| Dies Irae Chorale 3 parties SSA, Piano Carl Fischer
Choral SSA Choir and Piano SKU: CF.CM9716 Day of Wrath. Composed b...(+)
Choral SSA Choir and
Piano SKU:
CF.CM9716 Day of
Wrath. Composed by
David (D) Smith. 12
pages. Duration 0:01:57.
Carl Fischer Music
#CM9716. Published by
Carl Fischer Music
(CF.CM9716). ISBN
9781491160954. UPC:
680160919550. Key: D
minor. Latin. Early Latin
Text. This text is
taken from the Dies Irae
Sequence from the Requiem
Mass. It is a
contemplation of the
arrival of judgment day.
The A-sections, mm. 1-29
& mm. 43-end, are a
manic depiction of the
fierce wrath of judgment
day. They should be sung
with fire, crisp
consonants while always
enunciating the accents
in order to realize the
full effect of this
powerful text. The entire
demeanor of the tone and
facial expressions should
change for the B-section,
mm. 30-42 as it is a plea
for mercy. The audience
should realize the change
in this contrasting
section. Translation Dies
irae, dies illa: Day of
wrath, that day Solvet
saeclum in favilla: shall
dissolve the world into
embers Teste David cum
Sibylla: As David
prophesied with the
Sibyl. Voca me cum
benedictis :Call me to be
with the blessed. Salva
me fons pietatis : Save
me, fount of pity. The
Sibyl is a reference from
a Greek word, which means
Prophetess. In this
context, the word appears
in plural, referring to
many prophetesses. David,
or King David, has long
been considered prophetic
among biblical scholars.
About the Arranger D.
Farrell Smith is the
Director of Choirs at
Hilldale Middle School,
and Hilldale High School
in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He
holds a B.A. in Music
Education and the M.A. in
Theological Studies.
Currently the Minister of
Music at Eastern Heights
Baptist Church, he has
been a Music educator and
Minister for 20 years.
Mr. Smith studied with
Dr. Gary Foster and Dr.
Donald Studebaker and has
performed under such
notables as R. Evan
Copley, Daniel Pinkham,
Lloyd Pfautsch, and Bev
Henson. This text is
taken from the Dies Irae
Sequence from the Requiem
Mass. It is a
contemplation of the
arrival of judgment day.
The A-sections, mm. 1-29
& mm. 43-end, are a manic
depiction of the fierce
wrath of judgment day.
They should be sung with
fire, crisp consonants
while always enunciating
the accents in order to
realize the full effect
of this powerful text.
The entire demeanor of
the tone and facial
expressions should change
for the B-section, mm.
30-42 as it is a plea for
mercy. The audience
should realize the change
in this contrasting
section.TranslationDies
irae, dies illa: Day of
wrath, that daySolvet
saeclum in favilla: shall
dissolve the world into
embersTeste David cum
Sibylla: As David
prophesied with the
Sibyl.Voca me cum
benedictis :Call me to be
with the blessed.Salva me
fons pietatis : Save me,
fount of pity.The
“Sibyl†is a
reference from a Greek
word, which means
Prophetess. In this
context, the word appears
in plural, referring to
many prophetesses. David,
or King David, has long
been considered prophetic
among biblical
scholars.About the
ArrangerD. Farrell Smith
is the Director of Choirs
at Hilldale Middle
School, and Hilldale
High School in Muskogee,
Oklahoma. Â He holds a
B.A. in Music Education
and the M.A. in
Theological Studies.
Currently theÂ
Minister of Music at
Eastern Heights Baptist
Church, he has been a
Music educator and
Minister for 20 years.
Mr. Smith studied with
Dr. Gary Foster and Dr.
Donald Studebaker and has
performed under such
notables as R. Evan
Copley, Daniel Pinkham,
Lloyd Pfautsch, and Bev
Henson. $2.50 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Death may dissolve Chorale SATB SATB divisi Sulasol
| | |
| Retrospektive Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Edition HH
String quartet SKU: HH.HH462-FSP Composed by Ming Wang. String Quartet. F...(+)
String quartet SKU:
HH.HH462-FSP Composed
by Ming Wang. String
Quartet. Full score and
parts. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH462-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH462-FSP). ISBN
9790708146711. Cica
da larvae live
underground for years,
creeping about slowly and
peacefully in the
darkness until that
sudden, beautiful brief
moment when, one warm,
damp summer’s eve,
they emerge,
metamorphosed into a
highly mobile life form.
Gaily they dance in the
sunshine, singing
ardently to the trees in
all their greenery ---
but only for a short
while, for, just as
suddenly, they are gone.
The same process repeats
year upon year. The life
cycle of this string
quartet resembles that of
the cicada. Initially,
two embryonic cells
remain hidden within
dense, gloomy
note-clusters; over time
they evolve into buds,
grow and then blossom.
They appear for the first
time in their adult form
in the fast middle
section, where they
assume the shape of two
very popular Chinese folk
melodies, Jasmine and Old
Six Blows, albeit in
wholly chromaticized and
defamiliarized variants.
After their grand
efflorescence, these
forms gradually dissolve
into transparent wisps of
sound. $31.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Monumentum, Music for string sextet Kunzelmann
2 violins, 2 violas, 2 celli - Level 6 SKU: KU.GM-1911 Composed by David ...(+)
2 violins, 2 violas, 2
celli - Level 6 SKU:
KU.GM-1911 Composed
by David Philip Hefti.
Edited by David Philip
Hefti. Bach format (230 x
302). In A Folder. Full
score, parts. 78 pages.
Duration 19 minutes.
