SKU: HL.14013358
ISBN 9788759861318.
Emmerich Kalman's O, Kom, O Kom Zigan from the Opera Grevinde Mariza.
SKU: HL.14026202
9.0x11.75x0.033 inches.
The composer, conductor, and pianist Andre Previn (b. 1929) is originally of Russian Jewish origin. He left his native Germany in 1938 to live in Paris and subsequently settled in Los Angeles in 1940. His early career of orchestrating film scores at MGM led quickly to conducting engagements of symphonic repertoire, and onto an international career as Music Director of orchestras such as London, Los Angeles, Oslo and Pittsburgh. In the 1980s, he concentrated increasingly on compositions for the concert hall and opera. His own richly lyrical style underscores his love of the late Romantic and early 20th-century masterpieces of which his interpretations as conductor areinternationally renowned.
The composer, conductor, and pianist Andre Previn (b. 1929) is originally of Russian Jewish origin. He left his native Germany in 1938 to live in Paris and subsequently settled in Los Angeles in 1940. His early careerof orchestrating film scores at MGM led quickly to conducting engagements of symphonic repertoire, and onto an international career as Music Director of orchestras such as London, Los Angeles, Oslo and Pittsburgh. In the 1980s, heconcentrated increasingly on compositions for the concert hall and opera. His own richly lyrical style underscores his love of the late Romantic and early 20th-century masterpieces of which his interpretations as conductor areinternationally renowned.
SKU: LM.28819
ISBN 9790230988193.
L'Ecole - Homonymes - Le vent de Mars - La porte fermee - La cuisine - Il importe peu - Marie et moi - Quand le marin revint de guerre - La rose et le marin - Pour dessiner un bonhomme - L'ombrelle - Le manteau - Rire - Les petits souliers - Il neige toujours - J'ai reve d'une cage - L'heure du crime.
SKU: HL.14026198
UPC: 884088492144. 8.25x11.75x0.191 inches.
Work for Violin and Piano commissioned by Young Uck Kim.
SKU: HL.14024999
SKU: HL.14026205
ISBN 9780711939233. UPC: 884088433833. 9.0x12.0x0.199 inches.
Work written for Yo-Yo Ma. First performed by the celebrated cellist and the composer in 1993.
SKU: PR.11641737S
ISBN 9781491136133. UPC: 680160688432.
Son et lumière (“sound and light,†a kind of show staged for tourists at historic sites or famous buildings) is an orchestral entertainment whose subject is the play of colors, bright surfaces, and shimmery textures. I have tried in this music to recapture the élan and immediacy that regular meters and repetitive rhythms make possible—something forbidden during the modernist regime but recently restored in the post-modern work of composers like John Adams, Steve Reich, and others. Throughout its brief nine-minute span, then, the piece is built almost exclusively of short, busy ostinato figures—my attempt, I suppose, to achieve the rhythmic vitality of minimalism, but without giving in to the over-simple harmonic language that usually comes with it.Surprisingly, the musical materials seemed determined to shape themselves into an approximation of nineteenth-century sonata form. We hear an introduction, a first theme (based on triadic broken chords), a second theme (beginning with the flute solo), and a closing theme (led by two piccolos). In a sort of development section, these materials are recombined in new ways; in a recapitulation, both the first and second themes are recalled more or less intact (part of the second is actually repeated quite literally).Then, in the coda, a second surprise: as if another, different music has been lurking all the while behind the shiny surface, the strings now unexpectedly split off from the rest of the orchestra to assert a new, more passionate, more “serious†voice, transcending the external show of sound and light.Son et lumière, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, was composed between June and December 1988 in Ithaca (N.Y.), in Los Angeles, and at the artists’ colony Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs (N.Y.). David Zinman conducted the first performance in Baltimore on 18 May 1989; André Previn gave the West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 18 January, 1990.Son et lumière (“sound and light,†a kind of show staged for tourists at historic sites or famous buildings) is an orchestral entertainment whose subject is the play of colors, bright surfaces, and shimmery textures. I have tried in this music to recapture the élan and immediacy that regular meters and repetitive rhythms make possible—something forbidden during the modernist regime but recently restored in the post-modern work of composers like John Adams, Steve Reich, and others. Throughout its brief nine-minute span, then, the piece is built almost exclusively of short, busy ostinato figures—my attempt, I suppose, to achieve the rhythmic vitality of minimalism, but without giving in to the over-simple harmonic language that usually comes with it.Surprisingly, the musical materials seemed determined to shape themselves into an approximation of nineteenth-century sonata form. We hear an introduction, a first theme (based on triadic broken chords), a second theme (beginning with the flute solo), and a closing theme (led by two piccolos). In a sort of development section, these materials are recombined in new ways; in a recapitulation, both the first and second themes are recalled more or less intact (part of the second is actually repeated quite literally).Then, in the coda, a second surprise: as if another, different music has been lurking all the while behind the shiny surface, the strings now unexpectedly split off from the rest of the orchestra to assert a new, more passionate, more “serious†voice, transcending the external show of sound and light.Son et lumière, commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, was composed between June and December 1988 in Ithaca (N.Y.), in Los Angeles, and at the artists’ colony Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs (N.Y.). David Zinman conducted the first performance in Baltimore on 18 May 1989; André Previn gave the West Coast premiere with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 18 January, 1990.
