SKU: AP.36-M257891
ISBN 9781633618039. UPC: 660355074011. English.
Composed with the intent to make a name for himself as both a composer and pianist, it is no surprise that Prokofiev's first four opuses are impressive, technical piano works. Movement Titles: I. Remembrance II. Soaring III. In despair IV. Devilish inspiration.
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SKU: AP.12-0571539092
ISBN 9780571539093. English.
These mature and well-crafted pieces for an ensemble of ten players showcase Tom Coult's ear for beguiling, burnished sonorities and his ability to harness the most complex of technical devices to rich emotional ends. Whilst his musical schemas are often audacious and innovative, the security and light touch with which Coult carries them out ensures that his Four Perpetual MotionsM are always as expressive as they are impressive. Coult was one of the winners of the 2012 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and was consequently commissioned to write this 13-minute work for the Philharmonia's Music of Today Series.
SKU: LM.25360
ISBN 9790230953603.
ARROS (d') : Le Voilier - Le Phare - BAUDOUIN : Divertissement - Compere qu'as-tu vu (adaptation) - Valse lente - BAUMANN : Rouge vif - BERNAUD : Hexacorda - BILLET Jean-Pierre : Lima-Hong - Trois petits lapins dans la lune - BOISGARD : L'Ami harmonique - BRUN : Dans les couleurs de l'Arc-en-ciel - Dans le bleu du ciel - Dans la nuit etoilee - CASTAIN : Paresse valse - CASTEREDE : Simple valse - En ecoutant tomber la pluie - COUASNON : Chanson retro - Pour faire sonner la guitare - COURTIN : Histoire ancienne - CROUSIER : Le Pinson et le loup - La Marche des pingouins - DAMASE : Chanson - DEMILLAC Y : Promenade - Jeux - DEMILLAC F.P. : La Plaintive - DUMOND : 13 syllabes, 3 mots, 4 phrases et 1 impro - FABIANI : Le Cheval de bois - Histoire a ecouter - FOURCHOTTE : Cancion primera para ninos - FRANCE : Au-dela de l'ile - Glissades - Dabo-Abac - FRANCERIES : Tristesse - GRIVEL : Deux histoires courtes - HUBERT : Deux petites pieces pour une guitare presque neuve - KLEYNJANS : Le Petit Soldat de plomb - LAJARRIGE : Impression - LANCEN : Aux debutants (piece n. 1) - Aux debutants (piece n. 2) - LARC'HANTEC : La Valse du kangourou - Barcarolle - LARGE : Blues mineur - MALDONADO : Laetitia - Indiana - MARCHAL : Ballade d'octobre - MORANCON : Deux petites arabesques - NARVAEZ : Petit poisson - Berceuse de la mere qui a perdu son enfant - PIRIS : La Chanson paresseuse - RENAULT : M'en allant promener - Le Vieux Manoir - Petite valse - VITIELLO : Danse primitive.
SKU: PR.114408750
UPC: 680160013289. 8.5 x 11 inches.
This work was commissioned by the Friends of the Phoenix Public Library for the dedication of the new Music Room and made possible in part through the funds from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and Meet the Composer-Arizona. Diary of a Journey was composed between July and September 1995 for the group Arpeggio. During the early summer of 1995, my wife and I took a vacation to Prague and Budapest. It was the first trip for both of us to these former Iron Curtain capitals. The train ride through the beautiful country-side, the dilapidated small villages and towns, the magnificent architecture and the feeling of grandeur in the two major cities left an indelible impression on me. I longed to write some kind of an essay about it. Diary of a Journey is the result of some of these thoughts, which were sketched (musically) as we visited each place. There are four 'snapshots' or movements which do not portray a specific scene, but rather try to capture the impressions I gathered from the people we observed and met, and the many awe-inspiring experiences we had. Throughout the journey, I felt that people were clinging to a tenacious hope for a better future, no matter how long it will take to realize it. In the first movement each player portrays a struggle against all odds, and with great energy and even wit tries to overcome the obstacles, ending on one serene high note as a resting point after all the conflict. The second 'snapshot' tries to capture the deep faith of a newly regained religiosity. It is chant-like, and uses as its basic melodic material a famous Czech hymn, penned by the great religious reformer John Huss. This movement is played very freely, without bar-lines and with the hymn shining through the fervent chanting. The third movement is a kind of 'demonic' scherzo. Fast and furious, the three instruments vie with one another in a true perpetual motion frenzy, which is at times relieved by short, more pastoral melodic fragments. A rather wild ending should leave everyone breathless. Finally, in the fourth 'snapshot' the instruments play a bit more as a team, meaning that is that there is more melody with accompaniment, and more imitative music giving the impression of a group effort. The energy is still at a high level but long lyrical lines abound, accompanied and interrupted at times by undulating fast notes still depicting the struggle against the blight which any visitor notices all around these countries, yet also showing the determination of the people to conquer adversity. --Samuel Adler.
SKU: PR.11540222L
UPC: 680160633234. 11 x 14 inches.
