Violin and piano SKU: LM.26850 Composed by Jean Marc Allerme. Pop, jazz. ...(+)
Violin and piano
SKU:
LM.26850
Composed by
Jean Marc Allerme. Pop,
jazz. Score and CD.
Editions Henry Lemoine
#26850. Published by
Editions Henry Lemoine
(LM.26850).
ISBN
9790230968508.
In
the Emilie's Eyes - For a
blue note - You miss her
- Ballad for Jodie - I
prefer the Blue - To sing
for heaven - He would
like that - Michel lives
in USA - Romantic tune -
The End for Eddy - I'll
be in the show -
Ongobongo's star - Ernie
is coming back -
Modernesk - Just for
Babe.
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Clive Brown. This edit...(+)
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827).
Edited
by Clive Brown. This
edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext.
Performance score,
Part(s)
(2). Opus 24.
Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA10937.
Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Clive Brown. This edit...(+)
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827).
Edited
by Clive Brown. This
edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext.
Performance score,
Part(s)
(2). Opus 47.
Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA10938.
Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
For Violin and Piano. Composed by Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904). Edited by Wo...(+)
For Violin and Piano.
Composed by Antonin
Dvorak
(1841-1904). Edited by
Wolfgang Birtel. Arranged
by
Friedemann Eichhorn. This
edition: Saddle
stitching.
Sheet music. String Solo.
Dvoraks Romantic Pieces
are
a welcome addition to the
violin repertoire and a
very
effective alternative to
Dvorak's large-scale
violin
works, the Concerto in A
minor and Romance in F
minor.For this edition
reference has been made
to a
copy of the origina.
Classical. Score and
part.
Op. 75. 28 pages. Schott
Music #ED 22395.
Published
by Schott Music
Composed by Clara Wieck- Schumann (1819-1896). Edited by Jacqueline Ross. This ...(+)
Composed by Clara Wieck-
Schumann (1819-1896).
Edited
by Jacqueline Ross. This
edition: urtext edition.
Stapled. Barenreiter
Urtext.
Performance score, Parts
(2).
Opus 22. Baerenreiter
Verlag
#BA10947. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
For Violin and Piano. By Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by S. Brandenburg. This ed...(+)
For Violin and Piano. By
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Edited by S. Brandenburg.
This edition: HN291.
Violin. Henle Music
Folios. Pages: Score = 24
* Vl Part = 8. Urtext
edition-paper bound. 32
pages. Published by G.
Henle
Figured Bass Realization by S. Petrenz. By French Violin Music Of The Baroque Er...(+)
Figured Bass Realization
by S. Petrenz. By French
Violin Music Of The
Baroque Era. Edited by G.
Meyn-Beckmann. Violin.
Pages: Score = IX and 63
* Vl Part = 28 * BC Part
= 24. Urtext
edition-paper bound.
Published by G. Henle.
Violon et Piano - Intermédiaire MorningStar Music Publishers
Hymns to the Creator: Two Arrangements for Violin and Piano by Duane Funderburk....(+)
Hymns to the Creator: Two
Arrangements for Violin
and Piano by Duane
Funderburk. For piano,
violin. General.
Moderately Difficult.
Piano score and
reproducible parts.
Published by MorningStar
Music Publishers
Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Edited by Fabien Guilloux and Fra...(+)
Composed by Camille
Saint-
Saens (1835-1921). Edited
by
Fabien Guilloux and
François
de Médicis. This
edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Performance score, Part.
Opus
102. Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA10958. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.164002390 Composed by Dan W...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.164002390
Composed
by Dan Welcher. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation.
Composed 1995. 26+14+14
pages. Duration 14
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #164-00239.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.164002390).
UPC:
680160038091.
