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:
Violon et Piano [Set de Parties séparées] Carl Fischer
(Three Pictures of Chassidic Life) Composed by Ernest Bloch (1880-1959). Set of ...(+)
(Three Pictures of
Chassidic Life) Composed
by Ernest Bloch
(1880-1959). Set of
performance parts for
violin and piano. With
bowings and fingerings.
14 pages. Published by
Carl Fischer.
Violin, piano SKU: FG.55011-466-1 Composed by Armas Jarnefelt. Fennica Ge...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
FG.55011-466-1
Composed by Armas
Jarnefelt. Fennica
Gehrman #55011-466-1.
Published by Fennica
Gehrman (FG.55011-466-1).
ISBN
9790550114661.
Arma
s Jarnefelt (1869-1958)
was a Finnish composer
and conductor. Jarnefelt
studied in Berlin in
1890-91 with Albert
Becker as his teacher. In
addition to composing
studies, Jarnefelt fully
enjoyed the life that a
bustling metropolis could
offer to a young man -
concerts, operas, cafe
life etc. Romanze,
composed for Geraldine
Morgan, was premiered in
Helsinki in February
1892. According to
critics (notably Bis
Wasenius) the work was
un-Finnish, perhaps
echoing the continental
winds Jarnefelt had
experienced in Berlin.
That aside, Jarnefelt's
future brother-in-law,
Jean Sibelius, analyzed
the Romanze in a letter
to his fiancee, Aino,
sister of Armas: I think
Romanze is a fine
technical accomplishment,
even the structure works
well, given the theme as
it is. But Armas
certainly can do better
than this, he should not
waste his efforts in
small-scale [salon]
music. - Armas will find
his own way and will be
hailed as the greatest
musician of this
country..
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.
Violin and Piano SKU: HL.14003914 Composed by A.C. MacKenzie. Music Sales...(+)
Violin and Piano
SKU:
HL.14003914
Composed
by A.C. MacKenzie. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV120038.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14003914).
8.25x11.75x0.058
inches.
Benedictus
is a work of depth and
feeling that some
listeners claim
'out-Elgars
Elgar.'Composer,
conductor and educator
Alexander MacKenzie is
perhaps best known for
his Choral works and his
works inspired by
Scottish melodies and
themes, as in this
well-known work
Benedictus . Benedictus
is extracted from
Benedictus is a work of
depth and feeling that
some listeners claim
'out-Elgars
Elgar.'Composer,
conductor and educator
Alexander MacKenzie is
perhaps best known for
his Choral works and his
works inspired by
Scottish melodies and
themes, as in this
well-known work
Benedictus . Benedictus
is extracted from Six
Pieces for Violin and is
dedicated to Lady Halle.
During hislifetime - 1847
to 1935 - MacKenzie's
programmatic
Scottish-inflected work
was extremely popular,
and he is regarded as one
of those who set the
scene for the British
musical renaissance of
the late 19th century.
and is dedicated to Lady
Halle. During his
lifetime - 1847 to 1935 -
MacKenzie's programmatic
Scottish-inflected work
was extremely popular,
and he is regarded as one
of those who set the
scene for the British
musical renaissance of
the late 19th
century.
Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.48025035 Violin and...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48025035
Violin and Piano.
Composed by Brett Dean.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. 52 pages.
Duration 1020 seconds.
Bote & Bock #M202535639.
Published by Bote & Bock
(HL.48025035).
ISBN
9783793142607. UPC:
196288020790.
9.0x12.0x0.171
inches.
With Berlin
Music, Brett Dean wrote a
threefold homage: to the
classical duo consisting
of violin and piano; to
the violin virtuoso
Midori, for whom the
piece was written; and to
the city of Berlin, where
he lived between the
mid-1980s and 2000 and
whose rich cultural life
he owes much to his
development as a musician
and composer. The first
four, relatively short
movements of the
five-movement work form a
suite of character
pieces, which is followed
by a longer final
movement. In summary,
this turns out to be the
actual main movement from
which all motifs and
harmonies emerged in a
compositional manner.
