String Quartet No. 8 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.144407270 Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.144407270
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Sws. Set of Score and
Parts. 44+16+16+16+16
pages. Duration 22
minutes. Merion Music
#144-40727. Published by
Merion Music
(PR.144407270).
UPC:
680160681891. 9 x 12
inches.
My Eighth
and Ninth String
Quartets, begun in late
2017, are sonic cousins.
Akin to real cousins,
each piece exhibits
differing natures. They
were requested by two
ensembles that have
become asecond familiesa
to me: The Jupiter
Quartet of Urbana,
Illinois and the Amernet
Quartet based in Miami,
Florida. Their collective
dedication to, and care
for, our art remains a
personal and constant
are-fuelinga for me. The
quartets were
commissioned by, and
dedicated to, Margaret
and Philip Verleger of
Denver, Colorado.
Additional financial
support was provided by
the School of Music at
Stetson University,
Timothy Peter, Dean.
Quartet No.8 is laid out
in a classical
four-movement design. The
work does break somewhat
from conventional
tradition by often
placing quartet members
into soloistic roles as
the movement titles note.
individual The opening
piece presents at the
outset a three-note motto
which is turned over,
tumbled, and
energetically discussed,
primarily by a violin
duet. It is a duel. The
two players part company
only infrequently during
the movement's progress,
pausing briefly for other
commentary by their
alower cohortsa, the
Viola and Cello do not
argue, but abet their
friends' aeffortsa. The
piece's overall character
is fairly bright and
dancelike, closing in an
unresolvedastandoffa. not
Two principal
asound-objectsa stitch
the second movement
scherzo together: sliding
hands (glissandos) and a
plucked ashufflea
(pizzicato) - both
instigated by the (solo)
cellist. The others are
influenced - or are not -
by their aleadera, and
follow - or interrupt -
the cello throughout
their four-voiced
conversation. The third
movement (longest of the
set) is an elegy
dedicated to the memory
of a close personal
friend, the American
composer David Maslanka
(1943 - 2017). Its'
genesis is a simple
5-note melody derived
from my own name
(SaC/DaC/EaC/H). This
line commences in the
(solo) viola and is
obsessively uttered
without relief during the
movement's lamentations.
The closing movement
revisits much of that
opening three-note
material, but now dressed
up for the full quartet
to view. It is a slowly
accelerating romp which -
twice - cannot avoid a
nod to the Amernet and
Jupiter performers by
offering a humble bow to
the 4th movement of
Gustav Holst's PLANETS -
Jupiter: The Bringer of
Jollity. My quartet
serves as an honouring
salute of thanks for the
talent, respect, and
friendship of these two
young quartets. STRING
QUARTET No. 8 is roughly
22 minutes in duration.
It was written as an
homage to Franz Joseph
Haydn, my
adesert-island-composera,
and completed in Holly
Hill, Florida in early
April of 2019. S.H.
Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Violin and Piano SKU: HL.14019075 Composed b...(+)
Clarinet, Flute,
Percussion, Violin and
Piano
SKU:
HL.14019075
Composed
by Karl Aage Rasmussen.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Set of Parts.
56 pages. Music Sales
#KP01067. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14019075).
ISBN
9788759854327.
Danish.
The Piano
score and complete
instrumental parts for
Karl Aage Rasmussen's
Liederkreis. Rasmussen
organised five songs by
Robert Schumann into a
large cycle, within which
each song is rotating
forwards and backwards in
several tempo-layers at
the same time. The circle
consists of two
independent but
complimentary orbits -
one for each singer.
Written in 1986, it was
commissioned by, and
dedicated to, the
Washington New Music
Ensemble. The full
instrumentation consists
of Soprano and Baritone
voices with Flute,
Violin, Clarinet,
Vibraphone and an
amplified Piano.
String Quartet No. 8 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Merion Music
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.14440727S Composed by Sydney F. Hodk...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.14440727S
Composed
by Sydney F. Hodkinson.
Sws. Full score. 44
pages. Duration 22
minutes. Merion Music
#144-40727S. Published by
Merion Music
(PR.14440727S).
UPC:
680160681907. 9 x 12
inches.
My Eighth
and Ninth String
Quartets, begun in late
2017, are sonic cousins.
