| String Quartet No. 2 Quatuor à cordes: 2 violons, alto, violoncelle Theodore Presser Co.
Chamber Music Cello, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2 SKU: PR.114406980 Vista...(+)
Chamber Music Cello,
Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2
SKU: PR.114406980
Vistas. Composed
by Shulamit Ran. Set of
Score and Parts. With
Standard notation. 42 +
112 pages. Duration 25
minutes. Theodore Presser
Company #114-40698.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114406980). UPC:
680160010806. Shula
mit Ran’s second
string quartet, subtitled
“Vistas,â€
occupies a large canvas
that is cast in a
traditional fourmovement
mold, where the outer
movements present,
explore, and later return
to the work’s
principal musical
materials, surrounding a
slow movement and
scherzo-type third
movement with a trio. In
addition to tempo-based
titles, the individual
movements have subtitles
that are evocative of
each movement’s
character, as follows: I.
Concentric: from the
inside out II. Stasis
III. Flashes IV.
Vistas. My second
string quartet,
“Vistasâ€, is
a work cast in a
traditional four-movement
formal mold, with the
outer movements,
presenting and later
returning to the
work’s principal
musical materials,
surrounding a slow
movement and a
scherzo-type third
movement.While the four
movements’
“properâ€
names -- Maestoso con
forza, Lento, Scherzo
impetuoso, and
Introduzione; Maestoso e
grande – give some
indication of the general
character of the
individual movements, I
have also subtitled, less
formally, each movement
as follows:Â 1)
Concentric:Â from the
inside out 2)Â
Stasis 3) FlashesÂ
4) Vista. The images
evoked by these titles
tell one, I think, a bit
more about the inner
workings of the
quartet.In the first
movement, a prominently
presented opening pitch
(E) reveals itself, as
the movement unfolds, to
be a center of gravity
from which ever-growing
cycles of activity
gradually evolve.Â
While various important
themes come into being as
the movement progresses,
their impact on the
listener has, I believe,
a great deal to do with
their juxtaposition and
relationship to the
initial central point of
gravity.Stasis is, as the
name implies, a movement
where activity seems, at
times, almost
suspended. Being
also, as Webster’s
Dictionary reminds us,
“a state of static
balance and equilibrium
among opposing tendencies
or forces,†it
develops various
materials, including ones
from the first movement,
without bringing them to
points of
resolution.Flashes is
short and very fast,
evoking in my mind the
quick shimmer of
fireflies, a
“sudden burst of
lightâ€, but also a
“brief
timeâ€. Perhaps,
even, a
“smile�Final
ly, the last movement,
Vista, is not only
“a view or
outlookâ€, but also
“a comprehensive
mental view of a series
of remembered or
anticipated
events.â€Â After
a brief recall of the
opening of the second
movement, this movement
brings back all the
important themes of the
first movement in their
original order. But
just as going back can
never really mean going
back in time, the
movement is much more
than recapitulatory.Â
By cutting through
previously transitory
passages and presenting
the main ideas in a
fashion more direct yet
more evolved, it also
sheds new light on
earlier events, offering
a retrospective, synoptic
view of the first
movement as it brings to
culmination the work as a
whole. “Vistasâ
€ was commissioned by
C. Geraldine Freund for
the Taneyev String
Quartet of what was then
Leningrad. It was the
first commission given in
this country to a Soviet
chamber ensemble since
the 1985 cultural
exchange accord between
the Soviet Union and the
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| Equilibrium Quintette de Cuivres: 2 trompettes, Cor, trombone, tuba [Conducteur et Parties séparées] Seesaw Music Corp
Brass Quintet SKU: SU.50500580 For Brass Quintet. Composed by Anne...(+)
Brass Quintet SKU:
SU.50500580 For
Brass Quintet.
Composed by Annette Le
Siege. Chamber Music,
Brass Quartet/Quintet.
Score & Parts. Seesaw
Music Corp #50500580.
Published by Seesaw Music
Corp (SU.50500580).
Brass Quintet
Duration: 8' ' Composed:
2011 Published by: Seesaw
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| Radamisto HWV 12b Barenreiter
Solo voices, orchestra (4 Soprano Voice Solo, Mezzo-Soprano Voice Solo, 2 Bass V...(+)
Solo voices, orchestra (4
Soprano Voice Solo,
Mezzo-Soprano Voice Solo,
2 Bass Voice Solo, Fl, 2
Ob, bassoon, 2 Hn, 2 Trp,
Str, Continuo) SKU:
BA.BA04066 Opera
seria in three acts.
Composed by George
Frideric Handel. Edited
by Terence Best. This
edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Halle Handel
Edition (HHA) Series II,
Volume 9,2. 2nd version.
Complete edition, Score.
HWV 12. Duration 3
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA04066_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA04066).
ISBN 9790006495832. 33
x 26 cm inches. Text
Language: Italian. Nicola
Francesco
Haym. This volume
of the “Halle
Handel Editionâ€
presents the music of the
second version of the
opera which was premiered
on 28 December 1720 at
the King's Theatre,
Haymarket, London as well
as the amendments made
for November 1721
revival. The appendix
includes the amendments
for the January/February
1728 version.
The
first season of the Royal
Academy ended on 25 June
1720. The new vocal
soloists arrived in
London in September. As
the first version of
“Radamistoâ€
had been a great success
during the first season,
Handel revised the opera
for the oncoming season
to accommodate it to his
new more proficient
cast.
The revision
was extensive. It
included: 1) Changes
to the vocal range of
Radamisto (soprano to
alto for the singer
Senesino), Zenobia (alto
to soprano for the female
singer Durastanti) and
Tiridate (tenor to bass
for the singer
Boschi), 2)
compositions of new arias
and ensembles, 3)
significant changes to
the plot consisting of
the reduction of
Fraartes’ role
from brother to servant
Tiridates and the
omission of his not so
original love affair to
Zenobia.
For most
of Handel's operas it can
be said that the first
version is the best
version. This is due to
the fact that when a work
was performed again in
later seasons, Handel was
often forced to make
changes due to casting
constraints which often
affected the equilibrium
and the dramatic context
of the work.
“Radamistoâ€
is an exception to this
rule – the
December 1720 adaptation
is a much more superior
composition than the
version performed in
April of the same
year.
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