witha slightly alternative version of itself). The ???slow movement??? (a more extended more decorated developmentof the opening tune) is introduced by a solo cello (soon winding itself into a quartet of celli). The fast???finale??? led by two solo violins focuses on decorations within the melody rolling out ribbons of (Britten-like') thirds.' - Judith WeirSuggested minimum strings: 8.6.4.4.2 players

The Rosegarden Of Light - String Sextet Score-Gulistan-e Nur: The Rosegarden of Light for String Sextet and Youth Ensemble. Instrumentation: Professional String Sextet (2 Vlns 2 Vlas 1 Cello 1 Db). Youth/amateur ensemble (Interludes only): open instrumentation (5 treble alto bass parts (transpositions available) Keyboard). The Three Interludes are supplied separately. The sextet movements/Three Interludes can also be performed separately. I Bahar-e nastaran-bihag (Radio Piece) Interlude 1/ Introduction (Youth ensemble) Sextet Movement 1 (Professional) II - Shirin dokhtar-e maldar (Sweet Nomad Girl)Interlude 2 Sextet Movement 2 III - Watan Jan (Dear Homeland) Interlude 3 Sextet Movement 3 Duration: c.26 mins (complete) / c.16 mins (sextet movements only). On 11 December 2014 several young musicians from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music were performing at the Istiqlal School home to the French Cultural Centre in Kabul. The venue was targeted by a suicide bomber with devastating results leaving a number of students (and ANIM’s founder and Director Dr. Ahmad Sarmast) with severe injuries. Despite these most challenging of circumstances ANIM continues to provide an extraordinary learning environment for all its students regardless of gender ethnicity or social circumstances. They are committed to assuring musical rights rebuilding lives through music training future music educators establishing intercultural dialogue and to reviving and preserving Afghan Music. Gulistan-e Nur: The Rosegarden of Light is dedicated with great admiration to Dr. Ahmad Sarmast and to the students and staff of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul particularly remembering those who were injured in the 11 December attack. The work is also dedicated to Kevin Bishop and members of the pioneering ensemble Cuatro Puntos who are dedicated to global co-operation and

For solo Cello Timpani and Strings.Popule Meus was commissioned through the Magnum Opus project: Kathryn Gould founding patron and commissioner and Meet the Composer project manager.It was first performed on 6thFebruary 2010 by Yuri Hooker (cello) and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Micklethwate. Composer's Notes 'Popule Meus is a meditation on the Judaic and Christian text ?O my People whathave I done to you?? but itis also a Universalist contemplation of the wholesale rejection of God by modern man. However much manrejects God he cannot escape Him and indeed he is condemned to the supernatural by his deiformnature. InHindu terms he is the Absolute Ayam Atma Brahma (The Self is the Absolute).In this work the solo cello is the All-Compassionate One while the timpani represent man in his vain andpointless rejection. Although the solocello and strings and the timpani share the same material (four ideas aregradually revealed and they revolve four times during the piece) the timpani music is violent and becomesincreasingly frenzied and contracted while thecello and strings remain still and serene.So even in winning the Darkness loses and even in losing the Light wins. Passion Resurrection andRedemption; or in Hindu terms Atma (The Absolute) alone is real Maya (The Relative) ismerely illusion.'

Written based on a poem of the same title by Octavio Paz A Boy and a Girl is Whitacre at his finest with the composer himself describing four measures as 'the truest notes I've ever written'.Stretched out on the grassa boy and agirl.Savoring their oranges giving their kisses like waves exchanging foam.Stretched out on the beach a boy and a girl.Savoring their limes giving their kisses like clouds exchangingfoam.Stretched out underground a boy and a girl.Saying nothing never kissing giving silence for silence.    Octavio Paz 1914-1998

Avec cette série animée, la musique hongroise-enseignant et élève de Kodaly créent une pièce très en-s-tructive. Etant donné que toutes les parties ont des tâches d'indépendance aux-ent mélodique et sont très souvent opposés les uns aux autres, seul ou en couple, la suite est particulièrement adaptée pour le travail avec les parties de la chaîne individuels et pour la formation de l'ensemble jouer. Les mouvements : Wettlauf - Der kleine Trotzkopf - Bär und Mäuschen - Abendlied - Soldatenspiel - Thema mit variations / Orchestre A Cordes