Edition Kunzelmann
#GM-1911. Published by
Edition Kunzelmann
(KU.GM-1911). ISBN
9790206202384. 9 x 12
inches. Monu
mentum, Music for
String Sextet, was
written in 2014 to a
commission from the
Moritzburg Festival, The
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center New York
and the Kathe Kollwitz
House in Moritzburg. It
is dedicated to the
cellist Jan Vogler. The
world premiere took place
on 19 August 2014 at the
Moritzburg Festival,
performed by Timothy
Chooi & Mira Wang
(violins), Roberto Diaz
& Hartmut Rohde
(violas), Jan Vogler
& Harriet Krijgh
(cellos). The American
premiere took place on 7
May 2015 in the Lincoln
Center with the Amphion
String Quartet, the
violist Yura Lee and the
cellist Jan
Vogler.
The
String
Sextet Momentum<
/em> commemorates
the outbreak of the First
World War, the death of
Peter Kollwitz –
who died as a volunteer,
aged just 18, in the
early weeks of the war
– and the manner in
which his mother, the
artist Kathe Kollwitz,
mourned the loss of her
son. The artist worked
through her pain by
creating her most famous
sculpture, The
Mourning Parents. It
stands today at the
German soldiers’
cemetery at Vladslo in
western Flanders, where
her son Peter also lies
buried. During the 18
years that she worked on
the Parents
, Kathe Kollwitz attended
several concerts at the
Volksbuhne in Berlin,
where from January to
February 1927 she heard
Arthur Schnabel’s
cycle of all the
Beethoven piano sonatas.
Schnabel performed the
Sonata op. 111 in c minor
on 26 February 1927, and
this work touched her in
particular, as we can
read in her diary:
“The strange
flickering notes turned
into flames – a
moment of rapture, taking
one into a different
sphere, and the heavens
opened almost as in the
Ninth (Symphony). Then
one found one’s way
back – but it was a
return after having been
assured that there is a
heaven. These notes are
serene – confident
– and good. Thank
you, Schnabel!”
This encounter with
Beethoven’s last
sonata inspired the
artist to take up work
again on her sculpture
after a long interruption
and to consider different
possibilities for
arranging the two
figures. For this reason,
the first minutes
ofMomentum
are derived from this
sonata by Beethoven
– though without it
being quoted in an
audible manner –
and they leave their mark
on the form of the
Sextet. The number 18 and
the date of Peter
Kollwitz’s death
(23 October 1914) also
have a direct impact on
the work’s
dramaturgy. This music is
mostly calm in nature,
but is time and again
interrupted unexpectedly,
being disturbed by unruly
sounds and vehement
eruptions until time
itself seems to dissolve
in an aleatoric passage.
The work ends with an
extended lament on
“seed corn should
not be ground”, a
line from
Goethe’s W
ilhelm Meister’s
Journeyman Years.
Kathe Kollwitz often
quoted this phrase to
argue for peace, and also
took it as the title for
a lithograph that she
made in 1942. -
David Philip
Hefti $89.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Qua Resurget Ex Favilla Cor anglais, Piano Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music oboe SKU: PR.114422520 Sonata for Oboe and Piano. Co...(+)
Chamber Music oboe
SKU: PR.114422520
Sonata for Oboe and
Piano. Composed by
Katherine Needleman. Set
of Score and Parts. 24+8
pages. Duration 15:45.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-42252. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114422520). ISBN
9781491134788. UPC:
680160683833. After
decades as a renowned
oboe virtuoso, Katherine
Needleman was improvising
at the piano during the
quarantine summer of 2020
when her ideas congealed
in a powerful way. Within
a week she completed a
16-minute oboe sonata
inspired by the
world’s
overlapping crises. This
riveting three-movement
sonata bears the title
qua resurget ex favilla,
drawn from the Dies Irae
text referring to rising
back from ashes.
Needleman won the
International Double Reed
Society’s
Inaugural Commissioning
Competition by entering
her own recording of this
work, performing as
both oboist and pianist
from her living room. As
a result, IDRS
commissioned her to
compose a new work for
English horn and piano
which was premiered at
their 2021 Virtual
Symposium and programmed
for the live 2022
convention. I’m
not exactly sure how, in
a life consumed by music,
I never put anything on
paper between the time I
stopped at age 10 and the
age of 42. I mean, I have
some ideas why, but that
could easily dissolve
into a feminist manifesto
or a condemnation of my
musical education and the
overwhelming culture of
American oboe playing,
the vehicle through which
I’ve made a living
my entire adult life.
Rather than go there, I
will just say this is the
first piece I put on
paper in my adult
life.Six months into
COVID-19 lockdown in the
US, the world was feeling
pretty weird. I had
familiarized myself with
the music notation
program, Sibelius, for
recent arranging
projects. I had written
some mockeries of A.M.R.
Barret oboe etudes in
response to an assignment
I was given (and did
appropriately first).
When I descended into a
dark chorale in the
middle of the fourth
mockery, I realized I
needed a new vehicle. I
wrote a short, ridiculous
piece for my
husband’s
birthday, and then, the
next night, when
improvising at the piano,
like I’ve done
since I was seven years
old, this piece came to
me. However, this time, I
sketched it out into
Sibelius. Over the course
of the next week, I found
notating and picking
permanent, official notes
to enter into the
computer challenging. But
it was all done on paper
in seven days, and I took
another few for dynamics
and articulations
thinking they might be
useful for someone else,
if I would ever be lucky
enough for someone else
to play it.I don’t
have much to say about
the music of qua resurget
ex favilla itself.
It’s a personal
statement couched in the
feelings of that time.
