Kalei

SKU: HL.48184296

UPC: 888680863043. 9x12 inches.

Jacques Delécluse: Kaléi (Percussions 3).

SKU: HL.14047797

UPC: 888680642815. 9.5x14 inches.

John Tavener 's Kaleidoscopes is a tribute to Mozart for Solo Oboe, Percussion and four String Quartets, lasting approximately 30 minutes. The work was commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia, and first performed by them with soloist Nicholas Daniel on 6th November 2006 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. This is the Solo Oboe part. In the composer's note, Tavener  explains his high regard for Mozart, and how in Kaleidoscopes  he attempts to take Mozart's music and meditate upon it in four main cycles. He states that all the music has its source in Mozart, whether it be rhythmic, harmonic or contrapuntal. .

SKU: BR.EB-9071

World premiere: Darmstadt, April 7, 1990

ISBN 9790004179468. 11 x 15 inches.

Ein ganz anderer (neuer?) Baur keine Bindung an einen cantus firmus, keine barocke Form stattdessen vier suitenartig, in lockerer Form aneinander gereihte Satze. Schon die Uberschriften deuten auf Neues; der Gesamt-Titel: Kaleidoskop die einzelnen Teile: Sisyphus, Spiegelung, Artisten, Marionetten; spielerisch frei entworfene Stucke, heiter, besinnlich, humorvoll. 1. Satz: Zwei thematische Bewegungen charakterisieren den Ablauf des Sisyphus eine durch Pausen unterbrochene einstimmige Rollfigur wechselt standig mit einem stereotypen Funfton-Ostinato einem Motiv, das in vielfacher Veranderung wiederkehrt und schliesslich girlandenformig in die Tiefe fallt, symbolisch fur das vergebliche Bemuhen der altgriechischen Sagengestalt. Das zweite Stuck, Spiegelungen, wird ein- und ausgeleitet durch einen melancholischen Gedanken; dieser mundet in einer Gruppe von statischen, streng imitierten, ineinander geschobenen Spiegelklangen. Eine bewegte Figur fuhrt zu einer 5/8-Periode, bei der die Oberstimme um funf Tone kreist; am Ende steht wieder die Spiegelklang-Episode, auf einem Einzelton verloschend: das Ganze ein ruhiges, fast aleatorisch wirkendes Intermezzo. 3. Satz: Eine virtuose Studie mit kreisenden Rastelli-Tongruppen, dodekaphonisch geordneten Quintolen, begleitet von rhythmisch gegenlaufigen Klangimpulsen, immer wieder unterbrochen von rezitativischen Pedal-Bass-Soli. Zum Ende, kraftvolle Zusammenballung aller thematischen Elemente eine artistische Toccata, gipfelnd in dissonanten Klangturmen. Das Finale: Marionetten, eine funfteilige Bruckenform ABCBA. Der Satz fugt sich aus drei thematischen Abschnitten zusammen; der erste: eine abwarts gerichtete Zwolfton-Melodie, in ein Klangfeld mundend, das sich zum vielschichtigen Akkord weitet; der zweite: ein verhulltes Menuett mit funftonigem Bass-Ostinato und marionettenhaft gezirkelten Bewegungen in Melodie und Begleitung; der dritte: ein in streng serieller Manier durchgefuhrter Abschnitt mit spiegel- und krebsformigen Entsprechungen. Formteil B und A schliessen sich als variierte Reprise an. Die Coda wird gebildet von dreifach geschichtetem Trillerfeld, der Zwolfton-Melodie des Anfangs und einer Kadenz mit drei Akkorden in tiefer Lage: ein stiller Ausklang des Kaleidoskops. (Jurg Baur) Bibliography : Richter , Reinhold: Zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde zwischen Zweifel und Hoffnung. Einige Notizen zur Chor- und Orgelmusik von Jurg Baur anlasslich des 85. Geburtstages im vergangenen November, in: Forum Kirchenmusik 54 (2003), Heft 6, S. 23-31.

World premiere: Darmstadt, April 7, 1990.

SKU: BR.DV-31097

ISBN 9790200415704. 9 x 12 inches.

Works by Walter Draeger, Peter Freiheit, Ottmar Gerster, Werner Hubschmann, Gunter Ketzscher, Volkmar Leimert, Werner Richter, Gerhard Rosenfeld, Hermann Steglich and Siegfried Stolte Kaleidoskop based on other collections for accordion. The material of the three previously available Spielbucher fur Akkordeon (DV 31050, DV 31051, DV 31061) was made more didactically concise and newly organized according to technical demands. Volume 2 contains pieces of a medium level of difficulty.

