The Dreamers - A Gothic Tale for Horn Trio by Niels Marthinsen. Programme note: The Dreamers for horn violin and piano is the sixth of a series of seven compositions named after Karen Blixen's collection of short stories Seven Gothic Tales. My musical gothic tales are written for very different ensembles - THE SUPPER AT ELSINORE is a saxophone quartet THE OLD CHEVALIER is for bass trombone and piano THE MONKEY is a chamber orchestra work - but they all share musical material in a criss-cross of contextual references reminiscent of Blixen's narrative complexity: Themes and motivs from one pieceappear in others in new and surprising shapes and combinations. Karen Blixen's THE DREAMERS has the most complex narrative structure of all her seven gothic tales. The story is made up of three tales with different narrators but with the same principal caracter in various disguises all three imbedded within a fourth tale that serves as a framework for the entire short story.The main story line unravels the life of a famous opera diva who looses her voice during a terrible fire. Before this her life was perpetual bliss and the tragedy drives her into assuming different personality guises in order to escape reality.Toward the end she is confronted with her true identity and dies.THE DREAMERS isn't 'about' anything. The music is inspired by the artistic content of Blixen's short story - it's emotionalism dramatic construction atmosphere period and settings - but unfolds in time and musical space in ways that are completely independent of the story's narrative progression...except one might say that the three players try their best to either catch or escape each other and that when they finally meet it happens abruptly even tragically - and only barely provides a little consolation.

'...The present collection has been conceived right from the outset so as to form an organic component of and a supplement to the teaching of solfeggio. The original text and their relevant translations have been omitted with the intention that the pedagogical aim namely that which is achieved through solmization could be proprely emphasized. There is hardly any need to recommend these pieces for cultivation. Luckily enough solfeggio has become so wide-spread and in particular singing canons has gained such popularity that its praise would suggest an irony of the same kind as Erasmus' eulogy of foolishness. Nevertheless it cannot be left unsaid how immensely this domaincontributes to raising the musical standards of the greatest number of people possibile.' (Antal Molnár)

A comprehensive collection of all 48 of the trio sonatas of Opp. 1 2 3 and 4 and all 12 of the violin sonatas Op. 5.

Peter Maxwell Davies pensait de la vulnérabilité individuelle et collective lors de la composition de cette pièce, en particulier en ce qui concerne le problème du changement climatique et de son domicile, dans les îles Orcades, qui est menacée par la montée des eaux. Toutefois, ce thème n'est pas un fait négatif: Davies prétend que nous devons tous entrer dans la dernière porte de la lumière, mais le voyage est plein de lumière et de joie. La mélodie au début de l'oeuvre, qui compose Davies dans les années 70 et n'a jamais utilisé, pourrait être une mélodie populaire île et est soumis à une transformation constante tout au long de la pièce avant d'atteindre l'apothéose à la fin. / Orchestre De Chambre