I
became interested in the
work of Plato through my
friend and collaborator,
the writer and
philosopher Paul
Woodruff. Paul's new
translation, with
Alexander Nehamas, of the
Symposium gave me
insights into ancient
Greek ways of thinking
about Love, Beauty, and
Wisdom -- and managed to
keep the earthy, and
often bawdy side of it
all in full view. But
their new translation of
Plato's later dialogue
Phaedrus went even
further: the beauty of
the speeches is
breathtaking, and the
discourse itself is
enough to keep one awake
at night. Basically the
Great Speech of Socrates
in the Phaedrus dialogue
has to do with the place
of Eros in the world, and
with the conflict in the
soul between fleshly
pleasure and philosophic
discovery. I will not
attempt to encapsulate
this brilliant discourse
in a program note:
suffice it to say that
reading it gave rise to
my two-sided work for
clarinet, violin, and
piano, Phaedrus. The
first movement represents
the Philosophic life, and
is thus subtitled
Apollo's Lyre (Invocation
and Hymn). It begins with
an unaccompanied melody
for the clarinet, which
(after a pair of
harp-like flourishes for
the piano, expands into
an accompanied canon. The
voices in the dialogue
(clarinet and violin)
follow each other by a
prescribed number of
beats, but the music is
totally devoid of any
meter at all. The piano,
representing the lyre,
accompanies this lyric
love-feast with repeated
strummed chords. The
canon has three large
sections, and ends with
violin echoing the
unaccompanied clarinet
invocation as the sound
of the lyre fades. The
second movement, called
Dionysus' Dream-Orgy
(Ritual Dance) presents,
after a brief
introduction, another
kind of unmetered music.
Rather than long lyric
flights of philosophic
song, however, this time
we hear a unison dance of
unbridled energy and
sensual transport. The
piece soon forms itself
into a loose arch form,
with contrasting metered
dance sections divided by
the unison unmetered orgy
tune. Midway through the
movement, Apollo's melody
returns from the first
movement, but it is a
temporary reminiscence.
The orgiastic dance
returns, reaches a
climax, and ends with a
stomping of feet. While
Plato asserts that a
proper balance between
lust and reason is
necessary in all men, he
(naturally) gives the nod
to Philosophy as the
better choice in which to
live. Not so in my music:
the two sides are meant
to coexist and to
complement each other. No
sides are taken. Phaedrus
was commissioned of the
Verdehr Trio by Michigan
State University. It is
dedicated to the Vedehr
Trio with great affection
and admiration.
Trans
figured Life - Still
Life, Op. 165 (violin and
piano) - David
Braid
I am keen on
concise musical forms
such as Prelude and
Fugue, where there is one
clear straightforward
idea, followed by another
that is more involved and
developed.
In
keeping with that idea,
this work consists of two
distinct pieces, the
first - Transfigured Life
- aims to draw in the
listener with its quick,
dancing rhythm and
simple, melodic violin
part. It 'transfigures'
via a few short solo
piano interludes into
just two alternating
notes to end - which are
the core of the original
idea, now made clear by
clearing everything else
out of the
way.
The second
piece - Still Life -
retains its sense of
stillness through an
uncomplicated piano line
that gives lots of space
for the violin's
contrasting (but again
simple) part. As an
absolute, not
programmatic, piece the
title refers to the
atmospheric colour and
pacing only; it's up to
the listener to see
'Still life' of their
choosing in their own
mind.
A note on
performance: Despite
my reference to 'simple'
lines, and the work's
determined avoidance of
mainstream modernist
squeak - the work has
certain performance
challenges of phrasing
and ensemble that
requires considerable
skill and musicianship.
The work has had the
privilege of being
recently recorded by
violinist Ezgi
Sarıkcıoğlu and
pianist Rossitza
Stoycheva, and is
available on all major
platforms:
Violin & Orchestra Reduction (Piano). Composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1...(+)
Violin & Orchestra
Reduction
(Piano). Composed by
Claude
Debussy (1862-1918) and
Robert Orledge. Arranged
by
Robert Orledge. String.
Softcover. 34 pages.
Schott
Music #VLB214. Published
by
Schott Music
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Score and Solo Part) SKU: HL.50600469 For...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Score and Solo
Part)
SKU:
HL.50600469
For
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Krzysztof
Meyer. String. Classical,
Contemporary. Softcover.
48 pages. Sikorski
#SIK1496. Published by
Sikorski (HL.50600469).
8.25x11.75x0.14
inches.
“I
belong to that group of
people who appropriate
Debussy's wonderfully
formulated philosophy
according to which music
begins where words end.
