SKU: BT.EMBZ2128
German-Hungarian.
'The Two Elegies are typified by Romantically exuberant, orchestral and full piano writing. Elegy No.1 was written in February 1908. The ternary reprise form is concealed by the voices in Bartók's varied piano writing that proliferate like luxuriant foliage. In the 'Grave' theme of the first section an important role is given to jumps of open fourths (presumably based on his recent folk music experiences), and these are also to be found in the fugato reprise of the theme. Elegy No.2 was written almost two years later, in December 1909. The entire composition is defined by the five falling notes that Bartók fashioned by inverting the Stefi Geyer motif also found in ElegyNo.1. Paired with this motivic unity is a harmonic world reflecting Debussy's influence, and piano writing reminiscent of the Romantic repertoire.' (HCD 32524 Bartók New Series Vol. 24, István G. Németh).
SKU: MA.EMR-47405
The Partridge / Merrily We Roll Along / Little Mozart / Le Bon Roi Dagobert / Jingle Bells / How To Slur / How To Play Staccato / J'ai du Bon Tabac / Serenade / Slurring Is Fun / Flea Jumps / Ode To Joy / Ah vous dirais-je Maman / Old Mac Donald ...
SKU: HL.48024148
ISBN 9781784540876. UPC: 888680792633. 9.0x12.0x0.113 inches.
From the composer: In Double Bind?, my desire is to offer, on the one hand, a glimpse of the inner life of sounds and, on the other hand, a fantasized manipulated and altered view of the relationship between musician and instruemnt as well as life “in the wings†of a musician. As in my preceeding work for live instruments and electronics, I have taken an interest here in the playful jumple of the limits between the “real†and the “artificial.†Double Bind? was premiered on 2 December 2007 at the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris by Hae-Sun Kang, for whom the work was written. The live electronics were designed by Benoit Meudic at IRCAM.
SKU: FA.MFRO001P
8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Over the years 1908-16, Debussy had produced a viable scenario for Usher on his third attempt. Butwhen he came to making a complete draft of the music, he seems to have lost interest during Roderick Usher's long monologue, even though he was setting his own text. As in No-ja-li he jumped to the next passage that interested him, in this case the exciting final melodrama and the collapse of the Usher house itself. In the process of completing the missing half of the score, I discovered that by reusing Debussy's material for similar psychological situations across the opera, and by metamorphosing existing ideas (as Debussy does with Melisande's theme in his opera Pelleas et Melisande), the only things I really needed to add were linking material and any passages where fast music was required. So the 'nightmare scherzo', and Lady Madeline's escape from her coffin and her final bloody revenge on her brother are all mine, but most of the rest is existing Debussy in changing contexts (in which the Russian technique of 'changing backgrounds', both harmonic and textural, proved extremely useful, as it did to Debussy in his Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune). Eventually, both my completed ballet No-ja-li and the House of Usher were successfully premiered in 2006 and the latter soon began to find its way into the established repertoire in Europe and the US. To further support this, I transcribed some of the highlights of Debussy's score as A Night in the House of Usher for organ, and subsequently piano--with a focus on Scene 2 and the final, horrific and maca-bre melodrama. This climaxes in the double deaths of Roderick Usher and his Sister Madeline, together with the disintegration of the ill-fated House of Usher into the stagnant lake-all beneath a blood-red moon.In this form it was first performed by Ian Buckle in the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds in 2010.
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