Interlude - Score

Rarely has a musical work been better characterized by its subtitle than Nicolas Bacri?s Lyric Interlude: ?A Study in Pastoral Style?. When, in 2008, the composer received the commission for a piece with English Horn from Cecilia Benner, patron of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, he immediately thought of the duo between this instrument and the Oboe that Berlioz, in the Symphonie fantastique, placed at the beginning of the ?Scène aux champs?, making suddenly appear a nocturnal country landscape where two shepherds carry on a dialogue on their pipes. First performed in March 2009 in its original version for English Horn, Violin and Cello, the Lyric Interlude for English Horn and Piano (Op.110b) nonetheless proclaims another tradition: that of British pastoralism, illustrated by the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), the 50th anniversary of his death having just been celebrated. This score pays him homage of rare sensitivity: set off by refined counterpoint, the undulating lament of the beginning, rhythmically supple, evokes the waving wheat, as does Vaughan Williams in the opening undulation of his Symphony No.3. The lyrical effusion, briefly interrupted by a scherzo in 6/8, again pours out, making the work evolve towards a slow, ecstatic atmosphere, close to the last of the English composer?s Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes. Far from bucolic, postcard clichés and servile imitation, this Lyric Interlude opens the doors to a realm where pure beauty reigns. The composer also wrote another version of this work for English Horn (or Flute, Clarinet or Viola), Violin and Cello, Op.110a (AL 30 751)

The New Essential Companion. Henrik Wiese, the internationally renowned orchestral and solo flautist, has spent four years compiling what promises to be the definitive guide to audition repertoire for students preparing for a seat in a professional orchestra. He has worked with his own students in Salzburg as they engaged in auditions, as well as with other professional players and his teaching colleagues at the conservatorium. He sourced repertoire lists from job advertisements past and present and referred to other audition lists such as those of Baxtresser and Wye. Considerable research has gone into the differences between existing editions of the chosen pieces even, surprisingly, from twentieth century composers such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky. 'The Flute Audition” then looks at practical matters such as page turns and metronome markings. Wiese comments, for example, that Hindemith's own recording takes a passage from 'Symphonic Metamorphoses” markedly slower than in the score. The result of all this painstaking research is the most comprehensive collection of international audition pieces yet published in a single volume. 'This is an excellent collection of orchestral excerpts for the next generation of young musicians. You can use it to prepare for auditions anywhere in the world. Whether it's for an opera house, symphony or chamber orchestra, everything you need is here.'/ Recueil / Flûte Traversière

Edition Réalisée En Collaboration Avec Nicolas Martin. Par WOLFF FELICIEN. Le Conservatoire (à l'époque encore municipal) où je venais d'entrer comme professeur de piano et de solfège, devenait national sous la direction de E. P. Stekel. Celui-ci, qui connaissait mes titres de Premier Prix d'Ecriture Musicale (Fugue), de Premier Prix d'orgue et improvisation du CNSM de Paris, fit changer ma nomination et je devins professeur en ces matières. E. P. Stekel m'encouragea à reprendre la composition. Ainsi naquirent ma Symphonie concertante pour trompette solo et orchestre et ma Symphonie Jonas pour cordes seules, toutes deux exécutées sous diverses directions. Paul Dukas, dont j'avais fréquenté la classe de composition, nous recommandait pour la préparation au concours de Rome (concours qui n'existe plus aujourd'hui, c'était un concours de théâtre musical) de choisir nos sujets dans les pièces des grands classiques français. Aussi l'idée me vint de m'inspirer de la comédie de Racine Les Plaideurs et d'illustrer certaines scènes - préludées par une Ouverture et Allegro fugato - reliées entre elles par des interludes instrumentaux ou choraux et se terminant par un choeur d'envergure sur les paroles de conclusion de la pièce : 'Allons nous divertir à voir d'autres procès'. / Niveau : Assez Difficile / Contemporain / Date parution : 2005-05-01/ Répertoire / Solistes (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Ténor et 4 Baryt

