SKU: CF.MXE71
ISBN 9781491144749. UPC: 680160902248. 9 x 12 inches.
The day that Australian and New Zealand forces joined the Allies for an invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey in World War I, with disastrous consequences, is celebrated in Australia as Anzac Day (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps). To honor this special day, Bresnick takes inspiration from two selected poems by Bertolt Brecht (And I Always Thought and Legend of the Unknown Soldier Beneath the Triumphal Arch). Commissioned to commemorate Australia’s Anzac Day, similar to Memorial Day, and inspired by two Brecht poems…The somber opening violin and clarinet lines unfolded to haunting effect before eventually reaching a fervent climax. --Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times.
SKU: PR.164002390
UPC: 680160038091.
I became interested in the work of Plato through my friend and collaborator, the writer and philosopher Paul Woodruff. Paul's new translation, with Alexander Nehamas, of the Symposium gave me insights into ancient Greek ways of thinking about Love, Beauty, and Wisdom -- and managed to keep the earthy, and often bawdy side of it all in full view. But their new translation of Plato's later dialogue Phaedrus went even further: the beauty of the speeches is breathtaking, and the discourse itself is enough to keep one awake at night. Basically the Great Speech of Socrates in the Phaedrus dialogue has to do with the place of Eros in the world, and with the conflict in the soul between fleshly pleasure and philosophic discovery. I will not attempt to encapsulate this brilliant discourse in a program note: suffice it to say that reading it gave rise to my two-sided work for clarinet, violin, and piano, Phaedrus. The first movement represents the Philosophic life, and is thus subtitled Apollo's Lyre (Invocation and Hymn). It begins with an unaccompanied melody for the clarinet, which (after a pair of harp-like flourishes for the piano, expands into an accompanied canon. The voices in the dialogue (clarinet and violin) follow each other by a prescribed number of beats, but the music is totally devoid of any meter at all. The piano, representing the lyre, accompanies this lyric love-feast with repeated strummed chords. The canon has three large sections, and ends with violin echoing the unaccompanied clarinet invocation as the sound of the lyre fades. The second movement, called Dionysus' Dream-Orgy (Ritual Dance) presents, after a brief introduction, another kind of unmetered music. Rather than long lyric flights of philosophic song, however, this time we hear a unison dance of unbridled energy and sensual transport. The piece soon forms itself into a loose arch form, with contrasting metered dance sections divided by the unison unmetered orgy tune. Midway through the movement, Apollo's melody returns from the first movement, but it is a temporary reminiscence. The orgiastic dance returns, reaches a climax, and ends with a stomping of feet. While Plato asserts that a proper balance between lust and reason is necessary in all men, he (naturally) gives the nod to Philosophy as the better choice in which to live. Not so in my music: the two sides are meant to coexist and to complement each other. No sides are taken. Phaedrus was commissioned of the Verdehr Trio by Michigan State University. It is dedicated to the Vedehr Trio with great affection and admiration.
SKU: HL.49019079
ISBN 9790001178686. UPC: 884088907358. 9.0x12.0x0.103 inches.
'Privacy' means separation. The title of the trio for clarinet, violin and piano thus describes the character of the piece. The piano weaves sound tapestries of deep and long, yet fully fingered chords which increase their tempo in the course of the piece. In contrast to that, the melody of the violin is for the most part played in a very high register. It is the clarinet that fills the space between these extremes by means of trembling trills, always following the rhythm of the violin and answering to the latter like an echo.
SKU: HL.14025544
ISBN 9780853609773. 8.25x11.75x0.33 inches.
Score and parts for Thea Musgrave's Pierrot, arranged for Violin, Clarinet and Piano. Duration 17 minutes.
SKU: HL.14021077
ISBN 9780711984707.
This work was commissioned by the Verdehr Trio and funded by Michigan State University. Includes score and parts, (the score in C). Duration: c. 18 minutes.
SKU: HL.48022481
ISBN 9789517575591. 8.25x11.75x0.058 inches.
SKU: HL.14000516
ISBN 9788759880807. Danish.
SKU: HL.49017964
ISBN 9790001152938. 9.25x12.0x0.325 inches. German.
