SKU: HL.49019038
ISBN 9790001174152.
In this composition Barbara Heller uses the song Lalai created in Tehran in 1973. It is a song of resistance against the Shah regime and is about a mother who sings a lullaby to her child and tells the story of its father. Based on this song, Barbara Heller composed the duo 'Lalai, Schlaflied zum Wachwerden?' for violin (violoncello) and piano in 1989 - in memory of 50 Iranian women who were murdered under the regime of Khomeini. 'Lalai' is now available in a version for 4 bassoons for the first time. The composer has arranged the simple charming folk tune and the desperate cries for help for bassoon ensemble with a fine sense of detail. The sonorous sound of the bassoons gives the work its very own sound atmosphere. An impressive work of emotional depth.
SKU: HL.49019037
ISBN 9790001171953. 9.0x12.0x0.1 inches.
Das Quartett do-re-mi-fagott schrieb die Komponistin Barbara Heller im Jahr 2009 fur das gleichnamige Fagott-Quartett des Frankfurter Jugend-Musik-Ensembles. Heller entwickelte ein einpragsames Motiv aus den vier Tonen c-d-e-f bzw. do-re-mi-fa, das zur Namensgebung der Komposition fuhrte. Mit einfachem musikalischen Material entlockt sie dem Fagott eine bemerkenswerte klangliche Vielfalt und entdeckt die Wandlungsfahigkeit dieses Instruments. Alle vier Stimmen sind gleichberechtigt: Motive und Melodiefloskeln werden einander zugespielt und weitergefuhrt. Heller regt zu einer freien Interpretation an und gibt den Spielern Raum zur eigenen Improvisation uber das Motiv. do-re-mi-fagott richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Musikschuler und ambitionierte Hobbymusiker, die Freude am Zusammenspiel haben und die klanglichen Facetten des Instruments ausschopfen wollen.
SKU: SU.50000870
Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: HL.253938
9.0x12.0 inches.
Sonata for bassoon and piano is one of Swiders first works for a wind instrument. It was written most probably in the years 1953-1954, under a clear influence of neo-classicist stylistics. The only documented performance took place on 5th May 1955 in Katowice, or Stalinogrod, as such was the name of that city in those days. The first part of Sonata is written in a form of scherzando of a light and witty character, where the composer fully uses the facture and bassoons sound potential. The second part, full of meditation and cantilena, bears a particular expression of lower registers of the instrument. Part three is a traditional minuet in moderato tempo, with stylised folk elements in the middle fragment. The last part resumes the scherzo form, capped by a cadenza written by Marek Baranski, in which attempting to imitate the language of Jozef Swider's compositions that include numerous elements of a synthetic finale he included most music concepts outlined in the entire Sonata.
SKU: SU.50001170
Copyright 1993. Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: SU.50001120
SKU: SU.50001180