Make the silence talk'La Muette knew how to make the silence talk like no one', writes Djavann in his book (La Muette, © Flammarion 2008). Those words deeply touched me for they express one of the most beautiful metaphors in music. Through the lines of discourse, beyond words, I was listening to the silence of 'La Muette'. A rare and intense listening which joins the same internal listening I use when I'm writing my score. I was listening to La Muette, I decided to write a new piece to make the silent voice of La Muette told by Chahdortt Djavann sound through music. Choosing the extracts The text put in music is composed of short extracts from Djavann's story. I focused on this woman's portrait, who conquers her freedom through silence in which she forms a strong love relationship with her niece Fatemeh on the one hand, and the Uncle on the other hand. 'She had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom' writes Djavann. The extremely dramatic tension, the flow of the singing in Persian language, and the oppression in relation to the Iranian context are trying to underline the independent beauty of that woman who resists and exists without a voice. Story A young 15 years old Iranian girl named Fatemeh is in jail. Waiting for her death sentence, she writes the story of her aunt on a small notebook, 'so that someone remembers La Muette and myself'. The young teenager was raised by her aunt who becomes mute because she decided to stop talking on a dark day of her own childhood when she was interrogated, never to tell THE truth. An aunt whose silence makes even more fascinating, haughty, with an insolent look, cigarette at her lips, bare-footed and without any scarf on her head. 'La Muette' had made her silence become her art of living, her freedom. Around her, women start to talk, even considering her mad, for only a mad person could act this way. Fatemeh loves her mute aunt unconditionally, that is how she wants to become a woman, by being like her, fascinated by her silence and her excesses. La Muette embodies a figure of Freedom and makes us remember that in some countries, the woman who won't be submissive risks capital punishment. She will be hung. Following this beautiful text by Chahdortt Djavann, 'La Muette', a powerful text, stiff, tensed, without any lyricism nor compromises, which takes place in Iran under the Mollahs' regime. Persian: Phonological material / Compositional material Djavann's story is written in French. I asked Baharé Khadjé-Nouri to translate the text into Persian, and worked with her on pronunciation, accentuation, metric and the structure of the language, and I thank her again for that. I spent a long time having some people reading me the text in Persian and through listening I immersed myself in that sound universe. From this linguistic material, the beginning of the piece starts with the constitution of a tank of sound objects which will constitute parts of the compositional material. To compose the phonological tank, I worked on writing the pronunciation that lies at the origin of every possible vocal composition, writing the tone as well as the 'percussive - resounding' aspects of phonemes, multiple uses of fricative consonants or sibilants. Finally I used the vocal treatment of the phoneme through modes of play in relation to sprechsang: sing -inspire, or -expire, -blow, -chanting, -whispering, -spitting, -speaking. But a purely phonetic analysis of the vocal structures composing the sung part would reduce the word to its mere phonetic entity. The phonological material then constituted a compositional material by giving to the sung word its semantic entity. Form of the piece To strip the drama off every narrative element, at least of the discursive and linear character of the story, I first re-organized parts of the text extracted from the whole book in an order fitting the form I wanted to give to the piece (except for the beginning and ending which are kept in their linear forms). I imagined Fatemeh in jail, whose memories bounced between the four walls of her cell: recurring musical material, re-injected in an obsessive way, disjointed and contrasted, continuously modified each time, bouncing from one sequence to the next in another state. The piece is divided into 5 sequences, between each of them is an instrumental interlude with a voice-off, the voice of the present in the cell that contrasts with the singing voice of the sequence, evocation of memories of La Muette (sequence 1: preamble, sequence 2: portrait of La Muette, sequence 3: La Muette and Fatemeh, sequence 4: La Muette and the Uncle, sequence 5: epilogue). Electroacoustic setupFor this piece, I wrote the electroacoustic parts myself at the same time I was writing the instrumental parts. The electroacoustic setup is here considered as a whole instrument, an instrument added to the 12 others electroacoustic instruments and to Donatienne's voice. The electroacoustic sounds are divided into three types: - Samples from the singer's voice and instruments of the TM+ ensemble transformed - The narrator's voice Baharé Khadjé-Nouri in Persian, original version or transformed - Extra-musical sounds As for the synchronization between the acoustic and the electroacoustic scores, we will use for the first time an innovative application developed by Frédéric Bevilacqua and Bruno Zamborlin, not to follow the moves as we did it in StreicherKreis (my string quartet created in November 2008), but to follow the voice and orchestra. Thus, we will be using an 'audio-following', which constituted a first. This setup of recognition and following will allow the synchronization between instrumental and electroacoustic scores in a musical and precise way. Concerning the interactivity between performers and device, it will all be in real-time. Characteristics of the musicians' sound will 'interpret' what comes out of the speakers. The musicians will define the settings of the sound transformations, in terms of space, transposition, tone or length. This new piece expresses a message through the choice of subject that goes beyond strictly music. For me, it is important that both the composer and writer can invest their work into problematics which they're confronted to because they are immediate witnesses. / Soprano Et Percussions

