Drama

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: HL.14028003

ISBN 9788759862896.

Poul Ruders Polydrama (Manyfold Event) for cello and orchestra, is the last part of a drama trilogy otherwise consisting of Dramaphonia for piano and 11 instruments and Monodrama for percussion and 32 instruments. In this abstract drama, the individual listener is left entirely to his own associations. The composer has compared polydrama with the gradual defoliation of a big tree: the vigorously growing organism is attacked by a swarm of locusts until, finally, nothing remains but bare branches in a landscape of long shadows; a solitary, singing bird remains, however, like a streak of hope in an increasingly dark and pessimistic universe.

SKU: HL.14027981

ISBN 9788759808368. English.

'Dramaphon ia' for piano solo and 11 instruments forms the first part of a trilogy of solo-concertos, the remaining two being one for percussion and smaller symphony orchestra ('Monodrama') and the last ('Polydrama') for violoncello and full orchestra. All three pieces are in one movement each and may be performed together, thus presenting a vast concerto grosso of the duration of one hour and a half. Each concerto, however, stands by itself, offering its own story: having employed the word drama in all three pieces, I naturally want to imply that something is going on, a series of hidden events created by each listener's own inner theatre which enables him to stage his own, personal associations, and in the case of 'Dramaphonia', the compositorical tension alters between action and frozen panoramas. In the percussion concerto, the rhythmical progression is being constantly intensified, whereas the metric proportions of Dramaphonia tighten and loosen, like a magnifying glass being wielded in and out of focus. 'Dramaphonia' is commissioned and dedicated to LONTANO and Poul Rosenbaum.

SKU: HL.14041880

ISBN 9781847723659. 9.0x12.0x0.246 inches.

Step back in time and play these superb solo piano arrangements of forty memorable themes from 20 classic costume dramas. With evocative moods and romantic themes from popular films such as Dangerous Liaisons, Pride and Prejudice,Elizabeth and The Age of Innocence.

SKU: HL.49020880

ISBN 9783254002402. German.

Macht und Liebe sind Gravitationszentren in der Musik Mozarts. Beide wandeln ihr Gesicht tiefgreifend in der nur kurzen, aber schopferisch so uberreichen Zeitspanne der Wiener Jahre. In den letzten Lebensjahren umgibt Mozarts Musik die bedurftige, nach Gluck suchende Welt des Menschlichen immer greifbarer mit einem Schimmer von Transzendenz. Sie verdeckt mit ihrer lichten Aura ein dunkles Inneres, einen Bodensatz von Leid und innerem Ruckzug.Mozarts Spatwerk gilt als apollinisch und abgeklart. Warum aber dieser fruhe Abschied von den lebensvollen Kampfen und Leidenschaften, die in den Werken seiner fruhen Wiener Jahre so begluckend aufbluhten? Sie finden ihren dramatischen Hohepunkt in Don Giovanni, der Ausnahme-Oper, die als einzige den erlosenden Gestus der Verzeihung verweigert. Hier nimmt die rachende Figur eines Vaters ubermenschliche Dimensionen an, die unantastbare Grenze zwischen Diesseits und Jehseits wird gewaltsam aufgerissen. Dieses Jahr 1787, das den realen Tod seines Vaters udn den Buhnentod des (Uber-)Vaters sah, scheint auch die Wende zu Mozarts Spatstil zu sein. Findet man hier den Ursprung jenes erdfernen, zartlich umhullenden Lichtes in den Werken der letzten Schaffensjahre?

SKU: HL.48022456

Full score of two melodramas by Fredrick Pacius, edited by Mikko Nisula & Jani Kyllonen. Die Weihe der Tone and Tod im Tode. Volume No. 1 in the Pacius series The Complete Works of Musical Drama.

SKU: HL.49007288