Abyss 2

SKU: HL.1308741

UPC: 781462221850. 8.0x9.75x8.0 inches.

Make a splash at any event or production with this stunning LED effect light that simulates a multicolored water effect. Abyss 2 shines through any environment with or without fog and provides independent control of the ripples and color. A manual focus knob ensures proper focus at most distances and non-DMX control of most settings is available via the digital display or optional IRC-6 remote.

SKU: HL.48185689

UPC: 888680848897. 9.0x12.0x0.05 inches.

Philippe Durand: Abysses (Horn solo).

SKU: HL.50499398

8.25x11.75x0.1 inches.

7 Violoncelli And 2 Waterphones.

SKU: HL.50499193

SKU: 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.

SKU: HL.50499399

7 Violoncelli And 2 Waterphones.

SKU: HL.49019283

ISBN 9790001179652. 9.0x12.0x0.061 inches.

Nocturnes have a long tradition - from the notturni by Mozart and Haydn via the nocturnes of the Romantic era to Chopin who elevated the genre to fascinating character piece: He created ambivalently shining gems in an unreal world of human nature which were as close to the extremely sublime as to a demonic abyss. Enjott Schneider's '3 Nocturnes', the core of each of which is characterized by a Latin motto, stand in this tradition. Cicero's 'Somnus est imago mortus' sees sleep as a resemblance of death. 'Die Zeit eilt weg, die Liebe aber bleibt' [Time passes but love remains] explores the ambivalence between that what is hurrying and that what stays eternally. Ovid's 'Der Tropfen hohlt den Stein nicht durch Kraft, sondern durch stetes Fallen' [The drop hollows the stone, not by force but by constant dripping] has its counterpart in a minimalist motif which has a lasting influence on the listener through its constant sounding.

SKU: 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.

SKU: BR.KM-2197

World premiere: Nice, February 6, 1986

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.

SKU: HL.373004

ISBN 9781705149065. UPC: 196288015840.

Commi ssioned by Ensemble Sillages and IMEP de Namur, and premiered on 24 January 2009 by Isabel Soccoja (mezzo-soprano) and Aida Aragoneses (harp) at Auditorium du Quartz, Brest. The composer writes: 'Beyond Time is a sort of challenge to try and grasp the ungraspable, the fleeting, the inaccessible. The work consists of five sections that follow each other without a gap, revealing five allegories of Time: Virtual Instant, Mirror of Time, The Abyss of Time, Paradoxal Spirals, Beyond Time.'.

SKU: BT.WH33056

ISBN 9788759840467. Danish.

Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) is one of the most important Danish composers of the 20th century. Langgaard’s piano compositions are evenly spread out over his 50 productive years from 1902 to 1951. Generally speaking hispiano music represents the entire broad spectrum of expression and the stylistic diversity one finds in his music. Some of the most personal works he created are to be found among the piano works, e.g. Insectarium (1917), Music ofthe Abyss (1921-24), Insanity Fantasy (1914-49) and Le Béguinage (1948-49). In many of the works, however, nostalgic and romantic moods of expression are predominant.

This publication presents Langgaard’spianomus ic in its entire range. The three volumes comprise 26 works and 44 individual piano pieces. Only 11 of the compositions have previously
been published.

The Rued Langgaard Edition (RLU) was established in 2000,the aim being to present practical, performance-oriented publications of Langgaard’s works on a critical scholarly basis.

SKU: LM.27542

ISBN 9790230975421.

SKU: HL.49032090

ISBN 9790001067881. French - German.