Bravo! Violin

SKU: GI.G-10604

ISBN 9781622776153.

This advanced orchestral conducting resource features concise discussions of advanced technical and interpretive issues for 44 major orchestral works that all conductors will perform during their careers. The brief discussions that precede each score cover the full range of issues encountered in real conducting situations, and the accompanying online videos show Maestro Itkin demonstrating the techniques for each excerpt. All music examples have been faithfully reproduced from original scores, and Maestro Itkin has also arranged each excerpt for string quintet, ideal for the conducting class setting. With nearly a thousand performances to his credit, acclaimed conductor David Itkin shares the knowledge he has acquired over his decades in the profession. The Conductor’s Craft is for both up-and-coming conductors and seasoned professionals alike, equally beneficial for personal study or for use in a classroom or ensemble setting.   This volume is a real breakthrough aid for anyone studying or teaching conducting at any level. Written by David Itkin, a most distinguished and experienced conductor and teacher, it concentrates on all the vital techniques in the teaching of the craft. The accompanying video recordings also make this volume unique. This addition to the material for teaching conducting is truly revolutionary, and the selection of examples gets successfully to the point of each subject discussed. —Samuel Adler     Composer, conductor, author     Professor Emeritus, The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music The Conductor’s Craft outlines a detailed plan and method for executing conductor training in advanced conducting studios. Itkin’s book is also an excellent reference for any teacher who instructs advanced students in a collegiate orchestral conducting program, as well as for up-and-coming professionals who are studying for a career in the field. Perhaps most important, an individual conductor can manage their own self-study with Maestro Itkin’s clear statements and explanations of the technical issues presented with each excerpt. This book gives individual conductor’s freedom to explore choices and alternatives to fix tricky passages in the provided musical examples. I love the book and will be using it in my studio. —Julius P. Williams     Artistic director and conductor, Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra     President of the International Conductors Guild How refreshing to review a conducting book that deals with specificity of gesture as it relates to the music rather than mere concepts. Bravo to Maestro David Itkin for holding the aspiring conductor to task on issues of score study, execution, and style! —Mark Gibson     Director of Orchestral Studies, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati     Author of The Beat Stops Here.

SKU: GI.G-10603

ISBN 9781622776146.

This advanced orchestral conducting resource features concise discussions of advanced technical and interpretive issues for 44 major orchestral works that all conductors will perform during their careers. The brief discussions that precede each score cover the full range of issues encountered in real conducting situations, and the accompanying online videos show Maestro Itkin demonstrating the techniques for each excerpt. All music examples have been faithfully reproduced from original scores, and Maestro Itkin has also arranged each excerpt for string quintet, ideal for the conducting class setting. With nearly a thousand performances to his credit, acclaimed conductor David Itkin shares the knowledge he has acquired over his decades in the profession. The Conductor’s Craft is for both up-and-coming conductors and seasoned professionals alike, equally beneficial for personal study or for use in a classroom or ensemble setting.   This volume is a real breakthrough aid for anyone studying or teaching conducting at any level. Written by David Itkin, a most distinguished and experienced conductor and teacher, it concentrates on all the vital techniques in the teaching of the craft. The accompanying video recordings also make this volume unique. This addition to the material for teaching conducting is truly revolutionary, and the selection of examples gets successfully to the point of each subject discussed. —Samuel Adler     Composer, conductor, author     Professor Emeritus, The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music The Conductor’s Craft outlines a detailed plan and method for executing conductor training in advanced conducting studios. Itkin’s book is also an excellent reference for any teacher who instructs advanced students in a collegiate orchestral conducting program, as well as for up-and-coming professionals who are studying for a career in the field. Perhaps most important, an individual conductor can manage their own self-study with Maestro Itkin’s clear statements and explanations of the technical issues presented with each excerpt. This book gives individual conductor’s freedom to explore choices and alternatives to fix tricky passages in the provided musical examples. I love the book and will be using it in my studio. —Julius P. Williams     Artistic director and conductor, Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra     President of the International Conductors Guild How refreshing to review a conducting book that deals with specificity of gesture as it relates to the music rather than mere concepts. Bravo to Maestro David Itkin for holding the aspiring conductor to task on issues of score study, execution, and style! —Mark Gibson     Director of Orchestral Studies, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati     Author of The Beat Stops Here.