Contrary to a view that
has become widespread
during the past 100
years, I am convinced
that the task of the
composer is to write
music, not to talk about
it. Even if my technical
and aesthetic
commentaries on one of my
compositions were to have
a certain value for
listeners, such a
commentary would have the
effect that I were more
or less forcing my own
vision of the work onto
the listener. The power
of music is, however, a
gift that makes it
capable of calling forth
different reactions in
listeners. I shall
therefore limit myself to
saying that the
'Imaginary Variations'
were inspired by the
wonderful recordings of
Janet Packer that I
listened to with the
greatest pleasure prior
to the beginning of my
work. The title is
derived from the fact
that this composition is
structured similarly to
the classical variation
form and that the
audience can listen to
the constant changes of
the musical ideas. In
truth, however, the
twelve short sections of
the work are not true
variations even though
they reveal some
connections and
similarities.â€
(Krzysztof Meyer).
Enigma Violon et Piano [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.14440516S Com...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Clarinet, Flute, Piano,
Violin
SKU:
PR.14440516S
Composed
by Robert Martin. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 44 pages.
Duration 9 minutes, 15
seconds. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40516S.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.14440516S).
UPC:
680160667864. 9 x 12
inches.
In 1979,
Martin produced a set of
three quintets, in
consideration of Gorky's
piece Nighttime Enigma
Nostalgia. Each is scored
for flute, clarinet,
violin, cello, and piano.
As the title suggests,
the music is in a state
of perpetual questioning
using a variety of
approaches. For example,
Enigma opens using
ostinati (plural of
ostinato) that do not
match in length, like a
staircase with each step
a different height.
Additionally, the music
has sudden starts and
stops, again unexplained.
There are dramatic and
powerful explosive
passages that are
interrupted. The
technique, used to create
this feeling of a
perplexed music world
where things seem often
not to make sense and to
be left unresolved, is
called in poetry and
literature, anticlimax.
In Enigma, the music
suggests one direction;
then refuses to continue,
striking out in another
direction. Artists use
approaches such as this
to force themselves into
creative circumstances
that they otherwise might
not have discovered.
(From the performance
notes.).
Chamber Music Cello, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.114423360 Composed by Stacy Ga...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
PR.114423360
Composed
by Stacy Garrop. Set of
Score and Parts. 24+12+12
pages. Duration 8:30.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-42336. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114423360).
UPC:
680160686285.
When
the Newport Music
Festival commissioned me
for a piano trio in honor
of their 2021 season, I
looked for a topic that
would celebrate an aspect
of the Newport community.
While researching the
area, I was struck by the
nine lighthouses situated
around the island. The
dual nature of
lighthouses was
particularly appealing to
me: not only do they
serve a vital role in the
navigation of ships
around rocks and land,
but they are also a
beautiful sight,
particularly at night
when their blinking
beacons are clearly
visible to the eye. It
occurred to me that
lighthouses link the past
with the present, and
will endure long into the
future, with their
beacons serving the same
purpose for every
generation.I became
fascinated with the
lighthouse on the
property of Castle Hill
Inn, located at the
opening of the East
Passage of the
Narragansett Bay. This
squat thirty-four foot
granite structure was
erected in 1890 on a very
picturesque spot, right
at the water’s
edge. Its
“characteristic,â
the nautical term
for each
lighthouse’s
unique light sequence
that allows ships to
identify the lighthouse,
is to alternate on for
three seconds, then off
for three seconds. The
lighthouse has also
served as the starting
and finish line for
numerous high profile
yacht races, as well as
survived a massive
hurricane in 1938, though
the lighthouse
keeper’s nearby
residence wasn’t
so lucky. American
novelist Thornton Wilder
wrote much of his 1973
novel Theophilus North
while staying at the
Castle Hill Inn; a
passage from the book
perfectly captures the
dual nature of
lighthouses:“At a
later visit I was able to
engage the pentagonal
room in a turret above
the house; from that
magical room I could see
at night the beacons of
six lighthouses and hear
the booming and chiming
of as many sea
buoys.â€In Beacon of
the Bay, we first hear
the lighthouse’s
characteristic as its
ruby light blinks on and
off. This is followed by
a simple theme that
represents the lighthouse
performing its solitary
duty. As the piece
progresses, we hear waves
playfully lapping around
its base, then yachts
gracefully floating by;
this is followed by a
violent storm that churns
the waves with so much
force that they crash
against the
lighthouse’s
granite body. But the
steadfast lighthouse
holds firm to the rocks,
grandly blinking its ruby
light. The music quiets
back down to its simple
theme, with yachts
sailing by once more as
the piece concludes.