The US presidential
election was looming
large and ugly in my
mind, well, that and the
end of life as we knew
it, but I also had some
bizarre feeling that
everything would be
okay. $24.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| In Flanders Fields Chorale SATB SATB, Piano Hal Leonard
Judith Clurman Choral Series. Composed by Robert Beaser. Judith Clurman Choral...(+)
Judith Clurman Choral
Series.
Composed by Robert
Beaser.
Judith Clurman Choral
Series.
Concert, Hymn, Poetry,
Spiritual. Octavo. 16
pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
$2.50 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Pavane Trombone De Haske Publications
Trombone Ensemble - intermediate-adv SKU: HL.44004736 Pour une infante...(+)
Trombone Ensemble -
intermediate-adv SKU:
HL.44004736 Pour
une infante defunte.
Composed by Maurice
Ravel. Arranged by Gerard
de Krom. De Haske
Ensemble. Educational
Tool. Set. Composed 1991.
12 pages. De Haske
Publications #910280.
Published by De Haske
Publications
(HL.44004736). ISBN
9789043142298. UPC:
073999969184.
International (more than
one language). This
beautiful melody is best
known as an orchestral or
piano work but the long
legato melodies adapt
ideally for the brass
ensemble. Guaranteed to
make your audience
dissolve! $17.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| L'invitation au voyage Chorale SATB SATB, Piano - Intermédiaire Carus Verlag
SSATB chorus, piano - Grade 3 SKU: CA.928200 Composed by Henri Duparc. Ar...(+)
SSATB chorus, piano -
Grade 3 SKU:
CA.928200 Composed by
Henri Duparc. Arranged by
Denis Rouger. Carus
digital: Notenausgabe als
PDF. Full Score. Composed
1880. Duration 5 minutes.
Carus Verlag #928200.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.928200). ISBN
9790007300869. Key: C
minor / c major. French.
Text: Baudelaire,
Charles. Sounds,
colors and scents can
conjure up places of
longing. During the
Romantic period, the
desire to travel and see
other places was seen as
an expression of some
inner state of mind. In
L'invitation au voyage,
the boundaries between
what is real and
imaginary seem to
dissolve in the lyrical
perception of a journey
to the inner self: There
we find nothing but order
and beauty, splendor,
peace, and
delightâ€. This is
unattainable perfection
as a place of longing,
where we are freed from
all earthly cares. A
never-ending
sixteenth-note figure in
the piano accompaniment
flickers like a
shimmering veil over
these words, which in
their poetry seem to
remove us far from our
earthly existence.
“The world falls
asleep in a warm
light!
This art
song was originally
composed not for chamber
choir, but for solo voice
and piano. Denis Rouger
has carefully adapted it
to suit the requirements
and expressive
possibilities offered by
a larger ensemble,
without losing any of the
qualities of the
original. Each part in
the choir has a melodic
line drawn from the
harmonic and rhythmic
framework. In the
process, the variety and
refinement of the choral
language combines with an
enormous flexibility in
form and expression, as
French melodies or German
art songs demand from a
soloist and
pianist.
The songs
have been recorded by the
figure humaine chamber
choir on the CD ... wo
die Zitronen blühn
(Carus 83.514). $7.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| O Ecclesia Chorale SATB SATB A Cappella Schott
Choral (SATB a cappella) SKU: HL.49044324 SATB a cappella. Compose...(+)
Choral (SATB a cappella)
SKU: HL.49044324
SATB a cappella.
Composed by Matthew
Brown. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Choral. Classical,
Contemporary. Octavo.
Composed 2008. 10 pages.
Duration 5'. Schott Music
#C 56391. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49044324). ISBN
9790001199667. UPC:
841886024380.
Latin. The text of
Hildegard von Bingen is
interpreted with
spherical and archaic
sounds. Frictions form
and dissolve, harmonies
come and go. The piece is
particularly suitable for
chamber choir, demanding
a trained ear of the
singers. $5.99 - Voir plus => Acheter | | |
| A House Divided Orchestre d'harmonie - Intermédiaire FJH
Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 2.5; Grade 3 SKU: FJ.B1539S Score On...(+)
Concert Band Concert Band
- Grade 2.5; Grade 3
SKU: FJ.B1539S
Score Only.
Composed by Brian
Balmages. Concert Band.
FJH Concert Band. Based
on Abraham Lincoln's
famous speech in 1858
about slavery, this
contemplative work weaves
original material with
America to depict the
tension in the House of
Representatives. Often,
the melody to America is
altered melodically and
harmonically as mo.
Patriotic. Score.
Duration 5:00. The FJH
Music Company Inc
#98-B1539S. Published by
The FJH Music Company Inc
(FJ.B1539S).
English. Based
on Abraham Lincoln's
famous speech in 1858
about slavery, this
contemplative work weaves
original material with
America to depict the
tension in the House of
Representatives. Often,
the melody to America is
altered melodically and
harmonically as moments
of anger, rage and fear
dissolve into quirky
moments of patriotism.
The end of the work is
magical, as the words let
freedom ring are sung by
the ensemble to leave the
audience speechless.
About FJH
Concert
Band Desig
ned for high school
groups and upper-level
middle school groups.
Independence is
encouraged, but many
lines are cross-cued.
Usually includes an
expanded percussion
section. Grades 3 -
3.5 $5.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Pacman for Piano Solo (Album) Piano seul Metropolis Music Publishers
Piano Solo SKU: IS.PN7295EM Composed by Guy Van Nueten. Keyboards - Piano...(+)
Piano Solo SKU:
IS.PN7295EM Composed
by Guy Van Nueten.
Keyboards - Piano.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #PN7295EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.PN7295EM). ISBN
9790365072958. Ligh
t the fire, James.
We’ll take our
digestive by the
crackling of the hearth.