SKU: HL.48016758
UPC: 073999488210. 8.5x11.0x0.08 inches.
Contents: Fancy Passing (Previn) * Passing Fancy (Previn) * Scherzino Op. 85, No. 4 (Raff) * Humoresque (Proctor).
SKU: HL.49020899
ISBN 9783254002150. German.
In den sechziger Jahren gab es in ganz Europ fur viele Kunstler der klassischen Musik nur eine Adresse fur Schallplatteneinspielungen: EMI/His Master's Voice an der Abbey Road in London. Und der Grund fur eine Reise in die Hauptstadt des Inselreichs waren zwei Manner in den Studios. Der legendare Walter Legge und sein Assistent, der aus Indien emigrierte Suvi Raj Grubb, der von 1963 an die Produktion der Schallplattenaufnahmen uberwachte und damit massgeblich zum Erfolg der Kunstler und des Labels beitrug.In seinen Erinnerungen lasst Grubb die Blutezeit der Schallplatte noch einmal Revue passieren und den Leser gleichsam als Insider teilnehmen an diesen Aufnahmen, lasst ihn all den beruhmten Kunstlern uber die Schulter blicken und sie bei ihrer Arbeit beobachten. Grubb erzahlt spannend und halt auch dort nicht zuruck, wo es problematische Aspekte zu thematisieren gilt: beispielsweise den oft sehr schwierigen Umgang mit eigenwilligen Kunstlerindividualitaten. Entstanden ist eine Reihe liebenswerter, informativer und im Detail durchaus auch kritischer Kunstlerportraits: ein Muss fur alle Liebhaber und Kenner klassischer Schallplatten.
SKU: HL.14073914
SKU: HL.49006104
ISBN 9790001066273.
SKU: HL.49006107
ISBN 9790001066303.
SKU: BT.DHP-1084444-140
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Der letzte Traum der alten Eiche schrieb der dänische Schriftsteller und Dichter Hans Christian Andersen, dessen zeitlose Märchen in über achtzig Sprachen übersetzt wurden und schon zahllose Künstler aller Sparten inspirierten. So auch Maxime Aulio, dessen kunstvolle Art, verschiedene Klangfarben und Stimmungen miteinander zu verknüpfen, die Fantasie von Musikern und Zuhörern anregt. L’écrivain et poète danois Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) est entré dans l’histoire de la littérature mondiale gr ce ses innombrables contes. Le fantastique et le merveilleux y jouent un rôle primordial mais l'humour et la portée philosophique qui s'en dégage les font parfois ressembler des satires plus qu' des contes pour enfants. Doté d'une imagination extraordinaire, Andersen allie l'ironie et le rêve en un subtil mélange. Traduits en plus de quatre-vingts langues, ses contes n’ont pas de temporalité et continuent d’inspirer les écrivains, réalisateurs, chorégraphes, sculpteurs, peintres et compositeurs.The Last Dream of the Old Oak (Le dernier rêve du chêne) deMaxime Aulio s’inspire du conte éponyme d’Andersen. La musique descriptive nous raconte l’histoire d’un chêne antique et séculaire. « Il avait justement atteint trois cent soixante-cinq ans (…). Souvent, par les beaux jours d'été, il discutait avec les éphémères qui venaient s'ébattre et tourbillonner gaiement autour de sa couronne. (…) Le temps approchait où il allait se reposer (…). Le chêne (…) s'endormit pour tout le long hiver ; et il eut bien des rêves, où sa vie passée lui revint en souvenir. (…) Et, tout coup, le chêne éprouva comme si un nouveau et puissant courant de vie partant des extrémités de ses racines le traversait de part en part, montant jusqu' sa cime, jusqu'au bout de ses plus hautes feuilles. (…) Soudainement, ses racines se détachèrent de terre. (…) Ce fut la fin du rêve du vieux chêne. Une tempête terrible soufflait sur mer et sur terre. (…) Il tomba, au moment où il rêvait qu'il s'élançait vers l'immensité des cieux. (…) »Les couleurs et les atmosphères créées par Maxime Aulio laissent l'imagination toute la liberté de ses rêveries.The Last Dream of the Old Oak est une commande de la Communauté de Communes de Vinay en Isère (France) pour l’inauguration de son Musée de la Noix. L’œuvre fut donnée en création sous le titre éphémère du Dernier rêve du noyer, mais l’histoire racontée était bien celle.
SKU: HL.49006110
ISBN 9790001066334.
SKU: HL.14074369
SKU: HL.49006096
ISBN 9790001066181.
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