(Version of Love Songs
II) - Full Score.
Composed by Henrik
Hellstenius. Music Sales
America. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
Composed 2015. 82 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH32740. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14043842).
ISBN
9788759837054.
English.
Rock
Crystal for 2 Sopranos,
Baritone and Orchestra +
Soundfiles by Henrik
Hellstenius , with text
by Adalbert Stifter. This
piece is a version of
Love Songs II , written
for the stage
performance: Theatre of
the Ear: About The
Nature, commissioned by
The Norwegian Opera. Rock
Crystal will have its
premiere at the Ultima
Festival in Oslo,
Septembre 2015.
String Quartet (Parts) SKU: HL.14037707 Parts. Composed by Kevin V...(+)
String Quartet (Parts)
SKU: HL.14037707
Parts. Composed by
Kevin Volans. Music Sales
America. Contemporary.
Softcover. Composed 2010.
80 pages. Chester Music
#CH7452501. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14037707).
ISBN
9781849385916. UPC:
884088578626.
8.25x11.75x0.262
inches.
Kevin
Volans' String Quartet
No. 9: Shiva Dances was
commissioned by BBC Radio
3 and first performed by
the Smith Quartet at the
2004 Huddersfield
Contemporary Music
Festival.
Kevin
Volans (the composer)
notes on the
piece: In the past
I have been interested in
trying to go beyond
historicism (1970s),
beyond style(1980s) and
beyond form (1990s) in my
work. Looking back over
the music of the
twentiethcentury I was
struck by the fact the
nearlyall of it is
extremely 'busy', almost
cluttered. Italmost
seemed that composers
felt compelled to look
industrious. In the new
millennium Ithought it
would be interesting to
try and eliminate
content. I also aspired
to movingfrommusic (sound
as art) to art (art as
sound). This, of course,
has already been done by
a numberof composers
(many from New York -
Phil Niblock and La Monte
Young, to name but two),
butit was something I had
never tried.AlthoughI
found it annoying that
the label 'minimalist'
was given to my
African-based work,and
fearing this would make
the label stick, I set
out to write a piece
which reflected my loveof
minimal painting and
architecture. The
Japanesehave a term
'wabi' meaning
'voluntarypoverty' or
'emptiness' to describe
their restrained minimal
aesthetic, an aesthetic
which,however, pays
greatest attention to the
quality of material and
fine detail. I like to
think thatthelack of
excessive pitch material
in this piece reflects a
kind of voluntary
poverty.When Shiva is
portrayed dancing (as
Nataraj) He is depicted
in a circle of flames
crushing asmall figure -
the ego - underfoot.You
get theimpression He
dances on the spot, not
movingaround at all. I
like that. The piece
is dedicated to Pablo
Pascual
Cilleruelo.
Orchestra (Score) SKU: HL.14008392 Caroline Mathilde Act I (Concert Su...(+)
Orchestra (Score)
SKU:
HL.14008392
Caroline Mathilde Act
I (Concert Suite).
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
1999. 74 pages. Chester
Music #CH60949. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14008392).
ISBN
9780711936942.
The
story centres on the
English princess Caroline
Mathilde (1751-1775),
sister of George III, who
at the age of 15 was sent
to Denmark to marry the
17-year-old eccentric and
schizophrenic Danish
King, Christian VII. The
ballet portrays her
unhappy marriage, the
King's growing madness
and her fatal love-affair
with Struensee, the
King's influential
physician, which leads to
their arrest, his
execution and her exile,
at the age of 20,
separated from her two
young children. In
keeping with the period,
and perhaps also with the
traditions of Romantic
ballet, the music is
relatively simple in
harmony and form, and
most of the action is
conveyed in set-piece
dances. The suite, which
consists essentially of
the second half of Act I,
begins with one of these,
a bristling interplay of
wind and string ensembles
in D major, portraying in
the ballet a curious
nuptial game with the
king and princess on
movable pedestals. The
slow music that follows
has to do with the king's
healing by Dr. Struensee
and the new queen's
unquiet reverie (oboe and
cor anglais solos). Then
the suite, like the act,
is capped by a pair of
pas-de-deux, the first
savage and bizarre for
the royal couple, the
second rich and
passionate for the queen
and the miracle-working
doctor. Score
(miniature). Duration c.
25mins.
High Voice and Piano SKU: HL.14035520 Composed by Rolf Wallin. Music Sale...(+)
High Voice and Piano
SKU: HL.14035520
Composed by Rolf Wallin.
