Piano Solo - Medium

SKU: BU.EBR-A029

Composed by Claude Debussy. This edition: French Edition. Classique. Anacrouse. Partition + Biographie + Notes sur l'oeuvre. Score. Editions Bourges #EBR-A029. Published by Editions Bourges (BU.EBR-A029).

ISBN 9790560150994. 8.58 x 12.48 inches.

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Claude Debussy compose ses deux arabesques en 1888. Ces compositions font parties de la première période de son développement de l’écriture pianistique. L’avenir d’un nouveau langage se révèle dans ces pièces, par l’usage d’une conception moderne de la courbe mélodique, harmoniquement immobile. Cette conception caractérise la substance principale de l’idée d’une arabesque, si chère à Debussy.
L’arab esque n°1 revendique une forme ternaire de même que l’arabesque n°2. La première arabesque en mi majeur comporte des triolets déliés qui semblent suggérer l’évolution de son langage musical dans le traitement des arpèges et dans la facilité d’utiliser les modulations.
Dès son entrée dans le répertoire, la pièce prit une place constante dans la musique vivante. D’après Léon Vallas, sa «  souplesse fait songer à la brillante légèreté des ballets de Delibes ». Alfred Hitchkook nous fait entendre l’arabesque n°1 dans la scène du dîner dans le film « Les oiseaux� �».
La première arabesque est à l’égal d’une pièce littéraire. Cette pièce exprime à demi teinte une ardeur raffinée et réservée des sens, comme un tableau impressionniste.
Amate urs de peintures de Seurat ou de Monnet, l’Arabesque n°1 vous fera découvrir l’univers à demi mot du premier grand musicien impressionniste qu’est Claude Debussy.

Composed by Alexandre Sorel. Classical. Score and CD. 111 pages. Paul Beuscher #BESTPIA1. Published by Paul Beuscher (LM.BESTPIA1).

Selected Works. By Claude Debussy. Arranged by Wilhelm Ohmen. Schott. Size 9x12 inches. 64 pages. Published by Schott.

Violin and Piano

SKU: HL.50565192

Composed by Claude Debussy. MGB. Score Only. Composed 2001. Editions Durand #DD6896. Published by Editions Durand (HL.50565192).

Joy Of. Classical. Book Only. 80 pages. Editions Musicales Francaises #EMF100210. Published by Editions Musicales Francaises

Violin, Horn and Piano (Score & Parts) - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14042920

Composed by Hans Abrahamsen. Music Sales America. Softcover. Composed 2012. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30687. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14042920).

ISBN 9788759814185. 9.5x14.25x0.107 inches. International (more than one language).

Programm e Note My &rsquo,6 Pieces for horn, violin and piano&rsquo, was written in 1984 as a commission from the Danish Radio for a concert where Ligeti&rsquo,s Horn Trio should receive its Danish premiere played by Danish musicians. My trio is based on my work &rsquo,Studies for Piano&rsquo,. While I wrote these studies I tried to &rsquo,conjure up&rsquo, instrumental parts inside the piano movement. When I received the commission for a horn trio I turned to six of the studies and deepened them by &rsquo,screening them&rsquo, so that their parts and moods appeared in a clearer way. Furthermore I changed the order of the movements so a new unity appeared, beginning with asteadyly hesitating &rsquo,Serenade&rsquo, in slow-motion followed by the &rsquo,Arabesque&rsquo, which hardly gets started before it stops. Then &rsquo,Blues&rsquo,, a melancholy melody and &rsquo,Marcia Funebre&rsquo,, like a fossilized picture with a dramatic threatening outburst ending with a quiet but majestic melody in violin and horn, a melody that disappears in the chords of the piano. Before the last movement &rsquo,For the Children&rsquo, is a large &rsquo,Scherzo misterioso&rsquo,. Hans Abrahamsen

Six Pieces for Horn, Violin and Piano by Hans Abrahamsen.

Programme Note 

My ’6 Pieces for horn, violin and piano’ was written in 1984 as a commission from the Danish Radio for a concert where Ligeti’s Horn Trio should receive its Danish premiere played by Danish musicians. My trio is based on my work ’Studies for Piano’. While I wrote these studies I tried to ’conjure up’ instrumental parts inside the piano movement. When I received the commission for a horn trio I turned to six of the studies and deepened them by ’screening them’ so that their partsand moods appeared in a clearer way. Furthermore I changed the order of the movements so a new unity appeared, beginning with a steadyly hesitating ’Serenade’ in slow-motion followed by the ’Arabesque’ which hardly gets started before it stops. Then ’Blues’, a melancholy melody and ’Marcia Funebre’, like a fossilized picture with a dramatic threatening outburst ending with a quiet but majestic melody in violin and horn, a melody that disappears in the chords of the piano. Before the last movement ’For the Children’ is a large ’Scherzo misterioso’.

Hans Abrahamsen

Piano

SKU: SU.95010680

For Piano. Composed by Judith Lang Zaimont. Score. Subito Music Corporation #95010680. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.95010680).

Throughout our wonderful spectrum of sounds every instrument speaks in its own unique voice - in a special manner, with a special accent. Keyboard Cousins asks the developing pianist to adopt a few of these other voices using controlled varieties of touch. —Judith Lang Zaimont The Harpsichord A Harpsichord's sounds are short and a bit brittle. So use a detached touch, and no pedal. The Guitar A Guitar's tones linger, and the instrument responds to flexing tempos. Watch for the detached, moving inner line, shared from hand to hand, while the top and bottom anchor points sustain. And note the given direction for certain arpeggios, and where the tempo loosens (especially a long ending ritard). The Harp A Harp's exuberance flourishes across its wide range. Its arabesques build up resonance over time, so watch how the pedaling matches the phrasing. Though the meter twice switches from triple to duple, there are the same steady 2 beats in every bar.Keyboard Cousins is included in Piano Premieres, Volume 1 (Cat.# 96010590), New music for developing pianists. Piano Duration: ca. 5' Composed: 2020 Published by: Subito Music Publishing.

