Piano SKU: DB.01-00681 Fur Klavier, Theremin und Electronica. Comp...(+)
Piano
SKU:
DB.01-00681
Fur
Klavier, Theremin und
Electronica. Composed
by Gernot Wolfgang.
Keyboard music. 19 pages
pages. Doblinger Music
Publishers #01-00681.
Published by Doblinger
Music Publishers
(DB.01-00681).
ISBN
9790012200284.
Cont
emporary Classical meets
Jazz
Grooves.
Theremin'
s Journey is quite
different. True, there is
a piano - which plays
bluesy, filmic, generally
quite unmemorable music -
but add in the theremin
and pre-recorded
electronics and the
listener is off on a
bizarre jazz meets sci-fi
meets film-pop journey.
The high-pitched spooky
whine of the theremin is
unmistakable, and
unforgettable in small
doses, as here; the work
was in fact commissioned
by Joanne Pearce Martin,
who plays both theremin
and piano. This track
actually carries a
'health' warning on the
cover: Crackles are part
of the electronic track
and are intentional: the
CD is not defective! As
it happens, the crackling
is not particularly
noticeable, and in
general the electronics
are atmospheric and
additive in combination
with the theremin.
Especially the first and
last two or three minutes
of the 'journey' are
really quite fascinating
musically.
(musicweb-international.c
om, May 2011) //
Theremin's Journey places
that curiously
otherworldly instrument
and piano in cheeky
avant-garde tandem with
electronic
sonorities...(GRAMOPHONE,
August 2011).
11 Miniaturen. Composed by Claus Kuhnl. Edition Breitkopf. In these eleven s...(+)
11 Miniaturen. Composed
by
Claus Kuhnl. Edition
Breitkopf.
In these eleven short
piano
pieces, the composer
follows
the cue of such
modern-day
masters as Olivier
Messiaen,
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Helmut
Lachenmann and Nicolaus
A.
Huber.
Pedagogical. Breitkopf
and
Haertel #EB-9175.
Published
by Breitkopf and Haertel
Chamber Music Piano SKU: PO.PEL12 Composed by Douglas Lilburn. Performanc...(+)
Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PO.PEL12
Composed by Douglas
Lilburn. Performance
Score. Promethean
Editions #PEL12.
Published by Promethean
Editions (PO.PEL12).
ISBN
9781776605521.
This
volume contains Lilburn's
two piano sonatinas.
Sonatina No.1 (1946)
combines geometric
patterning of classical
forms with the
distinctive simplicity of
colour and line that the
composer so admired in
the work of the
regionalist painters. The
first movement hymns a
fundamental vitality
– a fresh
start in the morning land
that is New Zealand; an
almost geological majesty
pervades the second
movement and a three-note
motive sets the finale in
motion. Composed in
the Autumn of 1962,
Sonatina No.2, together
with Symphony No.3,
provides the fullest
expression of Lilburn's
last notated music before
he turned to the
electroacoustic medium.
Spare, elegant and
eloquent, both the
sonatina and the symphony
are rich and distinctive
works that maintain a
tension that keeps them
taut as cords in our
collective memory.
Although the pianists who
know the sonatina so well
from the inside talk of
its subtleties, beauty,
delicacy and meaning, it
will always be a work of
immediate appeal, a work
that is as much a delight
to listen to as to play,
a work that can be
enjoyed as pure
music.
