Italie for String Quartet Score and Parts. Par BAKER CLAUDE. Annees de pelerinage: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage: Italy) derives its title from the set of three suites for piano by Franz Liszt in which he musically portrays the strongest sensations and most lively impressions created by his travels to Italy and Switzerland during the period 1835-39. In this composition, each of the four movements explores a particular Italian city or region through, in part, the eyes of other composers who (like Liszt) were inspired to write works based on their own sojourns in the country. There are references, both literal and oblique, to music by Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Liszt (with a sly wink from Paganini). Serious and playful elements combine in thepiece, with the two inner movements (II. Venezia e Napoli and III. Firenze) providing light-hearted foils to the more somber outer movements (I. Roma and IV. Abruzzo). Annees de pelerinage: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage: Italy) derives its title from the set of three suites for piano by Franz Liszt in which he musically portrays the strongest sensations and most lively impressions created by his travels to Italy and Switzerland during the period 1835-39. In this composition, each of the four movements explores a particular Italian city or region through, in part, the eyes of other composers who (like Liszt) were inspired to write works based on their own sojourns in the country. There are references, both literal and oblique, to music by Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Liszt (with a sly wink from Paganini). Serious and playful elements combine in thepiece, with the two inner movements (II. Venezia e Napoli and III. Firenze) providing light-hearted foils to the more somber outer movements (I. Roma and IV. Abruzzo). / Date parution : 2019-05-27/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. L’Offertoire pour orgue et cor chromatique en ut mineur de Camille Saint-Saëns a été écrit à Paris en 1857 et resté méconnu jusqu’à ce jour car, pour des raisons inconnues, Saint-Saëns ne l’a jamais terminé. Cependant, grâce à la note laissée sur le manuscrit par son ami et éditeur Auguste Durand, nous savons avec certitude qu’il l’a bien joué sur les orgues de l’église Saint-Merry où il était titulaire :“inachevé, composé pour Mr Halary et exécuté à l’orgue de S. Merry par l’auteur”. Saint-Saëns a-t-il improvisé une dernière variation, laissant le cor silencieux ou a-t-il juste terminé par un accord final, nous ne le saurons jamais. Écrit pour un cor chromatique, c’est-à-dire cor à mécanisme, en opposition au cor ordinaire ou “naturel” sans piston, encore beaucoup utilisé en France à cette époque, cet Offertoire inachevé est construit sous forme de variations sur l’hymne pascal O filii et filiae écrit en 1494 par Jean Tisserand. De nombreux compositeurs l’ont utilisé tout au long de l’histoire de la musique, citons Lebègue, Dandrieu, Charpentier, Cherubini ou encore Liszt. / Date parution : 2023-03-21/ Répertoire / Cor et Orgue

Variationen über die Caprice Nr. 24 im Stil des Modern Jazz. Par SAY FAZIL. The concert piece Paganini Jazz by Fazil Say, which was inspired by classical, modern and jazz styles, is reminiscent of the music of such greats as Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, Gershwin and Bernstein, and was originally designed as a charming encore work (1988); following the appreciative response of music lovers and, in particular, that of music critics, it was transformed over a perion of time into a more substantial work for piano. Briefly, the piece was rewritten and expanded a number of times between 1988 and 1995. We can evaluate the work as having taken its inspiration from Paganini's renowned '24th Capriccio', transforming it into 'variations on jazz' requiring virtuoso rendition as well as being a creation open to the addition of improvisations and a variety of arrangements. Throughout music history a number of composers have written various works inspired by the '24th Capriccio'. We can count among them Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Lutoslavski. In Say's work, however, a different aspect must be noted: the composer is prepared to add various 'developmental passages' and 'transitional improvisations' while interpreting this work in concert. Furthermore, when the work is considered as a short encore piece, it is abbreviated in a manner deemed suitable by Say. / Niveau : 5 / Répertoire / Violon, Piano, Guitare Basse et Percussion