| Poul Ruders: Light
Overture: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre [Partition] - Intermédiaire/avancé Wilhelm Hansen
Light Overture - A Symphonic Entertainment was composed by Poul Ruders in 2006. ...(+)
Light Overture - A Symphonic Entertainment was composed by Poul Ruders in 2006. Commissioned by the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Music Director and Principal Conductor Justin Brown for Alabama Power Company’s 100 Year Anniversary Concert. Light Overture subtitled A Symphonic Entertainment is a short piece for symphony orchestra lasting approximately eight minutes. Light Overture is focusing on two interpretations of the word light: ”light” as in the absence of darkness and “light” as in easily comprehensible; in other words a piece with few or no metaphysicalconnotations. It is just a piece setting a festive mood as is often the case with this sort of short “concert opener”. However the journey through Light Overture is not entirely happy-go-lucky. Once in a while slightly darker colours are introduced for the sake of variety and contrast. And formally the composition is quite strict: an outright Prelude and Fugue the former sliding seamlessly into the latter. The Fugue juggles not only its own tune but also picks up stuff from the Prelude. Poul Ruders May 2006
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| Poul Ruders: Corona - The
Solar Triology No. 3:
Orchestra: Score Orchestre Wilhelm Hansen
Corona - The Solar Trilogy No. 3 for Orchestra was composed by Poul Ruders in 19...(+)
Corona - The Solar Trilogy No. 3 for Orchestra was composed by Poul Ruders in 1995.Programme note:CORONA makes the final part of the SOLAR-TRILOGY a huge symphonic triptych about the life and behavior of the Sun. The first'panel' GONG depicts the birth life and final collapse of our nearest star the second ZENITH describes in its ultra-slow tempo the patient rise of the Sun toward midday ferocity and its subsequent setting. CORONA then is a symphonic 'portrait' of the phenomenally hot whispy brim encircling and radiating from the Sun a sizzling halo of electrons and photons visible only during a total eclipse. Formally CORONAfollows the process of such totality in progress:the gradual eclipsing by the Moon - total darkness with thefierce sparkling outer corona - the gradual 'rebirth' of the light toward the full gl.ory and warmth of the Sun.Besides the obvious astronomical narrative of the SOLAR-TRILOGY there's a metaphysical angle too underlying each of the three compositions: GONG in spite of its apparent energy may be the most pessimistic of them all epitomizing the death and ultimate annihilation of the prime source of Life itself. ZENITH is a hommage to human aspiration and spiritual endurance and CORONA ends with Hope and Glory after a journey from depression throughtotal despair. Super-structurally the zenith of ZENITH makes the zenith of the entire trilogy i.e. when the E- flat of the unisone horns in ZENITH is heard we are exactly halfway through the collected work.Poul Ruders
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| Poul Ruders:
Wind-Drumming: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre Wilhelm Hansen
Poul Ruder's Wind-Drumming for Wind Quintet and 4 Percussionists (1979/85). Part...(+)
Poul Ruder's Wind-Drumming for Wind Quintet and 4 Percussionists (1979/85). Parts are for hire: hire@ewh.dk Programme NoteWind-Drumming was written in 1979 on a commission from The Danish Percussion Ensemble.The piece is a clash of two kinds of sound-associations; the mystic exotic impact of Latin-American drumming and the more well dressed reputation of Western concert-instruments in this case a wind-quintet (w. electric flute).The two instrumental camps either melt into one soft humming ritual or are split wide apart the winds tearing their way through the undergrowth ofrainforest-drumming. There is more than one way of getting on to WIND-DRUMMING: obviously it is about the confrontation of two incongruent ways of living a lament on the damage done to the tropical rainforests of the world by modern civilisation. One can hear it plainly as a direct rhythm-show a downright number or a joyous homage to the most exiting kind of folkloristic music at all: the carnal spell of the Brazilian Samba. Poul Ruders
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| Poul Ruders: Symphony No.
5: Orchestra: Score Orchestre [Partitions] - Avancé Wilhelm Hansen
Symphony No. 5 by Poul Ruders.Commissioned by the Danish National Radio Symphony...(+)
Symphony No. 5 by Poul Ruders.Commissioned by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestrafor World Premiere on January 9 2015.