Akin to real cousins,
each piece exhibits
differing natures. They
were requested by two
ensembles that have
become asecond familiesa
to me: The Jupiter
Quartet of Urbana,
Illinois and the Amernet
Quartet based in Miami,
Florida. Their collective
dedication to, and care
for, our art remains a
personal and constant
are-fuelinga for me. The
quartets were
commissioned by, and
dedicated to, Margaret
and Philip Verleger of
Denver, Colorado.
Additional financial
support was provided by
the School of Music at
Stetson University,
Timothy Peter, Dean.
Quartet No.8 is laid out
in a classical
four-movement design. The
work does break somewhat
from conventional
tradition by often
placing quartet members
into soloistic roles as
the movement titles note.
individual The opening
piece presents at the
outset a three-note motto
which is turned over,
tumbled, and
energetically discussed,
primarily by a violin
duet. It is a duel. The
two players part company
only infrequently during
the movement's progress,
pausing briefly for other
commentary by their
alower cohortsa, the
Viola and Cello do not
argue, but abet their
friends' aeffortsa. The
piece's overall character
is fairly bright and
dancelike, closing in an
unresolvedastandoffa. not
Two principal
asound-objectsa stitch
the second movement
scherzo together: sliding
hands (glissandos) and a
plucked ashufflea
(pizzicato) - both
instigated by the (solo)
cellist. The others are
influenced - or are not -
by their aleadera, and
follow - or interrupt -
the cello throughout
their four-voiced
conversation. The third
movement (longest of the
set) is an elegy
dedicated to the memory
of a close personal
friend, the American
composer David Maslanka
(1943 - 2017). Its'
genesis is a simple
5-note melody derived
from my own name
(SaC/DaC/EaC/H). This
line commences in the
(solo) viola and is
obsessively uttered
without relief during the
movement's lamentations.
The closing movement
revisits much of that
opening three-note
material, but now dressed
up for the full quartet
to view. It is a slowly
accelerating romp which -
twice - cannot avoid a
nod to the Amernet and
Jupiter performers by
offering a humble bow to
the 4th movement of
Gustav Holst's PLANETS -
Jupiter: The Bringer of
Jollity. My quartet
serves as an honouring
salute of thanks for the
talent, respect, and
friendship of these two
young quartets. STRING
QUARTET No. 8 is roughly
22 minutes in duration.
It was written as an
homage to Franz Joseph
Haydn, my
adesert-island-composera,
and completed in Holly
Hill, Florida in early
April of 2019. S.H.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114414250 Composed by Lowell Lieberm...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet
SKU:
PR.114414250
Composed
by Lowell Liebermann.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard Notation. Op.
103. 28+9+8+9+8 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41425. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114414250).
UPC:
680160607846.
Lowel
l Liebermann's 4th String
Quartet was commissioned
by the Canandaigua Lake
Chamber Music Festival
and the Wood Library,
Canandaigua, NY, for the
Orion Quartet in
celebration of their 20th
Anniversary. The quartet
was premiered by the
Orions at the Canandaigua
Lake Chamber Music
Festival in Rochester, NY
on February 9th, 2008. To
quote the writer Mark
Greenberg: It's a
remarkable piece. The
mood is elegiacal and
meditative, the melodic
lines sinuous and
searching, the harmonies
rich and astonishingly
beautiful. Liebermann
works within the
traditions of Western
tonality, but that is a
mansion with many rooms.
Liebermann inhabits all
of them as his expressive
purposes require, and he
doesn't mind knocking
down a wall to create new
harmonic spaces. The
Fourth Quartet doesn't
exactly fit the
neoromantic niche into
which Liebermann is
sometimes placed. Much of
the music, especially
near the beginning, is a
highly advanced and fluid
chromatic expressionism
with modernist
tendencies. Sometimes
this roiling cloudscape
breaks open to allow a
patch of near-classical
harmony and
almost-resolution. Near
the midpoint the clouds
lift in leaping
modulations. Several
chordal passages recall
Russian Orthodox chant.
Suddenly, when you've
begun to think the
somber, deliberate pace
has gone on a bit too
long, Liebermann
introduces a kind of
hobbled, stilted jazz
idiom. The piece dies in
pensive quiet.
Piano SKU: LM.23422D Classical. CD. Editions Henry Lemoine #23422D. Publi...(+)
Piano
SKU:
LM.23422D
Classical.
CD. Editions Henry
Lemoine #23422D.
Published by Editions
Henry Lemoine
(LM.23422D).
