SKU: PR.144405300

UPC: 680160584789. 9.5 x 13 inches.

Featured on the Bridge Records CD Music of David Felder, as recorded by the Arditti String Quartet. Felder's Third Face was given its first performance by the Arditti, at the 1988 Buffalo new music festival. I was struck by it then; after further hearings of it I admire it even more. It is lucid, but with a controlled wildness in its making. Written for virtuosi, it challenges them by presenting its fierce, fertile ideas with almost reckless rhythmic and dynamic exuberance. (Andrew Porter, The New Yorker) For advanced performers. Duration: 11'.

SKU: FG.55011-875-1

Lotta Wennäkoski's Pige (2021-2022) for string quartet was commissioned to be paired with the Death and the Maiden quartet by Franz Schubert (pige is Danish for girl). The composer tells:

The first movement Vorüber, ach, vorüber! is based on the first half of Schubert’s lied lying behind his The Death and the Maiden quartet. The maiden’s song in the beginning of the lied has not found its way to his string quartet, so I wanted to use this material in mine. The second move-ment Daktylus borrows its idea from the haunting pulse of Schubert’s chant of Death. Something fierce and something soundless can be heard here - along with other variants on the dactyl rhythm. For example, I’ve written a lyrically flowing melody based on the same rhythmic pattern (long-short-short).

Schubert’s quartet is wonderful music and of course a cornerstone of the repertoire, and the death and the maiden is a strong, tempting and gloomy motif in art history. On the other hand, I just couldn’t help seeing the motif also as a - somewhat passé - image of an old male desiring the ulti-mately young female body. The third movement thus turns its gaze to the girl herself. Pigen og scrapbogen, The Girl and the Scrapbook, is joyful textural music - compiled of fragments and freely handled quotations that might spring to mind when thinking of a vital girl’s life.


This product includes the full score and the set of parts.

Movements:
1. Vorüber, ach, vorüber!
2. Daktylus
3. Pigen og scrapbogen (das Mädchen und das Scrapbuch)

The first movement can also be performed separately as a prologue to The Death and the Maiden string quartet by Franz Schubert.

SKU: BT.GOB-001196-010

9x12 inches. English-Dutch.

The Quest for Victory sets to music the adventures of a superhero who is locked in an eternal struggle against the forces of evil. The piece begins with the statement of the superhero’s theme. We then hear such emotions as jealousy, resentment and hatred, and witness a fierce battle but again and again—and with a happy ending—the majestic hero’s theme sounds. As colourful and exciting as a comic book movie!

The Quest for Victory van Wilco Moerman is zo kleurrijk en spannend als een stripboek! Het verklankt de belevenissen van een superheld in zijn eeuwige strijd tegen het kwaad. …maar met een happy end!

The Quest for Victory vertont die Erlebnisse eines Superhelden, der im ewigen Kampf gegen das Böse von einem Sieg zum nächsten strebt. Das Werk beginnt mit der Vorstellung seines Themas. Es wurden Gefühle wie Neid, Groll und Hass seitens des Bösewichts vertont, ein heftiger Kampf ist zu hören, aber immer wieder - und natürlich zum guten Schluss - erklingt das majestätische Heldenthema unseres Superhelden. So bunt und spannend wie ein Comicfilm!

The Quest for Victory (La quête de la victoire) met en musique les aventures d‘un super-héros qui se bat avec frénésie contre le mal. L’oeuvre commence par l’exposition du thème, où s’enchevètre différents motifs liés au sentiments tels que l’envie, le ressentiment, la haine du méchant… une bataille féroce se fait entendre. Mais le bien triomphe du mal, notre super-héros sort vainqueur alors que retentissent les sons majestueux de la victoire. Une oeuvre colorée et passionnante comme toute bande dessinée !

The Quest for Victory traduce in musica le gesta di un supereroe nella sua lotta perenne contro il male. Il brano inizia con la presentazione del tema: sentimenti come l’odio e l’invidia vengono esposti attraverso una feroce battaglia. Il maestoso tema che descrive il supereroe è proposto a più riprese e fino al finale.

SKU: WD.080689183331

UPC: 080689183331.

SKU: WD.080689691140

UPC: 080689691140.

SKU: FJ.ST6475S

English.

Hear the call of ancient ancestors in this exciting tribute to legend and legacy. Bold, heroic themes of fierce warriors and noble rulers rise through subtle pentatonic harmonies that suggest mighty Chinese dynasties. Adventurous melodies in a driving 6/8 are passed to every section with a few easy accidentals. A great teaching piece to focus on slurred string crossings while staying in first position.