Violin-solo, piano (Violin solo, Piano) SKU: BA.BA09099-92 First Versi...(+)
Violin-solo, piano
(Violin solo, Piano)
SKU: BA.BA09099-92
First Version
1844. Composed by
Felix Bartholdy
Mendelssohn. Edited by R.
Larry Todd. This edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext. Early
version 1844. Piano
reduction, Part. Opus 64.
Duration 12 hours.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA09099_92. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA09099-92).
ISBN
9790006565733. 31 x 24.3
cm inches. Key: E minor.
Preface: Larry R.
Todd.
Mendelssohn's
Violin Concerto op. 64,
is a key work of the 19th
century, adhering to the
classical style of
Beethoven while pointing
the way to the romantic
ethos of Brahms. It has
long been known that
Mendelssohn performed the
work with three soloists
in succession: Ferdinand
David, who worked closely
with the composer during
its composition and
played it at the
premiere; the 'child
prodigy' Joseph Joachim;
and Hubert Leonard, a
young Belgian virtuoso
about whom little is
known.
As proof
sheets for the Violin
Concerto in E minor were
long considered lost, it
could be described as
somewhat of a sensation
when proofs for the solo
violin part resurfaced
together with a letter
from Mendelssohn to
Leonard.
The
letter informs us that
the composer invited
Leonard to his home in
Frankfurt in order to
make his acquaintance. It
was already known that
Mendelssohn had given
proof sheets to David;
now we know that he also
gave some to
Leonard.
The
recently discovered
proofs reveal how Leonard
played the concerto with
Mendelssohn on that
memorable evening in
February 1845. Besides
containing bowing marks
and fingering, they also
show how Leonard executed
shifts of position and
where he employed open
strings. Furthermore
modifications made to
dynamic markings and
additional legato bowing
are shown.
It is
safe to assume that all
of this was done with
Mendelssohn's approval.
That the young violinist
made a positive
impression on the
composer is confirmed in
the latter's
correspondence following
their joint performance.
Mendelssohn is full of
praise for Leonard's
playing and offers to
lend his support in
finding employment in
Germany.
This
revised edition of the
Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto (only the
orchestral parts remain
unchanged) includes a
separate booklet on
performance practice.
The editor, Clive
Brown, is an acknowledged
expert on Romantic
performance
practice.
- New
source situation owing to
recently rediscovered
proofs - Revised
Urtext edition - With
a separate booklet on
performance practice
(Eng/Ger).
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Nostalgia Violon et Piano [Conducteur] Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Clarinet, Flute, Piano, Violin SKU: PR.14440517S Com...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Clarinet, Flute, Piano,
Violin
SKU:
PR.14440517S
Composed
by Robert Martin. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 20 pages.
Theodore Presser Company
#144-40517S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.14440517S).
UPC:
680160667888. 9 x 12
inches.
In 1979,
Martin produced a set of
three quintets, in
consideration of Gorky's
piece Nighttime Enigma
Nostalgia. Each is scored
for flute, clarinet,
violin, cello, and piano.
There are passages in
Nostalgia that build
using two layers, a
louder foreground and a
quieter background. Both
of these layers are
independent of specific
instruments, in other
words, the various
instruments jump in to
play a role in either
layer, then jump to the
other layer. It is as if
the ensemble has doubled.
The technical musical
term for multiple
instruments interweaving
to produce a single
thread or idea is called
Klangfarbenmelodie
(tone-color-melody).
Because there are two
layers (louder and
softer), both using this
technique, Nostalgia is a
unique example of 'double
Klangfarbenmelodie.' The
piece ends with a series
of intense rhythmic
pulsations and several
apocalyptic fanfares.