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| Poul Ruders: Fanfares And
Chorales: Brass Ensemble:
Score Ensemble de cuivres Wilhelm Hansen
POD-Fanfares And Chorales for Brass Ensemble was composed by Poul Ruders in 2016...(+)
POD-Fanfares And Chorales for Brass Ensemble was composed by Poul Ruders in 2016. Commissioned by the Royal Danish Academy of Music and professor Jesper Juul Windahl in celebration of RDAM´s 150th anniversary in 2017.
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| Poul Ruders: Group
Portrait With Smetana:
Orchestra: Score Orchestre [Partitions] - Avancé Wilhelm Hansen
Group Portrait With Smetana by Poul Ruders is a short symphonic entertainment co...(+)
Group Portrait With Smetana by Poul Ruders is a short symphonic entertainment commissioned and written for Bamberger Symphoniker - Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie in 2014.
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| Henry Purcell Poul Ruders
Nahum Tate: Prologue To
Dido And Aenas:
Orchestra: Orchestre Wilhelm Hansen
Poul Ruders' Prologue To Dido And Aenas by Henry Purcell (2011). Text by Nahum T...(+)
Poul Ruders' Prologue To Dido And Aenas by Henry Purcell (2011). Text by Nahum Tate. Commissioned by The Danish National Vocal Ensemble / DR Scored for Mixed Choir (SATB) String Quartet Percussion Theorbe and Harpsichord.Vocal score available: WH31460CParts available: WH31460A
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| Poul Ruders: Handel
Variations: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre [Partition] - Intermédiaire/avancé Wilhelm Hansen
Poul Ruders' Handel Variations for Orchestra (2009) -Ninety Symphonic Reflection...(+)
Poul Ruders' Handel Variations for Orchestra (2009) -Ninety Symphonic Reflections on Eight Bars by Georg Friedrich Handel.Commissioned by and dedicated to the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in celebration of their 75th anniversary 2010. Premiered by The Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Giancarlo Andretta at the Aarhus Concert Hall 14 January 2010. Programme noteThe short feisty Bourrée from Handel´s famous Water Music (First Suite in F major) has for some years been hovering at the back of my mind as possessing the perfectpotential for a series of variations. Not unlike the short 'morsel' by Henry Purcell (the witches Ho-ho-ho-chorus from the opera Dido and Aeneas) which kicks off the ten variations of my orchestral work Concerto in Pieces the music per se is not particularly interesting but it nevertheless grows on you and is difficult to get rid of. It is merely a handful of sequences (a technique much used in the Baroque era - a method in which the same motif is being shifted up and down in a specified order). Actually it is only the first eight bars of the Bourrée which I haul through the wringer.It would be obvious to assume that Handel Variations make up a sequel to Concerto in Pieces but in spite of the similarity in character between the two chosen themes the Handel Variations are far more symphonically coherent. There are no less than ninety (!) variations and each variation (they are relatively short ranging from four up to forty-something bars) runs seamlessly into the next creating a huge symphonic body of constantly changing colours. I set out with the original theme without interfering but the 'erosion' begins to gnaw away at the theme already from the first variation. Imagine a vast gallery of Handel portraits in which Georg Friedrich appears at first fully recognizable but then the 'disfiguration' sets in and
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| Poul Ruders: String
Quartet No.3 'Motet':
String Quartet: Study
Score Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons,
alto, violoncelle [Conducteur d'étude / Miniature] - Avancé Wilhelm Hansen
Programme Note This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the...(+)
Programme Note This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time. MOTET is a sober cool treatise on rhythm and statics depicted in a Gothic crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys’ choir monks’ processions and the piercing sound of musical glasses. An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today. Poul Ruders 1979
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| Poul Ruders: Manhattan
Abstraction: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
New York is the city which fascinates and inspires Ruders. Time and again he goe...(+)
New York is the city which fascinates and inspires Ruders. Time and again he goes back there to work. 'Manhattan Abstraction' (1982) subtitles - a symphonic skyline for large orchestra - was conceived there. Ruders’ Brittish colleague Oliver Knussen defines the piece as: - a performance of an extraordinary Morden-Times-like construction. It is a sort of symphonic sculpture which in the composer’s own words words propels forth from one particular inspiration: the New York profile as seen from Liberty Island one icy cold January day with it’s open clear sky and dazzling sun light. 'Manhatten Abstraction' appears as an amalgam of some of the compositorical habits foundin present pieces. For instance are present here compositorical ideas and melodic loans from 'Capriccio Pian’e Forte' 2nd String Quartet(1979) 'Four Compositions' (1980) and 2nd Piano Sonata(1982). The question at hand is mainly concerned with the enhanced elaboration of Ruders’ use of the classic English change-ringing system: a permuting method pre-determining the order of tone-appearances and /or tone groups; a serial technique in other words. In spite of the rigidly fixed material Ruders somehow manages to chisel out a personal expression by way of emphasising contrasting elements already existing within the material itself. The spiky repetitive sections form a counterpart to a more human violin-solo. This dialectical tension is - as hinted by the title - a symphonic abstraction of a fascinating metropolis; the most beautiful and the ugliest. The subtitle: a symphonic skyline reflects the musical erection of the Manhattan profile which under the clear sky materializes into the most powerful and compelling man-made sculpture on earth. Thus 'Manhattan Abstraction' is a homage to as well as a vision of this giant contraption of concrete glass and chrome.
