SKU: HL.14041307

ISBN 9788759819333. 10.25x14.5x0.052 inches.

Waterways (Vandveje) - Three Pieces for Piano by Per Nørgård (2008-09).

Written for Anne Marie Fjord Abildskov.

Preface / Programme Note
The three small piano pieces collectively called WATERWAYS was composed in 2008-2009 for Anne Marie Fjord Abildskov and they are dedicated to her.
You will hear traces of earlier piano works of mine – GROOVING from 1968 and ACHILLEUS AND THE TORTOISE from 1983 – in these new pieces.

The first movement is characterized by echo-like sounds, which also appear in GROOVING. Semitones are overlayered and soundsimultaniously, and then they are muted one by one to give a reminiscence of the initial sound. In this new movement an extra echo is added, like an extra skim of the stone
across the water surface – three skims, actually.

In the second movement you may hear traces of ACHILLEUS AND THE TORTOISE. The left and right hand both play arpeggio-like scale patterns. The music is shimmering, like a moiré on a water surface, with constantly changing, very short durations.
In the third movement the pattern of irregular durations is maintained and expanded, but only in fragments – and you may catch a glimpse of a new melody emerging.

Per Nørgård

SKU: LM.26315

ISBN 9790230963152.

BACH : Petit Prelude BWV 935 - BACH C.P.E. : Solfeggietto - BACH W.F. : Scherzo - BARTOK : For Children Vol.1 n. 21 - For Children Vol.1 n. 31 - For Children Vol.1 n. 35 - Peasant's Flute - An Evening at the Village - CLEMENTI : Rondo (Sonatine en Sol Op.36 n. 5) - Sonatine en Fa Op.36 n. 4 (1e mvt) - DUTILLEUX : Bergerie - GALUPPI : Allegro - GLINKA : Valse de l'adieu - Mazurka - HAENDEL : Aria - Prelude en Sol (14e Suite en Sol) - Courante (14e Suite en Sol) - HAYDN : Sonate en Ut Hob.XVI (1e mvt) - IBERT : Serenade sur l'eau - KABALEVSKI : Etude - LUTOSLAWSKI : Le Bosquet - MARTINU : Un Conte - MOUSSORGSKI : Une Larme - MOZART : Rondo de la Sonatine viennoise - PAPP : Tropical Dark Water - Water Fleas - Salt-Water Crab - PROKOFIEV : Soir - Valse - SCHUMANN : Petite berceuse - Petite chanson du chasseur - Le Moine bourru - Album pour la jeunesse n. 26 - TCHAIKOVSKI : Reverie - Mazurka - L'Alouette.

SKU: AP.12-0571539181

ISBN 9780571539185. English.

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