SKU: AP.36-M273691

UPC: 660355089602. English.

"Visions fugitives" is a cycle of 20 piano miniatures written between 1915 and 1917, many for friends of the composer.  The miniatures are vignette-like, and the overall effect is Impressionist in style.

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SKU: FG.55011-717-4

ISBN 9790550117174.

It was through Einar Englund (1916-1999) that the Neoclassicism already familiar elsewhere in the world landed on Finnish shores in the late 1940s. A composer especially of large-scale orchestral and chamber works, Englund is one of the greatest Finnish symphonists.

Sinuhe is an example of a Finnish composition founded on a non-Finnish subject handled in a non-National-Romantic way. This probably partly explains why the score has fallen into oblivion in Finland: the Oriental moods and the Nile do not correspond to the view of a Finnish composition as one favouring topics from the national epic, the Kalevala, and lakeland scenery. The music also incorporates motifs derived from Lapp yoiks used by Englund in his score for the film The White Deer (1952). When it was written, the ballet's combination of a historical subject with an exotic, stylised idiom showed that Englund had his finger on the international pulse, unlike, say, Samuel Barber's ballet Medea (1946) and Aram Khachaturian's ballet Spartacus (1956).

The suite from Sinuhe is in five scenes. It omits the original overture and almost all the music for the second half of the ballet. Sinuhe's hapless love for the courtesan Nefernefer is described with languorous sensuality. His servant Kaptah throws himself into a frenzied dance with the Cretan maidens. The suite ends with the rhythmic war dance of his friend Horemheb.

SKU: HL.159733

9.25x12.0x0.093 inches.

Scraps consists of three works: Burlesque, Nocturne, and Humoresque. The composer calls them an attempt to restore his childhood memories of the difficult, post-war time when his parents and their friends organized music evenings as a way to soothe him - and themselves most likely. The miniatures, presented in archaic musical forms that are rarely used by contemporary music composers, can be played separately or in the order indicated in the collection. Burlesque and Humoresque are fast and expressive. Nocturne is peaceful and very intimate.