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| Poul Ruders: The Solar
Triology: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre Wilhelm Hansen
The full score of Ruders' Solar Triology for large orchestra.
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| Poul Ruders: Symphony
No.2: Orchestra: Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
A second Symphony by Ruders commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Founda...(+)
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.
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| Poul Ruders: Symphony
No.1: Orchestra: Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
The full score of Ruders' first Symphony subtitled Himmelhoch jauchzend - zum T...(+)
The full score of Ruders' first Symphony subtitled Himmelhoch jauchzend - zum Tode betrübt. Written for large orchestra.
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| Poul Ruders: Violin
Concerto No.2: Violin:
Score Orchestre, Violon [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a ‘reverseâ...(+)
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.
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| Poul Ruders: glOrIA:
Brass Ensemble: Score Ensemble de cuivres Wilhelm Hansen
Ruders writes: 'gl0rIA' is subtitled: 'a relique for large chorus and 12 brass-i...(+)
Ruders writes: 'gl0rIA' is subtitled: 'a relique for large chorus and 12 brass-instruments. At the same time it is an exercise for chorus because only vowels do occur or virtually no consonants are heard. The second part of the Missa Ordinarium the Gloria in Exelcis Deo makes the literary basis of 'g10rIA' but I employ only the vowels which in their full context form a 'non-language' - fragments of a tradition. A less dim vision of the 'severed body' appears in the center of the piece where the Domini Fili-section surfaces in its original shape. 'gl0rIA' is a 20th century composer’s hommage to the innocent faith of bygone days and a fanfare in honour of ClaudioMonteverdi; thus the ever present elaborations of the introduction to the Vespro Della Beate Vergine. Superimposed on the 'torso' of Latin I wedge in a quotation from the Spanish renaissance poet Gonzalo de Berceo’s 'Duelo de la Virgen' a surrealistic Lamento in which the Jews sent by Pilate to stand guard at the tomb of Christ mock and ridicule Maria Jesu mother. Thus a shadow has been cast over the jubilant religious appraisal of the past which today’s knowledge of atrocities and enormities engineered by Mankind has - alas - made so hard to repeat.
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| Poul Ruders: Final
Nightshade - An Adagio Of
The Night: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
Premiered by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Lorin Maazel at Avery Fish...(+)
Premiered by The New York Philharmonic conducted by Lorin Maazel at Avery Fisher Hall Lincoln Center New York City 10th June 2004. Orchestration 3 Flutes 3rd dbl. Piccolo2 Oboes1 English Horn in F3 Clarinets in Bb 3rd dbl. Bas Clarinet in Bb2 Bassoons1 Contra Bassoon4 Horns in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 Tuba1 (set of) Timpani2 Percussion (two players)1: Bass Drum (large) Chinese Cymbal Mark Tree2: TamTam (large) Vibraphone Antique Cymbal1 Harp1 Piano dbl. CelestaStringsAll non-octave transposing instruments are notated in their relevanttranspositions.Horns notated in bass clef sound a fourth above the notated pitch.All accidentals apply to each single note only except tied notes. Naturals for 'safety'. Programme Note This piece marks the conclusion of what could now be called 'The Nightshade Trilogy' three pieces which explore the contrasting worlds of Light and Darkness. As opposed to the earlier chamber work Nightshade which dealt with extremes of high and low pitches and the chamber orchestra composition Second Nightshade a two-fold piece contrasting darkness/anxiety and light/calm Final Nightshade for full symphony orchestra takes us on a journey in which the forces of dark and light struggle - and co-exist - in a predominantly polyphonic web with brooding undertones. The melodic point-of-departure is not surprisingly to be found in either of the two preceding pieces of the Trilogy but in an older piece Corpus Cum Figuris from 1985. Over the ensuing years I've dreamt on and off of 'doing something' with the opening measures of this older work perhaps even building a new composition on that very simple inward-looking time was ripe and there's a nice nostalgia angle to the idea: Corpus Cum Figuris was the first piece of mine to be
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| Poul Ruders: Corpus Cum
Figuris: Orchestra: Score Musique De Chambre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
Corpus Cum Figuris is a uniform composition in three major parts. The first part...(+)