Work for Solo Cello and Orchestral Cello Section. Premiered by Yo Yo Ma.Quoting Tavener: It was while pondering these traditional dicta that I began to write the opening solo melody for the cello. It is in fact a palindromebecause waking and dying are like two sides of a piece of paper. If you wake up spiritually then you will die to all that is not of God. In the middle section which is also a palindrome the orchestral cellos join in theparadoxical meditation providing a platform as it were while the cello line takes on a much more melismatic and decorative character.In fact the whole work is a series of intellectual contradictions realised by thesimplest of musical metaphysics. Dying life life dying waking up in order to die the solo cello always represents the individual mind dying and the individual mind waking up.Then of a sudden just before the end thesolo chant begins again only to be cut off by a distant sentimental memory the memory of 'the blues' reminding us of ordinary human emotion and of our fallen state. The very end suggests a waking up into a kind of peace (notsoul slumber since after death the soul becomes more intensely alive); but we know nothing of that so the music fades beyond our ears.

Viisi pohjoismaista sävelmää jousiorkesterille. Par SONNINEN AHTI. Ahti Sonninen's brisk arrangements of Nordic melodies are set for string orchestra without violas (violin I, II, III, cello I, II and double bass). Idiomatic, variable writing and short movements make the the five-movement-series perfect for for young string players. This product includes the full score and a set of parts (3-3-3 violin parts, 2-2 cello parts and 1 double bass part). Movements: I Merimiestanssi ? Folk melody from Iceland II Je beder eder, alle mine maend ? Folk song from Denmark III Pål sine høner ? Folk song from Norway IV Värmlandsvisan ? Folk melody from Sweden V Karjalan kisa ? Folk melody from Finland / Date parution : 2022-12-12/ Répertoire / Orchestre à Cordes

Via Della Fortuna by Sadie Harrison. Written in 2013 especially for the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra and Donatus Katkus.6; for String OrchestraWorld premiere: 25th April 2013 St. Katharine'sChurch Vilnius St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra conducted by Donatus Katkus.UK premiere: 10th May 2013 Cardiff Millennium Centre Vale of Glamorgan Festival.I - Casa di Caccia Antica (The House of the AncientHunt)II - Casa degli Amorini Dorati (The House of the Golden Cupids)III - Casa del poeta tragico (The House of the tragic poet)IV - Return to the Casa di Caccia Antica and northwards to Lithuania and the Amber Road(Gintaro Kelias)The piece is in four short movements each taking its title from one of the houses that line the main streets in Pompeii. Borrowing Mussorgsky's 'Promenade' from Pictures at an Exhibition the piece has twowalkers (violas) who take the listener with them onto the Via Della Fortuna then lead them from house to house. Several amber objects were found within the houses linking Pompeii with Lithuania. The lastmovement returns to the House of the Ancient Hunt then heads northwards along the Gintaro Kelias. The jubilant closing music refers to an earlier work (Geda's Weavings) based on Lithuanian folksongs.

Avec cette série animée, la musique hongroise-enseignant et élève de Kodaly créent une pièce très en-s-tructive. Etant donné que toutes les parties ont des tâches d'indépendance aux-ent mélodique et sont très souvent opposés les uns aux autres, seul ou en couple, la suite est particulièrement adaptée pour le travail avec les parties de la chaîne individuels et pour la formation de l'ensemble jouer. / Orchestre A Cordes

The music of the internationally famous pop group ABBA has found its way to the Broadway stage and serves as the centerpiece of this highly acclaimed show. Ted Rickett's arrangement several of ABBA's best songs from the production. Overture/Prologue Mamma Mia I Have A Dream and Dancing Queen.

From this current Broadway smash hit comes high energy American pop and rock songs that give the show its across-the-board appeal. Includes: Good Morning Baltimore I Know Where I've Been The Nicest Kids in Town Run and Tell That and You Can't Stop the Beat.