Clarinet and Twin Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027974

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Part. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00083. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027974).

English.

The B flat Solo Clarinet Part for Danish composer, Poul Ruders' fabulous concerto. Written between 1984 and 1985, this mysterious, majestic and expressive work for Clarinet and Twin Orchestra is quite a challenge but certainly an impressive and rewarding one! The full score is also available(KP00077).

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028044

For Large Orchestra. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 234 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00693. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028044).

ISBN 9788759850640. 12.0x16.5x0.605 inches. Danish.

The full score of Ruders' Solar Triology for large orchestra.

Violin and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028022

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. 80 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30180. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028022).

ISBN 9788759861615. 12.0x16.5x0.52 inches.

Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a 'reverse' cousin of Polydrama the cello concerto. The former starts out extremely slow and speeds up gradually and the latter progresses in exactly the opposite way, but whereas the cello concerto is composed as one, uninterrupted stretch, the violin concerto is formally completely different: there are 4 movements, each of them combined via a 'ritornello', a solo-cadenza which appears 4 times (the works conclude with a solo) in almost the shape, i.e. the length varies from time to time.

Guitar and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028042

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 87 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30481. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028042).

ISBN 9788759810668.

Rude rs writes: There's a solid tradition in the history of Western music of turning the theme of Nicolo Paganini's 24th Caprice for soloviolin into a set of variations endemic to the time and style of each individual composer; Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Lutoslawsky being the most prominent names. When asked by David Starobin to write a concerto for him, I though well, why not have a go at it? - bearing in mind, that not only is Paganini the most celebrated violin-wizard of all times, but he was also a more than accomplished guitarist. There are 22 variations in all, numbers 1 to 16 all adhering strictly to the 16-bar pattern, laid down by Paganini himself. From variation 17 though, the writing becomes more symphonic and the rigid 16-bar regime is being lossendes up a bit. However, the last variation 'Finale Prestisimo' is a 6 x 16 bars white-knuckle ride, in which the hitherto soloistic role of the guitar gives way to that of 'primus interpares', i.e. 'first among equals'. As with another set of variations of mine 'Concerto on Pieces' (based on a tune by Purcell), the nature and shape of the 'Pagannini-Variations' may be compared to a stroll through a hall of mirrors: the portrait - the theme is gradually being distorted out of all recognition - but it's still the same original walking by.

Clarinet and Piano

SKU: HL.14028056

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book and Part(s). Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00190. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028056).

ISBN 9788759861592. English.

Throne (1988) for Clarinet and Piano was composed on a commission from the Swedish clarinetist Hakon Rosenberg. Structurally it is organized in an arch form.
Although it begins in the piano, the work can be considered as one long clarinet solo, where the piano's role is that of extending and mirroring the clarinet, both in register and motif. As such the piano is treated as a monody throughout, until the last warm B Major chord embraces the final notes of the clarinet. On the title page the composer tells us that Throne is Elevation, Unity, Diamonds, Crown, Glory, Velvet, Frailty, Decline, Oblivion, Nothing.
In short Throne is and abstract tone-poem on the transitoriness of Life.
Poul Ruders 1988.

Piano (Piano) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14028025

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2007. 28 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30745. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028025).

ISBN 9788759815076. 8.0x11.5x0.123 inches. English.

Poul Ruders ' collection of short solo pieces entitled 13 Postludes For Piano was written in 1989 for the Danish pianist Amalie Malling, right on the heels of the composer's first symphony 'Himmelhoch jauchzend - zum Tode betrubt', which was premiered in London during the 1990 Prom-season.

Cello and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028003

Cello Concerto No. 1. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30292. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028003).

ISBN 9788759862896.

Poul Ruders Polydrama (Manyfold Event) for cello and orchestra, is the last part of a drama trilogy otherwise consisting of Dramaphonia for piano and 11 instruments and Monodrama for percussion and 32 instruments. In this abstract drama, the individual listener is left entirely to his own associations. The composer has compared polydrama with the gradual defoliation of a big tree: the vigorously growing organism is attacked by a swarm of locusts until, finally, nothing remains but bare branches in a landscape of long shadows; a solitary, singing bird remains, however, like a streak of hope in an increasingly dark and pessimistic universe.

Alto Flute and Percussion

SKU: HL.14027972

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 6 pages. Music Sales #KP00297. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027972).

ISBN 9788759854464. 0.031 inches. English.

A dramatic and rhythmic composition for Drumming Flutist, by Poul Ruders. Carnival for Alto-flute and Bongo-drum was written in 1980 and includes directions and an explanation of the arrangement for performance.

Score Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028045

Symphony and Transformation Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 186 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30496. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028045).

ISBN 9788759872574. UPC: 884088434403. 11.75x16.5x0.475 inches.

A second Symphony by Ruders, commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress for the New York City based chamber orchestra, Riverside Symphony. The piece is subtitled Symphony And Transformation to express the formal symphonic nature of a piece that is otherwise in a state of constant musical and textural transformation.

Full Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score Only. Composed 2017. 80 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH32201. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.232526).

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027967

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 108 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30603. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027967).

ISBN 9788759811856.

Work for Ensemble dating from 2000.

Guitar

SKU: HL.14027983

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30346. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027983).

ISBN 9788759860991. 8.25x12.0x0.087 inches. English.

Two Pieces for Solo Guitar.

