SKU: FG.55011-588-0
ISBN 9790550115880.
I wrote my First Symphony while studying in the United States in 1955, but the work has since undergone two substantial changes. The original four-movement structure changed into a two-movement structure in 1988, with an expansive, Romantic and pathos-laden principal movement followed by a grotesque and ironic scherzo. This version seems to owe something to Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the idols of 1950s Modernism in Finland. Later I found that the structure was out of balance, and in 2003 I added a lyrical slow movement (Poetico) between the two existing ones. In order to preserve the 1950s spirit of the original work, I based the slow movement on solo song written around the same time (third movement from the song cycle Die Liebenden).
SKU: HL.48024551
ISBN 9781784544393. UPC: 888680916695. 7.25x10.0x0.472 inches. Text: Jacopone de Todi.
Composed in 2015, Stabat Mater was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. Scored for mixed chorus and string orchestra, it is a long-awaited sequel to the early masterpiece Seven Last Words from the Cross (1993), for the same forces; indeed, the later work begins with the pianissimo 'dying breaths' with which the earlier score so unforgettably closes. Cast in four movements, Stabat Mater has a duration of 53 minutes. Following the premiere London's Financial Times commented that the composer speaks of a 'painful world of loss, violence, and spiritual desolation'. Both sides of MacMillan are to be found here, the devotional and the painter of bold, dramatic canvases - the former in the ethereal writing for solo and ensemble voices, the latter in the lacerating blows and feverish anxieties depicted in the string ensemble..
SKU: HH.HH268-FSC
ISBN 9790708092209.
The musical material derives from transformations of the carol melody, which only appears with any degree of literalness in a dream like passage close to the beginning and vanishes – though, in some sense, its dna is present in every bar. The piece is through composed and consists of slow – at times, elegiac – music flanking fast central episodes. Two chords, which seem to signify a kind of question at the very beginning, return twice, later in the work.
SKU: FG.55009-436-9
ISBN 979-0-55009-436-9.
Composed in 1988 Kri is one of the first manifestations of Harri Vuori's mature style. The work was also his diploma assignment at the Sibelius Academy. The music of Kri is dominated by rich timbres and spectral harmonies.
SKU: FG.55011-516-3
ISBN 9790550115163.
The pictorial title of DIA (1979) with its wedge form refers to the idea of an arrow pointing through the multidimensional musical space of the piece -- the beginning of a trajectory crossing through all of it, visiting every point, but a trajectory free of any preordained form or curvature. The grand old man of Finnish Modernism Paavo Heininen (b. 1938) sees form as an idea of time and reflects it in one continuous movement with five distinct sections. DIA was commissioned NOMUS (National Federation of Swedish Orchestral Associations) and premiered by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam in September 1979. The edition of the score at hand is published to celebrate Paavo Heininen's 80th birthday. The edition includes the composer's forward from the year 1979 as well as aspects and memories about DIA written in August 2018.
SKU: FG.042-07773-3
ISBN 979-0-042-07773-3.
Hiding behind the modest title study is a true masterwork by Finland's founding father of musical modernism. It is the final part of a trilogy written in the 1920's, to which the works Fantasia and Pan also belong. It suffered the same fate as Merikanto's String Sextet and Nonet: the composer tore pages out in fits of frustration and self-criticism. Paavo Heininen, an important Finnish modernist in his own right, has undone the damage and reconstructed his composition teacher's work for posterity.
SKU: BR.PB-5432
World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018World premiere of the piano version: Mito, June 17, 2017
Have a look into EB 9283.
ISBN 9790004212790. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Marche fatale is an incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Marche fatale has, though, little stylistically to do with my previous compositional path; it presents itself without restraint, if not as a regression, then still as a recourse to those empty phrases to which modern civilization still clings in its daily utility music, whereas music in the 20th and 21st centuries has long since advanced to new, unfamiliar soundscapes and expressive possibilities. The key term is banality. As creators we despise it, we try to avoid it - though we are not safe from the cheap banal even within new aesthetic achievements.Many composers have incidentally accepted the banal. Mozart wrote Ein musikalischer Spass [A Musical Jape], a deliberately amateurishly miscarried sextet. Beethoven's Bagatellen op. 119 were rejected by the publisher on the grounds that few will believe that this minor work is by the famous Beethoven. Mauricio Kagel wrote, tongue in cheek, so to speak, Marsche, um den Sieg zu verfehlen [Marches for being Unvictorious], Ligeti wrote Hungarian Rock; in his Circus Polka Stravinsky quoted and distorted the famous, all too popular Schubert military march, composed at the time for piano duet. I myself do not know, though, whether I ought to rank my Marche fatale alongside these examples: I accept the humor in daily life, the more so as this daily life for some of us is not otherwise to be borne. In music, I mistrust it, considering myself all the closer to the profounder idea of cheerfulness having little to do with humor. However: Isn't a march with its compelling claim to a collectively martial or festive mood absurd, a priori? Is it even music at all? Can one march and at the same time listen? Eventually, I resolved to take the absurd seriously - perhaps bitterly seriously - as a debunking emblem of our civilization that is standing on the brink. The way - seemingly unstoppable - into the black hole of all debilitating demons: that can become serene. My old request of myself and my music-creating surroundings is to write a non-music, whence the familiar concept of music is repeatedly re-defined anew and differently, so that derailed here - perhaps? - in a treacherous way, the concert hall becomes the place of mind-opening adventures instead of a refuge in illusory security. How could that happen? The rest is - thinking.(Helmut Lachenmann, 2017)CD (Version for Piano):Nicolas Hodges CD Wergo WER 7393 2 Bibliography:Ich bin nicht ,,pietistisch verformt. Ein Gesprach [von Jan Brachmann] mit dem Komponisten Helmut Lachenmann, in: FAZ vom 7. Juni 2018, p. 15.World premiere of the piano version: Mito/Japan, June 17, 2017, World premiere of the orchestral version: Stuttgart, January 1, 2018, World premiere of the ensemble version: Frankfurt, December 9, 2020.
