SKU: HL.49044553

ISBN 9790001197731.

The clarinettist Irith Gabriely was inspired by her love of Barbara Heller's Dialogues (for violin and viola) to arrange these duets for two Bb clarinets. The result is a set of varied concertante dialogues that present clarinettists with a few challenges, requiring stamina, breath control, intense and contrasting dynamics, chromatic passages, whole tone passages, sensitive tone production, leaps across wide intervals, fast playing, disciplined rhythmic control and listening to one another closely. In this edition all tempo indications and dynamic markings are intended for guidance: these duets may equally well be interpreted in other ways. This edition therefore also includes a second section where all the pieces are reproduced without such markings, ready for individual interpretation. The Dialogues lend themselves very well to chamber performances; they are also short enough to serve as brief interludesat readings or exhibitions. Their expressive qualities, brevity and range of musical and technical demands make them highly suitable material for youth music competitions. A flute or oboe might well be played with the clarinet as alternative instrumentation for these duets (ED 22017).

SKU: HL.50511776

ISBN 9790080144855. K/4 quer (31 x 23,5 cm) inches. Hungarian, English. Zsolt Serei.

In view of its arrangement Serenade, written for horn and chamber orchestra of fourteen instruments, may be regarded as a chamber concert. The one-movement piece written on command of horn player Laszlo Rakos is at the same time related to the notturno music of the 18th-19th centuries. It is a character piece in which a subdued, subtle irony makes itself felt alongside the characteristically night-time atmosphere. The solo role of the horn is obvious throughout, though the initial impetus is not sustained, and in the course of the movement the instrument falls silent. The instruments of the accompanying group join in with the horn in three ways: the clarinet, the English horn, the bassoon, the viola, the violoncello play the melodies of the horn, delicately repeating them, supplementing them or slowing them down, the flute, the violin, the trumpet and the double bass counterpoint the horn?s solos or hold dialogues with it, the third group ? the harp, the guitar, the vibraphone, the cimbalom and the piano ? plays soft, veiled, evenly progressing harmonies. In the last section of the piece, when the first and second group of instruments are no longer playing, these veiled sounds hold together, their rhythm gradually breaks up - the sound environment is reduced, progressively emptied. World premi?re: June 2, 1993, Budapest, Laszlo Rakos - horn, Componensemble, cond. Zsolt Serei.

SKU: HL.14028647

8.75x11.75x0.68 inches.

Aulis Sallinen's Barabbas Dialogues was commissioned by Naantali Music Festival.

It received its first performance on 11 June 2004 at Naantali Church
(part of the Naantali Music Festival) with Mari Palo (soprano), Riikka Rantanen, (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Petteri Salomaa (baritone), Juha Kotilainen (bass),
Kalle Holmberg (narrator), Ralf Gothoni (conductor and piano), Mika Vayrynen
(accordion), Elina Vahala (violin) Arto Noras (cello), Petri Alanko (flute), Michel Lethiec
(clarinet) and Ari-Pekka Maenpaa (percussion).