Originally released on Appalachia Waltz featuring Mark O'Connor, Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer, Sony Classical
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Catalogue Number MO104C
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Catalogue Number MO104B
SKU: HL.50499300
UPC: 884088951306. 9x12 inches.
This collection, the result of a cooperation with the Verlag Sonus Mundi, contains selected solos for violin by twelve contemporary composers: Robert HP Platz, Lucia Papanetzova, Mela Meierhans, Klaus Huber, Jacqueline Fontyn, Jean-Luc Darbellay, Karel Reiner, Cergio Prudencio, Lucia Konakovska, Maki Ishii, Rachel Fortin and Yoram Paporis. This collection, the result of a cooperation with the Verlag Sonus Mundi, contains selected solos for violin by twelve contemporary composers: Robert HP Platz, Lucia Papanetzova, Mela Meierhans, Klaus Huber, Jacqueline Fontyn, Jean-LucDarbellay, Karel Reiner, Cergio Prudencio, Lucia Konakovska, Maki Ishii, Rachel Fortin and Yoram Paporis.In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verlag Sonus Mundi entstand diese Sammlung ausgewahlter Solowerke fur Violine von zeitgenossischen Komponisten: Robert HP Platz, Lucia Papanetzova, Mela Meierhans, Klaus Huber, Jacqueline Fontyn, Jean-Luc Darbellay, Karel Reiner, Cergio Prudencio, Lucia Konakovska, Maki Ishii, Rachel Fortin und Yoram Paporis. Questa raccolta, frutto di una collaborazione con la casa editrice Sonus Mundi, contiene una selezione di brani per violino solo di dodici compositori contemporanei: Robert HP Platz, Lucia Papanetzova, Mela Meierhans, Klaus Huber, Jacqueline Fontyn, Jean-Luc Darbellay, Karel Reiner, Cergio Prudencio, Lucia Konakovska, Maki Ishii, Rachel Fortin e Yoram Paporis.
SKU: FG.55011-785-3
ISBN 9790550117853.
Fennica Gehrman the music publisher pays tribute to its composers with this 20th-anniversary collection of commissions for violin and piano. Stringendo - Contemporary works for violin and piano (2022) is a collection of ten pieces, which vary greatly as regards their genesis. That by Harri Wessman is playful and exhilarating; Mikko Heiniö wrote his on Women's Day, while the duets by Kalevi Aho and Matthew Whittall are tributes to the late Jaakko Kuusisto. Einojuhani Rautavaara is also represented, in an arrangement for violin and piano of his plaintive, melodic Sydämeni laulu (The Song of my Heart). The title of Lotta Wennäkoski's work, Vestige, is a fitting symbol for the whole collection.Short introductions to the pieces by their composers are included in the collection in English, Finnish, and Swedish.ContentsKalevi Aho (b. 1949): Le Tombeau de J. K.Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016): Sydämeni laulu - Song of my heartMikko Heiniö (b.1948): Naisten päivä - Women's DayJyrki Linjama (b. 1962): De Profundis ILotta Wennäkoski (b. 1970): VestigeMatthew Whittall (b.1975): Waiting to hearOlli Kortekangas (b. 1955): CapricciettoHarri Wessman (b.1949): GiocosoVeli-Matti Puumala (b. 1965): Édera IVKimmo Hakola (b.1958): A Double Jubilee.
SKU: PE.EP71899
ISBN 9790577004402. English.
About Peters Contemporary Library
Mark AndreMilton BabbittDaniel BjarnasonEarle BrownJohn CageHenry CowellJames DillonJonathan DoveBrian FerneyhoughRoxanna PanufnikRebecca SaundersErkki-Sven TuurCharles Wuorinen These are just a few of the composers whose most adventurous scores are now available to purchase through the Peters Contemporary Library. A new global initiative of the Edition Peters Group, the Peters Contemporary Library is a project designed to put these bold 20th- and 21st-century works, once available only for rental, into the collections of libraries, performers, scholars, and conductors alike. Kicked off in 2016, the Peters Contemporary Library already contains many cutting-edge works and is constantly expanding. We are proud to offer these bold new scores for sale, for the first time ever, to modern musicians and students of music all around the world.