Es war 1996, als mir Christoph Poppen, der damalige Leiter des Munchener Kammerorchesters, von einem kuriosen Konzert in Munsing (Ammerland) erzahlte: wahrend eines seiner Konzerte mit dem Orchester in der dortigen Kirche gab es, fur alle hor- und sichtbar, eines der grossten Unwetter, das die Region je gesehen hatte. Dabei schlug der Blitz ein in eine Art Wahrzeichen des Ortes, eine mehrere Jahrhunderte alte Linde. Unter den Zuhorern damals: die dort lebende Dichterin und Schriftstellerin Diana Kempff. Sie war unmittelbar erschuttert vom Tod der Linde und schrieb unter diesem Eindruck einige Gedichte. Christoph Poppen wiederum war - wie in vielen anderen Zusammenhangen auch - genialer Vermittler und stellte alsbald den Kontakt zu mir her. Die Idee: am Ort des Geschehens, in der Munsinger Kirche, solle ein Jahr spater die Urauffuhrung einer Art Requiem fur diesen Baum, der so vieles 'gesehen' hatte, erklingen. Im Rahmen der Holzhauser Musiktagen mit den Texten von Diana Kempff und meiner (noch zu schreibenden) Musik.Es gab bald eine wunderbare, sehr intensive Begegnung von Diana Kempff und mir, bei der sie etwas fur Schriftsteller nicht gerade Typisches tat: sie stellte mir frei, aus den vorliegenden Gedichten nach Belieben lediglich Teile, sogar nur Zeilenfragmente zu verwenden und auch die Reihenfolge nach meinen Bedurfnissen anzuordnen und zu gestalten. Sie begriff sofort (und wunschte!), dass durch die Musik ohnehin etwas Drittes, etwas ganz Anderes entstehen wurde. Die Tatsache, dass wir Monate spater eine sichtlich bewegte Diana Kempff auf die Buhne holen durfte, freute uns alle besonders. Ihre Lyrik ist Ausdruck einer offenkundig zutiefst gequalten Seele und kommt uns oft wunderlich-versponnen entgegen. Einer zerbrechlichen Zartheit steht eine bisweilen fast brutale Harte unversohnlich gegenuber. Das Schubert'sche 'Fremd bin ich eingezogen' gilt fur sie in besonderer Weise und aussert sich in ihren Versen in einer Nahe zu allem Fremden (trotz des gleichzeitigen manischen Umkreisens des Eigenen und der eigenen Erinnerung), Abseitigen und auch (bei aller gleichzeitigen Skepsis) Ubernaturlichen. Dieses geisterhaft-spukige Element versuchte ich durch meine Textauswahl und mit musikalischen Mitteln in diesen nun 'Sieben Abgesangen' zu verdeutlichen. Das erste Stuck ist eine karge Studie uber das Verrinnen der Zeit, das Nichts; das Zweite beschwort den Regen (den heilbringenden) herbei, der dann spater - wenngleich mit entsetzlicher Wirkung - auch kommt. Den dritten Abgesang habe ich 'Tanz der toten Seelen' betitelt; es ist ein Zwiefacher, der jedoch durch seine duster-halbseidene 'Wiener' Chromatik alles Liebenswurdig-Oberbayerische langst verloren hat. Das klanglich vielleicht avancierteste und dichteste Stuck ist der vierte Abgesang, der ganz aus der Perspektive der Linde selbst erzahlt wird. Der funfte Abgesang zu den Worten 'Und wenn der Tod so kommen mag' ist im Stile einer traurigen Volksweise bewusst schlicht gehalten. Wahrend der sechste Satz in seinem expressionistischen Gestus nicht ungefahrlich das Monodram streift, ist es schliesslich die Seele (die ausgehauchte, die weiterexistierende?), die wortlich den letzten Abgesang uber die Baume und die Seelen pragt. Diana Kempffs Gedichte, der Enthusiasmus Christoph Poppens, die phantastischen Urauffuhrungs-Interpreten, allen voran die Sangerin Juliane Banse, haben mich zur Komposition dieser 'Sieben Abgesange auf eine tote Linde' angeregt.Die 'Sieben Abgesange' sind nunmehr auch eine Erinnerung an die erst jungst verstorbene Diana Kempff. Jorg Widmann,im Juni 2008.