Such were the thoughts
that came to mind as I
started listening to Guy
Van Nueten’s new
record. Because, yes,
there is a certain
aristocracy to this
music. There’s the
feeling of autumn and you
immediately long to warm
yourself on the sounds
that issue from Van
Nueten's bony fingers.
But it could just as well
be a car ride through
soft rain at nightfall,
where trees become
freakish phantoms, and
here and there a villa
looms like a light
beacon. Pacman is a
record that makes you
hunt for images, films
you have seen before,
feelings you have known
and wish to relive, like
a somewhat forbidden
fruit, a secret pleasure.
Melancholy? Absolutely. A
vague sadness to make a
person purr like a
contented cat? Certainly.
Yet at the same time, Van
Nueten is cunning. While
ensuring that his music
pleases you, at the end
of some compositions
he’ll suddenly
come up with a theme that
he’ll stop
abruptly, so that the
notes remain hanging like
snapshots of aerial
acrobats in action. It is
also investigative music
as if Guy himself does
not wish to know just
where he will finish up.
There is a stubbornness
to it, an elegant fight
perhaps between composer
and pianist. It pursues
you – exactly like
a Pacman, in fact,
chomping away at digital
pieces of your heart. Yet
it never seems to
dissolve into thin air:
time and again, right
from the first listen, he
makes you long to hear
more. It is music that
should protect a person
like a secret, like an
illegal fire in a forest
that warms your hands and
fills your head with
dreams. It smells like
cedar, this piano music.
Or like a nice cigar
offered to you by the
imaginary James, who
whispers: The fire is
crackling, sir. Just as
you like it. At which
point the enchantment
begins all over
again. $23.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Vocal Eze Manuka Honey Sticks (20 Pieces) Hal Leonard
SKU: HL.1254919 Vocal Eze Voice Products. General Merchandise. Hal Leonar...(+)
SKU: HL.1254919
Vocal Eze Voice Products.
General Merchandise. Hal
Leonard #MH9950.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.1254919). UPC:
850008838064.
4.0x8.25x0.425
inches. Portable
honey sticks for your
throat's convenience.
Vocal Eze has partnered
with Arataki Apiary in
New Zealand to bring you
this delicious liquid
gold produced from the
nectar of flowers of the
Manuka Bush found native
within the beautiful
South Pacific setting of
New Zealand. The family's
honey business was
established over 75 years
ago by Percy Berry and
his son, Ian. It's always
been theirgoal to keep
traditional methods of
harvesting to ensure the
highest standard and
quality of Manuka honey.
Because it is still a
family-run business to
this day, multiple
generations are involved
in all aspects of
production, from hive to
honey pot. Arataki
prioritizes
sustainability and the
environment by using
geothermal energy to
extensively to ensure
minimal carbon footprint
during production. In
addition, Arataki honey
does not use any
chemicals in the
processing of their honey
and all of their products
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• MULTIPLE USES:
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enjoy the soothing
effects. In addition to
the sweet flavor profile,
world-renowned Manuka
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which is why it is taken
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| A House Divided Orchestre d'harmonie - Intermédiaire FJH
Concert Band Concert Band - Grade 2.5; Grade 3 SKU: FJ.B1539 Composed by ...(+)
Concert Band Concert Band
- Grade 2.5; Grade 3
SKU: FJ.B1539
Composed by Brian
Balmages. Concert Band;
MakeMusic Cloud. FJH
Concert Band. Based on
Abraham Lincoln's famous
speech in 1858 about
slavery, this
contemplative work weaves
original material with
America to depict the
tension in the House of
Representatives. Often,
the melody to America is
altered melodically and
harmonically as mo.
Patriotic. Score and
Part(s). Duration 5:00.
The FJH Music Company Inc
#98-B1539. Published by
The FJH Music Company Inc
(FJ.B1539). UPC:
674398231119.
English. Based on
Abraham Lincoln's famous
speech in 1858 about
slavery, this
contemplative work weaves
original material with
America to depict the
tension in the House of
Representatives. Often,
the melody to America is
altered melodically and
harmonically as moments
of anger, rage and fear
dissolve into quirky
moments of patriotism.
The end of the work is
magical, as the words let
freedom ring are sung by
the ensemble to leave the
audience speechless.
About FJH
Concert
Band Desig
ned for high school
groups and upper-level
middle school groups.
Independence is
encouraged, but many
lines are cross-cued.
Usually includes an
expanded percussion
section. Grades 3 -
3.5 $50.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| Klar/obskur Oboe,bassoon And Piano Performance Score Hautbois, Basson et Piano Schott
Oboe, bassoon and piano - difficult SKU: HL.49016219 Composed by Benjamin...(+)
Oboe, bassoon and piano -
difficult SKU:
HL.49016219 Composed
by Benjamin Schweitzer.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Misc. Score (also
performance score).
Composed 2006. 73 pages.
Duration 10'. Schott
Music #ED 20121.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49016219). ISBN
9790001146449. UPC:
884088202538.
9.0x12.0x0.195
inches. The
chiaroscuro-technique
developed by painters of
the Italian renaissance
served to intensify
contrasts and effects of
optical depth. In
Klar/Obskur, I tried to
transfer the general idea
of this technique on the
rather unusual
instrumentation of two
double-reed woodwinds and
piano. On the one hand, a
clear, well articulated
playing is characteristic
for these instruments, on
the other hand, they have
an often underestimated
potential of 'twilight':
air-sounds and fragile,
shady colours have a
especially attractive
when being produced by
double-reed instruments
(which are often, and
superficially regarded as
being less capable of
differentiated sounds
than flute or clarinet).