Piano and orchestra

SKU: FG.55011-372-5

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Study score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-372-5. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-372-5).

ISBN 9790550113725.

Imag es of the sea figure prominently throughout my life and memories: from holidays on the Atlantic coast during my Canadian childhood to my current Baltic home, and the imagined, only later experienced Mediterranean of my ancestral heritage. As an immigrant (son of an immigrant) bound to two northern countries, the sea is emblematic of my twin homelands, from the expanses of water surrounding them to those separating them. A Mari usque ad Mare. The sea is also an enduring image of the unknown, of expanses unexplored, of the raw power of nature and, for too many currently, of terror holding a hope of refuge - or the pain of loss.
Such disparate ideas were captured for me in the seascapes of the New York painter MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom I met in 2008 during a residency on the Gulf of Mexico. Her vast, abstract, nearly monochromatic depictions of imaginary seas in wildly varying moods were the catalyst for a concerto where the piano is frequently far from a hero battling a collective, but rather acts as a channel for elemental forces surging up from the orchestra, floating - sometimes barely so - on its constantly shifting surface. There are few themes to speak of, beyond a handful of iconic ideas that periodically cycle upward. Rather, the piano's material is largely an ornamentation of the more primal rhythmic and harmonic impulses from the orchestra below - a poetic interpretation, if you will, of the more immediate experience of facing the vastness of some unknown body of water.
The title Nameless Seas is borrowed from one of Thielhelm's exhibitions, as are those of the four movements, which are bridged together into two halves of roughly equal weight - one rhapsodic and free, the other more single-minded and direct, separated only by a short breath. The opening movement, Nocturne, is predominantly calm, if brooding, darkness and light alternating throughout. Lyrical arabesques sparkle over gently lapping cross-currents in the strings and mirrored timpani, the piano's full power only rarely deployed. The waves gradually build, drawing in the full orchestra for a meeting of forces in Land and Sea, a brighter, more warmly lyrical scene that unfolds in series of dreamlike, sometimes even nostalgic visions, which for me carry strong memories of sitting on rocks above surging Atlantic waves. The third movement, Wake, is a fast, perpetual-motion texture of glinting, darting rhythms and sudden shafts of light, with a prominent part for the steel drums, limning the piano's quicksilver figurations. An ecstatic climax crashes into a solo cadenza that grows progressively calmer and more introspective rather than virtuosic. Much of the tension finally releases into Unclaimed Waters, a drifting, meditative seascape in which the piano is progressively engulfed by a series of ever-taller waves, ultimately dissolving into a tolling, rippling continuum of sound.
It has been a great privilege to realize such a long-held dream as this piece, and to write it for not one, but two great pianists. Risto-Matti Marin and Angela Hewitt, both of whose friendship and support have been unfailing and humbling, share the dedication. Nameless Seas was commissioned by the PianoEspoo festival and Canada's National Arts Centre, with the premieres in Ottawa and Helsinki led by Hannu Lintu and Olari Elts. Thanks are due also to the Jenny and Antti Wihuri fund, whose generous grant provided me with much-needed time, and Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida, the source to which I returned to do a large part of the work.

By ABRSM. For piano. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music).

Piano

SKU: BT.PBBESTPIA1

Composed by Alexandre Sorel. Classical. Score with CD. Composed 2014. 111 pages. Paul Beuscher #PBBESTPIA1. Published by Paul Beuscher (BT.PBBESTPIA1).

ISBN 9782824400433.

HAEN DEL : Rigaudon - GRIEG : Arietta, extr. des Pièces lyriques Op.12 - MOZART : Valse favorite KV606 - Mc DOWELL : Pour une rose sauvage, extr. des Woodland Sketches - MA KAPAR : Berceuse - GLINKA : Polka - COUPERIN : L'Epineuse, extr. du VIe Ordre - BACH : Musette en ré majeur BWV anh.126 - ANONYME : Marche du Petit Livre d'Anna Magdalena Bach - FUCHS : Douce Consolation Op.47 n°11 - SCHUMANN : Premier Chagrin, extr. de l'Album pour la jeunesse Op.68 - GURLITT : Petites Fleurs Op.205 - SPINDLER : Chanson sans paroles - HUMMEL : Ecossaise Op.52 n°5 - MOUSSORGSKI : Une larme - CHOPIN : Mazurka Op.67 n°2 - SCHUBERT : Valse n°6 Op.18 D145 - BEETHOVEN : Bagatelle Op.119 n°1 - SATIE :Gymnopédie n°1 - MENDELSSOHN : Chant du gondolier Op.30 n°6 - BACH : Invention 2 voix n°4 BWV 775 - FAURE : Pièce brève Op.84 n°5 - MOZART : Fantaisie en ré mineur K.397 - CHOPIN : Prélude Op.28 n°6 - DEBUSSY : Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, extr. des Children's Corner - SCRIABINE : Prélude Op.22 n°3 - SCHUMANN : L'Enfant s'endort, extr. des Scènes d'enfants Op.15 - LISZT : Consolation n°3 - DEBUSSY : Première Arabesque - BACH : Concerto italien BWV971, 2e mouvement.