Oboe and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028041

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 76 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30497. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028041).

ISBN 9788759810682. 12.0x16.5x0.533 inches.

The Small concerto for solo oboe and chamber orchestra was commissioned by The Royal Library of Copenhagen for the inauguration of a concert hall located at the new library annex, the so-called Black Diamond, September 1999. The work as such focuses more on the contemplative and sonorously introvert, rather than more virtuosity; it is in four movements, what could be called four little tone-poems on (and inspired by) the names of the four moon craters known as: Lake of Dream - Ocean of Storms - Sea of Tranquillity - Lake of Death, four enigmatic and deeply fascinating ancient conceptions of the landscape on this our closest, but at the same time most legendary and myth-shrouded celestial body. The work was composed in 1998 for Athelas-Sinfonietta Copenhagen and Swedish obo virtuoso Helen Jahren. The work was dedicated to Helen Jahren.

Piano Duet

SKU: HL.14027999

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP01375. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027999).

ISBN 9788759878347. English.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028024

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Score Only. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00694. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028024).

English.

Piano

SKU: HL.14028007

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. 36 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29852. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028007).

ISBN 9788759853023. 8.0x11.75x0.195 inches. English.

Work dating from 1982.

Opera

SKU: HL.14027984

Tjenerindens Fortaelling. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Opera or Operetta. Score Hardcover. 426 pages. Music Sales #KP01008. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027984).

ISBN 9788759854044. 12.25x16.5x1.33 inches. English-Danish.

Ope ra based on the novel by Margaret Atwood.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028036

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 124 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30468. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028036).

ISBN 9788759810248. 12.0x16.5x0.537 inches.

This short orchestral piece is a tone poem based on a passage from one of Hans Christian Andersen's lesser known fairytales, THE WIND TELLS ABOUT WALDEMAR DAAE AND HIS DAUGHTERS, a mighty allegory about the transitoriness of Life, about Vanity and Pride and the inevitable victory of Death (alias the wind), whose scything ravaging is sublimely depicted by Andersen in these few, truly breathtaking lines: And Winter rushed, Winter and Summer they rushed, and they rush, like I rush, like the howling snow, the flurrying apple blossom, the scurrying foliage; rush! rush! The people too!.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028038

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 95 pages. Music Sales #KP00294. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028038).

ISBN 9788759854730. 12.0x16.5x0.3 inches. English.

The word GONG is saturated with associations: the splendour of the Orient, mysticism, drama, loud metallic clangour, violent impact, etc. The present piece draws upon all those connotations, but it is primarily a symphonic drama about the life and behaviour of the sun, our closest star and prime source of life on Earth. Describing the sun in music is not a new idea, of course; during a visit to Greece, Carl Nielsen was inspired by the orbit of the sun and its very un-Danish ferocity and thus wrote the Helios Overture. GONG is a Helios Overture too, of sorts, albeit more abstract. Recent astronomical research shows, that the surface of the sun reverberates like a gong, in four different, simultaneous tempi (not directly depicted in the score, though); the sun looks like a GONG, - the O in the written work looks like the sun; there is even a solar research group called GONG (Global Oscillation Network Group). Formally the composition follows the life and fate of the sun, from the initial explotional birth through the hyper-activity as energy source as we know it today to the final, predicted flaring up and collapse into a so-called white dwarf. But - being a musical composition, not an astrophysical thesis - GONG is brought to its compositional conclusion by a real concert-ending, a chord taken from the middle of the piece and sustained over several bars, from virtual nothingness to full force.

Narration and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027978

Purcell Variations. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 74 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30261. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027978).

ISBN 9788759807590. UPC: 884088433512. 11.75x16.5x0.205 inches. English.

Concerto In Pieces was commissioned by the BBC as a celebration of two major events in British history of music: the 1995 tercentenary of the death of Henry Purcell and the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's Young Persons' Guide to the Orchestra in 1996. Concerto in Pieces may be performed without the commentaries, as an uninterrupted set of variations. Work for Orchestra dating from 1994.

Piano Duet

SKU: HL.14027976

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. 114 pages. Music Sales #KP01428. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027976).

ISBN 9788759870679. 12.0x16.5x0.52 inches. English.

Piano and Chamber Ensemble - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14027981

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 2002. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30293. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027981).

ISBN 9788759808368. English.

'Dramaphon ia' for piano solo and 11 instruments forms the first part of a trilogy of solo-concertos, the remaining two being one for percussion and smaller symphony orchestra ('Monodrama') and the last ('Polydrama') for violoncello and full orchestra. All three pieces are in one movement each and may be performed together, thus presenting a vast concerto grosso of the duration of one hour and a half. Each concerto, however, stands by itself, offering its own story: having employed the word drama in all three pieces, I naturally want to imply that something is going on, a series of hidden events created by each listener's own inner theatre which enables him to stage his own, personal associations, and in the case of 'Dramaphonia', the compositorical tension alters between action and frozen panoramas. In the percussion concerto, the rhythmical progression is being constantly intensified, whereas the metric proportions of Dramaphonia tighten and loosen, like a magnifying glass being wielded in and out of focus. 'Dramaphonia' is commissioned and dedicated to LONTANO and Poul Rosenbaum.

Violin and Piano

SKU: HL.14028028

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score Only. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00714. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028028).

English.

Three Tiny Pieces For Great Friends Players, arranged for score Violin And Piano.