SKU: HL.48014790

UPC: 073999691030.

Viola and Keyboard.

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SKU: CY.CC2673

J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right.

Number Five is a four-voice, stretto fugue with the main subject answered by inversion. About 3 ½ minutes in length.

SKU: PE.0615811802

ISBN 9780615811802. UPC: 038081509754. English.

Lucien Capet was born in Paris in 1873 and became a renowned violinist in the Capet Quartet. He was a student of Maurin and the pure tradition of French violin technique through Baillot. He was invited to teach chamber music at the Paris Conservatory and during his years there, he published Superior Bowing Technique. This book answers the subjects that many have been wanting to learn about, including: the most complete biography of Capet, a comparison with Baillot's pedagogy, and a comparison with the bowing techniques of Galamian and Fischer.

SKU: PR.414411630

ISBN 9781491114551. UPC: 680160089956. 9.5 x 13 inches.

EXCURSIONS is a one-movement work exploring two “characters.” A rhapsodic, descending passage is introduced by the cello, followed by a  static, chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello. Their individual developments are separated by a slow, contrasting middle section. The composer has written: “This is analogous to situations in life: we stand by a crossroad, choosing one option and forfeiting the other. But in art, the realm of the imagination, we can perhaps afford to pursue more than one route to its ultimate destination… or can we? It is symbolic that in this work both roads eventually lead to the same place.”.
Excursions for violin, cello and piano, is a one-movement work of tripartite structure in which materials explored in the first of three large sections are brought back in the last section.  The traditional statement-contrast-restatement form, which is readily suggested by such a description, is, however, not at all in the mold in which the work is cast.  Rather, my aim was to subject the essential materials of the piece (two “characters” –the rhapsodic, descending passage played by the cello in the very opening and, later, a static, slow moving, chorale-like phrase for the violin and cello) to two entirely different developments separated by a slow, contrasting middle section.  This is analogous to an exploration of the ramifications that two divergent choices made by the same person might lead to.  In life, as we stand by a crossroad, choosing one option usually means having to forfeit the other.  But in art, the realm of the imagination, we can perhaps afford to pursue more than one route to its ultimate destination…or can we?  It is, I believe, symbolic that in this work both roads eventually lead to the same place: in composing Excursions, it seemed absolutely inescapable that at the end the slow, contrasting middle sections – both more resigned and peaceful than the battling spirits of the outer parts – should return briefly to end the work. The piano trio combination (once highly favored, but to this composer still as challenging today) is approached here as a collaborative effort of three equal soloists – partners.  Of the available pairings, the two strings find themselves occasionally approached as a team pitted against the piano.  The cello-piano combination is also not uncommon here, and there is an extended violin cadenza toward the end of the piece.  The writing for the three instruments is closely and at times interlinked, but the players are all instructed to play from scores. Excursions was first performed at Brandeis University in 1982.

SKU: HL.49046638

ISBN 9781705136232. UPC: 840126961706.

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SKU: HL.49045762

ISBN 9784115902282. 8.25x11.75x0.1 inches.

This is the eleventh work in my chamber music series, STRATA, and my fourth string quartet following STRATA I, V, and IX. This series started in 1988 based on the idea of regarding registers as strata (the plural form of stratum), from which the title in derived. While I continue to write pieces, however, the initial concept changed in various aspects. This time, I returned to the original idea To put it simply, I restarted from STRATA I. I used the same instruments and stared at strara created by the four string parts. That became the act of composing STRATA XI. The work doesn't have 'development' in the general sense but represents a panorama of strata. It consists of four movements (fast-slow-fast-slow). In fact, before writing the STRATA series, I wrote a long string quartet when I was a student, but I didn't include it in my list of works. Anyway, the thought of writing string quartet has never disappeared from me. It alays weighs heavily on my mind. Shin-Ichiro Ikebe.

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SKU: CY.CC2679

J. S. Bach's massive work, The Art of Fugue, is a summation of his powers as a composer of contrapuntal music. Each fugue is a masterpiece in its own right.

Number Eleven is a four-voice, triple fugue that uses all three subjects from Number Eight but in both direct and inverted forms. About 6 minutes in length.

SKU: CA.3720914

ISBN 9790007214722. Language: German.

The composition of the cantata was probably completed on 16 November 1765. The subject of the cantata text is the fulfillment of the prophecy with Christ's birth. The author of the texts of the inner movements is unknown. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3720900.

SKU: ST.AC185

ISBN 9790220220371.

Move (B - B)
Pick-up in Soho (B - B)
Glass (C sharp - F sharp)
Creek (C - B flat)

1st perf: Lore Lixenberg (soprano), Dominic Saunders (piano), King's College,London, 23 October 2000

Aspects of London's contemporary demi-monde, as seen through the eyes of a dispassionate observer, form the subject of this first song cycle by distinguished young British composer Morgan Hayes, setting verse by contemporary poet Anne Rouse.

SKU: HL.48182095

UPC: 888680849931. 6.0x8.75x0.177 inches.

“Volume 10, Chants sur l''ensemble des notes étrangère - 10c is part of the 10 volumes of 380 Basses et chants donnés by Henri Challan. This series of pieces for Voice should complete all the harmony treatises and should help singers to gain a clear and projective sound. This volume 10c is titled ?Author?s realisations? and completes the volumes 10a and 10b on inharmonic tones. It includes the exercises 356 to 380 on the subject and is mainly written in C and F keys. The whole series 380 Basses et chants donnés features: 1. Accords de 3 sons 2. Modulations et marches harmoniques 3. Septièmes de dominante 4. Septièmes de différentes espèces 5. Neuvièmes de dominante 6. Ensemble des accords ? alterations 7. Retards et appogiatures 8. Broderies ? notes de passage ? pedals 9. Basses sur l?ensemble des notes étrangères 10. Chants sur l?ensemble des notes étrangères All these volumes feature a minimum of two aspects: a. Textes, b. Éléments réalisateurs and for the volumes 9 and 10, c. Réalisations de l?auteur Henri Challan (1910-1977) is a French composer and professor at the Paris Conservatoire.”.

SKU: FG.55011-861-4

Žibuoklė Martinaitytė Osmosis (2015) is scored for three trumpets and three tenor trombones. The instruments of the 12-minute-work are in osmotic relationships: various degrees of assimilation happen through the subtle variances of rhythmic or melodic contours that often create unified textures where the entire brass ensemble is functioning as one huge organism, breathing in and out simultaneously and playing identical patterns. At times the well functioning homogenous sound machine breaks down and then starts anew with changing harmonic relationships between the instruments.

This product consists of a full score and a set of parts (3 trumpets in Bb & 3 tenor trombones).

The works of New York -based Lithuanian composer ZibuoklÄ— MartinaitytÄ— (b. 1973) have been lauded as breathtaking and profoundly moving. Her stimulating music bristles with energy and tension and revolves often around the subject of beauty, which she calls both a guiding principle and an aesthetic measure for sonic quality.