Music Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2003. 8 pages. Chester
Music #CH65571. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14035520).
ISBN
9781844492671.
Mode
rn Norwegian composer
Rolf Wallin's 'Drei
Gedichte' arranged for a
soprano voice and piano
accompaniment. These
three poems were written
between 1900 and 1908,
and they are very
different in terms of
form, subject matter, and
atmosphere. Liebes-Lied
is about a strong but
painful love, Buddha in
der Glorie, a description
of religious ecstasy,
quite unusual in the
works of Rilke, and
Sluss-stuck, about death,
which exists in the midst
of us, in the middle of
life.
Piano Duet (4 Hand Piano) SKU: HL.283476 Piano Duet 1 Piano 4 Hands(+)
Piano Duet (4 Hand Piano)
SKU: HL.283476
Piano Duet 1 Piano 4
Hands. Composed by
Sadie Harrison. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. 3 pages.
Duration 180 seconds.
University of York Music
Press #M570367528.
Published by University
of York Music Press
(HL.283476).
Sadie
Harrison's The Souls Of
Flowers is for Piano
duet, (4 hands/ 1 Piano),
and is dedicated to Alex
Larson and Avery Allen.
This lyrical duet began
life as a solo Piano
piece written for Waheed
Amiri, a student at the
Afghanistan National
Institute of Music in
Kabul. The title refers
to the Afghans love of
flowers and to the summer
gardens of Kabul which
are resplendent with
roses, the countrys
national flower. This
duet version is dedicated
with thanks to Alex and
Avery who gave the work
its premiere at the Hartt
Community Division Suzuki
Piano Ensemble Recital on
Saturday, November 19,
2016 in the Alfred C.
Fuller Music Center (F.
Berkman Recital Hall) at
the Hartt School,
University of Hartford,
Connecticut, USA.
Duration: c. 3
minutes.
Orchestra (Score) SKU: HL.14005410 Composed by Geoffrey Burgon. Music Sal...(+)
Orchestra (Score)
SKU:
HL.14005410
Composed
by Geoffrey Burgon. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2002. Chester
Music #CH55781. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14005410).
'Acquainted
with Night', is a cycle
of six songs, for alto
and strings, harp and
timpani. The texts are
all concerned with
different aspects of
night. The first song,
'Lullaby' to a poem by
Beaumont and Fletcher,
seeks to evoke the
'care-charming' powers of
sleep. The second, a
setting of Robert Frost's
'Acquainted with the
night', is concerned with
the lonely world of a
strange city at night and
the music is
characterised by an
insistently repeated
figure in the
accompaniment. The third
song contrasts the
calmness of the night
with the turbulence in a
lover's mind - the poem
is by the Earl of Surrey.
'Out in the dark' a poem
by Edward Thomas, is the
text of the fourth song.
It is in the form of a
scherzo and deals with
the mystery and
strangeness of night,
and, as the poet puts it,
the 'might' of night. It
is, as the poet says, a
hymn to night and the
chordal nature of the
accompaniment suggests
this quality. This song
leads directly into the
last, which is in fact a
reprise of the opening
'Lullaby' so completing
the cycle.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14005345 Composed by Geoffrey Burgon. Music Sales Ameri...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14005345
Composed
by Geoffrey Burgon. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2002. Chester
Music #CH60983. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14005345).
ISBN
9780711938335.
A
Vision was written for
the tenor Anthony Rolfe
Johnson and commissioned
by the London Mozart
Players. The first
performance was at the
Gregynog Festival in June
1991. Geoffrey Burgon has
set 7 poems of John Clare
(1793-1846) and the poems
that Burgon has chosen
were all written whilst
Clare was in Northampton
Asylum. The work is
scored for tenor and
string orchestra. There
is a prominent part for
solo violin, which
reflects Clare's love of
that instrument and upon
which he would play folk
tunes and dances.
Narration & Orchestra
Score. Composed by
Niels Marthinsen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. 110 pages.
Duration 1620 seconds.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30999. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.277565).
ISBN
9788759818510. 16.5x0.767
inches.
The Frog
(Froen) for Narrator and
Orchestra (2009). Text by
Carl Quist Moller.
Commissioned by Aarlborg
Symphony Orchestra. A
crazy liar story about
the first love, frogs
turning into royal
Africans and a lobster
which is really a
submarine. The Frog is
written for childrens
concerts for children
between five and ten
years old. The narrator
reads the story while the
orchestra plays in the
background. Occasionally
the orchestra plays
longer section without
narrator; these sections
are commenting on the
story.The sections
without narrator can be
performed as a 10 minutes
long orchestral work. The
music is a wild, visually
evocative, all
fun-mixture of modern
pop- and dance-music,
African folk music and
Western European
avant-garde music.