Par DUTILLEUX HENRI. Composed in 1978 by Henri Dutilleux, Timbres, Espace, Mouvement Ou La Nuit Etoileé is a work for Orchestra, also named “The Starry Night” after the painting by Van Gogh. It was commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich for the National Symphony Orchestraof Washington and is dedicated to Charles Münch. This work for Orchestra lasts approximately 20 minutes and depicts the content of the painting. It is scored for a full Orchestra without Violins or Violas. The Cellos serve to represent space, with swirling solos alongside calmer sections, while thelack of Violins and Violas epitomises for the quiet and motionless sections of the painting. The solo of the Wind instruments and Drums characterizes the clouds and the light of the moon and stars. It is divided into two parts: 1. Nébuleuse (Nebula) and 2. Constellations, which are divided by a Cello interlude. Composed in 1978 by Henri Dutilleux, Timbres, Espace, Mouvement Ou La Nuit Etoilee is a work for Orchestra, also named ; The Starry Night after the painting by Van Gogh. It was commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich for the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington and is dedicated to Charles Munch. This work for Orchestra lasts approximately 20 minutes and depicts the content of the painting. It is scored for a full Orchestra without Violins or Violas. The Cellos serve to represent space, with swirling solos alongside calmer sections, while the lack of Violins and Violas epitomises for the quiet andmotionless sections of the painting. The solo of the Wind instruments and Drums characterizes the clouds and the light of the moon and stars. It is divided into two parts: 1. Nebuleuse (Nebula) and 2. Constellations, which are divided by a Cello interlude. Henri Dutilleux was internationally acclaimed for his work, winning prizes such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers, among many others. His work also includes a Piano sonata, two symphonies, the Violin concerto 'L'Arbre Des Songes' (The Tree Of Dreams) and the Cello concerto 'Tout Un Monde Lointain' (A Whole Distant Word)./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Baroque allemand poésie me fascine depuis longtemps. Lorsque vous organisez le livret de mon opéra de chambre Dafne (d'après Martin Opitz, écrit en 2005), j'ai intégré plusieurs poèmes de Opitz dans son jeu, et c'était aussi la première fois pour moi de composer des passages de choeur prolongées. Après avoir terminé ce travail, j'ai ressenti le besoin d'explorer la combinaison de choeur et les textes baroques dans un plus, la composition chorale indépendante. J'ai choisi des poèmes de Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Andreas Gryphius, Martin Opitz, Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Barthold Brockes Hinrich und Friedrich von Logau. En dehors de Trost aphoristique von Logau, les textes ont été raccourcies et réorganisé en profondeur. Les sujets similaires, en utilisant aussi des manières étroitement liées d'expression, et la tendance à des structures redondantes - souvent, une pensée à plusieurs reprises formulé de différentes façons - en fait des lignes de change, même possibles entre les différents poèmes.La façon dont les textes sont examinés les changements entre cadre cohérent et la langue en utilisant comme matière sonore et l'élément structurel. Un aspect important est la technique de laisser mots ou des syllabes tourner à travers tout le choeur, qui - soutenus par différents niveaux dynamiques et d'un unisono souvent légèrement imprécise - crée un effet panoramique comparables. Le moins son temps difficiles de la langue baroque, riche en consonnes, les métaphores lourdes, mais aussi les ondulée, parfois des expressions bizarres sont le plus souvent mis en musique plutôt discrète. Surtout, une duplication du caractère déclamatoire est évité, tandis que quelques belles images sont ramassés et transformés en sons. Le son choeur en tant que telle reste la plupart du temps 'intacte' au sens traditionnel- du brai est même traitée de manière très restrictive - un seul passage (le début du mouvement IIIe) fait usage de la pleine échelle chromatique. L'abstinence de spectaculaires effets attire l'attention sur compréhensibles structures harmoniques, les nuances dynamiques, un large éventail de combinaisons de voix et de registre et les variations subtiles des textes dans les différentes pièces.Formellement, l'ensemble du cycle de sept pièces sont regroupées en grandes sections de plusieurs mouvements. La devise en forme de début se transforme à la fois du texte et de l'harmonie dans le mouvement Gryphius dans laquelle le choeur est progressivement étendue d'une région à moyen terne à plus de registres contrastés jusqu'à ce que les fondus sonores away 'wie Rauch' [comme] la fumée et se transforme en fines pétille. Un petit interlude - la seule section qui présente le quatuor de cuivres - mène à Echo Opitz ', qui se déplace d'un endroit sombre, pesante, son dissonant des voix d'hommes dans une atmosphère de plus en plus léger, qui est ensuite repris par le plutôt simple , paysage d'automne mélancolique de Harsdörffer. La pièce maîtresse du cycle suivant, basé aussi bien sur le poème d'automne par Brockes, contraste fortement avec la simplicité du mouvement précédent. L'image d'une douche à effet pluie de feuilles qui tombent, méditative qui tournent autour lui-même, est transféré dans une longue et complexe 'spirale' paysage sonore sans cesse en rotation dans un maximum de 16 pièces individuelles, chacun d'entre eux d'explorer une version légèrement différente du texte du poème. Tandis que le choeur se développe pour le plus grand nombre de registres et de plus forte densité de la pièce, l'expression, dans le style de la langue Brockes ', reste plutôt affectée. La dernière section reprend le slogan du début, en explorant les deux enlacés textes Hofmannswaldau de manière plus approfondie, et conduit à la court épilogue qui sert comme un commentaire ironique sur baroque lassitude du monde sous la forme d'une merry-go-round avec les syllabes du poème de rotation spirituellement rapide grâce à la chorale.Le quatuor de cuivres partie soutient, accompagne et complète en partie le choeur d'une façon presque totalement la fusion. Il ya à peine une note qui n'est pas directement associée à l'une des voix de la chorale. Cependant, l'utilisation ou ommitting les cuivres affecte également la Charakter de la performance de la chorale - de cette manière, deux versions égales de la pièce sont combinés en un seul score, et vergehn wie Rauch peut être effectuée a cappella à la fois l'original et d'aujourd'hui les sens du terme.- Benjamin Schweitzer / Choeur Mixte (SSAATTBB), Trompette En Sib, Cor En Fa, Trombone Et Tuba

