SKU: P2.10005

The capitol city of Lincoln, Nebraska is full of beautiful parks of various shapes and functions, most of which are connected through a series of elaborate bicycle paths. The Parks of Lincoln is a reaction to five of these parks, each very different in aesthetic and appeal. From the windy shores at Holmes Lake Park through the activity-filled playgrounds of Antelope Park (and making a few other stops along the way) to finally end in the expansive rolling prairies of Pioneers Park, The Parks of Lincoln takes its audience on a captivatingly fun-filled journey from one side of Lincoln to the other in a whirlwind of excitement and emotion.

SKU: ST.C423

ISBN 9790570814237.

Four contrasting movements. Giocoso, Sostenuto, Allegro and Comodo

The Couperin family’s influence extended over five generations and was as important to French music as the Bachs’ to German music. François 1668-1733 (known as ‘le Grand’) was, like his father, organist of St. Gervais and in 1693 became organist to the King at Versailles.

He excelled as a composer of keyboard music and produced an instruction book L’Art de Toucher le Clavecin, which is valuable for the light it throws on contemporary practice in harpsichord playing.

J. S. Bach knew and admired François Couperin’s music and the two did correspond. Alas, the letters disappeared when, (according to an article in Grove) they were used as lids for jampots!

Arranged by Bryan Kelly
Former Spartan Press Cat. No.: SP1115.

SKU: FG.55011-508-8

ISBN 9790550115088.

Kimmo Hakola's Wind Quintet op. 96 (2017) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Festival. The composer sees that making the ensemble ultimately breathe and express itself as an organic, coherent subject should be the aim in composing for wind quintet. The normal chamber-music configuration is not a sufficient basis for me in composing a wind quintet: the instruments have to be compressed, reduced, even crushed together so that, in pairs and different combinations, they produce new, viable audio units. Collision often generates something new. Kimmo Hakola has gone through a number of styles and influences in his career as a composer, his idiom expanding at times to embrace Romanticism, Orientalism and klezmer. He has attained international recognition with an output that spans various genres from intimate solo works to full-length operas such as La Fenice (2011) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Many of his works are expansive and epic: his Piano Concerto (1996), for instance, clocks in at 55 minutes. Hakola says that he sees music as drama. His dramas explore almost Shakespearean extremes, from moments of raging sound and fury and violent battles to quiet moments of meditation and heart-rending monologues.