(From the performance
notes.).
Violin and Piano SKU: AY.VLP3174PM Composed by Carles M. Eroles. Strings ...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
AY.VLP3174PM
Composed
by Carles M. Eroles.
Strings - Violin. Score &
Parts. Duration 9'.
Periferia Publishing
#VLP3174PM. Published by
Periferia Publishing
(AY.VLP3174PM).
ISBN
9790543572980.
The
material introduced by
the piano of the
beginning a solo is the
one that serves of
vertebral axis of the
work, that has nearly the
form of a rondo. This
introduction is based on
isolated, naked notes,
with a constant rythm of
the eighths that create a
big intervalic space
between them. Later on,
that will be used as a
support to an espressive
melody of the violin,
that will take this
material and will expose
it in pizzicato. In this
way will be used as
accompaniment to a very
suggestive and lyric
fragment of the piano
that covers nearly all
the registers of the
instrument. This will
lead to a second section
of the work, of a very
rythmic and intense
character of both
instruments. The third
section, the most
expressive of the work,
it's iniciated with some
chords of the piano that
little by litlle
dissapear and remembers
the introduction. Here,
the violin develops a
melody of big lirism,
supported by the piano
witht he material of the
introduction, but this
time there are non
isolated notes but full
chords that disintegrate
again at the end, taking
up again the idea of a
fragment of the first
section of the piece by
means of the piano. Far
from free instrumental
effects, the work looks
mainly for a direct
communication with the
listener.
Violin & piano SKU: HH.HH423-FSP Composed by Anton Eberl. Edited by Marti...(+)
Violin & piano
SKU:
HH.HH423-FSP
Composed
by Anton Eberl. Edited by
Martin Harlow. Violin &
Piano. Full score and
parts. Duration 20
Minutes. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH423-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH423-FSP).
ISBN
9790708146247.
Eber
l's Sonata in D major,
Op. 20, the sixth of
seven sonatas with
violin, was composed
around 1803 and dedicated
to Dorothea Ertmann, the
highly regarded pianist
who many have suggested
as Beethoven's 'Immortal
Beloved', and to whom
that composer dedicated
his Piano Sonata in A
major, Op. 101. Unlike
many of Eberl's lesser
contemporaries, in its
duration, formal and
harmonic novelty, and in
the lively relationship
between the violin and
keyboard, his Op. 20
shares much of the
musical ambition and
quality of Beethoven's
works in this genre. 1803
saw the publication of
Eberl's Op. 20, and
Beethoven's set of three
sonatas with violin, Op.
30, all produced by the
Bureau des Arts et
d'Industrie firm in
Vienna. Beethoven's set
were advertised for sale
in the Wiener Zeitung in
May 1803, days after the
premiere of his Op. 47
sonata with violin (given
by George Bridgetower and
Beethoven, but later
dedicated to Rudolphe
Kreutzer). Eberl's Op. 20
was advertised in the
Wiener Zeitung six weeks
later, in July 1803.
Violin, piano SKU: BR.EB-9407 Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. Ed...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9407
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Severin Kolb and
Stefan Kagi. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
Sonata; Romantic. Score.
68 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 9407.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9407).
ISBN 9790004188811. 9
x 12 inches.
With
his Six Morceaux , Raff
created a collection of
six short pieces with the
aim of pleasantly
entertaining many a
listener and
demonstrating that he was
also capable of writing
something easy. After
all, he had made a name
for himself in the years
before with extremely
demanding chamber music
for renowned dedicatees.
The Six Morceaux ,
dedicated to the
violinist Ludwig Straus,
on the other hand, are
probably related to
Raff's teaching
activities at a private
piano school in Wiesbaden
at that time. Therefore,
with the individual
pieces varying in
difficulty they are well
suited for violin lessons
without losing any of
their musical ambition.
The most famous piece is
probably the Cavatina.
Arranged for various
scorings during Raff's
lifetime, it continues to
be one of the most
popular Encore pieces
altogether - Fritz
Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin
and Itzhak Perlman have
made recordings of the
piece. They say that a
piano quintet version was
even heard on the Titanic
. This modern Urtext
edition is based on the
first printing,
supervised and initiated
by Raff himself. In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH).
