SKU: HL.48025043

UPC: 196288021728.

Ignace Strasfogel (1909 - 1994), a master student of Franz Schreker and Leonid Kreutzer, the youngest student at the Berlin Hochschule and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Mendelssohn Prize of the Weimar Republic, made a career as a conductor at the Metropolitan Opera after his emigration in 1934. His String Quartet No. 1, probably written in 1927 as the final work of his studies with Schreker, is an early work of the highest perfection. In the first of the two movements, grotesque-capricious scenariosare revitalized by contrapuntal artistry. The second, non less polypohnic, is a widely branched scherzo with an elegiac trio section. Just as striking is the harmony: With individually shaping of all four parts, all facets up to polytonality and complete detachment from functional tonality are explored - in a certain affinity with the musical language of Alban Berg, not without tongue-in-cheek references to the neoclassicism of the 1920s. A just as original as important contribution to the quartet repertoireof the early twentieth century.

SKU: BA.BVK01459

ISBN 9783761814598. 21 x 15 cm inches. Preface: Annette Landgraf.

Das Händel-Jahrbuch 2019 veröffentlicht die Beiträge namhafter Forscherinnen und Forscher der Internationalen Wissenschaftlichen Konferenz 2018 in Halle (Saale). Präsentiert werden neue Forschungsergebnisse zum Thema „Musikalische Migrationsbewegungen – Musik und Musiker aus der Fremde 1650–1750“. Das Händel-Jahrbuch 2019 wird bereichert durch den Festvortrag von Thomas Seedorf zu „Händel, der vertraute Fremde“ (Händel-Festspiele 2018).

SKU: GI.G-8836

UPC: 785147883630. English.

Sing for Peace is Marty Haugen’s first collection of liturgical music (apart from mass settings and The Lyric Psalter) in seven years. Sing for Peace is a wide-ranging and eclectic collection, including two settings of texts by Adam M. L. Tice, a setting of a text by Shirley Erena Murray, and a number of original texts and Scripture adaptations. Like much of Marty’s previous music the texts largely focus on Christian peace-making and issues of social justice, including hunger, immigration, and earth-keeping. There is music for baptism, for intercessory prayer, choral music and two children’s choir pieces. The styles range from classical to gospel to pop, with singers of all ages involved.   Contents: I Will Rise, Down in the River to Pray/Baptized into the Death of Christ, For Every Child, Sing with All the Children of Earth, The Steadfast Love of the Lord, Look and See the Face of Christ, An Open Hand, a Willing Heart, Bring Peace, Live Jesus, The Reign of God Is at Hand, Sing for Peace, Bread for the World, I Am a Child of This Planet, Rejoice in God! Again, Rejoice!

SKU: HL.49007862

ISBN 9783795702823. 7.0x9.5x0.509 inches. German.

In der Musikgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts nimmt Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) eine sonderbare Stellung ein: Als Wunderkind in die musikalische Moderne hineingewachsen, von der Entwicklung der Neuen Musik eingeholt, wurde er schliesslich von den politischen Ereignissen samt ihren asthetischen Folgen uberrollt. Der in den 20er Jahren geradezu enthusiastisch gefeierte Komponist (Die tote Stadt), dem in der Emigration in Hollywood eine zweite, unfreiwillige Karriere gelang, musste gegen Ende seines Lebens enttauscht zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass er vergessen war.In dieser Arbeit wird das Phanomen Korngold, dessen Werk auf eigenartige Weise die Expressivitat der Wiener Moderne und die Unbeschwertheit der Wiener Operette miteinander verschrankt, unter den Aspekten der psychologisch prekaren Situation des Wunderkindes im Elternhaus betrachtet, des anschliessenden Welterfolgs der Toten Stadt, seiner Arbeit als Filmkomponist und schliesslich seines Spatwerks, das mit analytischen Betrachtungen gewurdigt wird.

SKU: GI.G-CD-906

Sing for Peace is Marty Haugen’s first collection of liturgical music (apart from mass settings and The Lyric Psalter) in seven years. Sing for Peace is a wide-ranging and eclectic collection, including two settings of texts by Adam M. L. Tice, a setting of a text by Shirley Erena Murray, and a number of original texts and Scripture adaptations. Like much of Marty’s previous music the texts largely focus on Christian peace-making and issues of social justice, including hunger, immigration, and earth-keeping. There is music for baptism, for intercessory prayer, choral music and two children’s choir pieces. The styles range from classical to gospel to pop, with singers of all ages involved.

SKU: HL.4004964

UPC: 888680653552. 9.0x12.0x0.051 inches.

Brendan Graham's tender song tells the emotional story of Ireland's Annie Moore, the first person to step ashore when Ellis Island opened as an immigration center in 1892. With emotions ranging from hope to fear, joy to despair, this deeply moving ballad has been recorded notably by Sean & Dolores Keane, The Irish Tenors, Celtic Thunder, and Celtic Woman. Here is a beautiful setting adapted for the concert stage. Dur: 3:40.

SKU: OU.9780193564503

ISBN 9780193564503. 12 x 8 inches.

For up to four musicians with (optional) assistant and pre-recorded tape(s). Recent Britain confronts several of the preoccupations of the media in Britain in the late 1990s: immigration, paedophilia and the death of Princess Diana among them. Each performer is required to read excerpts from newspapers of the time, often cut down to a few evocative words and layered in a way that suggests a musical scrapbook of an era and creates and intriguing performance.