Flute and Cello SKU: IS.FVC4457EM Composed by August Baeyens. Ensembles -...(+)
Flute and Cello
SKU:
IS.FVC4457EM
Composed
by August Baeyens.
Ensembles - Chamber
Music. Metropolis Music
Publishers #FVC4457EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.FVC4457EM).
ISBN
9790365044573.
Augu
st Louis Baeyens received
his musical training at
the Royal Flemish Music
Conservatory in Antwerp,
studying solfège,
viola, and harmony. As a
composer, Baeyens
developed chiefly through
the study of composers
such as Debussy, Wagner
and Strauss; this
interest gave him the
reputation of a
revolutionary within the
confines of the very
traditionalist
conservatory. However,
this was not where
Baeyens’
exploration of musical
language was to end. The
1956 Piranesi Suite for
flute and cello, written
three decades after
Baeyens’
graduation from the
Flemish Conservatory,
marks an intriguing phase
of his composition.
Baeyens tended towards
older forms - the Suite,
for example, is a
five-movement work,
though each movement is
drawn through a more
modern glass; it’s
hardly usual to hear a
Sinfonia, Toccata, Moto
Perpetuo, Aria, and
Corrente together. The
resemblance towards older
forms breaks down as the
music is further
examined; the Sinfonia is
full of transposed,
repetitive melodies that
play off each other with
sly rhythmic twists (much
in the manner of
Stravinsky), the Toccata
is a powerful solo cello
showpiece, and the Aria
is a delicate flute
melody winding above
bitonal cello pizzicato.
The final Corrente,
belying its name, brings
the piece to a close with
an accelerating
back-and-forth of melody
and accompaniment.
Dream-Images Piano seul [Conducteur] Stainer and Bell
Piano SKU: ST.H438 Composed by Rhian Samuel. Winding Paths; Interlude I; ...(+)
Piano
SKU: ST.H438
Composed by Rhian Samuel.
Winding Paths; Interlude
I; Distant Fountains;
Interlude II; Weeping
Trellises.. Score.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#H438. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.H438).
ISBN
9790220219054.
Rhia
n Samuel is a co-editor
of the Grove
Dictionary of Women
Composers and
herself a composer of
highly acclaimed
instrumental and vocal
works, including
Daughter's
Letters, premiered
in 1996 by Sinfonia 21.
She wrote
Dream-Images in
memory of her teacher,
Andrew Byrne. Two
interludes separate the
three 'images', each of
which is rhapsodic in
mood. The last,
Weeping
Trellises, refers to
the gentle, drooping
blooms of the wisteria
plant, and, emotionally,
to feelings of
inevitability and loss.
Dream-Images was
first performed by Martin
Roscoe at the Machynlleth
Festival in August
1997.
Piano - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14022821 Composed by Carl August Nielsen. Music S...(+)
Piano - Grade 4
SKU:
HL.14022821
Composed
by Carl August Nielsen.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. 20 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH16743. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14022821).
ISBN
9788759854280.
8.25x11.75x0.136 inches.
English.
Carl
Nielsen is doubtlessly
one of Denmark's most
important and popular
composers. This is no
more evident than in his
1916 work for Piano Solo,
Chaconne Op.32, which
followed a seventeen-year
gap in his compositions
for that instrument. It
is a decidedly dynamic
work, in constant motion
from the moment the
simple opening theme
begins through the
crescendo and to the
winding down and end of
this piece. The twenty
variations that form the
core of this piece
themselves have a varied
range, sometimes
comparatively easy,
showing Bach's influence,
other times he uses
highly complex contrasts.
This is a fine example of
Nielsen's work and uses
mood and texture to great
effect making it ideal
for concert or recital
performance whilst the
variations make it a
clever training
manual.