6 Sonatas Op. 4a Violon et Piano [Conducteur] Breitkopf & Härtel
Violin, piano SKU: BR.EB-8327 Urtext. Composed by Tommaso Giordani...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
BR.EB-8327
Urtext. Composed
by Tommaso Giordani.
Edited by Martin Lutz.
Solo instruments;
Softcover. Edition
Breitkopf. Tommaso
Giordani wrote sonatas -
here for violin or flute
- that are typical
examples of early
Classical chamber music:
their scoring is
flexible, they are fun to
play, and their technical
demands are moderate.
Sonata; Classical. Score.
48 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 8327.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8327).
ISBN 9790004176351. 9
x 12
inches.
Tommaso
Giordani wrote sonatas -
here for violin or flute
- that are typical
examples of early
Classical chamber music:
their scoring is
flexible, they are fun to
play, and their technical
demands are moderate. The
Sonatas Op. IVa show that
Giordani is a Haydn
contemporary who can
really hold his own.
Giordani's chamber-music
works with obbligato
piano were actually very
important for the
development of chamber
music. Too bad Giordani
did not contend himself
with writing more of
these enchanting ensemble
sonatas rather than
investing in dubious
opera projects and going
bankrupt. That was no way
to become a serious
Classical
composer!
Tommaso
Giordani wrote sonatas -
here for violin or flute
- that are typical
examples of early
Classical chamber music:
their scoring is
flexible, they are fun to
play, and their technical
demands are moderate.
Chamber Music violin, piano SKU: PR.144407050 Composed by James Primosch....(+)
Chamber Music violin,
piano
SKU:
PR.144407050
Composed
by James Primosch. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 28+12
pages. Duration 20
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #144-40705.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.144407050).
UPC:
680160655519. 9 x 12
inches.
Celebrating
30 years, the
Philadelphia Chamber
Music Society
commissioned a work of
20-25 minutes for violin
and piano from James
Primosch, University of
Pennsylvania professor of
music. Primosch had
originally thought to
create a new sonata, but
what developed is more
appropriately a set of
five character pieces,
two of which were
directly inspired by
poems. Five Poems was
premiered in May, 2016,
and Primosch's thoughts
are recorded at his
website:
https://jamesprimosch.com
/2016/05/10/five-poems-pr
emiere/. Upon
receiving a commission
from the Philadelphia
Chamber MusicSociety for
a violin and piano piece
in honor of its 30th
anniversary, myplan was
to write a sonata, a term
suggesting a relatively
abstractdiscourse. But as
the piece developed, the
movements struck me
ascharacter pieces rather
than music employing a
more
“symphonicâ€ap
proach. When specific
poems started to attach
themselves in my mindwith
two of the movements, the
overall title Five Poems
became clear.The title of
the second movement is a
line from Susan
Stewart’s“De
scentâ€, which deals
with Aeneas’s
visit to the underworld.
The musicis alternately
fiercely driving and
quite still, though
tense.
RobertFrost’s
Nothing Gold Can Stay
summons fleet scale
passages framinglyrical
counterpoint. The
remaining movements do
not refer to
specificpoems, but have
titles reflecting their
expressive tone.
Dreamscape ismusing with
an improvisatory violin
line over shifting pairs
of pianochords. Nightsong
is a bluesy lullaby that
turns highly
dramatic.Vision begins
with a closely argued
struggle but breaks
through tosomething
spacious and clear.
(Movements I and II Arranged for Violin and Piano). By Igor Fyodorovich Stravins...(+)
(Movements I and II
Arranged for Violin and
Piano). By Igor
Fyodorovich Stravinsky.
Arranged by David
Dutkanicz. For violin
piano. 8 2 pages.
Duration 7 minutes.
Published by Carl Fischer
Violin, piano SKU: FG.55011-785-3 Stringendo - Aikamme musiikkia viulu...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
FG.55011-785-3
Stringendo - Aikamme
musiikkia viululle ja
pianolle. Composed by
Various. Classical,
contemporary. Score &
part. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-785-3. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-785-3).