Corpus Cum Figuris is a uniform composition in three major parts. The first part is a slow marche funébre a kind of prologue with dark and sombre sounds and a massive wall of chords which leads us to the other part of the works where the static and solemn atmosphere is suddenly stopped and replaced by a rhythmic/melodic ritual which accelerates the music. In the third part the block structure is softened gradually different figurations and stylistic elements arise to live their own lives: distant waltzes and pictures from the Middle Ages appear in this gigantic sonorous body. After a wild percussion orgy a short flash-back and a scream from the edge end Corpus cumFiguris. The piece has no literal content at all even though the title leads the thought to Adrian Leverkühn?s Apocalipsis cum Figuris from Thomas Mann?s Doctor Faustus. More likely my piece will arouse associations as with all my music. It has to be heard in it?s own conditions in this case as a big body of music or perhaps as a great screen where the details of course are part of the whole body but at the same time are foreign and odd. It is as if one climbs a mountain and from the top of that mountain discovers a world which is completely different from expected. Corpus cum Figuris for 20 musicians was composed in 1984 commissioned by Ensemble InterContemporain and the Danish Radio. Ensemble InterContemporain world premiered the work in April 1985 conducted by Peter Eötvös. The piece was also played at the ISCM-festival in Amsterdam by Netherland Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour.
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| Poul Ruders: Break-Dance:
Brass Ensemble: Parts Ensemble de cuivres Wilhelm Hansen
Break-Dance is an obvious next of kin to the two Clarinet trios Vox In Rama and ...(+)
Break-Dance is an obvious next of kin to the two Clarinet trios Vox In Rama and Tattoo For Three. This piece however combines the roaring despair of the first trio with the twisted rhythmical display of the latter. The title of course is a reference to the modern street-dance electric boogie but the very music itself takes the naming most literally indeed: formally and rhythmically after a straightforward head-on opening it breaks into isolated jagged fragments winding up in a bouncing piano cadenza. Albeit not an obvious piano concerto the piano part hovers in the front line the same way the horizontal guy ringing himself on the pavement is doubtless aneye-catcher to passers-by. The springy 'body-language' that kicks off the piece suddenly stiffens and freezes into hard-edged blocks and the real 'dance of breaks' emerges into focus. Break-dance is commissioned by and dedicated to Yvar Mikhashoff and Spectrum. Arranged for 2 Trumpets 3 Trombones and Piano.
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| Poul Ruders: Abysm:
Orchestra: Score Ensemble d'École [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
Work for Ensemble dating from 2000.
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| Poul Ruders: Tundra:
Orchestra: Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
Tundra - A Hommage To Jean Sibelius was commissioned by the Helsinki Philharmoni...(+)
Tundra - A Hommage To Jean Sibelius was commissioned by the Helsinki Philharmonics to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius. The work was world premiered in Helsingfors 7th December 1990 and repeated the next day on Sibelius’ date of birth in his native town.
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| Poul Ruders: Fairytale
For Orchestra: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
This short orchestral piece is a tone poem based on a passage from one of Hans C...(+)
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!'
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| Poul Ruders: Break-Dance:
Brass Ensemble: Score Ensemble de cuivres Wilhelm Hansen
Break-Dance is an obvious next of kin to the two Clarinet trios Vox In Rama and ...(+)
Break-Dance is an obvious next of kin to the two Clarinet trios Vox In Rama and Tattoo For Three. This piece however combines the roaring despair of the first trio with the twisted rhythmical display of the latter. The title of course is a reference to the modern street-dance electric boogie but the very music itself takes the naming most literally indeed: formally and rhythmically after a straightforward head-on opening it breaks into isolated jagged fragments winding up in a bouncing piano cadenza. Albeit not an obvious piano concerto the piano part hovers in the front line the same way the horizontal guy ringing himself on the pavement is doubtless aneye-catcher to passers-by. The springy 'body-language' that kicks off the piece suddenly stiffens and freezes into hard-edged blocks and the real 'dance of breaks' emerges into focus. Break-dance is commissioned by and dedicated to Yvar Mikhashoff and Spectrum. Arranged for 2 Trumpets 3 Trombones and Piano.
