SKU: PR.114407510
UPC: 680160011599. 9.5 x 13 inches.
Commissioned by Marta Ptaszynska for the 1992 Bydgoszcz Percussion Symposium in Poland, Dorff’s concerto bears a secret program reflecting the proud strength of Polish Solidarnosc standing up to Soviet oppression. Lurking in the drama’s background were the ironies of Poland’s financial dependence on the USSR, and Dorff’s ancestry with Russian and Polish roots. The first movement was completed in August 1991, and an hour later Gorbachev was deposed by a coup; the remainder of the concerto was composed as the USSR fell. This glorious development for human freedom also meant the end of financial commitments from the USSR to its satellite countries, leading to the cancellation of the Bydgoszcz Festival. Percussionist Dean Witten premiered the work with the Haddonfield (NJ) Symphony, conducted by Maestro Alan Gilbert, then in his 20s.
SKU: PR.11440751B
UPC: 680160685769.
SKU: HL.48183737
Schmidt Wunstorf 6 Petites Pieces Celebres Piano & Percussion Book.
SKU: CA.4058500
ISBN 9790007106003. Language: all languages.
SKU: RM.CP10BIS
SKU: PE.EP14481
ISBN 9790014136093.
That Time by Rebecca Saunders is a 22-minute contemporary work for Baritone Saxophone, Percussion and Piano, inspired by a quote from Samuel Beckett's play That Time. This work was commissioned by Radio France, Lucerne Festival, Südwestrundfunk und Milano Musica---Associazione per la musica contemporanes and was written for Trio Accanto who gave the first performance at Festival Préscences Paris in February 2020. The revised version was first performed at Donaueschinger Musiktage in October 2021.
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SKU: PR.11641861SP
UPC: 680160685202.
What?! - my composer colleagues said - A concerto for the piano? It's a 19th century instrument! Admittedly we are in an age when originally created timbres and/or musico-technological formulations are often the modus operandi of a piece. Actually, this Concerto began about two years ago when, during one of my creative jogs, the sound of the uppermost register of the piano mingled with wind chimes penetrated my inner ear. The challenge and fascination of exploring and developing this idea into an orchestral situation determined that some day soon I would be writing a work for piano and orchestra. So it was a very happy coincidence when Mona Golabek phoned to tell me she would like discuss the Ford Foundation commission. After covering areas of aesthetics and compositional styles, we found that we had a good working rapport, and she asked if I would accept the commission. The answer was obvious. Then began the intensive thought process on the stylistic essence and organization of the work. Along with this went a renewed study of idiomatic writing for the piano, of the kind Stravinsky undertook with the violin when he began his Violin Concerto. By a stroke of great fortune, the day in February 1972 that I received official notice from the Ford Foundation of the commission, I also received a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation informing me I had been awarded my second fellowship. With the good graces of Zubin Mehta and Ernest Fleischmann, masters of my destiny as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I was relieved of my orchestral duties during the Hollywood Bowl season. Thus I was able to go to Europe to work and to view the latest trends in music concentrating in London (the current musical melting pot and showcase par excellence), Oslo, Norway, for the Festival of Scandinavian Music called Nordic Days, and Warsaw, Poland, for its prestigious Autumn Festival. Over half the Concerto was completed in that summer and most of the rest during the 72-73 season with the final touches put on during a month as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. So much for the external and environmental influences, except perhaps to mention the birds of Sussex in the first movement, the bells of Arhus (Denmark) in the second movement and the bells of Bellagio at the end of the Concerto. Primary in the conception was the personality of Miss Golabek: she is a wonderfully vital and dynamic person and a real virtuoso. Therefore, the soloist in the Concerto is truly the protagonist; it is she (for once we can do away with the generic he) who unfolds the character and intent of the piece. The first section is constructed in the manner of a recitative - completely unmeasured - with letters and numbers by which the conductor signals the orchestra for its participation. This allows the soloist the freedom to interpret the patterns and control the flow and development of the music. The Concerto is actually in one continuous movement but with three large divisions of sufficiently contrasting character to be called movements in themselves. The first 'movement' is based on a few timbral elements: 1) a cluster of very low pitches which at the beginning are practically inaudibly depressed, and sustained silently by the sostenuto pedal, which causes sympathetic vibrating pitches to ring when strong notes are struck; 2) a single powerful note indicated by a black note-head with a line through it indicating the strongest possible sforzando; 3) short figures of various colors sometimes ominous, sometimes as splashes of light or as elements of transition; 4) trills and tremolos which are the actual controlling organic thread starting as single axial tremolos and gradually expanding to trills of increasingly larger and more powerful scope. The 'movement' begins in quiescent repose but unceasingly grows in energy and tension as the stretching of a string or rubber band. When it can no longer be restrained, it bursts into the next section. The second 'movement,' propelled by the released tension, is a brilliant virtuosic display, which begins with a long solo of wispy percussion, later joined in duet with the piano. Not to be ignored, the orchestra takes over shooting the material throughout all its sections like a small agile bird deftly maneuvering through nothing but air, while the piano counterposes moments of lyricism. The orchestra reaches a climax, thrusting us into the third 'movement' which begins with a cadenza-like section for the piano. This moves gently into an expressive section (expressive is not a negative term to me) in which duets are formed with various instruments. There are fleeting glimpses of remembrances past, as a fragmented recapitulation. One glimpse is hazily expressed by strings and percussion in a moment of simultaneous contrasting levels of activity, a technique of which I have been fond and have utilized in various fixed-free relationships, particularly in my Percussion Concerto, Contextures and Games: Collage No. 1. The second half of the third 'movement; is a large coda - akin to those in Beethoven - which brings about another display of virtuosity, this time gutsy and driving, raising the Concerto to a final climax, the soloist completing the fragmented recapitulation concept as well as the work with the single-note sforzando and low cluster from the very opening of the first movement.
