SKU: PR.16400272S
UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.
My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change. I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla. Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional. II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture. This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream. III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts] The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this. Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1. String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.
SKU: PR.164002720
UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: BT.DHP-1185968-070
ISBN 9789043156707. English-German-French-Dutch.
Con te partirò, which also became famous under the title Time to Say Goodbye, has burned itself into the collective musical consciousness above all in the interpretation by the blind Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli. In the 1990s this song raced up the singles charts and has since become almost indispensable at farewell celebrations, especially in the world of sports. Thanks to Anthony Grögersâ?? expressive arrangement, string quartets now have the opportunity to let this wonderful song ring out on suitable occasions, guaranteed to awaken the emotionsâ?¦Con te partirò, ook bekend onder de titel Time to Say Goodbye, heeft in de versie van de blinde Italiaanse tenor Andrea Bocelli een plek in ons collectieve muzikale geheugen veroverd. In de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw bestormde het nummer de hitlijsten, en sindsdien is het bij afscheidsceremonies, met name in de sportwereld, nauwelijks nog weg te denken. Dankzij Anthony Grögers expressieve bewerking hebben strijkkwartetten nu ook de mogelijkheid om dit prachtige lied bij passende gelegenheden ten gehore te brengen en daarmee ongetwijfeld een gevoelige snaar te raken.Con te partirò, auch unter dem Titel Time to Say Goodbye berühmt geworden, hat sich vor allem in der Interpretation durch den blinden italienischen Tenor Andrea Bocelli in das kollektive Musikgedächtnis eingebrannt. In den neunziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts stürmte der Titel die Single-Charts und ist seitdem bei groÃ?en Abschiedsveranstaltungen, insbesondere im Sport, kaum noch wegzudenken. Dank Anthony Grögers ausdrucksvollem Arrangement haben nun auch Streichquartett-Formationen die Möglichkeit, bei passenden Anlässen das wunderschöne Lied erklingen zu lassen. Da sind die Emotionen garantiert â?¦La chanson « Con te partirò » (« Avec toi je partirai ») est un véritable succès international gr ce son interprétation par le ténor italien Andrea Bocelli, qui lâ??a popularisée au Royaume-Uni sous le titre « Time to Say Goodbye ». Montée en flèche au hit-parade dans les années 1990, cette chanson est devenue incontournable lors des cérémonies dâ??adieux, notamment lors dâ??événements sportifs. Lâ??arrangement expressif dâ??Anthony Gröger permet aux quatuors cordes de faire sonner cette merveilleuse mélodie évocatrice lors dâ??événements appropriés.
SKU: BT.DHP-1185855-070
ISBN 9789043153911. English-German-French-Dutch.
The Phantom of the Opera is, without doubt, one of the great classics of our time. The stage production of this tale, exciting and mysterious in equal measure, has now captivated over a million theatre-goers. The phantom sings the song The Music of the Night to the beautiful Christine, who he has just kidnapped into his realm, as if entrancing her. This enchanting mood is so authentically recreated in Nico Dezaire’s sensitive arrangement for string quartet that it feels like listening to the singer perform the original version from the musical.De musical The Phantom of the Opera is zonder twijfel een van de grote klassiekers van onze tijd. De theaterversie van dit spannende en tegelijk mysterieuze verhaal heeft in de loop der tijd al een miljoenenpubliek getrokken. Met het lied The Music of the Night brengt het spook de mooie Christine, die hij zojuist naar zijn rijk heeft ontvoerd, als het ware in trance. De betoverende sfeer wordt in dit gevoelige strijkkwartetarrangement van de hand van Nico Dezaire zo authentiek overgebracht, dat het voelt alsof je luistert naar de zanger in de originele versie uit de musical.Das Phantom der Oper gehört zweifellos zu den ganz großen Musical-Klassikern unserer Zeit. Die Bühnenversion dieser ebenso spannenden wie mystischen Geschichte hat schon ein Millionenpublikum in seinen Bann gezogen. Mit dem Lied The Music of the Night singt das Phantom die schöne Christine, die er soeben in sein Reich entführt hat, gleichsam in Trance. Eben diese Stimmung lässt Nico Dezaire in seiner einfühlsamen Bearbeitung für Streichquartett so glaubwürdig wieder aufleben, dass es sich so anfühlt, als höre man dem Sänger der originalen Musical-Fassung zu.Le Fantôme de l’Opéra est, sans aucun doute, l’un des grands classiques de notre époque. La représentation sur scène de cette histoire, la fois exaltante et mystérieuse, a déj captivé plus d’un million de spectateurs. Interprétée par le fantôme, la chanson « La Musique de la nuit » s’adresse la belle Christine, qu’il vient d’emprisonner dans son repaire, comme pour la subjuguer. Ce climat enchanteur est tellement bien recréé dans l’arrangement habile pour quatuor cordes de Nico Dezaire qu’on a l’impression d’entendre le chanteur de la version originale de cette comédie musicale.
SKU: BT.DHP-1216383-070
ISBN 9789043163415. English-German-French-Dutch.
SKU: HL.49045929
9.0x12.0x0.057 inches.
The Austro-Hungarian composer Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was musically precocious: At the suggestion of AntonÃn Dvorák, he receivedpiano lessons at the age of seven, and at the age of ten became a student at the Prague Conservatory. Further piano studies in Vienna, Cologne and Leipzig as well as composition lessons with Max Reger supplemented his education. His Jewish heritage, which defamed his music as “degenerateâ€, and his sympathy for communism, however, cost him his life. In Prague and finally interned in Wülzburg near Weissenburg in Bavaria, he died of tuberculosis. Schulhoff's musical significance lies in the integration of jazz into art music, for example in his oratorio H.M.S. Royal Oak or in his Hot Sonata for alto saxophone and piano. He earned his living as a jazz pianist for a long time. In August 1922 he wrote four short piano pieces, his Rag Music, to which he added four more phrases in November: released as Partita, also known as Jazz-like Partita - with the fashion dances Ragtime, Foxtrott, Shimmy, Boston and - as No. 7 - a tango. From a piano to a string quartet movement, the arrangement presents itself as a delicate and smart, technically not too difficult sweet, suitable as a diversion or addition in a quartet program.
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