Score Orchestra SKU: HL.14030970 For Chamber Ensemble Score. Compo...(+)
Score Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14030970
For
Chamber Ensemble
Score. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002. 82
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30142.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030970).
ISBN
9788759805725.
Work
for Chamber dating from
1988. The composer
writes: MINNEWATER means
'love water'/'love lake',
but when I began to
compose the work, this
direct meaning of the
title was not very
important to me. Rather
the word itself had a
magical sound. Later on,
however, it occurred to
me that the piece was
full of mumbling swells
and swarming cascades,
and the sensation of
water is perhaps most
perceptible towards the
end where lots of falling
water movements are felt
behind the emphasized
rhythmic surface. Falls
that moreover, quite
literally at the end,
sinks into the water.
MINNEWATER has a
subtitle: THOUSANDS OF
CANONS, which directly
refers to a compostion
technique where all
layers and elements in
the music constantly are
imitated; possibly waves
imitating each other? The
mudded and impalpable
beginning of the work
takes its starting point
in one of my earlier
pieces, the sextett LES
TUCHINS (in fact the
first 5 or 6 pages of the
two pieces are quite
identical but in
MINNEWATER it is all
'blown up' to a larger
ensemble). Quite soon,
however, the thread to
LES TUCHINS is cut off
and it goes its own way;
From the mumbling in the
start - through swarming
trills and pointilistic
staccato movements - to a
long section where the
trumpet appears as a
soloist and in a way
conducts the movements of
the remaining ensemble
right to the rhythmic
final section of the
piece. MINNEWATER was
commissioned by the
Danish Radio for the
German Ensemble
Modern.
Piano (Harpsichord) SKU: HL.14026202 In C Minor. Composed by Andre...(+)
Piano (Harpsichord)
SKU: HL.14026202
In C Minor.
Composed by Andre Previn.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book Only. 4
pages. Chester Music
#HC00114. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14026202).
9.0x11.75x0.033
inches.
The
composer, conductor, and
pianist Andre Previn (b.
1929) is originally of
Russian Jewish origin. He
left his native Germany
in 1938 to live in Paris
and subsequently settled
in Los Angeles in 1940.
His early career of
orchestrating film scores
at MGM led quickly to
conducting engagements of
symphonic repertoire, and
onto an international
career as Music Director
of orchestras such as
London, Los Angeles, Oslo
and Pittsburgh. In the
1980s, he concentrated
increasingly on
compositions for the
concert hall and opera.
His own richly lyrical
style underscores his
love of the late Romantic
and early 20th-century
masterpieces of which his
interpretations as
conductor
areinternationally
renowned.
The
composer, conductor, and
pianist Andre
Previn (b. 1929) is
originally of Russian
Jewish origin. He left
his native Germany in
1938 to live in Paris and
subsequently settled in
Los Angeles in 1940. His
early careerof
orchestrating film scores
at MGM led quickly to
conducting engagements of
symphonic repertoire, and
onto an international
career as Music Director
of orchestras such as
London, Los Angeles, Oslo
and Pittsburgh. In the
1980s, heconcentrated
increasingly on
compositions for the
concert hall and opera.
His own richly lyrical
style underscores his
love of the late Romantic
and early 20th-century
masterpieces of which his
interpretations as
conductor
areinternationally
renowned.
String Quartet SKU: HL.14036314 Composed by Hugh Wood. Music Sales Americ...(+)
String Quartet
SKU:
HL.14036314
Composed
by Hugh Wood. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Studyscore. Composed
2001. 40 pages. Chester
Music #CH63745. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14036314).
ISBN
9781844491728.
Comm
issioned by the Lyndsay
Quartet in 2000 to
celebrate the opening of
an arts studio in
Sheffield, with the
premiere on 5th October
2001. Wood's 5th quartet
pays respects to the
Classical heritage of the
form, returning to the
use of discrete
movements, two of which
reveal the composer's
love and fascination of
the scherzo. Includes a
foreword and description
by the composer.
Orchestra (Score) SKU: HL.283507 Orchestra Score. Composed by Bent...(+)
Orchestra (Score)
SKU:
HL.283507
Orchestra Score.
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. 49 pages.
Duration 780 seconds.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#KP01914. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.283507).
Exit Music for
Orchestra was composed by
Bent Sorensen in 2006-07.
