20 morceaux récréatifs extraits de la Méthode Rose et arrangés par Alfred He...(+)
20 morceaux récréatifs extraits de la Méthode Rose et arrangés par Alfred Herzog pour diverses formations hétérogènes constituent ce recueil qui fait entrevoir aux jeunes musiciens du premier cycle quelques réalités de la pratique collective.
Le piano est toujours présent, entouré de la flûte, de la clarinette, du violon ou violoncelle et parfois d'une percussion, selon la nature de l'ensemble.
Une construction mélodique et rythmique stimulante de chaque partie favorise le travail individuel. A noter que le recueil ne contient pas de parties séparées afin que chaque instrumentiste puisse lire le texte musical dans sa globalité. / Classique / Partition CD /
Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Bayard, Leclerc, s.d. (=1744)Pièces à deux instrume...(+)
Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Bayard, Leclerc, s.d. (=1744)Pièces à deux instruments égaux, particulièrement deux flûtes seules, de différents auteurs, dont Blavet. Certaines pièces suivies de variations.Présentation par Jean SaintArroman : Utilisation pédagogique des pièces.Ces trois recueils de pièces à deux flûtes seules, offrent un panorama de la musique du milieu du XVIIIe siècle en France, avec l'ajout de quelques airs étrangers. Les pièces sont de difficultés variées. Les phrasés sont très bien indiqués, et l'agrémentation, détaillée dans l'introduction, est très représentative du classicisme français. / Musique De Chambre / 96 pages / niveau : 1 / Fac-Similés - Format: 23.5 X 31.5
Michael Nyman's Musique A Grande Vitesse (MGV) translates as ‘high speed m...(+)
Michael Nyman's Musique A Grande Vitesse (MGV) translates as ‘high speed music’ and was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North EuropeanParis-Lille line in 1993. This piece of sheet music runs continuously but was conceived as an abstract imaginary journey; or rather five inter-connected journeys each ending with a slow mainly stepwise melody which isonly heard in its 'genuine' form when the piece reaches its destination. Thematic 'transformation' is a key to MGV as a whole. Throughout the piece ideas - rhythmic melodic harmonic motivic textural -constantly change their identity as they pass through different musical 'environments'. The opening bars establish both a recurrent rhythmic principle - 9 11 or 13-beat rhythmic cycles heard against a regular 8 - and aharmonic process - chord sequences (mainly over C and E) which have the note E in common. (Coincidentally MGV begins in C and ends in E). A later scalic syncopated figure (again first heard over C E and A)begins the second section featuring Brass in D flat. The topography of MGV should be experienced without reference to planning description or timetables. Its tempo changes and unpredictable slowings downbear no logical relation to the high speed of the Paris-Lille journey while the temptation to treat MGV as a concerto grosso with the Michael Nyman band as the ripeno was resisted: more suitably theband (amplified in live performance) lays down the tracks on which MGV runs.
'...The present collection has been conceived right from the outset so as to for...(+)
'...The present collection has been conceived right from the outset so as to form an organic component of and a supplement to the teaching of solfeggio. The original text and their relevant translations have been omitted with the intention that the pedagogical aim namely that which is achieved through solmization could be proprely emphasized. There is hardly any need to recommend these pieces for cultivation. Luckily enough solfeggio has become so wide-spread and in particular singing canons has gained such popularity that its praise would suggest an irony of the same kind as Erasmus' eulogy of foolishness. Nevertheless it cannot be left unsaid how immensely this domaincontributes to raising the musical standards of the greatest number of people possibile.' (Antal Molnár)
Le Carnaval des animaux. Written in March 1886 as a humorous occasional work for...(+)
Le Carnaval des animaux. Written in March 1886 as a humorous occasional work for the traditional carnival concert organized by his cellist friend Charles-Joseph Lebouc, the Carnival of the Animals was so successful that Saint-Saëns banned performances and publication soon afterwards. He was worried that this 'grand zoological fantasy' - consisting of 14 short individual pieces for eleven instruments - might overshadow his serious works. Yet only five months after the composer's death, it appeared in print after all, beginning its worldwide victory march - in its original setting as well as in numerous arrangements. Thus, the Carnival did in fact arguably become the most popular work by this French composer and, owing to its musical originality, it is also a favourite in music lessons or for school orchestra performances. With this combination of a study edition and an edition in parts (for which additional parts for larger numbers of strings may be ordered), G. Henle Publishers now presents the perfect resource for such occasions.
Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Here the fourths, springing from an entirely different ex...(+)
Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. Here the fourths, springing from an entirely different expressive urge, shape themselves into a defi nite horn theme, spread themselves out architectonically over the whole piece, and place their stamp on everything that happens. Thus it turns out that they do not appear here merely as melody or as a purely impressionistic chord effect; their character permeates the total harmonic structure, and they are chords like all others.' (Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony, 1911)
The Chamber Symphony Op.9 heralded a breakthrough in Schoenberg's compositional style. While the work did not go hand in hand with the complete destruction of the old tonal system it does show an extension in chordal and melodic constructions. It's focus on the interval of the fourth rather than the third is stated right at the start with the horn fanfare and this leads into the use of the whole tone scale soon after. These two elements open up a new sound space which he would explore further in the works to follow. Certainly not a work to be missing from any library where contemporary music is one of the main focuses./ Répertoire / Ensemble de Musique de Chambre
Par CONNESSON GUILLAUME. Arrangeur :
Vlarko Nushev
Ce Divertimento est un arra...(+)
Par CONNESSON GUILLAUME. Arrangeur :
Vlarko Nushev
Ce Divertimento est un arrangement de mon Sextuor réalisé par Vlatko Nushev. Divertimento était d'ailleurs le titre que j'avais envisagé au départ, car l' œuvre fut écrite pour un concert de nouvel an au Châtelet à Paris en 1998, à la demande d'Éric Le Sage et Paul Meyer. C'est donc une partition placée sous le signe de la joie et de la bonne humeur avec une suspension mélancolique dans le mouvement lent.
Le premier mouvement Dynamique est une série de variations qui multiplie les processus rythmiques hérités de la musique répétitive américaine. Le Nocturne central est une confidence douce et douloureuse chantée par la clarinette sur les tapis harmoniques des cordes et du piano. Enfin le Festif libère une joie fébrile autour de motifs parmi lesquels on trouve un clin d' œil à la Truite de Schubert. La partition s'achève sur un pied de nez cadentiel.
Guillaume CONNESSON / Date parution : 2022-11-29/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre
The Dreamers - A Gothic Tale for Horn Trio by Niels Marthinsen. Programme note: ...(+)
The Dreamers - A Gothic Tale for Horn Trio by Niels Marthinsen. Programme note: The Dreamers for horn violin and piano is the sixth of a series of seven compositions named after Karen Blixen's collection of short stories Seven Gothic Tales. My musical gothic tales are written for very different ensembles - THE SUPPER AT ELSINORE is a saxophone quartet THE OLD CHEVALIER is for bass trombone and piano THE MONKEY is a chamber orchestra work - but they all share musical material in a criss-cross of contextual references reminiscent of Blixen's narrative complexity: Themes and motivs from one pieceappear in others in new and surprising shapes and combinations. Karen Blixen's THE DREAMERS has the most complex narrative structure of all her seven gothic tales. The story is made up of three tales with different narrators but with the same principal caracter in various disguises all three imbedded within a fourth tale that serves as a framework for the entire short story.The main story line unravels the life of a famous opera diva who looses her voice during a terrible fire. Before this her life was perpetual bliss and the tragedy drives her into assuming different personality guises in order to escape reality.Toward the end she is confronted with her true identity and dies.THE DREAMERS isn't 'about' anything. The music is inspired by the artistic content of Blixen's short story - it's emotionalism dramatic construction atmosphere period and settings - but unfolds in time and musical space in ways that are completely independent of the story's narrative progression...except one might say that the three players try their best to either catch or escape each other and that when they finally meet it happens abruptly even tragically - and only barely provides a little consolation.
