Variations And Capriccio

SKU: FG.55011-906-2

ISBN 9790550119062.

Harr i Wessman's Summer Variations for viola and piano (1998) exploites the rich and romantic sound of the viola and enjoys the many shades of summer days. It is dedicated to violist Yuri Gandelsman, who premiered the suite with Risto Lauriala 15th June 1998.

Duration: c. 11'

Movements:
1. Summer theme
2. What is this?
3. Pizzicato
4. Con sordino
5. Stile concitato ostinato
6. Tango
7. Finale

Harri Wessman (b. 1949) is interested in all aspects of music that may be expressive, without in any way ignoring the possibilities of melody. He himself describes his harmonic method as a kind of contrapuntally treated jazz harmony. Wessman is particularly preoccupied with the ability of music to express emotions, an interest which has led him to study the so-called doctrine of the affections and the musical rhetoric of the baroque era. His Eine kleine Figurenlehre for wind quartet and piano is a playful application of a set of baroque musical figures.

His output is dominated by chamber and vocal music as well as a number of concertos for various instruments such as the Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra and the Serenade for Piano and String Orchestra. During recent years pedagogic music has become a more and more central area in his output with an emphasis on creating repertoire for budding musicians, from beginners to young professionals. He has even tailored some solo and chamber works for young musicians that he personally knows: e.g. Five Trombone Pieces for Minna Kajander (1992), Five Horn Pieces for Jenni Kuronen (1993), Five Piano Etudes for Tiina Karakorpi, Five Trumpet Pieces for Alevtina Parland and Five Double Bass Pieces for Amanda Thieme. Other chamber and solo pieces include Pan and the Nymph Pitys (1979) for flute and guitar, Three Caprices for Konstantin Weitz (1994) for solo violin and Capriccio for wind ensemble (1989).

SKU: LM.26465

ISBN 9790230964654.

BACH : Concerto Brandebourgeois n. 2 (1er mvt) - BBEETHOVEN : Concerto pour piano n. 1 (3e mvt) - Marche turque des Ruines d'Athenes - Symphonie n. 6 (1er mvt) - Symphonie n. 7 (3e mvt) - BERLIOZ : Les Francs-Juges (ouverture) - Symphonie fantastique (La Marche a l'echafaud) - BIZET : Carmen (Prelude) - L'Arlesienne (Carillon et Suite) - BRAHMS : Ouverture pour une fete academique - Variations sur un theme de Haydn (Final) - CHABRIER : Espana (Rapsodie) - DEBUSSY : Nocturne (Nuages) - DVORAK : Danses slaves Op.46 n. 1 - Symphonie n. 8 (2e, 4e mvt) - Symphonie n. 9 (2e, 3e mvt) - Variation symphonique n. 3 - ELGAR : Enigma variations (n. 1 et final) - FRANCK : Symphonie en re mineur (3e mvt) - GRIEG : Concerto pour piano Op.16 (1er, 3e mvt) - HAYDN : Symphonie n. 94 (3e, 4e mvt) - Symphonie n. 101 (2e mvt) - HOLST : Les Planetes (Jupiter) - LISZT : Rapsodie hongroise - MENDELSSOHN : Les Hebrides (ouverture) - Songe d'une nuit d'ete (Marche nuptiale) - MOZARTt : Concerto pour piano n. 21 (2e mvt) - Symphonie n. 40 (3e mvt) - NICOLAI : Les Joyeuses Commeres de Windsor (ouverture) - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV : Cappriccio espagnol (2e mvt) - Sheherazade (3e mvt, Le Prince) - ROSSINI : Le Barbier de Seville (ouverture) - Guillaume Tell (ouverture) - L'Italienne a Alger - SCHUBERT : Symphonie n. 5 (2e, 4e mvt) - Symphonie n. 8 (1er, 2e mvt) - SCHUMANN : Concerto pour piano Op.54 (3e mvt) - SMETANA : La Fiancee vendue (ouverture) - SUPPE : Cavalerie legere (ouverture) - TCHAIKOVSKY : Casse-Noisette (Danse russe, Valse des fleurs) - Ouverture 1812 Op.49 - Symphonie n. 2 (2e mvt) - Symphonie n. 5 (1er mvt) - Symphonie n. 6 (2e, 3e mvt) - WAGNER : Le Vaisseau fantome (ouverture) - WEBER : Oberon (ouverture).

SKU: HL.49019302

ISBN 9790001153737. UPC: 888680663490.

'Six Pieces' Op. 19 is the first collection of piano pieces by Tchaikovsky which contributed significantly to his growing renown as most important Russian composer apart from Anton Rubinstein. Famous contemporary pianists like Nikolai Rubinstein and Hans von Bulow performed Reverie du soir (Op. 19, No. 1) or Theme original et variations (No. 6) in their concerts in the 1870s. Commissioned by his Moscow publisher P. I. Jurgenson, Six Pieces Op. 19 was composed by Tchaikovsky in the summer and autumn of 1873, i.e. during his time as professor of theory at the Moscow Conservatoire.Bulow had entered 'little changes' in his own copy of the first edition of Variations Op. 19/6. There is, however, no documentary proof which of Bulow's changes Tchaikovsky eventually included in the Nouvelle edition revue et corrigee par l'auteur of Op. 19 published only in 1890. The present new edition therefore contains both versions of the Variations. Tchaikovsky's version of the first edition can be found in the appendix of the present volume, Bulow's version expressly adopted by Tchaikovsky is presented together with Nos. 1-5 in the main text of the volume on the basis of the Nouvelle edition revue et corrigee par l'auteur from 1890.