SKU: PE.EP68604
ISBN 9790300760018. 232 x 303mm inches.
THREE LOST LOVES is based on stories which took place in the novels of three authors: Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The work was commissioned by the founders of the AMRAM ENSEMBLE violin virtuoso Elmira Darvarova and master classical saxophonist Ken Radnofsky and premiered October 3, 2016 at the Center for Arts and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Darvarova and Radnofsky were joined in the USA by the third member of the Ensemble, the brilliant young pianist and composer Thomas Weaver. I want to thank Elmira Darvarova and Ken Radnofsky for making it possible for me to write this piece for them, and to thank Dr. Audrey Sprenger for helping me to find two of the three stories for this piece by suggesting the stories by Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston.
SKU: FP.FAL01
ISBN 9790570504237.
While Laurence Ager (1904-1989) was a bank manager by profession, he was also organist and choirmaster in St Leonards on Sea and a prolific composer.
SKU: FG.55011-602-3
ISBN 9790550116023.
Ann-Elise Hannikainen (1946-2012) was born in Hanko, Southern Finland, but lived mainly abroad, her father working as diplomat. Her grandfather's father was P.J. Hannikainen, the head of a prominent Finnish musical family. Ann-Elise's attraction to music was first found at age of five, when her family, then living in Warsaw, bought a grand piano. Hannikainen started to study piano playing at the Sibelius Academy in 1967, but rheumatoid arthritis prevented her from pursuing a carrier as a concert pianist. In 1972 she moved to Madrid and started to study composition with Ernesto Halffter Ercriche, a student of Manuel de Falla. Hannikainen advanced quickly in her career, and her piano concerto was premiered in Helsinki Festival in 1976. Her composing style evolved into luminous melodies, free atonal harmonies and improvisatory forms. Hannikainen wrote the two piano pieces Pensamientos 1974 (1974) and Toccata-fantasia (1975) in El Escorial. The first one carries features typical for piano writing of the Late Romantic, whereas the playful and improvisatory Toccata-fantasia gives a neoclassical impression.
SKU: BT.MUSM570360413
English.
Pianthology is a new collection of seven contemporary Piano works by living composers which includes a recording of each of the works performed by Nicky Losseff, the volume's editor. Nicky Losseff, who combines a Senior Lectureship at the University of York with an active career as a concert pianist, has written extensive performance and analysis notes on all of the works, giving helpful suggestions about the study and performance os each piece in turn. The anthology is aimed at university and conservatiore level Piano students, but will serve as an excellent introduction to new music for the Piano for any dedicated player looking to broaden their range. The worksincluded in Pianthology are: Anthony Gilbert - Three Papillon Postcards Sadie Harrison - Impresa Amorosa Ed Hughes - Third Orchid Jo Kondo - A Dance For Piano, 'Europeans' David Lumsdaine - Six Postcard Pieces Hilda Paredes - Caligrama Thomas Simaku - Des Pas Chromatiques Pianthology was launched at the York University Spring New Music Festival on May 8th 2008, when all seven works were performed, some by Nicky Losseff and some by her students from the University of York. Includes Nicky Losseff's recordings of all works. Three Papillon Postcards Impresa Amorosa 1.
SKU: BT.EMBZ989
English-German.
This volume consisting of 18 pieces contains works composed by Bartók for the Piano Tutor he edited together with Sándor Reschofsky and published in 1913. These little pieces by Bartók were enthusiastically hailed by the critic Antal Molnár in the columns of Nyugat: 'We see that even a piece intended for beginners can be of flesh and blood, can have a living soul and a thinking brain. No more wooden-puppet piano literature, for it can also be like this. These pieces are not only playable with real feeling but are so delightful that they educate, they inculcate aristocratic simplicity and noble naivety, and command respect for timeless, true musicality.' (November 1, 1913.) Theseminiature pieces include folk song arrangements and also original compositions anticipating the style of Mikrokosmos. (Hungaroton HCD 31604) Die 18 kleinen, leichten Klavierstücke stammen aus der Klavierschule von Bartók-Reschofsky von 1913 und sind nicht nur überaus geeignete Übungen für Anfänger sondern kleine Meisterwerke von überaus elegantem und zeitlosem Charme.
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