SKU: BR.SON-634

ISBN 9790004803691. 9 x 12 inches.

Sibelius's oeuvre contains four string quartets. They appeared over a long time span and in different phases of his professional career. Most of his early compositions were chamber music, and he composed his three earliest quartets (in E flat major (JS 184, 1885), A minor (JS 183, 1889), B flat major (Op. 4, 1890)) around his study years. They remained unprinted during his lifetime, and the string quartet in E flat major was also not performed in public. The quartet in D minor Voces intimae op. 56, on the other hand, was completed in London in the spring of 1909, and Sibelius wrote to his wife Aino: It became wonderful. Just the kind that raises a smile on one's face even at the moment of death. Voces intimae was published in the same year. Even later, Sibelius seemed to be very satisfied with his composition, for he wrote in his diary: It is generally claimed to be my best work. I do not think quite that, but it does belong among my best ones..

SKU: BR.EB-9343

ISBN 9790004188071. 9 x 12 inches.

Gletscher uben eine unglaubliche Faszination aus. Das strahlende Blau des blanken Gletschereises ist einzigartig, aber es kann in noch viel mehr Farben schimmern. Uber Jahrtausende hat sich gezeigt, dass der Gletscher lebt. Er wachst und zieht sich zuruck, altert, scheint zu atmen, kann toten und sterben. Wenn genugend Schnee fallt, wird der Gletscher ,,geboren. Die unteren Schichten Schnee werden von den oberen zusammengepresst und die Metamorphose des Schnees zu Gletschereis beginnt. In den unteren Lagen wird der Druck immer hoher und Luft entweicht. Aus den filigranen Eiskristallen von Neuschnee entstehen stramme Aggregatklumpen. Bei immer grosseren Eismassen kommt es zu einem Impuls der Bewegung durch die Gravitation und Eigendynamik aufgrund der Masse. All diese Gedanken habe ich in meinem ,,Gletscherquartett in Musik gesetzt. Auch naturliche Klimaschwankungen und der Klimaeinfluss des Menschen werden in den vier Streicherstimmen horbar. Denn in den letzten Jahrzehnten schmelzen Gletscher im Rekordtempo. Seit 2000 verlieren etwa die Alpengletscher zwei bis drei Prozent an Volumen pro Jahr, vorher war es jahrlich nur ein Prozent. Nicht umsonst wird der Gletscher als ,,Fieberthermometer des Weltklimas bezeichnet. (Manuela Kerer, 2018).

SKU: HL.49019756

ISBN 9783795794712. 11.0x15.0x0.982 inches.

The work of Paul Hindemith is encyclopedic in nature. From the outset, he worked in all musical genres and devised several of his musical ideas and projects not as individual, self-contained works but as work cycles with different functional relationships. These contrasting pieces complement each other if experienced as part of the overall structure. Hindemith himself not only wanted a complete edition of his collected works but had begun planning it; at his death he left a detailed list of ‚Unpublished pieces for an eventual complete edition‘.The Complete Works contain all finished works in all extant versions, newly engraved for the edition. Sketches and fragments are published in appendices of the relevant volume, and are evaluated in the Introduction and Critical Commentary by the respective volume editor.Each volume contains a preface by the editorial directors and an introduction by the volume editor, delineating the genesis and performance history of the work, with authentic performance instructions, an evaluation of extant recordings by Paul Hindemith himself and a Critical Commentary.The Complete Works of Paul Hindemith are thus presented in a critical, scholarly edition which is equally appropriate for study and performance. Hindemith researchers will welcome the numerous first publications of works by the composer, and practical musicians will appreciate the newly prepared, philologically ordered performance material.