SKU: BT.DHP-1135255-010

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

This piece was composed in 2009 for a commission by Shinjuku Bunka Center to commemorate its thirty years since its opening.It is an impressive work with a brilliant, bright fanfare, and the stately sound of the church organ reverberating through the concert hall. The first performance was given by Hiroko Takahashi, a house organist of the center, with Shinjuku City Wind Orchestra conducted by Shigeto Ishizu. Original works for church organ and wind orchestra are surprisingly scarce. This is a fresh opening piece, to be followed by an organ solo which might lead to a march.

Dit werk is in 2009 gecomponeerd in opdracht van het Shinjuku Bunka Center, ter gelegenheid van het dertigjarig bestaan van dit concert- en cultuurgebouw. Het is een indrukwekkend stuk muziek met een schitterende, stralende fanfare, waarbij de orgelklanken door de concertzaal schallen. De première werd gespeeld door Hiroko Takahashi, huisorganist van het centrum, en het Shinjuku City Wind Orchestra onder leiding van Shigeto Ishizu. Verrassend genoeg zijn er niet veel oorspronkelijke composities voor orgel en blaasorkest geschreven. Gelukkig is dit een mooie aanvulling op het repertoire. Dit levendige openingswerk kan bijvoorbeeld heel goed worden gevolgd door een solowerkvoor orgel, waarna een mars op het programma zou kunnen staan.

Dieses Stück wurde im Auftrag des Shinjuku Bunka Centers komponiert, zu Ehren des 30-jährigen Jubiläum der Eröffnung dieses Kultur- und Konzertzentrums in Tokio. Celebration Fanfare ist ein eindrucksvolles Werk mit einer brillanten, strahlenden Fanfare und einer Kirchenorgel, deren feierlicher Klang durch den Konzertsaal hallt. Bei der Uraufführung spielte Hiroko Takahashi, der Hausorganist des Zentrums, zusammen mit dem Shinjuku City Wind Orchestra unter der Leitung von Shigeto Ishizu. Originalwerke für Kirchenorgel und Blasorchester sind überraschenderweise sehr rar. Dieses Stück eignet sich perfekt als Eröffnungsstück, dem ein Orgelsolo und dann eventuell einMarsch folgen könnte.

Cette pièce a été composée en 2009 la demande du Shinjuku Bunka Center, Tokyo, pour marquer le trentième anniversaire de son ouverture. C’est une œuvre impressionnante combinant une fanfare éclatante et le son majestueux de l’orgue résonnant travers la salle de concert. Elle a été créée par Hiroko Takahashi, l’organiste du Centre, et l’orchestre d’harmonie de Shinjuku City, sous le b ton de Shigeto Ishizu. Les œuvres écrites pour orgue et orchestre d’harmonie sont rares. Fraîche et originale, cette pièce d’ouverture sera suivie d’un solo d’orgue pouvant mener une marche.

SKU: BR.DV-32027

ISBN 9790200425192. 9 x 12 inches.

Bicinia - unaccompanied duos - have been known to us from the fifteenth century onwards. So quite early on it was customary tu practise this type of musical exercise, which later, especially during the Romantic period, achieved great popularity as the duo or duett. Equal numbers of this sort of instrumental duo were composed for nearly all wind and string instruments. On the other hand, only a small amount of compositions for two trumpets have come down to us. In order to play any music which progresses beyond pure fanfare on a natural (valueless) trumpet, it is necessary to make use of the clarion register (the top third of the natural harmonic). And if such a melody is to be accompanied by a second part, only the few natural notes lying below it are left, or else this high register itself, which calls for great virtuosity on the part of the trumpeter. As well as this, we must remember the fact that trumpet-playing was only allowed for the trumpeters of a royal court, army, staff, or for the field-trumpeter of a prince, plus a few council, city, and church musicians, who were bound by strict guild and corporation rules. Thus in spite of the preference for its festive sound, the spread and handing down of trumpet music was almost reduced to nothing under these circumstances. As well as this, pride of place and profession rivalry and envy amongst musicians contributed in large part. In England the situation was somewhat freer. Here pretty little trumpet duos originated, including, amongst others, those written by Handel for his master-trumpeter Valentin Snow and the Royal Sergeant-trumpeters of the Shore family. An especially happy exception was the diocese of Olmiitz. Here there was a capable group of musicians of the chapel royal with the brilliantly talented group of trumpeters and the field-trumpeter Pavel Vajvanovsky, who also composed himself. These trumpeters in the service of his prince-bishop played many sacred and secular pieces, all for several instruments. It was for them also that Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber wrote the 12 double trumpet sonatas we present here. On the other hand, the representatives of the authorities in Germany ensured strict observation of all edicts and regulations. Even the celebrated Bach-trumpeter and towm-piper Gottfried Reiche was never allowed to be portrayed with a proper trumpet due to the priveleges of court and field trumpeters. In order to represent him as one of the greatest masters of his time and art, however, the painter placed an instrument similar to a corno-di-caccia in his hand, together with a sheet with a small piece for virtuoso clarion. When we try in spite of these difficulties and adverse circumstances to gather a collection of musically valuable and characteristic examples of popular pieces for two trumpets from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it is in the first, place in order to acquaint modern trumpeters with something of the wealth of music, which can also be well played on a modern trumpet with valves. The originally used trumpets correspond to modern ones in the keys of C and D, but this does not mean that many of the pieces cannot be transposed to a more comfortable register. On top of this, we have tried to give a picture of the baroque court and field trumpeter, as well as of the mysterious clarion trumpeter, with the help of musically popular material. The origin of most of the pieces used is no longer clearly discernable. In most cases we possess second- or third-hand copies which have been handed down, and show signs of frequent use. A few cases where modernization of the second part obviously did not take place until the invention of stops, have been re-shaped into their supposed original form. A series of further dynamic details were left, and marked as optional suggestions in brackets. Kurt Janetzky

z.T. mit Pauken und B.c.