SKU: AP.48644
ISBN 9781470643522. UPC: 038081557397. English.
Two CAN tango on this delightful late elementary duet! For one piano, four hands with an optional percussion part.Download Optional Percussion Part
SKU: OU.9780193563896
ISBN 9780193563896. 12 x 8 inches.
For solo piano This consists of two pieces, played in an order the performer chooses. The number five, closely related to the nature of the zortziko, a Basque dance in 5/8, has been applied to several musical parameters such as repetition of pitches, superposition of five separate layers, fragments of pentatonic scales and the metrical structure. The piece explores extensively the percussive and resonant nature of the piano.
SKU: SU.92070380
Instrumentation: solo piano; picc,22,eh,22; 4331; timp; 3 perc; stgs Duration: 27' Full Score & Parts: available on rental Reflections on a Souvenir (for solo piano): available for sale (#92070230) Composed: 2007 Published by Subito Music Corporation Based on Souvenir de Porto Rico by Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
SKU: PO.PE161
ISBN 9781877564567. 30.5 x 22 cm inches.
Nostalgia was originally intended as an encore piece for Ho's percussion concerto The Shaman. Now it is available as a stand-alone arrangement for solo piano. The evocative and lyrical lines of the original work for vibraphone also lends well to the sustained resonance of the piano. Ho expresses a sense of nostalgia throughout the work with simple melody lines and ebbing accompaniment. The work also has virtuosic flare with fast cascading lines and textural flourishes. Nostalgia is an excellent work for creating a beautiful and thoughtful point within recital programmes. Nostalgia also exists in a version for solo vibraphone.
SKU: HL.49043920
ISBN 9783795748272. UPC: 840126965346. 9.0x12.0x0.282 inches.
In this second album composed by top arranger Hans-Gunter Heumann ('Klavierspielen - mein schonstes Hobby', 'Pianotainment') for solo piano, he takes a look at the bright and the dark sides of emotions. Twelve emotional Piano Pieces reflect the whole spectrum from bright to dark, light and shadow. The compositions take the listeners into the land of 'minimal music', combining percussive and meditative elements with wonderful melodic aspects.The gloomy and mystical character of these expressive compositions will fascinate every advanced piano player and be with them forever.
SKU: SU.90810080
Instrumentation: piano; 2fl(picc), 2ob, 2cl, 2bn; 2tpt, 2tbn, 2hn, tba; perc; strings Duration: 33' Full Score & Parts: available on rental Composed: 1993 Published by: Subito Music Publishing A formidable work for piano in three movements, this is an equally virtuoso piece for orchestra, and a welcome addition to the concerto literature of this century. --Cincinnati Inquirer A wonderful work --American Record Guide.
SKU: BR.BV-486
ISBN 9783765104862. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. German.
The piano, the concert grand piano as a percussion instrument, as a string instrument, as a plucked instrument? Why not? - here are resonant surfaces and there are strings. In fact, it seems obvious to pluck the strings, to produce harmonics, to play in the interior space with mallets, to use bow hairs, e-bow and bottleneck.But how do I find my way in this style of playing beyond the keys? Is that even allowed? What if I break something in the process? And where is this or that spot, and what do you call it? What works convincingly, and where are the difficulties? Klaus Steffes-Hollander answers these and other questions in this book.