ISBN
9790550117853.
Fenn
ica Gehrman the music
publisher pays tribute to
its composers with this
20th-anniversary
collection of commissions
for violin and piano.
Stringendo - Contemporary
works for violin and
piano (2022) is a
collection of ten pieces,
which vary greatly as
regards their genesis.
That by Harri Wessman is
playful and exhilarating;
Mikko Heiniö wrote his
on Women's Day, while the
duets by Kalevi Aho and
Matthew Whittall are
tributes to the late
Jaakko Kuusisto.
Einojuhani Rautavaara is
also represented, in an
arrangement for violin
and piano of his
plaintive, melodic
Sydämeni laulu (The
Song of my Heart). The
title of Lotta
Wennäkoski's work,
Vestige, is a fitting
symbol for the whole
collection.
Short
introductions to the
pieces by their composers
are included in the
collection in English,
Finnish, and
Swedish.
Contents<
br>Kalevi Aho (b. 1949):
Le Tombeau de J.
K. Einojuhani
Rautavaara (1928-2016):
Sydämeni laulu - Song
of my heart Mikko
Heiniö (b.1948):
Naisten päivä -
Women's Day Jyrki
Linjama (b. 1962): De
Profundis I Lotta
Wennäkoski (b. 1970):
Vestige Matthew
Whittall (b.1975):
Waiting to hear Olli
Kortekangas (b. 1955):
Capriccietto Harri
Wessman (b.1949):
Giocoso Veli-Matti
Puumala (b. 1965):
Édera IV Kimmo
Hakola (b.1958): A Double
Jubilee.
Aurea Luce Violon et Piano [Conducteur] University Of York Music Press
Violin and Piano SKU: BT.MUSM570366552 Composed by Sadie Harrison. Classi...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
BT.MUSM570366552
Composed by Sadie
Harrison. Classical.
Score Only. University of
York Music Press
#MUSM570366552. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570366552).
English.
Aurea
Luce was written at the
request of Madeleine
Mitchell and Geoff Poole
by way ofcelebrating my
50th birthday at a
concert in my home town
of Shaftesbury, Dorset.
The work is based on a
plainsong melody sung as
a hymn for the Feast of
St. Peter s Chair in
Rome, reflecting the
dedication of the church
in which the premiere
took place. I started
writing the work on
International Women s Day
2015 and it was
serendipitous that
thehymn s text is
ascribed very unusually
to a 5th century female
author, Elpis (reputedly
the first wife of the
philosopher Boethius).
The title translates as
..with golden light.. and
in context within the
verse it reads as: Aurea
luce et decore roseo,lux
lucis, omne perfudisti
seculum, decoran caelos
inclito martyrio hac
sacra die, quae dat reis
veniam (The Poissy
Antiphonal, fol. 412v)
(The beauteous light of
Eternity hath ooded with
blissful res this golden
day which crowns the
Prince of the Apostles,
and gives unto the guilty
a free way to heaven).
Duration: c. 9
minutes.
Chamber Music Clarinet, Piano, Violin SKU: CF.MXE71 Composed by Martin Br...(+)
Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano, Violin
SKU:
CF.MXE71
Composed by
Martin Bresnick. SWS.
Contemporary. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 23+6+5
pages. Carl Fischer Music
#MXE71. Published by Carl
Fischer Music (CF.MXE71).
ISBN 9781491144749.
UPC: 680160902248. 9 x 12
inches.
The day
that Australian and New
Zealand forces joined the
Allies for an invasion of
the Gallipoli Peninsula
of Turkey in World War I,
with disastrous
consequences, is
celebrated in Australia
as Anzac Day (Australian
and New Zealand Army
Corps). To honor this
special day, Bresnick
takes inspiration from
two selected poems by
Bertolt Brecht (And I
Always Thought and Legend
of the Unknown Soldier
Beneath the Triumphal
Arch). Commissioned to
commemorate
Australia’s Anzac
Day, similar to Memorial
Day, and inspired by two
Brecht poems…The
somber opening violin and
clarinet lines unfolded
to haunting effect before
eventually reaching a
fervent climax. --Vivien
Schweitzer, The New York
Times.