SKU: HL.50511769

ISBN 9790080144718. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English. Gyula Csapo.

The composer writes the following about this work: 'As if we could only walk sideways in a tilted force field, Petruska-Harlequin in my piece evokes waltz fragments on a capsized 'Titanic', or Berlioz's Romeo und Juliet. Vertiginous chromatic martellato-staccato sequences keep tearing apart the clarinet's virtuosic aerial gymnastics interspersed among the fragments and half-heard wisps of sound. We suddenly find ourselves now in the depths, now in the highest regions, sidelong, as if all these fragments of musical memories were dancing on the edge of the event-horizon of a black hole...' This work, dedicated to the clarinettist Csaba Klenyan, was composed in 2002 in Saskatoon (Canada).

SKU: HL.14023891

This nocturne was one of a set of six composed for the second wedding of the Duke of Nassau, which were published simultaneously as sets of duos or solo pieces for Violin, Cello, clarinet or concertina with harp or Pianoaccompaniment. Charles Oberthur was a celebrated harpist during his long career in the 1800's, most of which he spent in Britain. Besides being a distinguished instrumentalist, Oberthur was a prolific composer, creating morethan two hundred works.