SKU: HL.48186456
UPC: 888680828677. 0.022 inches.
Composer and conductor Eugene Bozza (1905-1991) was a pupil of Henri Busser and Henri Rabaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, and received the first Prix de Rome in 1934. It was during his stay the Villa Medici that he wrote his Aria Pour Saxophone Alto Et Piano ? an adaptation of the third movement of Johan Sebastian Bach?s Organ Pastorale in F Major BWV 590, which was to tour the world. This nostalgia-imbued melody, which expands over a regular meter, has, in turn, been the subject of numerous transcriptions, first for clarinet, then for Violin (or Flute) and Piano. Editions Leduc have chosen to republish this last version, with the added bonus of an audio version that should be of valuable assistance to all musicians!.
SKU: HL.49045444
ISBN 9790001162005. UPC: 841886028746. 9.25x12.0x0.058 inches. German - English - French. (ed. Wolfgang Birtel, Benjamin Ramirez) Schott Student Edition Repertoire.
This Rondo, which originally was the third of four easy performance pieces in a cycle for violin and piano (Op. 22), is one of Rieding's most popular and frequently performed pieces in violin lessons for beginners. This edition is part of the new Schott Student Edition series which offers varied literature at five different levels of difficulty, from 1 (easy) to 5 (difficult), for instrumental lessons.
About Schott Student Edition
The Schott Student Edition gathers instrumental works for music lessons providing a unique and varied repertoire resource including standard teaching works, lesser known pieces which are perfectly suited to lessons as well as to student concerts and competitions.The repertoire is divided into levels 1-5, from very easy to difficult, and includes works from the Renaissance up to modern performance pieces. Each title is graded, from very easy works for beginners up to demanding pieces for more advanced students who are preparing for further study or examinations.Every work in the series has been carefully selected and edited by experienced music teachers. The editions also contain a wealth of information on the pieces as well as useful advice on studying, rehearsing and interpreting the works. The first titles to be published in the Schott Student Edition series contain works for violin, violoncello, flute, clarinet and recorder. Further editions are in preparation.
SKU: HL.48181200
UPC: 888680866945. 9x12 inches.
Raymond Gallois Montbrun (1918-1994) published his Dream of Janceline for Alto Saxophone and Piano in 1947, just three years after he won the Grand Prix de Rome. Along with his Violin Concerto, Japan Symphony and Concertstück for Clarinet and Piano, Dreams of Janceline for Violin and Piano remains popular to this day. Dreams of Janceline for Violin is made up of twelve easy pieces in variety of styles, the seventh of these being The Nightingale's Polka. This movement addresses harmonics, a modulation and articulation, among other aspects. As suitable and varied pieces for the progression of beginner to intermediate level violinists, Gallois Montbrun's Dreams of Janceline cannot be missed.
SKU: PR.114423340
UPC: 680160688043.
SKU: PR.11440561S
UPC: 680160009039.
The three movements examine the same materials from different points of view; in the first, the ideas are chronologically separated, but they alternate and develop through the instruments in an intensifying way that generates a rather imposing and grandiose rhetoric. The second, with its hypnoti, incessant reiterations at maximum volume of a simultaneous combination of motives of different l lengths and shapes, ends just short of becoming unbearable... In the last movement the flute, clarinet and violin slowly unfold a continuous texture that combines several of the earlier elements, while the piano softly interjects the echo of its first movement triplets.
SKU: PR.11140253S
UPC: 680160631377. 9.5x13 inches. Based on a traditional African folk tale.
As a standalone performance piece, Dorff's A Treeful of Monkeys is a delightful telling of an African folk tale, complete with narration. The instrumental ensemble describes a hat seller, a good number of hats, and a good number of monkeys up in the trees with those hats. Commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, however, A Treeful of Monkeys is also an opportunity to introduce musical elements to young students, with Dorff's suggested educational objectives and performance tips suitable for classroom use.
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