SKU: HG.GH-11323
ISBN 9790202809716.
SKU: PE.EP73727
ISBN 9790577024004.
Ombra (2022) is a 40' dramatic vocalise for mezzo-soprano and viola in three parts, first performed as part of The Wernicke's Area, a mixed media installation led by ANU Productions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The work can be performed in its acoustic version or accompanied by sound design, created by Bofan Ma, based on the original immersive sound design from The Wernicke's Area. The work responds to the story and medical condition of Debbie Boss, wife of ANU's co-artistic director and visual artist Owen Boss. In 2014 Debbie was admitted to hospital for surgery to remove a previously undiagnosed meningioma tumour from a part of the brain known as the Wernicke's Area. Since the surgery her everyday life has been affected by epilepsy. When Debbie suffers a seizure the symptoms manifest as audio hallucinations and aphasia: a loss of comprehension of both heard and spoken words.Ombra takes inspiration from a series of diaries kept by Debbie, a trained soprano who can no longer remember the lyrics to even the simplest of songs. Responding to George F. Handel's 'Ombra mai fu', which was Debbie's favourite aria to perform, as well as to the mirage-like sounds of an AI-inflected Dublin cityscape, Ombra is a mental theatre, embodying an inward, ever circling wonder about meaning and comprehension.In Ombra I, mezzo-soprano and viola unite in an intense unison exploration of a brief melodic fragment from 'Ombra mai fu'. A set of 8 short dramatic vignettes form Ombra II. In Ombra III, Handel's original melody is foregrounded with an instruction in the score 'Repeat ad infinitum'. As mezzo-soprano alternates between singing, humming and silence, viola is instructed to play at times with gradual or sudden transitions between p e dolce sempre and sounding 'like concete being grated', a final reference to the diaries.Ombra is dedicated to Debbie.Commissioned by ANU Productions as part of The Wernicke's Area, funded by the Arts Council.
SKU: FG.55011-132-5
ISBN 979-0-55011-132-5.
Nieminen's first work for orchestra, Vicoli in ombra, looks ahead to the world of his flute concerto Palomar. The orchestral writing is again limpid and airy and the music exudes a sense of serenity, calm and enjoyment of the mood of the moment.
SKU: HL.14019131
ISBN 9788759855058. 16.75x11.75x0.434 inches. English.
Lindberg's explosive and highly complex 1981 work for an ensemble of Flute, Guitar, Alto Saxophone (or Clarinet) and Percussion, with two Voices. A set of parts is available: Catalogue No. KP00620.
SKU: HL.14032484
English-Spanish.
SKU: HL.238315
12.0x16.75x0.447 inches. English.
SKU: HL.49018838
ISBN 9790001152723. UPC: 884088674526. 9.0x12.0x0.133 inches. Spanish - German.
...ni una sombra is scored for soprano, clarinet and piano, the same trio instrumentation that has become famous by Franz Schubert's Hirt auf dem Felsen. The piece contrasts a poem by Friedrich Ruckert ('O mein Stern') with a few Spanish words of the Argentine Antonio Porchia. Interludes between the six verses of the poem show the participants in different combinations each. At the beginning of the verses, the soprano and the two instruments get together in a homophonic sound, the starting point of further - extremely virtuoso - rupturing.
SKU: P2.60018
Sol y Sombra is a joyous and festive piece, in the form of a malaguena, for solo trumpet and band, here with a piano reduction. It begins with a virtuosic cadenza, and the accompaniment later joins in a flamenco style.
SKU: AY.G3187PM
ISBN 9790543572256.
Sombras is a work for guitar composed by three related movements that when played, we can see continuity in the different 'climax'. Written in free language, it is inspired in the shadows that are around us when we are for a long time in a room that leads to the street. The cars that cross, the trees and all the things reflected on the walls change depending on the day hours and the movement of the street.
