Piano SKU: ST.Y215 Composed by Morgan Hayes. 6 minutes. Score. Stainer & ...(+)
Piano
SKU: ST.Y215
Composed by Morgan Hayes.
6 minutes. Score. Stainer
& Bell Ltd. #Y215.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y215).
ISBN
9790220221309.
1st
perf: Sarah Nicolls, The
Warehouse, London, 12
December 2003
Lute Stop,
inspired by the legendary
playing of Glen Gould and
Alexis Weissenberg, is
the latest bravura solo
from Morgan Hayes, an
outstanding young British
composer of piano music.
The interpretative style
of these performers,
favouring a block-like
rather than a nuanced
approach to dynamics, is
mirrored in the formal
aspect of the piece and
the extreme dynamic
contrasts of its
material. Sudden shifts
in register, octave
doublings and quiet
left-hand punctuations
also feature prominently
in the textures,
suggesting changes of
registration on a
harpsichord - hence the
title.
Piano SKU: FG.55011-717-4 Composed by Einar Englund. Score. Fennica Gehrm...(+)
Piano
SKU:
FG.55011-717-4
Composed by Einar
Englund. Score. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-717-4.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-717-4).
ISBN
9790550117174.
It
was through Einar Englund
(1916-1999) that the
Neoclassicism already
familiar elsewhere in the
world landed on Finnish
shores in the late 1940s.
A composer especially of
large-scale orchestral
and chamber works,
Englund is one of the
greatest Finnish
symphonists.
Sinuh
e is an example of a
Finnish composition
founded on a non-Finnish
subject handled in a
non-National-Romantic
way. This probably partly
explains why the score
has fallen into oblivion
in Finland: the Oriental
moods and the Nile do not
correspond to the view of
a Finnish composition as
one favouring topics from
the national epic, the
Kalevala, and lakeland
scenery. The music also
incorporates motifs
derived from Lapp yoiks
used by Englund in his
score for the film The
White Deer (1952). When
it was written, the
ballet's combination of a
historical subject with
an exotic, stylised idiom
showed that Englund had
his finger on the
international pulse,
unlike, say, Samuel
Barber's ballet Medea
(1946) and Aram
Khachaturian's ballet
Spartacus
(1956).
The suite
from Sinuhe is in five
scenes. It omits the
original overture and
almost all the music for
the second half of the
ballet. Sinuhe's hapless
love for the courtesan
Nefernefer is described
with languorous
sensuality. His servant
Kaptah throws himself
into a frenzied dance
with the Cretan maidens.
The suite ends with the
rhythmic war dance of his
friend Horemheb.
Piano, elektrische organ (harmonium) and percussion (5 player) SKU: HL.490063...(+)
Piano, elektrische organ
(harmonium) and
percussion (5 player)
SKU: HL.49006313
Chamber music No.
2. Composed by
Wilhelm Killmayer. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott.
Classical. Score (also
Performance Score).
Composed 1972. 16 pages.
Duration 8'. Schott Music
#ED 6431. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49006313).
ISBN
9790001068468.
Wilh
elm Killmayer puts a
single note at the heart
of this composition.
Butwhereas Robert
Schumann took it as the
starting point of his
romanticism,Killmayer
doesn't allow himself the
freedom to develop poetic
melodies. Just as
Schumann deliberately
decided to live within
the constraints of a
mental asylum in
Endenich, Killmayer
favours the constraints
of a very limited tonal
space. Recurring seconds
in the piano part
illustrate the
confines in the
life of the ill composer.
Even the addition of a
vibraphone,bongo and
conga cannot overcome
these boundaries in the
end. The only option left
is to look inwards for an
escape. And when
refined tone
colours are revealed in a
dialogue between piano
and glockenspiel,
Schumann in Endenich
turns into a journey into
the consciousness of an
enigmatic fellow human
being.
Schlagzeug
I: Glockenspiel,
Ruhrtrommel, hohe
Pedalpauke; Schlagzeug
II: Glockenspiel,
Xylophon, Bongo (mittel),
Holzfass (oder grosses
Holzbrett mit Resonanz);
Schlagzeug III:
Vibraphon, Marimbaphon, 2
Congas (mittel-tief),
Ruhrtrommel; Schlagzeug
IV: Gong in c, Steinspiel
(a''), Bongo (tief),
Ruhrtrommel, Pauke in g;
Schlagzeug V: grosses
Tamtam, Gegenschlagholzer
(yoshigi), Pauke in E und
A (cis), Conga
(mittel).