About FJH String Orchestra

More emphasis on bow technique and independence of lines. For the accomplished middle, high school, college, or professional group. Grade 3 and up

SKU: CF.SAS8F

ISBN 9781491160886. UPC: 680160919482.

This action-packed piece for advanced string orchestra imagines a scene straight out of a dystopian novel. Under the midnight moon, two opposing forces enter a dilapidated city searching for supplies. An eerie melody embodies the mysterious glow of the moon as both forces scurry and sneak around crumbling overgrown buildings. Eventually a confrontation occurs and the highly rhythmic music underscores a fierce battle. Ever-changing meter and shifting tonality build tension, punctuated with staccato attacks and explosive dynamic changes. What could become of the two forces? Who will come out on top? Its all left up to the imagination of the listener as the piece comes to a thrilling conclusion.

SKU: HL.1061767

UPC: 196288092834. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.

Here is a piece with a fierce piano accompaniment that will bring excitement and variety to your concert programming. “Sign Me Up” is a concert Gospel choral adaptation that quotes the familiar spiritual, “Roll, Jordan, Roll.” Through the percussive effects in the lyrics and including elements of classical and gospel styles, your high school, college, community, or professional singers, will enjoy learning and performing this work.

SKU: BR.OB-4738-30

Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Les Preludes, written in 1854, follows the eponymous text from Alphonse de Lamartine's collection of poems Meditations poetiques.

ISBN 9790004319963. 10 x 12.5 inches.

What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?Franz Liszts symphonic poem Les Preludes, written in 1854, follows the eponymous text from Alphonse de Lamartines collection of poems Meditations poetiques. It describes the fate of a man torn between the joys of love, a rustic idyll and a fierce struggle the latter serving to frame the work in the hymn-like Andante maestoso sections. Lamartines poem is printed in three languages in the present score.

Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Les Preludes, written in 1854, follows the eponymous text from Alphonse de Lamartine's collection of poems Meditations poetiques.

SKU: BT.DHP-0900226-120

This major concert work cosists o five movements.1st movement: La Laguna del ShimbeSituated high up in the Andes mountains in Northern Peru are the Huaringas, a group of lagoons in isolated and mysterious surroundings. The water has healing powersand for centuries traditional healers have settled there in small villages. From far the sick come to the Huaringas to be treated in nightly rituals, in which the hallucinating juice of the San Pedro cactus gives the prophet a look inside hispatient. The biggest lagoon is the “Laguna del Shimbe”, one of the countless wells of the immense Amazon stream.2nd movement: Los AguarunasFurther downstream in Northern Peru we come across the rain tribe of Los Aguarunas. It’s a proud, beautiful andindependent race, which has never succumbed to domination, not even from the Incas. They live from everything the forest has to offer: fish, fruit, plants, ... . They also grow some crops and live as semi-nomads. They take their fate into their ownhands and after having made contact with modern civilisation, they have integrated new elements into their lives without betraying their own ways.3rd movement: MekaronMekaron is an Indian word meaning “picture”, “soul”, “essence”. The Indians are theorigina inhabitants of the Amazon region. They either live in one place as a group or move around a large region. They all have their own political system, their own language and an intense social life. At the same time they are master of music andmedicine. “Everywhere the white man goes, he leaves a wilderness behind him”, wrote the North American Indian leader Seatl in 1885. As a result of these contacts with the whites, the disruption of most Indian societies began. (In this century alone,80 tribes have vanished completely).4th movement: KêêtuajêThis is the name of the initiating ceremony of the Krahô tribe in the Brazilian state of Goias, in which young boys and girls enter adult life. They are cleansed with water, painted with redpaint and covered with feathers, after which the ritual dance holds the entire tribe spell-bound.5th movement: Paulino FaiakanIn 1988 the Indian chiefs Faiakan and Raoni Kaiapo came to Europe to protest against the building of the Altamira dam inBrazil. As a result of the dam the Indians would be driven from their traditional land and enormous artificial would be created. The project was supported financially by, amongst others, the European Community. In February 1989 the Indian tribesaround Altamira held a protest march for the first time in their history together. Amongst other things they paid tribute tot Chico Mendez, who, murdered in 1988, was the leader of the rubber syndicate and a fierce opponent of the destruction of theBrazilian rain forest. Brazilian and world opinion was awakened. The building of the dam was -albeit temporarily - stopped.