Par KRAUS JOSEPH MARTIN. The first volume of the new scholarly edition contains ...(+)
Par KRAUS JOSEPH MARTIN. The first volume of the new scholarly edition contains the complete chamber music without a keyboard instrument. The most important group of works comprises the string quartets, 10 of which have survived. They were composed during the 1770s, whenHaydn was developing this class of music. The differing balance between such contrasting musical elements as entries in imitation, courtly melody, swift changes of tempo and unexpected modulations gives each of the quartets its special charm. Thefact that six of them were published in 1784 as Krauss 'Opus 1' by the publisher J. J. Hummel shows that the composer himself was convinced by his quartets. With the Flute quintet this volume alsocontains another key work in Kraus’s chamber music. Composed in Vienna about 1783 and also issued in manuscript copies, this work was printed by Ignaz Pleyel in Paris in 1799./ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre
Version with Piano and String Quartet - Parts)-A song cycle for baritone voice ...(+)
Version with Piano and String Quartet - Parts)-A song cycle for baritone voice string quartet and piano. The composer writes: 'Naarasäiti (The Lustful Mother) is about becoming a mother an experience in which sexuality combines in a natural way with the birth of a new life. The texts of the cycle are from the collections of poems Äitejä tyttäriä (Ãrbeeadni The Time of the Lustful Mother 2013) and Kylmä kumppani (Galbma rádna My Cold Companion 1999) by two contemporary Sámi poets Rauni Magga Lukkari and Rose-Marie Huuva. The poems’ primitive matriarchal beat is present throughout in the music: a dark earthy solo viola accompanies the baritone while the sizzling sparkling strings erupt at times in powerfultextures'. Score available: WH33187 A song cycle for baritone voice string quartet and piano. The composer writes: 'Naarasäiti (The Lustful Mother) is about becoming a mother an experience in which sexuality combines in a natural way with the birth of a new life. The texts of the cycle are from the collections of poems Äitejä tyttäriä (Ãrbeeadni The Time of the Lustful Mother 2013) and Kylmä kumppani (Galbma rádna My Cold Companion 1999) by two contemporary Sámi poets Rauni Magga Lukkari and Rose-Marie Huuva. The poems’ primitive matriarchal beat is present throughout in the music: a dark earthy solo viola accompanies the baritone while the sizzling sparkling strings erupt at times in powerfultextures'. Score available: WH33187
Symphonies. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This edition unites all the purely instrum...(+)
Symphonies. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This edition unites all the purely instrumental and dance numbers from one of Rameau?s most popular operas, along with those from his last one-act opéra-ballet ?Io?, which was left unfinished at the time of his death.
?Platée? is the setting of a libretto by Jacques Autreau that Rameau arranged to be adapted for his own purposes, especially with regard to comic effects. In grotesque form, it shows Jupiter curing his wife Juno of her jealousy by feigning a marriage of love with the ugly swamp nymph Platée. Faced with such a ludicrous rival, Juno is forced to admit that her suspicions were unfounded.
The opera was premièred in Versailles in 1745 for the wedding of the Dauphin Louis and Maria Theresia of Spain. The performance was a fiasco, however, for the coarse comedy and bizarre characters were deemed inappropriate by the wedding audience. It was not until 1749 in Paris that ?Platée? achieved its breakthrough, becoming Rameau?s greatest triumph to date. Another version with an altered text was performed from 1754 on.
The plot of the fragmentary ?Io? deals with the amorous relations between the nymph Io and Jupiter in the guise of the shepherd Hylas, who becomes a rival of Apollo, disguised as Philemon. Now the inventive and richly varied orchestral numbers from this cruelly comical bonfire of the vanities can be presented in concert with greater flexibility. / Date parution : 2022-04-05/ Répertoire / Ensemble de Chambre
Par ADES THOMAS. In Three Studies from Couperin, Thomas Adès empathetically rew...(+)
Par ADES THOMAS. In Three Studies from Couperin, Thomas Adès empathetically reworks three pieces by the Baroque composer into music that is distinctively Adès without dismissing the source material. The basic structures of harmony and duration in ?Les Amusemens?, ?Les Tours de Passe-passe?, and ?L?Âme-en-Peine? remain unchanged, but the retouching of rhythm, texture and orchestral colours reveals an enthralling music that could be no other composer. The Three Studies has earned critical praise and popularity, having received over 200 public performances in more than 20 countries since its 2006 premiere. ?Three Studies from Couperin, looks at the music as if through a kaleidoscope, the shattered pieces of the original tumbling around like glinting fragments of coloured glass.? Financial Times / Date parution : 2022-06-14/ Répertoire / Orchestre de Chambre