ISBN
9790231702361.
ABSI
L : Serenade -
Espieglerie - ALAIN :
Nous n'irons plus au bois
- AURIC : Danse francaise
- BERTHOMIEU : L'Ane
capricieux - BITSCH :
Clair matin - BOULNOIS :
Berceuse du petit negre -
CHAILLEY : Frere Jacques
- CLERGUE : Simplement -
Crepuscule -
CLIQUET-PLEYEL : La
Guitare de Ramon - DAMASE
: Pluie - DUTILLEUX :
Bergerie - FRAGGI : Les
Sabots de Cathy -
FRANCAIX : L'Oiseau tombe
du nid - FRANCK : Chant
de la Creuse -
NOEL-GALLON : Promenade
dans le parc - HUBEAU :
Chanson americaine -
JACOB : Blues - KOECHLIN
: Sicilienne - LANDOWSKI
: Les Cailloux du petit
poucet - LELEU : Melodie
- MEUNIER : Tendresse -
MICHAEL : Pour un rayon
de lune - Danse des
gardiens du temple -
PASCAL : Clarinette solo
- PLE : Le Chant du patre
- Devant l'Icone - SANCAN
: Premiere melancolie -
SAS : Pastoral - Ronda -
Cancion - SAUGUET : Le
Manege a vapeur -
TAILLEFERRE : Lavandin de
Haute-Provence - Rose
d'Anjou - THIRIET : Petit
conte - Plantation song -
WIENER : Spiritual.
Organ (Organ) SKU: HL.48181042 For Organ. Composed by Olivier Mess...(+)
Organ (Organ)
SKU:
HL.48181042
For
Organ. Composed by
Olivier Messiaen. Leduc.
Classical. Softcover. 7
pages. Alphonse Leduc
#AL20068. Published by
Alphonse Leduc
(HL.48181042).
UPC:
888680868949.
9.0x12.0x0.088
inches.
The
Glorious Bodies, by
Olivier Messiaen is a
composition that exhibits
his Roman Catholic faith.
Written for organ in
1939, it is a mix between
Indian music and
Gregorian Plainsong. This
first volume includes the
first three pieces of the
whole composition: 1.
Subtilite des Corps
Glorieux, 2. Les eaux de
la Grace and 3. L'ange
aux parfums. This piece
is divided in 7 sections:
1. Subtilite des Corps
Glorieux 2. Les eaux de
la Grace 3. L'ange aux
parfums 4. Combat de Mort
et de la Vie 5. Force et
agilite des Corps
Glorieux 6. Joie et
clarte des Corps Glorieux
7. Le Mystere de la
Sainte-Trinite. Olivier
Messiaen (1908-1992) was
a French organist and
composer passionate about
ornithology and one of
the most important
composers of his century.
Inspired by Japanese
music, he had a very
special way of composing
and his work can be
identified by its
complexity, its diatonic
aspect, its harmony with
limited transposition,
its colour and its
additive rhythms. He
composed many works
related to ornithology
and birdsong, including
the Bird Catalogue in 7
volumes and the Treatise
on Rhythm, Colour and
Ornithology in 7
volumes.
Piano SKU: HL.282996 Piano Solo. Composed by Florent Nagel. Music ...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.282996
Piano
Solo. Composed by
Florent Nagel. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. 89 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL30792.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.282996).
9.0x12.0x0.267
inches.
During his
studies, pianist and
composer Florian Nagel
drew on the teachings of
two masters with
diametrically opposed
approaches tomusic:
according to him, Marcel
Bitsch brought him wisdom
and Claude Ballif, folly.
He has written numerous
pieces for the pianoalong
with vocal and chamber
music. His first
international success
came with Alice in
Wonderland for piano four
hands and narrator,an
orchestral version of
which was premiered in
March 2018 by the
Orchestra national du
Capitole de Toulouse.
Nagel's Piano Book
connects old and new,
drawing on the past while
remaining firmly anchored
in modern times. The 25
remarkably inventive
pieces in this collection
present an astonishing
diversity of styles. From
the Prelude et Fuga
Antica to the study for
the Octaves and the
Hommage Ligeti et
Rautavaara, this volume
offers a rich selection
of the piano's potential
today. Written equally
for concert performance
and for the perfection of
technique, it also
contains an educational
component in which the
musical form is placed at
the service of a
wide-ranging
imagination.
