Harpsichord SKU: FG.55011-499-9 Composed by Jyrki Linjama. Fennica Gehrma...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
FG.55011-499-9
Composed by Jyrki
Linjama. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-499-9. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-499-9).
ISBN
9790550114999.
Sona
ta da chiesa III was
commissioned by Petteri
Pitko, who played the
first perfor-mance in
Kemionsaaren
Musiikkijuhlat in the
summer of 2016. The
sonata has three
movements, each of which
has a definite liturgical
character and a choral
tune as a can-tus firmus.
Hence the music can be
performed either in a
concert or as a part of
liturgy.
From
the composer's foreword:
The first movement,
Kyrie, has got an
introvert mood. The
choral melody is veiled,
an indirect part of
arpeggiated texture. The
Gloria is open, even
brilliant: the cantus
firmus is worked out to a
virtuosic, dance-like
texture. The third
movement closes the music
by means of polyphony and
bird singing. Concerning
the harpsichord, for me
it is essen-tial not to
use equal temperament:
the possibility to play
with pure or almost pure
in-tervals is crucial to
the sound, having very
high and strong
overtones.
Composed by
Rhian Samuel. Octavo.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#Y231. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.Y231).
ISBN
9790220221767.
Writ
ten for harpsichordist
Jane Chapman, and clearly
inspired by her
virtuosity, Copper
Ribbons is a
fantasy-movement of
throbbing tremolandi and
scrunchy arpeggiated
chords that both support
and intrude upon a
recitative-like 'line' of
elusive, questioning
melody. Exploiting the
instruments rich variety
of tone colours with a
Debussian passion for
texture and timbre, the
composer here creates a
miniature tone-poem,
which sustains to its
closing bars a sense of
mystery and suggestion.
The work may stand alone,
or as a pair with its
companion-piece Silver
Threads, which should
precede it.
Composed by
Rhian Samuel. Octavo.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#Y232. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.Y232).
ISBN
9790220221750.
With
Copper Ribbons,
Silver Threads is
one of a pair of virtuoso
harpsichord pieces by
Rhian Samuel, and the two
may be programmed
together or performed as
separate recital items.
The music of Silver
Threads is the
restless pursuit of a
single idea through fleet
textures, dividing an
unbroken line of melody
between the hands and
manuals throughout the
register of the
instrument.