Exit Music was
commissioned by the
Bergen International
Festival for the Bergen
Philharmonic Orchestra,
and is dedicated to Per
Norgard on the occasion
of his 75th birthday.
Programme note It began
with a dream, as it
always does when I
compose. I dreamt that I
was standing in an open
doorway on a hill in an
otherwise open landscape.
I do not know what was
behind the door, but in
front of it - towards the
landscape - I saw my
music disappearing. I
stood looking for the
music, and started to
hear it, to remember it
in time with its
disappearance. The dream
continued to recur as
strange pictures in my
daydreams, and I
continued to try to write
down the music that had
vanished. It was also the
dream that gave the piece
its title- Exit Music.
Exit Music is based on
three simple songs (the
songs that vanish through
the doorway): a little
lullaby, which continues
to reappearin fragments;
a strange polyphonic pop
song that refers to a
section of my opera Under
the Sky; and a passionate
little love song, which
concludes the piece on
the strings, very quietly
and in unison. These
simple songs are then
constantly overpainted by
enervating repeated motes
in fairly simple rhythms,
which push the songs out
of the room. (Bent
Sorensen).
Choir, Orchestra (Full Score) SKU: HL.238318 Full Score. Composed ...(+)
Choir, Orchestra (Full
Score)
SKU:
HL.238318
Full
Score. Composed by
Michael Nyman. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2017.
140 pages. Schott Music
#CH78089. Published by
Schott Music (HL.238318).
UPC: 888680888480.
12x16.75 inches.
English.
Nyman's
2011 The Prologue to
'Dido and Aeneas' is a
prologue to Henry
Purcell's opera on a
libretto by Nahum Tate.
The libretto is based on
Book IV of Virgil's
Aeneid. It recounts the
love of Dido, Queen of
Carthage, for the Trojan
hero Aeneas, and her
despair when he abandons
her. This edition of the
work is scored for SATB,
String section and
Harpsichord.
Choral; Piano Accompaniment (Vocal Score) SKU: HL.14042375 Amatissimi ...(+)
Choral; Piano
Accompaniment (Vocal
Score)
SKU:
HL.14042375
Amatissimi amici nunc
remoti SATB Choir and
Orchestra. Composed
by Hans Werner Henze.
Music Sales America.
Performance. Softcover.
56 pages. Chester Music
#CH7355701. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14042375).
ISBN
9781847727954. UPC:
884088919955.
9.0x12.0x0.438
inches.
Translated
to a musical eulogy in
praise of a best beloved
now far away, this piece
was commissioned by the
Leipzig Gewandhaus. The
premiere took place on
October 2, 2008 in the
main auditorium of the
Gewandhaus, with the
Gewandhaus Orchestra and
the Choir of the MDR
conducted by Riccardo
Chailly.
Orchestra (Full Score) SKU: HL.14042374 Amatissimi amici nunc remoti S...(+)
Orchestra (Full Score)
SKU: HL.14042374
Amatissimi amici nunc
remoti SATB Choir and
Orchestra. Composed
by Hans Werner Henze.
Music Sales America.
Performance. Softcover.
70 pages. Chester Music
#CH73557. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14042374).
ISBN
9781847727947. UPC:
884088919962. 10.25x14.5
inches.
A musical
eulogy in praise of a
best beloved now far
away. c. 25
minutes.
SATB Chorus, a cappella SKU: SU.27040380 For SATB Chorus, a cappella(+)
SATB Chorus, a cappella
SKU: SU.27040380
For SATB Chorus, a
cappella. Composed by
Gregory J. Hutter.
Vocal/Choral, Secular
Choral. Choral Octavo.
Subito Music Corporation
#27040380. Published by
Subito Music Corporation
(SU.27040380).
The Three
American Madrigals
includes settings of
Frost, Whitman and
Teasdale. Frostâ??s poem
Bond and Free is another
slow lyrical setting with
contrasting tonalities
accentuating the two
halves of the poem.
Likewise, the setting of
Whitmanâ??s Tears
explores various diatonic
modes while also
employing constantly
changing meters, thus
yielding a feeling of
fluidity. A setting of
Sara Teasdaleâ??s I Love
You closes the cycle. The
four symmetrical stanzas
of the poem are
exaggerated with
chromaticâ??almost
barbershop-styleâ??harmo
nies in close
spacing.SATB Chorus, a
cappella Duration: 15 '
Composed: 2014 Published
by: Distributed Composer
Minimum order quantity: 8
copies. To order
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service at
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