SKU: PR.114411950
UPC: 680160017324. 8.5 x 11 inches.
The virtuosity of the Network for New Music ensemble served as the inspiration for Fantasy. While there are three distinct movements, there is no break in the musical flow. The first and second movements are bridged by a sustained climatic chord in the piano, from which the solo violin emerges to begin the Vocalise. The tentative clarinet line which closes the second movement grows into an intense trill, which in turn cues the dramatic entry of the cello in double-stops to begin the final movement. As the title implies, a certain freedom of expression pervades the whole, expressed both in terms of plasticity of line and in the bravura playing style evident particularly at the start of the final movement.
SKU: SU.26190100
Extended polystylistic single movement fantasy quartetSaxophone Quartet Duration: 16' Composed: 1984 Published by: Freundworks Publishing (ASCAP).
SKU: KN.17238
UPC: 822795172386.
Final ly, a grade 3-4 trumpet quartet collection that has interesting and fun parts for all players! All works are suitable for recitals, concerts, and contest. Ten works spanning the Renaissance through ragtime are included.Contents :March Pontificale (Gounod); Sing We And Chant It (Morley); The Fiddler (Brahms); Fantasy On Scarborough Fair (traditional); Spinning Song (Ellmenreich); Now Is The Month Of Maying (Morley); Sonatina (Clementi); Te Deum (Charpentier); Can Can (Offenbach); Rag (Jarvis).
SKU: KN.17237
UPC: 822795172379.
SKU: HL.14008374
ISBN 9781846096150. UPC: 884088435202. 8.25x11.75x0.105 inches.
The Full Score for Peter Maxwell Davies' fourth in a series of ten string quartets commissioned by the Naxos Recording company, first performed by the Maggini Quartet on 20th August 2004 at the Chapel of the Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway, as part of the Olso Chamber Music Festival. Composer Note: The fourth Naxos quartet was written in January and February of 2004, with the intention of producing something lighter and much less fierce than its predecessor, an unpremeditated and spontaneous reaction to the illegal invasion of Iraq. I returned to the well-known Brueghel picture of children's games (1560, now in Vienna), which had been the inspiration for my sixth Strathclyde Concerto, for flute and orchestra. These illustrations liberated my musical imagination, but I feel it would limit the listener's perception to be too specific about which game relates to exactly which section of the work. Suffice it to say that there is vigorous play - leap-frog, bind the devil with a cord, truss, wrestling - alongside quieter pastimes - masks, guess whom I shall choose, courting, odds and evens. The single movement juxtaposes these activities as abruptly and intimately as they occur in Brueghel. Rather as the eye is taken into different perspectives and proportions of scale within the picture, taking liberties which would never be present in, for instance, Brunelleschi architectural drawings, so here, with a constant sequence of transformation processes, I have distorted the neat, precise implications of modal progression, expressed in the unison opening phrase (from F to B through A sharp/B flat), so that the ear is led, en route, into the sound equivalents of strange passageways and closed rooms: sicut exposition ludus. As work on the quartet progressed I became aware that I was reading into, and behind the games, adult motives and implications, concerning aggression and war, with their consequences. It was impossible to escape into innocent childhood fantasy. The nature of the F to B progression underlying the whole construction derives from a passage in the development of the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony, and the opening of Schoenberg's Second String Quartet. However, unlike in these models, here a real - if temporary - sense of resolution occurs at the close of the quartet: as when the curtain falls on the reconciled Count and Countess in 'Figaro' one wonders how long the F/B truce will hold, and games break out again. The quartet is dedicated to Giuseppe Rebecchini, Roman architect, and friend since the nineteen-fifties.
SKU: KN.17236
UPC: 822795172362.
SKU: KN.17239
UPC: 822795172393.
SKU: KN.17235
UPC: 822795172355.
SKU: PR.11440902S
UPC: 680160013708.
The quartet begins with a 5-note motif, played in unison that permeates melodically and harmonically throughout the movement. The energetic and hard-driven character of the second musical idea propels the music forward with fast moving notes and greater urgency. It often alternates with the more lyrical rendition of the 5-note motif, yielding contrasting sections. After a brief coda, the 5-note motif concludes the movement much the same way it had begun but with greater intensity. The second movement explores the world of fantasy. To some extent the beginning and the ending of the movement function as the opening and closing doors that separate the reality from the dream and subconscious. It is one continuous movement in an arch form that gradually accelerates to an expansive emotional climax and returning steadily to the surface led by an ethereal solo cello. The transcendent ending is similar to the beginning, though half step higher. The third movement begins boldly with the 5-note motif transformed into a dance character in a compound meter. The asymmetrical meter of the Persian folk music influences much of the rhythmic character of the movement. The return of many materials from earlier movements interwoven into the fabric of this movement reinforces the cyclical and organic character of the quarter. Particularly, a mysterious passage, reminiscence of the second movement leading to a brief full-blown ballad is a favorite moment of Ranjbaran's in the quartet. A blazingly virtuosic viola leads the quartet to an uplifting conclusion.
