Harpsichord SKU: SU.80101495 For Harpsichord. Composed by Carson C...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
SU.80101495
For
Harpsichord. Composed
by Carson Cooman.
Keyboard,
Piano/Harpsichord.
Harpsichord. Score.
Zimbel Press #80101495.
Published by Zimbel Press
(SU.80101495).
Suite in Three
Movements (2021) for
harpsichord was
commissioned by Scott
Hyslop. The three
movements take their
inspiration and forms
from early models. They
combine allusions to
common practice harmony
with later harmonic and
rhythmic elements. The
first movement, Concerto,
is in a bright,
Italianate manner (not
without a bit of humor).
The animating contrast is
between ripieno
(ritornello) sections and
filigree-driven solo
episodes. The second
movement, Arioso, is a
lyric aria in which the
baroque-like principal
material is integrated
with more varied harmonic
excursions. The third
movement, Sonata, is a
vibrant binary movement
in the manner of Domenico
Scarlatti.Harpsichord
Duration: 13’
Composed: 2021 Published
by: Zimbel Press.
Harpsichord SKU: FG.55011-764-8 Composed by Esa Pietilä. Classical, co...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
FG.55011-764-8
Composed by Esa
Pietilä. Classical,
contemporary. Book.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-764-8. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-764-8).
ISBN
9790550117648.
The
title of Esa
Pietilä’s solo
harpsichord work Fata
morgana (2019) refers to
a special weather
con-dition, which creates
illusory effect of
mirage-like fairy
castle-like monuments in
the horizon of the sea.
The piece brings forth
the frightening bass
sonority on double
manual, full size
harpsichord and the
brightness on the treble
and makes a dialogue out
of them. “I got
fasci-nated by the
sonority, character and
power of the low register
sound on the instrument,
es-pecially when used in
non-traditional way and
found some kind of
especially delightful and
outlandish cluster-mud
and airy glimmering
things which seem to play
together, the com-poser
describes. The challenges
of the piece lie in
rhythmical ideas, which
are surprisingly
multi-faceted and in the
short, improvised
section.
Duration: c.
6’
Esa
Pietilän
soolo-cembalolle tehdyn
sävellyksen otsikko
Fata morgana (2019)
viittaa erityisen
sääil-miön
aiheuttamaan
illusatoriseen
kangastuksen tapaiseen
efektiin, joka tuo esiin
satulinnojen kaltaisten
rakennelmien
ilmaantumisen meren
horisonttiin. Sävellys
tuo esiin cembalon
bas-sorekisterin
pelottavuuden sekä
diskantin kirkkauden ja
käy niillä
vuoropuhelua. Haltioiduin
cembalon alarekisterin
erityisestä soinnista,
karakteerista ja
voimasta, jos sitä
käyttää hyvinkin
ei-perinteisesti.
Löysin myös
erityisen hauskasti
soivaa klusteri-mutaa ja
ilmavaa kimallusta, jotka
sointuvat yhteen,
Pietilä kuvaa
sävellystään.
Kappaleen haasteena ovat
rytmisesti
yllät-tävät ja
monitahoiset ideat
sekä lyhyt
improvisaatiojakso.