Ewazen seemingly takes inspiration from an endless array of sights, environments, and events. It would be impossible for him to be exposed to the wonder of Angkor Wat and to not distill his impressions into music. In fact, he created four distinct impressions for wind ensemble. Performance notes are included, which help to describe the settings and the thoughts behind them.
SKU: PR.11540223F
UPC: 680160633265. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: PR.11540223L
UPC: 680160633289. 11 x 14 inches.
SKU: PR.11540221F
UPC: 680160633166. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: PR.11540221L
UPC: 680160633180. 11 x 14 inches.
SKU: PR.11540224L
UPC: 680160633333. 11 x 14 inches.
SKU: PR.11540224F
UPC: 680160633319. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: FJ.FJH2354
ISBN 9781619283381. UPC: 241444427964. English.
We all have moments in time that influence us. The pieces in this artistic collection range from light-hearted, imaginative impressions such as Sparkling Fountain, Night Pursuit, and At Break of Day to more introspective impressions such as Rain on the Window, Chanson d'espoir, and Chanson de paix. From two to four pages in length in various keys, each piece is beautiful and inspirational.
SKU: PR.11540222F
UPC: 680160633210. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-8164
ISBN 9790004180075. 9 x 12 inches.
Rome, 1839/40. Fanny Hensel finally fulfills her longing for Italy, and in her four rooms, well furnished, she writes a number of little piano pieces at an old, light-weight, played-out tin can of a piano. Fast forward to 1999: Christian Lambour presents four of these impressions, all within a medium range of difficulty, in a first edition as Roman Piano Pieces.
SKU: BA.BA06861
ISBN 9790260104211. 34.3 x 27 cm inches.
LeoÅ¡ Janácek’s symphonic fragment Dunaj (The Danube) dates from the period of the composition of “Katya Kabanovaâ€. The composer was not concerned with a musical-picturesque description of a river landscape, but with the mythical link between women’s destinies and water.“Pale green waves of the Danube! There are so many of you, and one followed by another. You remain interlocked in a continuous flow. You surprise yourselves where you ended up – on the Czech shores! Look back downstream and you will have an impression of what you have left behind in your haste. It pleases you here. Here I will rest with my symphony.†Thus LeoÅ¡ Janácek described the idea behind the composition project which occupied him in 1923/24. However, after further work, it remained incomplete in 1926. His “symphony†entitled Dunaj has survived as a continuously-notated, four-movement bundle of sketches in score form. It is one of the works which occupied him until his death. The scholarly reconstruction by the two Brno composers MiloÅ¡ Å tedron and LeoÅ¡ Faltus closely follows the original manuscript.A whole conglomeration of motifs stands behind the incomplete work. What at first seems like a counterpart to Smetana’s Vltava, in fact doesn’t turn out to be a musical depiction of the Danube. On the contrary, the fateful link between the destiny of women, water and death permeates the range of motifs found in the work. It seems to be no coincidence that Janácek, whilst working on the opera Katya Kabanova, in which the Volga, as the river bringing death plays an almost mythical role, planned a Danube symphony, and that its content was linked with the destiny of women: in the sketches, two poems were found which may have provided the stimulus for several movements of the symphony. He copied a poem by Pavla Kriciková into the second movement, in which a girl remarks that whilst bathing in a pond, she was observed by a man. Filled with shame, the young naked woman jumps into the water and drowns. The outer movements likewise draw on the poem “Lola†by the Czech writer Sonja Å pálová, published under the pseudonym Alexander Insarov. This is about a prostitute who asks for her heart’s desire: she is given a palace, but then goes on a long search for it and is finally no longer wanted by anyone. She suffers, feels cold and just wants a warm fire. Janácek adds his remark “she jumps into the Danube†to the inconclusive ending.To these tangible literary models is added Adolf Veselý’s verbal account which reports that the composer wanted to portray “in the Danube, the female sex with all its passions and driving forcesâ€. The third movement is said to characterise the city of Vienna in the form of a woman.It is evident that in his composition, Janácek was not striving for a simple, natural lyricism. The River Danube is masculine in the Slavic language – “ten Dunaj†– and assumes an almost mythical significance in the national character, indeed often also a role bringing death. The four movements are motivically conceived. Elements of sound painting, small wave-like figures in the first movement, motoric, driving movements in the third are obvious evocations of water. And the content and the literary level are easy to discover. The “tremolo of the four timpaniâ€, which was amongst Janácek’s first inspirations, appears in the second movement. It is not difficult to retrace in it the fate of the drowning bather. The oboe enters lamentoso towards the end of the movement over timpani playing tremolo, its descending figure is taken over by the flute, then upper strings and intensified considerably. The motif of drowning – Lola’s despair – returns again in the fourth movement in the clarinet, before the work ends abruptly and dramatically.One special effect is the use of a soprano voice in the motor-driven third movement. The singer vocalises mainly in parallel with the solo oboe, but also in dialogue with other parts such as the viola d’amore, which Janácek used in several late works as a sort of “voice of loveâ€.
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