?Books talk to each other? - Umberto Eco?s statement could just as easily apply to music, as Les Citations for Oboe, Harpsichord, Double Bass and Percussion by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) brilliantly proves. Written in 1991, the score was reworked by the composer for the Festival d?Auvers-sur-Oise, where the new version premiered in June 2010. The origin of this work goes back to For Aldeburgh 85. Written for the 75th birthday of singer Peter Pears, the piece takes up a fragment of Peter Grimes, whose leading role had been written by Britten for the beloved tenor. Dutilleux adds a page titled From Janequin to Jehan Alain in which appears a song from the Renaissance composer, ?L?espoir que j?ay d?acquerir vostre grace?, used by J. Alain in his Variations for Organ on a theme by Clément Janequin. The junction between the two parties is made through an Interlude that introduces the ?wolf?s moan? theme from the ballet Le Loup (The Wolf) composed by Dutilleux in 1953 for the troupe of Roland Petit. This subtle tangle of quotations forms a shimmering and sensual work where the uniqueness of an authentic artist powerfully asserts itself.

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Premiered in 2018, the 90-minute opera Lessons in Love and Violence delves into the dark and turbulent events of Edward II's life and death. George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's third collaboration, it unfolds as a taut slow burning arch of seven tableaux. This work boasts particularly rich string textures, and is coloured by basset horn and cimbalom together with a pair of harps, celesta, and percussion (including talking drums and tombak). Several of the opera's powerful interludes are dominated by braying, sardonic brass - with tuba substituted by the more menacing contrabass trombone. There is also much spectacular ensemble writing: in Scene Three's play within a play, several strands of independent music collide, and the result is perhaps one of the most complex musical structures Benjamin has ever tackled. The music's relationship to the drama is often unstable and seemingly very spontaneous, but beneath it all one senses a rigorous architecture, unflinchingly guiding the listener deeper and deeper into the opera's disquieting emotional world. This full score is a perfect accompaniment to the previously published vocal score and text. / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Opéra

Arr. Klaas Van Der Woude. Par VAN OTTERLOO WILLEM. This three-movement work showcases the music of Dutch conductor/composer Willem van Otterloo. Entitled March, Nocturne and Scherzo each of the three movements has the feel of a film score with beautiful soothing melodies contrasted with jazzy interludes. A major new concert item that will both entertain and enchant your audience. / Niveau : 4 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Brass Band

Arr. Klaas Van Der Woude. Par VAN OTTERLOO WILLEM. This three-movement work showcases the music of Dutch conductor/composer Willem van Otterloo. Entitled March, Nocturne and Scherzo each of the three movements has the feel of a film score with beautiful soothing melodies contrasted with jazzy interludes. A major new concert item that will both entertain and enchant your audience. / Niveau : 4 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Brass Band