SKU: FG.55011-462-3
ISBN 9790550114623.
Sonata for Flute and Piano was commissioned by Sami Junnonen. It was written between April and August 2018, and the composition process was especially complicated, involving the rewriting of the first movement many times. The Flute Sonata is unusually dark in character, and ends in disaster. While not really programmatic, the Sonata does reflect my feelings about the scary and grim future of humankind facing the climate change and very erratic world politics. The first movement is a light and capricious Allegretto, the second movement is very gloomy and slow and the last movement is a very agitated moto perpetuo.
SKU: HL.14022429
English.
A fun musical play in rhyme with seven songs for Primary schools based on the Grimm Brothers' story. Meet the flamboyant donkey who revels in showing-off, the kindly old dog who discovers he can sing, the slinky cat the night-singer, and the always-in-a-flap Rooster. Whilst perfect singing voices are not required, enthusiasm and humour are! The play has nine main characters, a unison speaking chorus, a body of singers and a troupe of dancing forest animals. If you need to license a school/youth theatre performance of this product, please use the online application form.
SKU: AP.6-438260
ISBN 9780486438269. English.
An instant and overwhelming success upon its first performance in 1893, Hänsel and Gretel has captivated audiences of all ages ever since. Engelbert Humperdinck combined the simplicity of German folk tunes with the sophistication of Wagnerian technique in a fairy-tale opera, based on the story by the Brothers Grimm. Richard Strauss, who conducted the premiere, proclaimed it a masterpiece of the highest quality. Broadcast from Covent Garden in 1923, it was the first complete opera ever aired on radio, and eight years later it was the first to be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera.
SKU: HL.50511818
ISBN 9790080146194. A/4 inches. English, German. Balazs Futo.
The piece was written in 2003, commissioned by the Budapest Spring Festival. The process of the work follows the line of the composer-s personal interpretation of the original poem. In this song the original dark, grim ending appears as a sort of cathartic denouement. The theme is love versus mortality. The work is a kind of wholly composed song written in the 21st century; its form derives basically from the text. The narrator begins the story in Sprechgesang and in the final lines of the poem tries to sing in a normal singing voice. This acoustic line is followed by the merging of the sinus tones into the clarinet parts. Thus, basically, a peculiar change of tone introduced for dramatic purposes constitutes the essence of the song. First performance: March 2003.
