SKU: HL.48182193
UPC: 888680835255. 9.0x12.0x0.089 inches.
Eugène Bozza: Caprice-Improvisation (Clarinet & Piano).
SKU: HL.49046273
ISBN 9781540065278. UPC: 841886033863. 0.169 inches.
The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Fazil Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, and was originally designed as a charming encore work (1988); following the appreciative response of music lovers and, in particular, that of music critics, it was transformed over a perion of time into a more substantial work for piano. Briefly, the piece was rewritten and expanded a number of times between 1988 and 1995. We can evaluate the work as having taken its inspiration from Paganini's renowned 24th Capriccio, transforming it into variationson jazz requiring virtuoso rendition as well as being a creation open to the addition of improvisations and a variety of arrangements. Throughout music history a number of composers have written various works inspired by the 24th Capriccio. We can count among them Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Lutoslavski. In Say's work, however, a different aspect must be noted: the composer is prepared to add various developmental passages and transitional improvisations while interpreting this work in concert. Furthermore, when the work is considered as a short encore piece, it is abbreviated in a manner deemed suitable by Say.
SKU: HF.FH-6038
ISBN 9790203460381. 9 x 12 inches.
1. Benoit Berbiguier (1782- 1838): Etuden; 2. Theobald Bohm (1794 - 1881): 4 Capricen; 3. Gyula David( *1913): Andante, Allegro moderato; 4. Antoine Hugot (1761 -1803) / Johann Georg Wunderlich (1775- 1819): 3 Studien; 5. Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877- 1933): 3 Cparicen; 6. Gunter Kochan (*1930): Allegretto, Improvisation; Scherzo; 8. Caspar Kummer (1795- 1870): 7 Etuden; 9. Arnold Matz (1904 - 1991): 2 Adagios, Thema mit Variationen, Allegretto; 10. N. Platonow: Etude; 11. Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 - 1773) / Friedrich II. (1712- 1786): 7 Studien; 12. Adolf Terschak (1832- 1901): Studie; 13. Siegfried Thiele (*1934): Studie; 14. Unbekannter Meister des 18. Jhd.: Fantasia, Allemande, Giga; 15. 2 Volkslieder vom Balkan,16. Vorschlage fur das Tonleiterstudium.
SKU: BR.EB-9433
ISBN 9790004189108. 9 x 12 inches. German.
Text by the composerTranslation: engl. (E. J. Dent), ital. (V. Levi), port. (G. de Medeiros)Place and time: Bergamo, around the 18th century.Characters: Ser Matteo del Sarto, master tailor (baritone) - Abbate Cospicuo (baritone) - Dottore Bombasto (bass) - Leandro, Cavaliere (tenor) - Arlecchino (speaking part) - Colombina, Arlecchino's wife (mezzo-soprano) - Annunziata, Matteo's wife - Zwei Sbirren - Ein Karrner - a Donkey - People at the windows (silent parts)The idea behind this work was to combine a major speaking role with a part for a female singer and orchestra in the spirit of the opera buffa. The overall tone is pacifistic and anti-bourgeois. Busoni's inspiration was that of an opera-play in the style of Italian improvised comedy; he wanted types and characters on stage whose varying typology would provide the source of conflict ... The title hero absconds with the young wife of the Dante-reading tailor Matteo. He returns as a false barbarian commander, as a husband who engages in a duel with the suitor Count Leandro, and as a conqueror who announces the moral of the story in the epilogue: how to be able to bow in rags and still retain one's dignity and rights. The piece takes a turn for the absurd when the Abbate, at the sight of Leandro, who is presumed dead, begins to sing a chorale-like song of praise to the donkey of Providence who comes trotting in at that moment. This introduces the most musically refined number in the piece, the quartet, in which Leandro's love aria and his duet with Columbina satirize the attitudes prevalent in Italian opera from Scarlatti to Verdi. Musically, Busoni uses throughout the entire work an idiom of dance-like, blissfully transparent comedy and hides harmonic audacities behind touches of lightness. The orchestral sound radiates an incomparable brightness and buoyant elegance. (Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 1967)In the appendix, EB 9433 contains the later composed aria Wer siegt? Wer fallt?..