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| Poul Ruders: Listening
Earth - A Symphonic Drama
for Orchestra: Orchestra:
Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
Premiered at the festival 'Magma Berlin 2002' by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchest...(+)
Premiered at the festival 'Magma Berlin 2002' by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Robertson 29th November 2002.3 Flutes 1st and 2nd also Alto Flutes in G 3rd also Piccolo3 Oboes 3rd also Cor Anglais in F3 Clarinets in Bb 3rd also Bass Clarinet in Bb3 Bassoons 3rd also Contra Bassoon4 Horn in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 TubaTimpani4 Percussion four playersPlayer 1 - Vibraphone Glockenspiel Water Chime Bell Tree Japanese Wood Blocks Cymbal (Suspended) TamTam (Medium)Player 2 - Triangle Tubular Bells Crotales Marimba Chinese CymbalPlayer 3 - TamTam (Large) Java Gong(Large very low) Bell Lyra (Handheld) Sizzle CymbalPlayer 4 - Bass Drum Glockenspiel Xylophone1 Harp1 Piano also CelestaStrings - 16/14/12/10/8All transposing instruments are notated in their relevant transpositions.Any accidental apply only to the note that it immediately precedes except tied notes.Naturals appear occasionally 'for safety'.'LISTENING EARTH' is a symphonic drama a one- movement composition in four parts based on the work by two writers Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and W.H.Auden (1907-1973). Joseph Addison is not particularly well known; he was English a classical scholar essayist poet and politician but one of his hymns was used by Benjamin Britten. in his setting of a Thomas Tallis canon.The hymn is singularly beautiful and being a composer always inspired by extramusical stimuli such as poems nature paintings I was immediately convinced when I carne across the Addison hymn that here was exactly what I wanted to use as my major source of inspiration for this piece commissioned by and written for The Berlin Philharmonic. I don't refer to the hymn in its entirety but have chosen the following 3 excerpts all acting as mottos for the first three sections of the piece thus turning the piece into a straightforward tonepoem in the classical
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| Poul Ruders: Concerto In
Pieces: Orchestra: Score Orchestre [Partition] Wilhelm Hansen
Purcell Variations-Concerto In Pieces was commissioned by the BBC as a celebrati...(+)
Purcell Variations-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.
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| Poul Ruders: Thus Saw St.
John: Orchestra: Score Orchestre [Partition] - Avancé Wilhelm Hansen
Thus Saw St. John is a work for Orchestra which was inspired by Chapter 6 of the...(+)
Thus Saw St. John is a work for Orchestra which was inspired by Chapter 6 of the Book Of Revelation.
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| Poul Ruders: Symphony
No.3 - Dream Catcher:
Orchestra: Score Orchestre Wilhelm Hansen
For Orchestra. Premiered by The Royal Danish Orchestra conducted by Michael Sch...(+)
For Orchestra. Premiered by The Royal Danish Orchestra conducted by Michael Schonwandt Koncerthuset DR 29th May 2009.Commissioned by and written for The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress.Dedicated to the memory of Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky.Instrumentation.3 Flutes 3rd doubling Piccolo3 Oboe 3rd doubling Cor Anglais3 Clarinets in Bb 3rd doubling Bass Clarinet In Bb3 Bassoons 3rd doubling Contra Bassoon4 Horns in F3 Trumpets in Bb3 Trombones1 Tuba3 Percussion (three players)1 - Triangle Mark Tree Tubular Bells TamTam (Large) Glockenspiel Snare Drum Lion's Roar.2 - TamTam (Large) Chinese Cymbal Spring Coil (Mounted) TamTam (Large) Reco-Reco.3 - Bass Drum (Large) Antique Cymbals (full range) Spring Coil (mounted) TamTam (large) Cymbal (suspended) Reco-Reco.The three large TamTams should differ slightly in pitch.Strings (minimum 16-14-12-10-8)
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| Poul Ruders: Gong:
Orchestra: Score Orchestre Wilhelm Hansen
The word GONG is saturated with associations: the splendour of the Orient mysti...(+)
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 infour 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.
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