The piano, too, has a
broad bandwidth of
possibilities between
percussive and delicate
playing to complement the
woodwinds which, in
return, can absorb and
continue the fading piano
sounds.The beginning
introduces the two
contrasting elements that
form the basic material
for the piece: a clear,
sharp chord, followed by
fragile, dim sounds. The
changes between these
elements as well as their
combination and
amalgamation produce an
enormous spectrum of
colours and gesture.
After this 'motto-like'
opening follow four quite
clearly separated short
sections, each of them
being characterised by a
well-defined texture: a
partly almost
imperceptible air-sound
passage, a short sequence
of microintervallic
notes, a burst of
virtuosity and a recourse
to the fragile sounds of
the beginning.The second,
longer main part consists
of three sections merging
subtly into each other: a
short unisono-passage,
marked elastic [federnd],
is being dissolved into
its basic elements; from
these remainders, a
confrontation of low,
'arcane' bassoon and
piano sounds and a
strongly ornamented
melodic line of the oboe
emerges, leading to a
short but powerful
climax. The piece is
concluded by an extended,
relaxed epilogue,
containing a short piano
solo and a duet of oboe
and bassoon and, finally,
a quotation of the
'elastic' character of
the middle
section.Benjamin
Schweitzer. $40.00 - Voir plus => Acheter | | |
| Ein Hauch von Unzeit Breitkopf & Härtel
Voice(s) solo SKU: BR.EB-8424 (Plainte sur la perte de la reflexion mu...(+)
Voice(s) solo SKU:
BR.EB-8424
(Plainte sur la perte
de la reflexion
musicale). Composed
by Klaus Huber. Arranged
by Klaus Huber. Voice;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. You will
need a copy of BG 1002
for each player to
perform the version for
variable instrumentation
(BG 1004). Music
post-1945; New music
(post-2000). Score.
Composed 1972. 8 pages.
Duration 20'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 8424.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8424).
ISBN 9790004185254. 9
x 12 inches. World
premieres:I version for
flute: Wiesbaden, 1972II
version for piano: Nyon,
1972III version for var.
insts.: Cologne, May 29,
1976VI version for
accordeon: Fribourg, June
25, 1987VIII version for
violoncello Tokyo:
October 14, 1989X version
for organ: Stuttgart,
March 28, 2018This work
(A Breath of the
Untimely) was first
written for solo Flute
and dedicated to Aurele
Nicolet. Its bears the
subtitle Lament on the
Loss of Musical Thought -
some Madrigals for Solo
Flute or Flute with any
other Instruments. This
serves as a playing
instruction but doubles
at the same time as an
outmoded programme: it
refers back to the
musical origin of the
opening lamenting motif,
a tradition which was
once of its time but is
not of our time - namely
the Lamento genre which
gave the title to the
Chaconne in Purcell's
opera Dido and Aeneas.
Almost simultaneously I
wrote a second version
for Piano (for Piano
one-and-a-half hands),
which already formulates
possible approaches for
the performer, in some
detail, to the indicated,
quasi-canonic version of
the piece in the
programme. The multiple
version Ein Hauch von
Unzeit III realizes a
concrete version of a
formal state which floats
between strict canon and
aleatoric principles:
each of the musicians who
are spread throughout the
hall introduces their own
idiomatic translation of
the flute part. And so
the music exists,
omnipresent, not only
spatially throughout the
hall, but also formally
in a sort of fluctuating
simultaneity. For that
reason, it was my express
wish to any potential
interpreter that they
should construct entirely
their own version of the
piece. A healthy number
of musicians have
responded to my
suggestion - versions of
the piece have now been
made for guitar
(Cornelius Schwehr,
Gunther Schneider),
accordion (Hugo Noth),
double bass (Fernando
Grillo), violin
(Hansheinz Schneeberger),
viola, violoncello, and
double bass (trio basso,
Koln), violoncello
(Michael Bach), trombone
(Andrew Digby) and,
created by myself, a sung
version for voice (to
words by Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel und Max
Bense), and for viola.The
most important
requirement for the whole
piece is absolute
stillness, which should
as far as possible
emanate from the
performer. The pauses are
occasionally in this
respect the most
important element. These
may, if one can find the
necessary stillness,
become very long.Ein
Hauch von Unzeit (A
Breath of the Untimely) -
time almost
dissolves!(Klaus Huber,
1989/2014 - translation:
David
Alberman)CD:Jean-Luc
Menet (Bass flute)CD
Traversieres
120.270Jean-Luc Menet
(fl)CD STR
37039Bibliography:Zimmerm
ann, Heidy:
Zeitgestaltung im
Kompositionsprozess bei
Klaus Huber - dargestellt
anhand von Skizzen, in:
Mnemosyne. Zeit und
Gedachtnis in der
europaischen Musik des
ausgehenden 20.
Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von
Dorothea Redepenning und
Joachim Steinheuer,
Saarbrucken: Pfau 2006,
S. 90-109. $24.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| Philip Sparke : Overture For Woodwinds Sc/pt Grade 4 - Score and Parts Orchestre d'harmonie [Conducteur et Parties séparées] - Intermédiaire/avancé Anglo Music
Overture for Woodwinds (Grade 4 - Score and Parts). By Philip Sparke (1951-). Fo...(+)
Overture for Woodwinds
(Grade 4 - Score and
Parts). By Philip Sparke
(1951-). For Concert
Band. Anglo Music Concert
Band. Grade 4. Anglo
Music Press #003.
Published by Anglo Music
Press
$129.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Jost Expl Head; Voicepno. Voix Soprano, Piano Schott
Soprano voice and piano (GSG/KL) - difficult SKU: HL.49033271 Fragment...(+)
Soprano voice and piano
(GSG/KL) - difficult
SKU: HL.49033271
Fragment from Das
Urteil (The Judgement) by
Franz Kafka. Composed
by Ekkehard Jost. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Edition Schott. Composed
2004. 20 pages. Duration
7'. Schott Music #ED
9750. Published by Schott
Music (HL.49033271).
