SKU: OT.21125

ISBN 9789655051117. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.

The five short movements for solo cembalo are brief, personal prayers that depict how the subject manages a range of feelings and emotions. The miniatures each represent a different emotional state: reflection, searching, meditation, agitation, and resolution. Each is a small-scale representation of a grand, wide-ranging prayer of supplication.
As a composer, performer, and researcher of early music, writing for cembalo allows me not only to express my special connection to the instrument and the period in which it flourished, but also to present its contemporary dimensions as a rich and versatile instrument.
The piece was composed at the request of Hagai Yodan, who performs it with great skill.
Daniel Akiva is a composer, performer, and educator whose performances on guitar and lute have won great acclaim. Mr. Akiva graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1981, where he studied classical guitar with Haim Asulin and composition with Haim Alexander. In 1987 he completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatorium in Switzerland where he studied lute with Jonathon Rubin and composition with Jean Ballisa. For many years, he headed the Music Department at the WIZO High School for the Arts in Haifa, which he founded in 1986, and served as the Artistic Director of the Guitar Gems Festival from 2006-2019. As part of his work at WIZO High School, he has developed a method for teaching free improvisation that has been incorporated into the music program at the school.
Mr. Akiva has appeared in concert as a guitarist and lutist and given master classes in Israel, Europe, Russia, the United States, and Latin America. Daniel Akiva’s compositional output includes works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and guitar, piano, and chamber orchestra. His works have been recorded on twelve CDs, the latest of which, Malchut, was issued by OR-TAV in 2014.
A native of Haifa whose family has lived in Israel for over five hundred years, he was steeped in the Sephardic (Jewish-Spanish) tradition from his youth. Much of his compositional output has been devoted to a dialogue with the music of the Sephardic Jews. Daniel Akiva has also maintained a creative dialogue over many years with the poets and writers Amnon Shamash, Rivka Miriam, and Avner Peretz.

SKU: HL.49005300

ISBN 9790001056984. UPC: 884088023904. 9.0x12.0x0.086 inches.

Piano or harpsichord.

SKU: HL.49014922

ISBN 9790220118906. UPC: 073999743944. 8.25x11.75x0.07 inches.

'This piece for solo harpsichord (1995, duration 10 minutes) was commissioned by Maggie Cole. '... I have offered many options with ornamentation, suggesting some, writing out others completely, but also encouraging the player to use their invention and instincts to add others where not specified and generally to adopt an open approach to the piece.'.

SKU: HL.49005850

ISBN 9790001063258. UPC: 842819105367. 9.0x12.0x0.159 inches.

SKU: HL.49008078

ISBN 9790001114790. 9.0x12.0x0.102 inches.

Though technically not too difficult, these 3 pieces by Hans-Martin Linde demand an acute awareness of their rhythmical complexities from the player. The title also contains programmatic allusions: the tonal and rhythmical structural subtleties require a heightened perception from the listener. The pieces are suitable for competition as well as concert performance.

SKU: HL.49005687

ISBN 9790001061278. 9.0x12.0x0.091 inches.

SKU: HL.49014748

ISBN 9790220125218. 9.0x11.75x0.08 inches.

SKU: HL.49014164

ISBN 9790220104589.

SKU: HL.49007727

ISBN 9790001082686. UPC: 073999284034. 9.0x12.0x0.045 inches.