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.

Orchestra (Score) - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14027994

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.

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.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028036

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2002. 124 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30468. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028036).

ISBN 9788759810248. 12.0x16.5x0.537 inches.

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!.

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).

ISBN 9788759811856.

Work for Ensemble dating from 2000.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028038

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. 95 pages. Music Sales #KP00294. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028038).

ISBN 9788759854730. 12.0x16.5x0.3 inches. English.

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, in four 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.

By Poul Ruders. Score. Music Sales America. 20th Century. 12 pages. Music Sales #WH30204. Published by Music Sales . 20th Century.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14028024

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Score Only. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00694. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028024).

English.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027996

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Book Only. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP01439. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027996).

English.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027993

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Composed 2006. 164 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30602. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14027993).

ISBN 9788759811832. English.

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 Piccolo
3 Oboes, 3rd also Cor Anglais in F
3 Clarinets in Bb, 3rd also Bass Clarinet in Bb
3 Bassoons, 3rd also Contra Bassoon

4 Horn in F
3 Trumpets in Bb
3 Trombones
1 Tuba

Timpani
4 Percussion, four players
Player 1 - Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Water Chime, Bell Tree, Japanese Wood Blocks, Cymbal (Suspended), TamTam (Medium)
Player 2 - Triangle, Tubular Bells, Crotales, Marimba, Chinese Cymbal
Player 3 - TamTam (Large), Java Gong(Large, very low), Bell Lyra (Handheld), Sizzle Cymbal
Player 4 - Bass Drum, Glockenspiel, Xylophone

1 Harp

1 Piano, also Celesta

Strings - 16/14/12/10/8

All 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'.

'LIST ENING 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.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14042598

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2013. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH31776. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14042598).

ISBN 9788759827482.

Prog ramme Note Poul Ruders WIND-DRUMMING WIND-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 of rainforest-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 tothe 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.

Orchestra (Parts)

SKU: HL.14042815

Composed by Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate, and Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH31460A. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14042815).

ISBN 9788759878897. English.

Parts for Poul Ruders' Prologue To Dido And Aenas by Henry Purcell (2011). Text by Nahum Tate.

Score: WH31460

Vocal score: WH31460C

Orchestra (Full Score) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14042346

Full Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. Composed 2013. 100 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH31628. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14042346).

ISBN 9788759826171. 12.0x16.5x0.598 inches. English.

Symphony No. 5 by Poul Ruders .Commissioned by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestrafor World Premiere on January 9, 2015.

Orchestra (Score)

SKU: HL.14042814

Composed by Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate, and Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Opera or Operetta. Softcover. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH31460. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14042814).

ISBN 9788759824177. English.

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.

Voc al score available: WH31460C
Parts available: WH31460A

Orchestra - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14043523

For Orchestra - Score. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. Composed 2014. 32 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH32159. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14043523).

ISBN 9788759831731. 12.0x16.75x0.44 inches. English.

Group Portrait With Smetana by Poul Ruders is a short symphonic entertainment commissioned and written for Bamberger Symphoniker - Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie in 2014.

Orchestra (Score)

SKU: HL.14028017

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical, Symphony. Score. Composed 2002. 138 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30137. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028017).

ISBN 9788759805619.

The full score of Ruders' first Symphony, subtitled Himmelhoch jauchzend - zum Tode betrubt. Written for large orchestra.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14001335

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP00485. Published by Music Sales (HL.14001335).

ISBN 9788759870594. English.

Orchestra

SKU: HL.14027019

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #KP00537. Published by Music Sales (HL.14027019).

ISBN 9788759864517. English.

Orchestra (Score) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.14028033

Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical, General Worship, Sacred. Score. Composed 2002. 52 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH29963. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14028033).

ISBN 9788759861608. English.

Thus Saw St. John is a work for orchestra which was inspired by chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation.

Orchestra

SKU: BT.WH33185

Composed by Poul Ruders. Classical. Score Only. Composed 2021. 100 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH33185. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (BT.WH33185).

ISBN 9788759841761.

All music is sound, but not all music is simple. Simplicity is a virtue, especially in the arts, a fact which becomes increasingly and inescapably obvious to me the older I get. In Sound and Simplicity four out of the sevenmovements are very simple (as in the absence of any structural and metric complexity) indeed, in fact the second movement Trance, a sustained chord, employs only four notes, but gradually presented over three octaves.

Orchestra (Full Score)

SKU: HL.290094

For Orchestra. Composed by Poul Ruders. Classical. Softcover. 44 pages. Duration 480 seconds. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH33018. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.290094).

ISBN 9788759840054. UPC: 888680922122.

The name or title alone says it all: a piece of music where courtly elegance embraces soulful melancholy, a world where velvety symphonic twilight and the majestically striding dance of the Baroque, the Sarabande, sweep along, hand in hand.