Harpsichord SKU: OT.21125 Composed by Daniel Akiva. 5 short pieces for ha...(+)
Harpsichord
SKU:
OT.21125
Composed by
Daniel Akiva. 5 short
pieces for
harpsichord/cembalo.
Classical. Score. OR-TAV
Music Publications
#21125. Published by
OR-TAV Music Publications
(OT.21125).
ISBN
9789655051117. 8.27 x
11.69 inches.
The
five short movements for
solo cembalo are brief,
personal prayers that
depict how the subject
manages a range of
feelings and emotions.
The miniatures each
represent a different
emotional state:
reflection, searching,
meditation, agitation,
and resolution. Each is a
small-scale
representation of a
grand, wide-ranging
prayer of
supplication. As a
composer, performer, and
researcher of early
music, writing for
cembalo allows me not
only to express my
special connection to the
instrument and the period
in which it flourished,
but also to present its
contemporary dimensions
as a rich and versatile
instrument. The
piece was composed at the
request of Hagai Yodan,
who performs it with
great skill. Daniel
Akiva is a composer,
performer, and educator
whose performances on
guitar and lute have won
great acclaim. Mr. Akiva
graduated from the Rubin
Academy of Music in
Jerusalem in 1981, where
he studied classical
guitar with Haim Asulin
and composition with Haim
Alexander. In 1987 he
completed his studies at
the Geneva Conservatorium
in Switzerland where he
studied lute with
Jonathon Rubin and
composition with Jean
Ballisa. For many years,
he headed the Music
Department at the WIZO
High School for the Arts
in Haifa, which he
founded in 1986, and
served as the Artistic
Director of the Guitar
Gems Festival from
2006-2019. As part of his
work at WIZO High School,
he has developed a method
for teaching free
improvisation that has
been incorporated into
the music program at the
school. Mr. Akiva has
appeared in concert as a
guitarist and lutist and
given master classes in
Israel, Europe, Russia,
the United States, and
Latin America. Daniel
Akiva’s
compositional output
includes works for solo
instruments, chamber
ensembles, choir, voice
and guitar, piano, and
chamber orchestra. His
works have been recorded
on twelve CDs, the latest
of which, Malchut, was
issued by OR-TAV in
2014. A native of
Haifa whose family has
lived in Israel for over
five hundred years, he
was steeped in the
Sephardic
(Jewish-Spanish)
tradition from his youth.
Much of his compositional
output has been devoted
to a dialogue with the
music of the Sephardic
Jews. Daniel Akiva has
also maintained a
creative dialogue over
many years with the poets
and writers Amnon
Shamash, Rivka Miriam,
and Avner Peretz.
Harpsichord (Harpsichord) SKU: HL.51481381 Urtext Edition, Piano Reduc...(+)
Harpsichord (Harpsichord)
SKU: HL.51481381
Urtext Edition, Piano
Reduction. Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Edited by Matan Entin,
Norbert Mü, and
llemann. Henle Music
Folios. Classical.
Softcover. 46 pages. G.
Henle #HN1381. Published
by G. Henle
(HL.51481381).
UPC:
196288019442.
9.25x12.25x0.16
inches.
Johannes
Umbreit (piano
reduction); Michael
Schneidt (fingering) Two
copies needed for
performance It is almost
impossible to tell from
listening to them that
Bach's extremely popular
concerti for harpsichord
were probably his own
transcriptions of solo
concerti which had
originally been composed
for violin or a woodwind
instrument. The outer
movements of the second
concerto, in E major,
probably written around
1738, sparkle with joy,
while the expressive
melodic lines of the
middle movement, the
Siciliano in C-sharp
minor, transport the
listener to the realm of
his Passion music. G.
Henle Publishers presents
this repertoire standard
in an Urtext edition with
an extensive commentary.
The study edition (HN
7381) features the
complete orchestral
score; the piano
reduction (HN 1381)
contains the solo part as
well as a very playable
piano reduction of the
score prepared by
Johannes Umbreit for
practical use.
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