ISBN 9790001136877.
9.0x12.0x0.088 inches.
German. Kafka's
ouvre is interspersed
with moments of utter
anxiety. Moments in
which, induced by
adrenalin, the blood
pressure rises. Blood
vessels which seem to
constrict, pump enormous
quantities of blood the
pressure of which might
make one believe that the
head is going to explode.
In The Judgment, an
innocent opening story
leads to one of the most
unusual showdowns in
world literature: The
beloved father sentences
his son to death by
drowning; the son
immediately obeys since
his life, his existence
almost explodes, becomes
blurred, dissolves at the
moment the judgment is
pronounced. For me, the
'self' driving him - I
imagine this as a high
sound in the inner ear -
could only be a soprano.
This is why the actual
'fall' has turned out to
be clear, almost friendly
and why Georg only seems
to want to breathe a soft
and quiet 'Dear parents,
I have always loved you'
during the fall while no
longer keeping the
singing tone, shortly
before death, almost
casually, takes hold of
him. Christian Jost. $15.99 - Voir plus => Acheter | | |
| Critical Commentary Zyklische Sammlungen (Vol. 5) Barenreiter
SKU: BA.BA08362-01 Edited by Bernhard Hangartner, Cristina Hospenthal, La...(+)
SKU: BA.BA08362-01
Edited by Bernhard
Hangartner, Cristina
Hospenthal, Laurenz
Lütteken, Max
Schiendorfer, and
Mechthild
Sobiela-Caanitz. This
edition: Complete
edition. Linen. Das
Deutsche Kirchenlied.
Kritische Gesamtausgabe
der Melodien II/7.
Complete edition,
Critical commentary,
anthology. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA08362_01.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA08362-01).
ISBN 9790006496471.
27.5 x 20 cm
inches. Georg Anton
Benda's melodrama
,,Medea(1775) was one of
the most successful
German musical theatre
works of the late 18th
century. With a libretto
by Friedrich Wilhelm
Gotter, the work soon
became a great influence
within the melodrama
genre. For several
decades, it was performed
all over central Europe,
developing an impressive
reception history.
Between 1775 and about
1790, the melodrama was
considered an extremely
popular (albeit
controversial) part of
musical theatre, in
particular in
German-speaking regions.
Consequently, Benda's
,,Medeawas at the center
of many heated
debates.
Unlike
opera, the melodrama does
not present the libretto
in sung form, but rather,
the text is spoken and
combined with orchestral
music and scenes. The
traditional opera forms
(aria, recitative,
ensemble, chorus) are
dissolved and replaced by
a new interplay of music,
speech, and scenes. A
focus on a single
protagonist and the
quick, delicate
alternation between
spoken text and music
allows for the
development of
conflicting and
contradictory
psychological profiles
with a heightened
intensity within the
melodrama.
Near
the end of his life,
Benda revised the work
significantly, drawing
from his experience of
real performances and
their effectiveness. The
changes leading to the
new version of his
,,Medeamusic were quite
extensive, affecting
almost every single
measure: numerous details
of the part writing
(tempi, voice leading,
rhythms, accompanying
figures etc.) were
revised, the
instrumentation was
changed, middle voices
were led in a more lively
manner, and the music as
a whole was shortened and
effectively compressed.
The composer regarded the
latter, modified
,,Medeaas the authorized
version of the work. The
premiere took place in
1784 in Mannheim,
however, the altered work
received little attention
since then and has become
tangible again for the
first time with the OPERA
Edition. All previous
editions of the work -
and along with them, all
previous recordings - are
based on the earlier
version of
1775.
The third
volume of the OPERA
seriesMedeacontains a
linen-bound book and the
edirom on a USB stick in
credit card format. The
number of users permitted
to simultaneously use the
digital content of the
edition is not
limited.
For
further information
regarding the work and
the OPERA series, please
visit www.opera-e
dition.com and Takte
online $755.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.114405050 Composed by John Downey. S...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.114405050 Composed
by John Downey. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 53
pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40505.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114405050). UPC:
680160008377. 11 x 14
inches. Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique efffect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water ,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorlines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluch
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against the
sheets of sound conjured
up by the two violins
playing a flood of
swirling figures, evokes
a kind of static motion
in spae. Here, the
virtually imperceptible
manner in which this
hushed whisper continues
incessantly, can suggest
the potential fluidity
with which movement may
inch forward... Later
into the fourth movement
, two fairly extended
solos by the second and
then the first violins,
lead to a kind of
spontaneous dialogue
among the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of 'psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions. $130.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| Staeliana Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Editorial de Musica Boileau
String quartet SKU: BO.B.3542 Composed by Domenec Gonzalez de la Rubia. P...(+)
String quartet SKU:
BO.B.3542 Composed by
Domenec Gonzalez de la
Rubia. Published by
Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3542).
Staeliana was
commissioned by the
Fundacio Caixa de
Catalunya in 2007 for the
inauguration of an
exposition of the work of
Nicolas Staël at La
Pedrera, Barcelona. In
this work I wanted to
compose homage to a
painter who knew how to
join together in his
unique works both the
traditions of the past
along with the vanguard
of his time. Beginning
with figurative works
which lead toward
abstraction, his body of
work can be defined as a
contrast between these
two concepts which, with
extreme simplicity,
define his entire
artistic conception.
Staeliana, an expressive
chorale, at times both
luminous and dramatic,
dissolves into the most
minimal expression. From
the first joining
together of the voices it
concludes with utter
simplicity of expression.