This includes tuning down
the G side by a whole
tone - an apparently
small difference, but one
that has a major effect
on the timbre and
resonance of the
instrumentand suddenly
makes previously
impossible interval
sequences playable. In
addition, the violin in
the third movement (a
moto perpetuo in which
Dean bows to Ravel's
violin sonata) has to
play with a practice
damper, while the pianist
changes the instrument
and plays on a standing
piano that is dampened by
a pedal and placed next
to the concert grand
Expressing nervous energy
in tight college
spaces.
Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Edited by Celine Dreze. This edit...(+)
Composed by Camille
Saint-
Saens (1835-1921). Edited
by
Celine Dreze. This
edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext.
Transcription for Violin
and
Piano by the Composer.
Performance score, Part
(1).
Opus 40. Baerenreiter
Verlag
#BA10941. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
Violin SKU: HL.48180261 For Violin and Piano. Composed by George F...(+)
Violin
SKU:
HL.48180261
For
Violin and Piano.
Composed by George
Frideric Handel. Arranged
by Georges Catherine.
Leduc. Baroque.
Softcover. 6 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL17008.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.48180261).
UPC: 888680846213.
9.75x12.5
inches.
G.F. Handel
(1685-1759) is considered
as one of the greatest
composers to have ever
lived. Therefore, when
violinist, Georges
Catherine arranged
Short March for
violin and piano, it was
very well-received.
G.F.Handel was a
German-born baroque
composer who spent the
majority of his life in
England. His works remain
ever popular to this day
and Catherine's
transcription of Short
March for violin and
piano ensure that the
composer's much loved
works are more
accessible. For all
violinists, this
Catherine arrangement of
Handel's Short
March is
essential.
Violin and Piano (Violin/Piano) SKU: HL.14043856 Composed by Howard Blake...(+)
Violin and Piano
(Violin/Piano)
SKU:
HL.14043856
Composed
by Howard Blake. Arranged
by David Mather. Music
Sales America.
TV-Film-Musical-Show.
Softcover. Composed 2005.
Chester Music #CH76901.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14043856).
ISBN
9781849385626.
R
aymond Briggs' charming
Christmas story about the
adventures of a boy and
the snowman that comes to
life is a modern
children's classic. The
tales popularity has been
further enhanced by
frequent television
broadcasts of
theaward-winning cartoon
film The
Snowman.
In this suite for
Violin and Piano,
composer Howard Blake
recreated the story in
music based on the scenes
from the film. The music
includes the hit
songWalking In The
Air.
Violin, piano SKU: BR.EB-9386 Urtext. Composed by Joachim Raff. So...(+)
Violin, piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9386
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Solo
instruments. Edition
Breitkopf. Sonata;
Romantic. Sheet Music.
Duration 27'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9386.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9386).
ISBN 9790004188569. 0
x 0 inches.
The
Violin Sonata No. 1 in E
minor, op. 73, a Grand
Sonata for Violin and
Piano, occupies an
important position in
Joachim Raff's oeuvre: it
reflects numerous
artistic, aesthetic,
biographical, and
reception-historical
aspects characteristic of
Raff. The work was
composed in Weimar in
1854, when Raff was going
through a process of
artistic self-discovery.
He increasingly distanced
himself from his mentor
Franz Liszt and
intensively explored
Wagner as well as the
ideal of absolute music -
this is also reflected in
the music of the sonata.
While Raff described the
first two movements as
objectified, he perceived
the last two movements as
a piece of him, that is,
not free of extra-musical
influences.The 1st
movement, with its
expansive main theme, is
reminiscent of
Mendelssohn; the 2nd
movement reveals the
refinement of
classical-romantic work
with musical material.
The 3rd movement, with
its partly rhythmic,
virtuoso accompanying
figures and harmonically
advanced passages, allows
a deeply romantic, almost
tormented insight into a
soul life a la Sturm und
Drang. The partly
irascible last movement
revisits already familiar
themes and thus creates a
musical framework.In
collaboration with the
Joachim-Raff-Archiv
Lachen (CH)
First
Urtext Edition of the
Grand Sonata for Violin
and Piano.