Percussion (Percussion Parts) SKU: HL.14028050 Composed by Poul Ruders. M...(+)
Percussion (Percussion
Parts)
SKU:
HL.14028050
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 8
pages. Music Sales
#KP00033. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14028050).
ISBN
9788759858387. UPC:
888680630478. 16.5x11.75
inches. International
(more than one
language).
Work for
Solo Percussion dating
from 1983. Ruders writes:
The extraordinary title
is a typical example of
Poul Ruder's (b. 1949)
peculiar and bizarre
sense of humour - Ruders,
together with Hans
Abrahamsen and Bo Holten,
being one of the most
important names within
new Danish music after
the
Nørgård-Holm
green-Nørholm
generation. Although
Ruders is influenced by
Holmgreen's absurd
simplicity, he takes up
an original place in new
Danish music to which he
has conveyed humour and
liveliness as well as
theatre and virtuosity.
Quotations, 'found
objects', play an
important part in Ruders'
music, for instance in
his chamber work MEDIEVAL
VARIATIONS (1974), but
the old material is being
varied with adequate
audacity and liveliness
so as to yield new
qualities, not unlike
Peter Maxwell Davies'
'music on music'. ALARM
is 'a short shocker, a
kind of film soundtrack
without the pictures',
based on the horror in
victor Hugo's THE BELL
RINGER OF NOTRE DAME. To
produce the right
atmosphere of uneasiness
and nervousness Ruders
uses, among other things,
the Balinese
cymbal-machine
'ching-ching' and the
snore of the 'didjeridoo'
from Australia.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14027979 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. ...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14027979
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Score. 111
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00695.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027979).
ISBN
9788759888780.
English.
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
CORONA follows the
process of such
totalityin 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.
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Set. 86 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH29830. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027994).
ISBN
9788759864593.
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
found in 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.
Piano - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14028012 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales Ame...(+)
Piano - Grade 4
SKU:
HL.14028012
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2002. 12 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30604. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028012).
ISBN
9788759811870.
8.25x11.75x0.097 inches.
English.
Poul
Ruders's Star Prelude And
Love Fugue is a work for
Piano dating from
1990.
Cello and Orchestra SKU: HL.14028003 Cello Concerto No. 1. Compose...(+)
Cello and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14028003
Cello Concerto No.
1. Composed by Poul
Ruders. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30292. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028003).
ISBN
9788759862896.
Poul
Ruders Polydrama
(Manyfold Event) for
cello and orchestra, is
the last part of a drama
trilogy otherwise
consisting of Dramaphonia
for piano and 11
instruments and Monodrama
for percussion and 32
instruments. In this
abstract drama, the
individual listener is
left entirely to his own
associations. The
composer has compared
polydrama with the
gradual defoliation of a
big tree: the vigorously
growing organism is
attacked by a swarm of
locusts until, finally,
nothing remains but bare
branches in a landscape
of long shadows; a
solitary, singing bird
remains, however, like a
streak of hope in an
increasingly dark and
pessimistic universe.
Clarinet and Twin Orchestra SKU: HL.14027974 Composed by Poul Ruders. Mus...(+)
Clarinet and Twin
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14027974
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Part. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #KP00083.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027974).
English.
The B
flat Solo Clarinet Part
for Danish composer, Poul
Ruders' fabulous
concerto. Written between
1984 and 1985, this
mysterious, majestic and
expressive work for
Clarinet and Twin
Orchestra is quite a
challenge but certainly
an impressive and
rewarding one! The full
score is also
available(KP00077).
Piano (Piano) - Grade 5 SKU: HL.14028025 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music S...(+)
Piano (Piano) - Grade 5
SKU: HL.14028025
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2007. 28 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30745.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028025).
ISBN
9788759815076.
8.0x11.5x0.123 inches.
English.
Poul
Ruders ' collection of
short solo pieces
entitled 13 Postludes For
Piano was written in 1989
for the Danish pianist
Amalie Malling, right on
the heels of the
composer's first symphony
'Himmelhoch jauchzend -
zum Tode betrubt', which
was premiered in London
during the 1990
Prom-season.
Full Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Scor...(+)
Full Score.
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score Only.
Composed 2017. 80 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH32201. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.232526).
Violin and Orchestra SKU: HL.14028022 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sale...(+)
Violin and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14028022
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Set. 80 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30180. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028022).
ISBN
9788759861615.
12.0x16.5x0.52
inches.
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.
Guitar and Orchestra SKU: HL.14028042 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sale...(+)
Guitar and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14028042
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score.
Composed 2002. 87 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30481. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028042).
ISBN
9788759810668.
Rude
rs writes: There's a
solid tradition in the
history of Western music
of turning the theme of
Nicolo Paganini's 24th
Caprice for soloviolin
into a set of variations
endemic to the time and
style of each individual
composer; Liszt, Brahms,
Rachmaninov and
Lutoslawsky being the
most prominent names.
When asked by David
Starobin to write a
concerto for him, I
though well, why not have
a go at it? - bearing in
mind, that not only is
Paganini the most
celebrated violin-wizard
of all times, but he was
also a more than
accomplished guitarist.