The suicide of the artist
in 1955 is representative
of the dissolution of his
existence as well as of
his artistic works. This
contrast between
figurative and
abstraction is reflected
in the music by the
contrast between
stability and tension. I
believe that this duality
may be found both in his
work and in his life,
always oscillating
between living a creative
life or opting for death,
which may be seen as a
fusion in nothingness
with the plenitude of
purest simplicity. $28.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Ein Hauch von Unzeit Violoncelle Breitkopf & Härtel
Cello solo SKU: BR.EB-9074 (Plainte sur la perte de la reflexion music...(+)
Cello solo SKU:
BR.EB-9074
(Plainte sur la perte
de la reflexion
musicale). Composed
by Klaus Huber. Edited by
Michael Bach. Arranged by
Michael Bach. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf. You
will need a copy of BG
1002 for each player to
perform the version for
variable instrumentation
(BG 1004). Music
post-1945; New music
(post-2000). Score.
Composed 1972. 12 pages.
Duration 20'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9074.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9074).
ISBN 9790004179499. 9
x 12 inches. World
premieres:I version for
flute: Wiesbaden, 1972II
version for piano: Nyon,
1972III version for var.
insts.: Cologne, May 29,
1976VI version for
accordeon: Fribourg, June
25, 1987VIII version for
violoncello Tokyo:
October 14, 1989X version
for organ: Stuttgart,
March 28, 2018This work
(A Breath of the
Untimely) was first
written for solo Flute
and dedicated to Aurele
Nicolet. Its bears the
subtitle Lament on the
Loss of Musical Thought -
some Madrigals for Solo
Flute or Flute with any
other Instruments. This
serves as a playing
instruction but doubles
at the same time as an
outmoded programme: it
refers back to the
musical origin of the
opening lamenting motif,
a tradition which was
once of its time but is
not of our time - namely
the Lamento genre which
gave the title to the
Chaconne in Purcell's
opera Dido and Aeneas.
Almost simultaneously I
wrote a second version
for Piano (for Piano
one-and-a-half hands),
which already formulates
possible approaches for
the performer, in some
detail, to the indicated,
quasi-canonic version of
the piece in the
programme. The multiple
version Ein Hauch von
Unzeit III realizes a
concrete version of a
formal state which floats
between strict canon and
aleatoric principles:
each of the musicians who
are spread throughout the
hall introduces their own
idiomatic translation of
the flute part. And so
the music exists,
omnipresent, not only
spatially throughout the
hall, but also formally
in a sort of fluctuating
simultaneity. For that
reason, it was my express
wish to any potential
interpreter that they
should construct entirely
their own version of the
piece. A healthy number
of musicians have
responded to my
suggestion - versions of
the piece have now been
made for guitar
(Cornelius Schwehr,
Gunther Schneider),
accordion (Hugo Noth),
double bass (Fernando
Grillo), violin
(Hansheinz Schneeberger),
viola, violoncello, and
double bass (trio basso,
Koln), violoncello
(Michael Bach), trombone
(Andrew Digby) and,
created by myself, a sung
version for voice (to
words by Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel und Max
Bense), and for viola.The
most important
requirement for the whole
piece is absolute
stillness, which should
as far as possible
emanate from the
performer. The pauses are
occasionally in this
respect the most
important element. These
may, if one can find the
necessary stillness,
become very long.Ein
Hauch von Unzeit (A
Breath of the Untimely) -
time almost
dissolves!(Klaus Huber,
1989/2014 - translation:
David
Alberman)CD:Jean-Luc
Menet (Bass flute)CD
Traversieres
120.270Jean-Luc Menet
(fl)CD STR
37039Bibliography:Zimmerm
ann, Heidy:
Zeitgestaltung im
Kompositionsprozess bei
Klaus Huber - dargestellt
anhand von Skizzen, in:
Mnemosyne. Zeit und
Gedachtnis in der
europaischen Musik des
ausgehenden 20.
Jahrhunderts, hrsg. von
Dorothea Redepenning und
Joachim Steinheuer,
Saarbrucken: Pfau 2006,
S. 90-109
World
premiere: VIII version
for violoncello Tokyo:
October 14, 1989. $30.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| Everything That Rises Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Chester
String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.284555 String Quartet. Composed by ...(+)
String Quartet (Score)
SKU: HL.284555
String Quartet.
Composed by John Luther
Adams. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Softcover. Composed 2018.
74 pages. Chester Music
#CH87868. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.284555). UPC:
888680912901. 9x12
inches. Composers
note:
I never
imagined I would write a
string quartet. Then I
heard the JACK Quartet,
and I understood how I
might be able to make the
medium my own. The result
was The Wind in High
Places - a twenty-minute
work composed entirely on
natural harmonics and
open strings.
Over
the next few years, two
more quartets followed.
The second quartet,
untouched, is a further
exploration of the
aeolian sound world of
the first. Then, in
Canticles of the Sky, the
musicians finally touch
the fingerboards of their
instruments.
And
now comes Everything That
Rises.
This fourth
quartet is more
expansive, both in time
and in space. It grows
out of Sila: The Breath
of the World - a
performance-length
choral/orchestral work
composed on a rising
series of sixteen
harmonic
clouds.
Everything
That Rises traverses this
same territory, but in a
much more melodic
way.
Each musician
is a soloist, playing
throughout. They surround
the audience. Time
floats.
Over the
course of an hour, the
lines spin out - always
rising - in acoustically
perfect intervals that
grow progressively
smaller as they spiral
upward... until the music
dissolves into the soft
noise of the bows,
sighing. $40.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music String Quartet SKU: PR.11440505S Composed by John Downey. F...(+)
Chamber Music String
Quartet SKU:
PR.11440505S Composed
by John Downey. Full
score. With Standard
notation. 53 pages.
