Piano (Piano Solo)

SKU: HL.48025042

Piano. Composed by Iris ter Schiphorst. BH Piano. Classical. Softcover. 20 pages. Duration 900 seconds. Bote & Bock #M202521595. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48025042).

ISBN 9781705154212. UPC: 196288021711.

The work, which the composer counts among her favourite pieces, was inspired by the life and work of Marguerite Duras. In her play of the same name, a Flemish woman goes to Saigon at the beginning of the 20th century, marries a civil servant and has two children.After her husband's death, she also works as a piano player at the local 'Eden Cinema'. Eden Cinema, which is 'to be played like a traditional piano piece from the Romantic period' according to the composer, sounds poetic, but also cool, funny and extremely modern. Motif repetitions and ostinatos play a major role, as they do with Duras. In addition, quotations appear, literal ones from Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata as well as vague echoes of dance rhythms and commonplace music as used in silent film theatres. Thepreparation of the piano strings - metal parts on the high ones, rubber pieces on the low ones - creates a tonal patina and the impression of the past - 'in connection with Duras also recognizable as traumas sedimented in the subconscious, whose indistinct traces obsessively push to the surface' (Eckhard Weber).

Chamber Music Viola 1, Viola 2, Violin 1, Violin 2, Violoncello

SKU: PR.114417330

Composed by Richard Wernick. Premiered by the Juilliard String Quartet, Perelman Theater, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Philadelphia, PA. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed February 19 2015. 27+8+8+8+8 pages. Duration 19 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41733. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114417330).

UPC: 680160631841.

String Quartet No. 9 is the fourth that Wernick has written for the Juilliard Quartet. A commission by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Wernick's ninth string quartet was premiered by the Juilliard in November, 2015 and subsequently taken on tour. The first movement's affect (marked 'Assertive, Aggressive') [compares] to Rockport's forbidding coastline in the eyes of the first. settlers. This was an apt analogy since the work's musical language is, in today's vernacular, 'gnarly.' [The second movement]...a 'never-ending throb of repeated notes'...the effect of steadily diminishing life-force, though with a 'final burst of hope from the solo cello.' Again, the composer made intriguing use of many of the different ways stringed instruments can produce sound. Geoffrey Wieting, The Boston Musical Intelligencer.

SKU: BR.BV-418

Complete Letters in 35 Volumes and Supplements. Composed by Richard Wagner. Edited by Andreas Mielke. Linen. Buchverlag Breitkopf & Hartel (Music Books). Romantic period. Complete Works. 736 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #BV 418. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.BV-418).

ISBN 9783765104183. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. German.

Letters to Cosima and Ludwig Cosima von Bulow and King Ludwig II of Bavaria are clearly the main persons in Richard Wagner's correspondence of the year 1866. Wagner sent more than 100 letters and telegrams to the young Cosima, who was (still) not able to share her life with him and who was for him an important link to the royal court in Munich during this period. Of course, Wagner also wrote directly to the young monarch and passionate art lover Ludwig, addressing him long letters in order to obtain his favor. Compositionally, Wagner was working on the completion of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in 1866. In April, he settled in Tribschen near Lucerne, where he lived for a few years. This marked a temporary end to his previous restlessness. Bolstering the high source value of this comprehensively annotated volume is the fact that 34 letters from this eventful year are published here for the first time; a further 15 can be read in German in their entirety, also for the first time.

Choir Secular (Men's Choir)

SKU: AP.46332

Composed by Stephen Foster. Arranged by Mark Hayes. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Alfred Choral Designs. Secular. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Alfred Music #00-46332. Published by Alfred Music (AP.46332).

UPC: 038081527116. English.

Stephen Foster wrote this song in 1860 when steamboats were an essential part of American commerce and culture. Robust TTB harmony and hardy dynamics tell a story of work, love, and life along the river.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

Solo Voice with optional Duet Piano Accompaniment; Vocal Duet; Vocal Solo (Music For Voice)

SKU: HL.364389

Composed by Richard A. Nichols. Fred Bock Publications. Communion, Easter, General Worship, Lent, Sacred. Softcover. 6 pages. Fred Bock Music Company #BGV1012. Published by Fred Bock Music Company (HL.364389).

UPC: 840126958829. 9.0x12.0x0.072 inches.

Chris Anderson crafts a powerful lyric, full of thought-provoking imagery on the humanity of Christ's earthly life. His prose is matched with Richard Nichols' original tune which fluctuates between minor and major tonalities to reflect the mixed emotion of the text.