SKU: AP.48672
ISBN 9781470643768. UPC: 038081559469. English.
This three-movement suite for one piano, four hands was inspired by one of the largest lakes in North America, bordering Vermont, New York, and Quebec. The first movement, Wind on the Water, is a flowing piece in 5/4 meter that uses broken chords, broken intervals, and an expansive melody to capture the play of waves on the lake. The second movement, Mystery of the Deep, uses two contrasting sections, one mysterious and one cheerfully swinging, to musically portray a folkloric monster who lurks in the depths of Lake Champlain but also delights locals with occasional sightings. The final movement, Tides of Revolution, draws upon the lake's history as a pivotal battleground during the American Revolutionary War. Driving rhythms, biting dissonances, changing meters, and dramatic exchanges between the players bring the suite to an exciting close. Optional parts for percussion and violin/flute are available for download for two of the movements.
SKU: BR.EB-9082
World premiere: Seoul (Pan Music Festival), October 8, 1991
ISBN 9790004179567. 11.5 x 16.5 inches.
Jorg Birkenkotter im Gesprach mit Carolin Naujocks (DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Juli 1994) zum Klavierstuck Schwebung und Strenge: Das Stuck ist ziemlich gefahrlich ..., wenn man es nicht in einem ganz guten Raum hort, mit einer Akustik, in der man wirklich diese Nachhallsachen alle hort, dann kann man ganz schnell sagen, dass ist so traditionelle Wiener Schule-Musik ... Und wenn man dahinter hort, dann hort man eben schon, dass all diese traditionellen Klavier-Figurationen, die so an der Oberflache da sind, standig diese Nachhall-Welt auslosen. Und die ist dann eben doch eine andere, die dahinter ist. Aber es ist eben beides und es halt sich ... in Schach irgendwie. Zumindest am Anfang hort man ganz aufmerksam zu ... sonst hort man nur die virtuose Oberflache. ... Ich wollte nur auf den Tasten spielen: Also ganz normales, konventionelles Klavierspiel, das ist das eine. Und dann, was das auslost bzw. wo das aufgefangen wird ..., da fangt die Klangspielerei an, die vom traditionellen Klavierspiel wegfuhrt. Bezug zur Tradition ist riskant. Aber das macht ja auch nichts. Mir wurde es naturlich etwas ausmachen, wenn das umkippt zur falschen Seite, wenn es doch eben nicht die Ohren auf eine neue Art von Wahrnehmung richtet, was ich schon mochte. Ich will nur nicht die neue Wahrnehmung in irgend einer Wuste suchen, die es, glaube ich, auch gar nicht mehr gibt ... Ich glaube nicht, dass das ein vermittelnder Ansatz ist: Es geht von bestimmten Dingen aus und versucht dann, woanders hin zu kommen. Was soll ich vermitteln: Tradition und Avantgarde? Es ist eine ganz komische Sache: Ich habe Lust, ganz abseits von diesen Sachen etwas auszuprobieren, Sachen zu machen, die ich noch gar nicht gemacht habe, dass diese Sachen bis zu einem gewissen Grad ausgereizt sind. Das ist jetzt alles Spekulation: Da muss ich selbst abwarten, was mit mir passiert. CDs: Schwebung und Strenge Hwa-Kyung Yim (piano) CD col legno WWE 20055 Thomas Oesterdiekhoff (percussion), Hwa-Kyung Yim (piano) CD Cavalli Records CCD 247 Bibliography: Birkenkotter , Jorg: Schwebung und Strenge fur Klavier, in: Noten und Notizen, Mitteilungen der Hannoverschen Gesellschaft fur Neue Musik, Nr. 27 (Juli 2000), pp. 4-11.World premiere: Seoul (Pan Music Festival), October 8, 1991.
SKU: PR.11441803S
UPC: 680160639403.
A delightful musical story about a dog and her day-long celebration of life as told by various instruments, Sadie's Birthday Adventures offers a moment of audience participation and invites discussion about the individual voices (instruments) chosen to tell this tale. Children will enjoy the frog (bass trombone), butterfly (glockenspiel), and a romp in the forest with a chipmunk (full ensemble). Sadie's Birthday Adventures was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra for its Sound All Around series of children's interactive concerts. For advanced performers.
SKU: CA.1241041
ISBN 9790007028060. Language: German. Text: Melles, Hermann. Text: Hermann Melles.
Score available separately - see item CA.1241000.
SKU: PR.114408420
UPC: 680160012879. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: PR.11140220S
UPC: 680160655229. 9.5 x 13 inches.
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