Duration 25 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-40505S. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.11440505S). UPC:
680160008391. 11 x 14
inches. Although
structurally it
subdivides into five
movements, the entire
quartet emerges as one
vast continuum. There are
no formal breaks between
movements. However,
certain musical signposts
can be discerned,
associated with each of
the movements'
terminations and new
beginnings. The opening
movement, The Nostalgia
of Clanging Bell
Sonorities, begins
floating on recurrent Bbs
whose soft rhythmic flow
slowly puts into motion
strong undercurrents
suggestive of the latent
power of water... After
several suggestions of
tolling bells, the
movement gradually fades
into hushed tones of
veiled and very distant
sonorities. It uses a
unique effect, for the
first time in a musical
context, conveyed through
the use of extra heavy
practice mutes. The
second movement, The
Spill of Water,
disengages itself from
the first through its
distinct contrast in
tempo. Water moves fast,
and when it splashes, it
tends to run wildly. In
this case, it happens to
be bubbly water that
gushes forth bodly...
smashing across rocky
shorelines. So, too, the
music attempts to conjure
such moods. At the end of
this movement, a cello
cadenza emerges,
introducing an
introspective type of
melodicism. The third
movement, The Poignancy
of Memory, contains many
silences as it tries to
convey memory through
fragmented remembrances
much like often occur in
our dream state.
Progressing through
several slowly building
images, it gradually
works itself into
juxtaposition of musical
images. Towards the
movement's end, high
harmonics are sounding in
all four instruments
while left hand pizzicato
notes in the cello pluck
the last remembrances of
this central core. Almost
imperceptibly, the viola
assumes leadership as it
dissolves into: The
fourth movement, The
Fluidity of Motion, which
has mostly the viola, but
also the cello,
articulating lyrical
statements against sheets
of sound conjured up by
the two violins playing a
flood of swirling
figures, evokes a kind of
static motion in space.
Here , the virtually
imperceptible manner in
which this hushed whisper
continues incessantly,
can suggest the potential
fluidity with which
movement may inch
forward... Later into the
fourth movement, two
fairly extended solos by
the second and then the
first violins, lead to a
kind of spontaneous
dialogue amont the four
instrumentalists.
Eventually, this musical
conversation gets caught
up in: The fifth
movement's The Rush of
Time, which opens with a
hushed flurry of speed,
precipitates the Finale.
It generates, at first
slowly, but then very
swiftly, whole shifts of
rhythmic fields that
initially seem to
conflict with one
another. Ultimately, this
use of psycho-rhythmics
contributes to an on-rush
seem of motion and time.
Rhythmic changes are, at
times, abruptly
precipitated with but
little or no preparation
creating a kind of
inevitability in forward
thrust, while the
movement rushes forward
with a feeling of gradual
and continuous
acceleration. It gathers
density as more and more
notes are piled
progressively upon
successive beats. The
attempt is to spark
tension and ignite
excitement by means of
frenetic confrontations
of dissimilitudes.
Ultimately - with the
help of time - these
polarities centrifically
spin out their own
destinies with their
accompanying fall-out and
own inevitable
resolutions. $75.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 2 to 3 weeks | | |
| In Sunlight Violon et Piano Oxford University Press
Violin & piano (Solo) - Difficult SKU: OU.9780193583245 Composed by Antho...(+)
Violin & piano (Solo) -
Difficult SKU:
OU.9780193583245
Composed by Anthony
Powers. Violin & Piano.
24 pages. Duration 7'.
Oxford University Press
#9780193583245. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193583245).
ISBN 9780193583245. 12
x 8 inches. For
violin and piano The
composer writes: The
structure is a short set
of double variations, the
two themes following a
short introduction. One
is flamboyant and
rhetorical, the other
gentle and lyrical. The
first develops
rhythmically, through a
toccata to a vigorous
dance, the second becomes
increasingly decorated so
that the line is almost
dissolved, but finally
emerges in its clearest,
simplest form. In a coda
each musical character
disappears into
silence. $18.99 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 3 to 4 weeks | | |
| Dances on a Ground. Ensemble Version Stainer and Bell
Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano & optional Double Bass SKU: ST.Y261 Compos...(+)
Clarinet, Violin, Cello,
Piano & optional Double
Bass SKU: ST.Y261
Composed by Morgan Hayes.
Chamber music. Version
for Clarinet in A,
Violin, Violoncello,
Piano and optional Double
Bass. Score and parts.
Score and parts. Stainer
& Bell Ltd. #Y261.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.Y261).
ISBN
9790220222580. The
ground bass, a type of
theme-and-variations much
favoured by English
composers from Purcell to
Britten, receives a
21st-century makeover in
Morgan Hayes's Dances
on a Ground.
The 'ground' in this
case is, appropriately, a
robotic, march-like tune
for cello that asserts
itself in unrelenting
mechanical repetitions
according to the rules of
the form. But among the
other instruments there
is little consensus about
the path the music should
take. Though the theme
resists for a time,
increasingly assaulted by
their capricious flights
of melody and spiky
pizzicatos it abandons
its stubborn resistance,
is turned to fragments,
then dissolves in a
fierce conclusion,
leaving only an outline
of its former self.
Premiered in
Vilnius, Lithuania, in
May 2009 by the Composers
Ensemble with pianist Huw
Watkins, Dances on a
Ground revisits an
earlier work written for
the Smith Quartet, and
presents its material in
terms of a carefully
chosen instrumentation of
clarinet in A, violin,
cello, piano and optional
double bass. The same
performers gave the
work's UK premiere last
September, at Kings
Place, London. $18.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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