SKU: HL.48025035
ISBN 9783793142607. UPC: 196288020790. 9.0x12.0x0.171 inches.
With Berlin Music, Brett Dean wrote a threefold homage: to the classical duo consisting of violin and piano; to the violin virtuoso Midori, for whom the piece was written; and to the city of Berlin, where he lived between the mid-1980s and 2000 and whose rich cultural life he owes much to his development as a musician and composer. The first four, relatively short movements of the five-movement work form a suite of character pieces, which is followed by a longer final movement. In summary, this turns out to be the actual main movement from which all motifs and harmonies emerged in a compositional manner. This includes tuning down the G side by a whole tone - an apparently small difference, but one that has a major effect on the timbre and resonance of the instrumentand suddenly makes previously impossible interval sequences playable. In addition, the violin in the third movement (a moto perpetuo in which Dean bows to Ravel's violin sonata) has to play with a practice damper, while the pianist changes the instrument and plays on a standing piano that is dampened by a pedal and placed next to the concert grand Expressing nervous energy in tight college spaces.
SKU: HL.48025296
UPC: 196288174325.
“Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in theWild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself the freedom to roam through 200 years of musical genres, ranging from Hungarian Operetta through folk music and even including the influences of jazz and popular music,†says Elena Kats-Chernin. The full-length work, which premiered in Sydney in 2003, was written for choreographer Meryl Tankard after the two artists had already worked together for the opening ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games, and became one of the composer's greatest successes. Many excerpts in various arrangements have a concert life of their own today - including the world-renowned Eliza Aria. Arranged by the composer in 2004 for violin and piano after the original orchestral version, the half-hour suite comprises ten characteristic movements: Green Leaf Prelude, Eliza Aria, Brothers, Wicked Witch (piano solo), Magic Spell Tango, Glow Worms, Darkness of the Forest, Eliza and the Prince, Mute Princess, Transformation.
SKU: HL.48025078
ISBN 9783793143222. UPC: 196288059769. 9.0x12.0x0.045 inches.
Elena Kats-Chernin has collaborated with writer Joanna Murray-Smith several times, most recently on the TV soap opera The Divorce. ANostalgic Piece was originally composed as incidental music for the Australian author's play Honor and has had many lives and titles since then, says Kats-Chernin. It's a melancholy, catchy tune that would go well with the sad tramp of an old silent film. The version for violin and piano appeared in 2005 on her portrait CD Ragtime & Blue on the Signum Classics label.
SKU: HL.48025287
UPC: 196288172116. 9.0x12.0x0.048 inches.
Black Cat - behind the title, one may rightly assume an allusion to the composer's surname, which comes from the Russian language. Elena Kats-Chernin indulges her passion for ragtime and tango in this ironically nostalgic miniature. The customers of the famous Parisian Belle Époque cabaret “Le Chat Noir†would have been pleased! The sensual mewing of the black cat is expressed in the portamenti of the violin part, even better than in the version for piano solo (BB3434), which is available as well.
SKU: HL.48025319
UPC: 196288175384.
Note by the composer:“This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. Thebasis of the piece is a sequence of four chords, very simple and minimalistic. A person with schizophrenia hears voices that can be very disturbing; there is a longing for silence. I wrote this piece so that my son Alex, who suffers from the illness, could hear silence and meditation from it. It's called Blue Silence because blue is sometimes associated with healing.†Elena Kats-Chernin.
SKU: HL.48014302
UPC: 073999949827. 9.0x12.0x0.129 inches.
Gasa is a Korean word meaning simply Song-Words and is the name of a Korean narrative art song. It is sung by a woman and is accompanied by a bamboo flute, the Taegum and an hourglass drum, the Changgo. In Gasa the violin part is modeled on the character of the voice which contrasts such opposites as purity and courseness, near and far, light and dark. ''Gasa exists in space. It takes no heed of time- each moment exists in space and that space is unending. Within this (space) however, there exists a dramatic development.AE (Isang Yun) In Gasa Yun combines his central-tone technique with twelve note tone-fields.
SKU: HL.48025071
ISBN 9783793142911. UPC: 196288059691. 9.0x12.0x0.081 inches.
These six short pieces are suitable for instrumental students and familiarise them with techniques such as double stops or left-handpizzicato. Pieces 2 and 3 offer the same music with varying degrees of difficulty.
SKU: HL.48024417
ISBN 9783793140818. 9.0x12.0x0.186 inches.
Content text: Programme Notes Russian Rag Melancholic Piece Reflections Slicked Back Tang A Nostalgic Piece Cocktail Rag Revolving Doors Black Cat Rag Naive Waltz Augusta's Garden Waltz Birthday Rag Peggy's Minute Rag.
SKU: HL.48014307
UPC: 073999322644. 9.0x12.0x0.206 inches.
SKU: HL.48014315
UPC: 073999155754. 9.0x12.0x0.21 inches.
SKU: HL.48014522
UPC: 073999697636. 9.0x12.0x0.291 inches.
SKU: HL.48013901
UPC: 073999971293. 9.0x12.0x0.098 inches.
SKU: BT.SCHBB1000728
Violin and Piano.
SKU: HL.48023797
SKU: HL.48022900
ISBN 9781495001444. UPC: 888680029081. 9.25x12.0x0.216 inches.
SKU: HL.48014267
UPC: 073999458848. 9.25x12.0x0.048 inches.
Two or more Violins and Keyboard.
SKU: HL.48014218
UPC: 073999780055. 9.25x12.0x0.037 inches.
SKU: BT.BB3629
ISBN 9783793143260. English.
SKU: BT.BB3496
ISBN 9783793141938. English.
SKU: BT.BB3363
ISBN 9783793140498.
SKU: BT.SCHBB1000731
SKU: BT.SCHBB1000723
SKU: HL.48025444
ISBN 9783793145806. UPC: 196288216421.
Hans Winterberg has only recently been rediscovered as one of the most important representatives of the Czech avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century. Performed but not published during his lifetime, his works were locked away after his death due to tragic circumstances and are now being published for the first time in a collaboration between the Exilarte Centre of the Vienna University of Music and Boosey and Hawkes. In contrast to his colleagues and friends Ullmann, Haas, Krása and Klein, Winterberg survived the Shoah through a series of miracles. As a student of Alexander Zemlinsky and Alois Hába, he is both a successor to Janácek and a member of the wider circle of the Second Viennese School. The Sonata for Violin and Piano, written and premièred in Prague in 1936, is one of the most important chamber music works of the pre-war period. It exhibits all the characteristics of Winterberg's personal style: a sensuality of sound grounded in French Impressionism with a simultaneous expressionist rigour of harmony, a small-scale motivic structure, a sophisticated play with polyrhythmic patterns and, especially in the last movement, a musical impetus borrowed from Czech folklore.
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