There are 22 variations
in all, numbers 1 to 16
all adhering strictly to
the 16-bar pattern, laid
down by Paganini himself.
From variation 17 though,
the writing becomes more
symphonic and the rigid
16-bar regime is being
lossendes up a bit.
However, the last
variation 'Finale
Prestisimo' is a 6 x 16
bars white-knuckle ride,
in which the hitherto
soloistic role of the
guitar gives way to that
of 'primus interpares',
i.e. 'first among
equals'. As with another
set of variations of mine
'Concerto on Pieces'
(based on a tune by
Purcell), the nature and
shape of the
'Pagannini-Variations'
may be compared to a
stroll through a hall of
mirrors: the portrait -
the theme is gradually
being distorted out of
all recognition - but
it's still the same
original walking by.
Violin SKU: HL.14028021 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20t...(+)
Violin
SKU:
HL.14028021
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book Only.
Composed 2002. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30177.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028021).
Ruders writes:
This short piece
'Variations' for violin
solo is composed of 57
bars, which you could
call the theme. Each of
the bars or musical units
are then repeated, but in
a reshuffled order, so to
speak, and each of the
original bars appears,
not only in a different
context, but in a
slightly altered rhythmic
guise.
Violin SKU: HL.14027969 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Cla...(+)
Violin
SKU:
HL.14027969
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2006. 8 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30574. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027969).
ISBN
9788759859827.
9.5x14.5x0.046
inches.
Bel Canto
by Poul Ruders for Violin
Solo. Written in
2004.
Opera SKU: HL.14027990 Composed by Paul Bentley and Poul Ruders. Music Sa...(+)
Opera
SKU:
HL.14027990
Composed
by Paul Bentley and Poul
Ruders. Music Sales
America. Libretto.
Composed 2006. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30656.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027990).
ISBN
9788759886465.
International (more than
one language).
This
is the libretto to Poul
Ruders' opera Kafka's
Trial , written by Paul
Bentley.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14028044 For Large Orchestra. Composed by Poul R...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14028044
For
Large Orchestra.
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score. 234
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00693.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028044).
ISBN
9788759850640.
12.0x16.5x0.605 inches.
Danish.
The full
score of Ruders' Solar
Triology for large
orchestra.
Clarinet and Piano SKU: HL.14028056 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales ...(+)
Clarinet and Piano
SKU: HL.14028056
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book and
Part(s). Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP00190.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028056).
ISBN
9788759861592.
English.
Throne
(1988) for Clarinet and
Piano was composed on a
commission from the
Swedish clarinetist Hakon
Rosenberg. Structurally
it is organized in an
arch form. Although
it begins in the piano,
the work can be
considered as one long
clarinet solo, where the
piano's role is that of
extending and mirroring
the clarinet, both in
register and motif. As
such the piano is treated
as a monody throughout,
until the last warm B
Major chord embraces the
final notes of the
clarinet. On the title
page the composer tells
us that Throne is
Elevation, Unity,
Diamonds, Crown, Glory,
Velvet, Frailty, Decline,
Oblivion, Nothing. In
short Throne is and
abstract tone-poem on the
transitoriness of
Life. Poul Ruders
1988.
Score Orchestra SKU: HL.14028045 Symphony and Transformation Score...(+)
Score Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14028045
Symphony and
Transformation Score.
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Score.
Composed 2002. 186 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH30496. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14028045).
ISBN
9788759872574. UPC:
884088434403.
11.75x16.5x0.475
inches.
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.
Piano and Chamber Ensemble - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14027981 Composed by Poul Ru...(+)
Piano and Chamber
Ensemble - Grade 4
SKU: HL.14027981
Composed by Poul Ruders.
Music Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Composed
2002. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30293.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027981).
ISBN
9788759808368.
English.
'Dramaphon
ia' for piano solo and 11
instruments forms the
first part of a trilogy
of solo-concertos, the
remaining two being one
for percussion and
smaller symphony
orchestra ('Monodrama')
and the last
('Polydrama') for
violoncello and full
orchestra. All three
pieces are in one
movement each and may be
performed together, thus
presenting a vast
concerto grosso of the
duration of one hour and
a half. Each concerto,
however, stands by
itself, offering its own
story: having employed
the word drama in all
three pieces, I naturally
want to imply that
something is going on, a
series of hidden events
created by each
listener's own inner
theatre which enables him
to stage his own,
personal associations,
and in the case of
'Dramaphonia', the
compositorical tension
alters between action and
frozen panoramas. In the
percussion concerto, the
rhythmical progression is
being constantly
intensified, whereas the
metric proportions of
Dramaphonia tighten and
loosen, like a magnifying
glass being wielded in
and out of focus.
'Dramaphonia' is
commissioned and
dedicated to LONTANO and
Poul Rosenbaum.
Orchestra SKU: HL.14027967 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. ...(+)
Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14027967
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002. 108
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30603.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027967).
Guitar SKU: HL.14027983 Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Cla...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
HL.14027983
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 2002. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30346.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14027983).
ISBN
9788759860991.
8.25x12.0x0.087 inches.
English.