SKU: HL.14000916
ISBN 9788759859179. 12.0x16.5x0.538 inches. English.
Stratifications was composed by Hans Abrahamsen in 1973-75 and was premiered in the summer 1977 by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at the Young Nordic Music Festival in Reykjavik. Programme note: The stratifications referred to in the title unfold two different levels. There is the stratification of the time dimension produced by the opposition of contrasting parts, at the same time the polyphony, the presence of several simultaneously sounding layers, is of great importance to the music. By garish colours and clear-cut outlines a polyrhythmic simultaneousness of simple melodies is produced with more gestic music and other material which give a peculiar set piece-like effect inthe sound picture. The new simplicity details are here woven together in a new kind of complex whole. Stratifications begins with a series of concretistic masklike pictures of the music. It is like seeing lantern slides. But this fictive form crackles and the music gets attentive and real. The music is in a night-mare condition, where it is not getting anywhere in spite of a great dynamic display. But finally is liberating itself and rising in triumph.
SKU: HH.HH003-STR
Here presented as a colourful orchestral suite, these preludes dating from Scriabin's European tours of 1894 95 lend themselves delightfully to the small orchestra. The original piano part is published at the bottom of the score.
SKU: HH.HH003-FSC
ISBN 9790708024200.
SKU: HH.HH003-MIN
ISBN 9790708024194.
SKU: HH.HH003-IPT
ISBN 9790708024682.
SKU: FG.55011-653-5
ISBN 9790550116535.
Standing recently on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea with a child in his arms, Auvinen was overwhelmed with thoughts of refugees attempting to cross the sea and the images of a drowned child that had been shown on the news. This work thus contains a lot of elastic sound and things that bend down, grow slower and sink, but also music that washes up to the surface.
SKU: HH.HH401-FSC
ISBN 9790708059806.
Pleyel was one of the most popular and prolific composers in western Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. This symphony, composed in 1791, represents a grandiose gesture to his teacher Haydn, since the Adagio second movement and the Finale are clearly related to his music. A dramatic first movement and a surprisingly rich Minuet and Trio complete this striking work, written for London's Professional Concerts society.
SKU: FG.042-08246-1
ISBN 979-0-042-08246-1.
Sea Pictures is a work in which Klami's impressionist's music is at its most popular and accessible. Each of the six pieces is an irresistible depiction of sea life, from the Foggy Morning of the opening, via the exotic Latin charm of Capitain Scrapuchinat through to the expansive and rhythmic Force 3 which concludes the work.
SKU: HL.49045487
ISBN 9790001157179. UPC: 888680747992. 8.25x11.75x0.41 inches. Latin - German.
Deeply moved by his first visit to the city of Jerusalem with its seven gates, Krzysztof Penderecki composed this major vocal work to celebrate the city's 3,000th anniversary in 1995. Two years later, it was premiered as Symphony No. 7 in which the magic number seven has a special meaning: From the seven movements representing the seven gates to the seven powerful fortissimo chords concluding the oratorio, the biblical number runs through the entire work.4 (3. u. 4. auch Picc.) * 3 * Engl. Hr. * 3 (3. auch Es-Klar.) * Bassklar. * 3 * Kfg. - 4 * 3 * 4 (3. auch Basstrp.) * 1 - S. (I.: P. * Beckenpaar * 2 Tamt. (t.) * Rohrengl. * gr. Tr. m. Beck. * Crotalenbaum * 5 Tomt. * Marimba * Bin-Sasara * kl. Tr. * Ruhrtr.; II.: Trgl.-baum * 4 hg. Beck. * Tamt. (t.) * Rohrengl. * Kirchengl. * Tubaphon * Glsp. * Xyl. * Vibr. * Ruhrtr. * Tempelbl. * 2 Gongs; III.: 3 hg. Beck. * Mil. Tr. * Tubaphon * Kuhgl. * Tempelbl. * 2 Gongs; IV.: P. * hg. Beck. * 2 Tamt. * Beckenpaar * 5 Tomt. * gr. Tr. * Ruhrtr. * Bin-Sasara) (12 Spieler) - Cel. * Klav. * Org. ad lib. - Str.Im Saal: 0 * 0 * 3 * Bassklar. (auch Es-Klar.) * 3 * Kfg. - 4 * 3 * 4 * 1.
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