SKU: PR.144401000
UPC: 680160025589. 11 x 8.5 inches.
George Perle, now an instructor at the University of Louisville, was born in 1915, in Bayonne, New Jersey. He began work on the Third String Quartet in 1946 in Japan and completed it the following year in New York City. It was presented for the first time at a concert of the Forum Group of the International Society for Contemporary Music, in New York City on Feb. 7, 1948. The work is based on the following twelve-tone series, and its permutations and transpositions: d; e-flat; a-flat; b; c; f-sharp; c-sharp; f-natural; g; a; e; b-flat. The score is arranged in the present publication in such a way as to render unnecessary the extraction of parts for performance. Each player may read his part directly from a copy of the score.
SKU: HL.48024150
'Pioneer' Level: Captivating contemporary concert repertoire for established quartets of grade 6-8 standard. Compositions are more pioneering in style and feature greater independence of parts and increased incorporation of extended techniques. Contents: Sawyers: Movement for String Quartet Burrell: Coro Hewitt Jones: Sad Clown MacMillan: For Sonny Beamish: Golden Gate (Movement II from String Quartet no 2 ; Opus California) Richter: November McGowan: Mama's Got A Brand New Bag Parts only.
SKU: PE.EP14618
ISBN 9790014139056. German.
Kanonische Sonate by Kit Armstrong is an 11-minute work for Oboe, Violin and Piano, inspired by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. As the title suggests, it is based on the canon, a structure Bach often used and which is particularly impressive in his vocal music. Commissioned by the German festival Bachwoche Ansbach, it was premiered on 1 August 2021 by Viola Wilmsen (oboe), Franziska Hölscher (violin) and Kit Armstrong (piano). Score and parts are available for sale as part of the Peters Contemporary Chamber Series.
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SKU: PR.164002720
UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.
My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change. I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla. Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional. II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts] This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture. This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream. III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts] The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this. Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1. String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.
SKU: HL.48024120
'Pioneer' Level: Captivating contemporary concert repertoire for established quartets of grade 6-8 standard. Compositions are more pioneering in style and feature greater independence of parts and increased incorporation of extended techniques. Contents: Sawyers: Movement for String Quartet Burrell: Coro Hewitt Jones: Sad Clown MacMillan: For Sonny Beamish: Golden Gate (Movement II from String Quartet no 2 ; Opus California) Richter: November McGowan: Mama's Got A Brand New Bag Score/CD.
SKU: PR.16400272S
UPC: 680160588442. 8.5 x 11 inches.
SKU: HL.48024138
ISBN 9781784543235.
'Pioneer' Level: Captivating contemporary concert repertoire for established quartets of grade 6-8 standard. Compositions are more pioneering in style and feature greater independence of parts and increased incorporation of extended techniques. Contents: Sawyers: Movement for String Quartet Burrell: Coro Hewitt Jones: Sad Clown MacMillan: For Sonny Beamish: Golden Gate (Movement II from String Quartet no 2 ; Opus California) Richter: November McGowan: Mama's Got A Brand New Bag Score, Parts, CD.
SKU: HL.48024136
ISBN 9781784543211.
'Discover' Level: An introduction to quartet ensemble playing for string players of grade 1-3 standard. Familiar keys, common rhythms and transparent musical forms ensure the short pieces and miniatures featured within Discover are accessible to all. Emphasis is firmly focussed on playing together as a unit. Contents: Mortimer: Intergalactic Messaging Mortimer: Sleepy Sawyers: Copy Cats Scolding: Clifton Bridge Hewitt Jones: Ghost Train Kershaw: Catch Me If You Can Kershaw: Lullaby for Lilah Norton: A Relaxed Mood K. & H. Colledge: Stargazing Score, parts and CD.