PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Into the Abyss

By Daniel Baldwin. For clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano. Level 5. Duration 16 minutes. Published by Imagine Music

Quintet (fl(picc).clar[Bb].vl.vc. pno(perc))

SKU: BR.KM-2197

Composed by Nicolaus A. Huber. Chamber music; Folder. Kammermusik-Bibliothek (Chamber Music Library).

World premiere: Nice, February 6, 1986

Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Performance score. Composed 1985. 54 pages. Duration 16'. Breitkopf and Haertel #KM 2197. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.KM-2197).

ISBN 9790004501047. 9 x 12 inches.

Vertigo is a remarkable confrontation with oneself, and with ones own capacities. Sartre defines it not so much as the fear of falling into an abyss as the fear of throwing oneself into it. Similarly, A. Glucksmann defines it as the fear of that other Self, the self one would be a moment later. Moving from ones potential to other potential selves, plunging into the unknown, this was the experimental phase of my state of mind during the composition, and is reflected in the writing of diverse textures, the ordering of the dynamics and the frequent microtonal changes of intervals. This is perhaps made particularly clear in the structure of the works first half, called Successive Figures, from which I could not free myself, psychologically, until the composition was finished. In the thrill of vertigo, and in opposition to Glucksmanns reactionary book of the same name, this is an about-turn towards the following radical principle: action rather than vertigo!... (Nicolaus A. Huber)CDs: Ensemble Kaleidocollage CD ADDA 590 049 AD 184 Ensemble Aventure CD ars musici FMF AM 1224-2 ensemble avance, Andras Hamary (piano) CD Telos Music TLS 018 Ensemble EstEstEst! CD perc.pro 10052004Bibliography:Fric k, Paul Friedrich: Nicolaus A. Huber: La Force du Vertige (1985). Analyse, Universitat der Kunste Berlin, Diplomarbeit 2006.

World premiere: Nice, February 6, 1986.

Violin Ensemble (Study Score)

SKU: HL.14040889

Study Score. Composed by Theodor Grigoriu. Music Sales America. Classical. Set. Editions Musicales Transatlantiques #ETR001682. Published by Editions Musicales Transatlantiques (HL.14040889).

French.

Writt en five years after the death of the composer the work reflects a powerful wish for an imaginary dialogue with a great creator; Upon learning the sad news, coming from Paris in 1955, the plan of the work took shape quite soon, but the work on the score itself materialized only in 1960, after a long period of gestation.

Homage to Enescu has three parts – Prelude, Melopoeia, Polyphony – or three attitudes: one of awe striking the composer upon entering a vast world, another of contemplation of its abyss, and still another of lucidly returning to his work, the only one capable of rendering him to his won artistic way.

It was written forviolins alone (divided in four groups) whose numbers may be multiplied from 8 to 32. Instrumentally speaking, Theodor Grigoriu intends an analysis of the rich color resources of the violin, but also an investigation of Enescu’s unique, original style of playing.

The initial theme combines, in the sense of an epiphany, a monogram of the letters E.N.E.S.C.U. and two motifs from Octuor (Octet) and Chamber Symphony, i.e. piece from youth and another from the end of his career, both evoking a very characteristic Enescian Stimmung.
E= mi / N = rest (in old neumes) / E = mi / S = si / C = do / U = do (ut)

Ionel Perlea`s brilliant interpretation during his 1969 concert tour turned the audiences’ attention to this work, propelling it into the concert life.

10 Bewitching Piano Solos for Recitals. Composed by Various. Willis. Recital, Solos. Softcover. 32 pages. Duration 240 seconds. Published by Willis Music

By Robert Kyr (1952-). For Soprano Voice and Baritone Voice soli, SATB Choir divisi, String Trio. Choral, general. Vocal Score. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing

Composed by Brian Fronzaglia. For marching percussion ensemble. Grade 5. Score, parts & tutor CD. Duration 1:12. Published by Row-Loff Publications

Chamber Ensemble

SKU: HL.14021749

For Percussion and Orchestra. Composed by Poul Ruders. Music Sales America. Classical. Score. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP00076. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14021749).

ISBN 9788759889817. Danish.

Poul Ruders' MONODRAMA, dedicated to percussion virtuoso Gert Sorensen and commissioned by The Danish Radio, was written in New York in the early winter 1988 and makes the centre as well as the middle of the tri-part opus called The Drama Trilogy. All three works employ the word Drama in their title, Drama in the original meaning of the word: event. No specified event, but a premonition or omen rather, that something is afoot, a free Drama-offer from which anyone may populate the stage of his private, inner theatre.The first piece of the series DRAMAPHONIA for piano and chamber ensemble was premiered in London in the spring of 1988 by Lontano and Poul Rosenbaum. This piece is emotionally and rhythmically unstable as opposed to MONODRAMA (single-event) which is modelled from the archetypal idea of obtaining accomplishment from nothingness. The 31 instruments of the orchestra (no flutes and no violins or violas) are more or less wrapped around the solo-part to become one with that and thus emerge as one, gigantic percussion instrument. The rhythmical patterns of the orchestral part more or less follow those of the percussionpart, a single-event also on the rhythmical level.After 20 minutes climbing toward the peak of rage, the composition casts its slough and is reborn into a chorale-like march and the struggle between totally depopulated sound-scapes and ferociously roaring sub-oceanic storms begin and the piece paces toward the abyss; rage becomes despondency, New Rage as opposed to New Age, the spineless worshipper of beauty without pain.The third instalment of the DRAMA TRILOGY, the cello concerto POLYDRAMA will be premiered in Stockholm May 1990.MONODRAMA lasts aprox. 32 minutes.Poul Ruders.