SKU: BR.DV-31096

ISBN 9790200415711. 9 x 12 inches.

Works by Hans Boll, Gunter Ketzscher, Wolfgang Newy, Helmut Reinbothe, Werner Richter, Lutz Stark and Siegfried Stolte
The Kaleidoskop books were conceived as a response to the growing interest in works for standard bass accordion and as a means of helping this highly underrated instrument assume its proper place in the musical world through the cultivation of this literature. The degree of difficulty in Volume 1 corresponds approximately to the lower level of the VdM syllabus for accordion. (Uta and Lutz Stark).

SKU: M7.BP-678

ISBN 9790015067808.

SKU: PR.416414230

ISBN 9781598066630. UPC: 680160602087. 9x12 inches.

Colonnade is James Matheson’s intriguing response to the Albany Symphony’s commission to create a work inspired by the NY State Board of Education Building, designed by the renowned architect Rafael Guastavino. Matheson explains that “A colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. The columns are the same height and equidistant from each other; while the mind understands this fully, there exists no place from which one can perceive this – the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective, identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart.” This structural paradox is given musical life in the outer sections of Colonnade, while the long, arching middle section is inspired by the vaulted ceiling of one of the building’s largest rooms, enhancing the structure’s spacious openness and lightness.
Colonnade is inspired by Albany’s majestic New York State Board of Education Building, and written on a commission from the Albany Symphony Orchestra. It was an intriguing task, in part because in order to accept the commission I had to agree to write a work “inspired by” a building I had not yet seen. Thisproblem was compounded by the fact that, for me, the very notion of extra-musical inspiration is a complex one, particularly with respect to literary or visual sources. I generally find ideas and abstracted notions more generative of musical ideas than specific ones (a poem, an experience, a painting). So when I went to seeand tour the building, I sought to identify fundamental formal aspects of the building which I could process into musical ideas, and would then be linked to the building through a sense of formal relationship. In theend, two characteristics of the building stood out as noteworthy and undiminished by time (compared with, for instance, the building’s rotunda, which contains a series of quaintly outdated allegorical paintings): theexterior colonnade and a beautiful interior vaulted ceiling, designed by Rafael Guastavino.For me, a colonnade acts as a metaphor for the tension between knowledge and perception. We all know, for instance, that the columns are of the same height and are equidistant from each other. Nevertheless, while the mind understands this fully, it is also the case that there exists no place – no standpoint or viewpoint – anywhere in the universe – from which one can perceive this; the columns always appear to be of uneven height and spacing. If one then adds motion to perspective – a walk along the colonnade, for instance – the fixed, even, rigidly identical columns acquire elasticity, and begin to change kaleidoscopically – they shrink, grow, become closer, and then further apart. Further, the detail of the building’s façade behind the colonnadeshifts into and out of visibility, with different portions obscured by the columns from each vantage point. These considerations underlie the outer sections of Colonnade, in which a continuously repeated, continuously varied rising figure – suggestive of a column – dominates. The iterations of this elastic, evolvingfigure are interspersed with other music – suggestive of the building’s façade. The second feature of the building that caught my attention was the vaulted ceiling, designed by Guastavino,of one of the building’s largest rooms. The ceiling enhances the spaciousness of the room, giving it an openness and lightness that is quite captivating. The middle section of Colonnade has this openness at its core, and is dominated by long, arching lines that, to me, suggest the refined beauty of this ceiling.World premiere March 8, 2003; Albany Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Alan Miller.

SKU: HL.49036869

SKU: AP.47415S

UPC: 038081547565. English.

A theme-and-fantasy-variati ons treatment of the traditional church hymn Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. A quiet traditional opening introduces a set of fantasy-like episodes, creating a kaleidoscopic musical journey that culminates in a stately chorale treatment of the theme. Brilliant!

SKU: CA.1060100

ISBN 9790007096687. Language: German.

In his new work Sonne, Mond und Sterne (Sun, moon and stars), composer Peter Schindler combines texts from five centuries to form a kaleidoskope of life. The music, closely reflecting the many and diverse texts, borrows influences from classical music and jazz, chanson, pop and chamber music, and is merged into a unique and unmistakable musical language by Peter Schindler.