SKU: PR.11640538L

UPC: 680160692880. 9 x 12 inches.

My Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra (1993) was commissioned by the Bravo! Colorado Music Festival at Vail*Beaver Creek, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and French Hornist, David Jolley; made possible by a grant from the Meet The Composer/Reader’s Digest Commissioning Program, in partnership with the National endowment for the Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund. The work is approximately 14 minutes in duration. Its premiere took place in Vail at the Bravo! Colorado Music Festival with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra under Lawrence Leighton Smith conducting, and David Jolley, solo horn.The Concerto is in one movement with five section, including a solo cadenza. Although the work is concerto-like in the exploration of a wide range of technical and dramatic possibilities of the horn—culminating in a highly virtuosic cadenza—the piece can also be heard as a “tone poem” with the horn cast as the “hero.”Yet, while I think of the solo horn as an heroic figure, I have very much enjoyed the interplay and dialogue between horn and strings and I allowed the character and nature of the horn to influence the strings and vice-versa. For instance, in the cadenza the solo horn line sometimes breaks into two or three parts, projecting two or three voices (a type of solo writing usually associated with strings, not winds); and on several occasions I have used the violas, divided in three, together with the solo horn, to suggest the sound of a quartet of horns. For me, the combination of solo horn and string orchestra is rich and evocative, as is the unique nature of the horn; its warmth and color; its dramatic legato as well as its pungent staccato; the sheer breadth of its sound.The Concerto is dedicated to hornist David Jolley, for whom it was written.

SKU: BR.EB-32065

ISBN 9790004186558. 9 x 12 inches.

Die Entstehung von op. 52 fallt in ein zeitlich und inhaltlich schwer abzugrenzendes Spannungsfeld. Die Stucke erschienen 1910 im Verlag von Albert Stahl in Berlin, als Richard Franck sich bereits nach Heidelberg zuruckgezogen hatte. Sie zahlen somit zu seinen letzten veroffentlichten Werken. Inhalt: I. Elegie wirkt ausgesprochen resigniert, fast wie ein Abschied. Die Flote steht ganz im Vordergrund dieses melancholischen, mit Chromatik angereicherten und klar strukturierten Adagio-Satzes. II. Der Reiter von Sankt Karli kommt als humorvolles Scherzo daher, wohl eine Anspielung auf die Schweiz, in der Franck einige Jahre verbrachte. Fast wirkt es wie eine Hommage an Schumann. Der Mittelteil dieses Scherzos, ein Andante, nimmt Bezug auf die elegische Stimmung des ersten Satzes. Es ist eine ruhigere Station, bevor der Reiter weiterzieht. III. Perpetuum mobile, so schnell als moglich kann man als Vorlaufer moderner Klangflachenkompositionen auffassen, aber naturlich auch als schlichtes, scherzhaftes Bravourstuck im Stile des Hummelflugs.

SKU: HG.GH-8374

ISBN 979-0-2028-5642-0.

Besetzung und enthaltene Stimmen: 2x Direktionsstimme in B Piccolo in Des/Piccolo in C Flote in C Oboen Fagott Klarinette in Es je 1x Klarinette 1,2,3 in B Sopransaxophon in B Altsaxophon in Es Tenorsaxophon in B Barytonsaxophon in Es Kornett in Es je 1x Flugelhorn 1,2 in B je 1x Trompete 1,2,3 in B Alto-Melodie in Es je 1x Corno 1,2,3 in Es je 1x Tenorhorn 1,2,3 in B Bariton in B Violinschlussel und C Bassschlussel Posaune 1 in B Violinschlussel Posaune 1 in C Bassschlussel Posaune 2 in B Violinschlussel und C Bassschlussel Posaune 3 in B Violinschlussel 2x Bass in Es Violinschlussel/ Basse in C Bassschlussel kleine Trommel grosse Trommel Lyra Bariton in B Bassschlussel je 1x Posaune 1,2,3 in B Bassschlussel Bass in Es Bassschlussel Bass in B Bassschlussel.