/ 2 Sopranos Solo, 2 Altos Solo, 2 Tenor Solo, 3 Barytons Solo, Choeur Mixte, Orchestre Et Orgue
SKU: HL.14010207
ISBN 9780711924925. UPC: 196288152422. 9.0x12.0x0.306 inches.
Elias: I first came across Irina Ratushinskaya's poetry when the collection 'No, I'm Not Afraid' was published in England in early May 1986. The poems, the various circumstances in which they were written and the poet's integrity, commitment and appalling situation (she was still imprisoned) all had a tremendous impact upon me. I was drawn inexorably into the world she describes so vividly. The powerful imagery of resistance, the acceptance of shattering realities and the fantasies of different kinds of escape made poetry of truly universal significance and urgency, and the idea of a setting for voice and large orchestra followed immediately. Each of the settings (in Russian) is self-contained and quite different in mood and orchestration. However, I consider the songs as one piece, and the whole cycle is performed without a break. All the basic musical material, themes and motifs for the entire work are stated in the first few pages, and the order of the poems was chosen to provide an overall musical and dramatic shape that attempts to link them together and to reflect more than the immediate meaning of the individual poems.
SKU: UT.LB-13
ISBN 9788881094745. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Grazie ad un’attenta analisi del catalogo della biblioteca di Elias Canetti è possibile individuare un corpus omogeneo di alcune centinaia di titoli composto da repertori paremiografici, raccolte di miti, leggende, favole, resoconti etnografici, canti e danze popolari. Scopo del libro è la messa a fuoco delle conseguenze prodotte da tale straordinario ‘archivio sull’oralità ’. Da Auto da fé a Massa e potere, dalle giovanili pièces teatrali alla trilogia autobiografica e agli ultimi appunti degli anni Novanta, le opere dello studioso risultano tenute assieme da una sofisticata strutturazione acustica del pensiero, una metodologia della comprensione che di quel materiale si nutriva assiduamente, talvolta producendo interventi di autentica ‘archeologia sonora’. Interventi eseguiti in quella particolare officina mobile, avente per base la biblioteca-studio, che non smetteva di operare nelle osterie e nei caffè notturni, sui tram e per le strade, traendone anzi preziosa linfa. Da quei luoghi prediletti, Canetti ascoltava ed osservava il brulicare del popolo, che come nei quadri di Bruegel può essere placido e festoso, ma anche mostrare i denti e colpire al cuore; lì elaborava le nozioni di ‘cristalli di massa’, ‘metamorfosi’, ‘scarica’, sempre e innanzitutto aiutandosi con l’udito, come chi si serva dell’olfatto prima di portare cibo alla bocca. Seguendo questo intricato itinerario acustico è possibile incontrare Karl Kraus, Alban Berg, Hermann Scherchen, Cesare Pavese, James Joyce, Alma e Anna Mahler; e poi la lingua dei Boscimani, arcaica portatrice di miti, le voci degli animali e la danza dei Maori, il rumore prodotto dalle gocce di pioggia e le allucinazioni auditive di uno schizofrenico, la ‘massa statica’ dei concerti e la figura del direttore d’orchestra, incarnazione del potere: il tutto in una fitta trama di oralità , suono e musica che diventa per il lettore, come lo fu per lo scrittore, anche inesauribile e spesso inedita fonte di dati.
SKU: UT.HS-195
ISBN 9790215320116. 9 x 12 inches.
La partenza; La promessa; L’orgia
SKU: CA.4013019
ISBN 9790007097165. Language: German/English.
Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament. Mendelssohn to his librettist. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4013000.
SKU: UT.HS-201
ISBN 9790215320178. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: HL.14009682
SKU: HL.14046637
ISBN 9788850704989. Italian.
SKU: CA.4013008
ISBN 9790007217761. Language: German/English.
Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohn's compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year before his premature death. This excitingly dramatic work also expresses a fervent belief in God, a belief which in the 19th century was no longer self-evident. Mendelssohn transposed the visible world of the Old Testament into numerous musical expressive possibilities in which Old Testament texts, including psalm texts and commentaries from the words of the Prophets, were shaped into biblical dramas. For a subject like Elijah ... the drama must reign supreme ... the characters must be introduced speaking and acting like living people ... a quite vivid world of the sort we find in every chapter of the Old Testament. Mendelssohn to his librettist. Score available separately - see item CA.4013000.
SKU: HL.49005717
ISBN 9790001061841. 12.0x8.75x0.142 inches.
SKU: HL.14010208
UPC: 884088810993. 8.25x11.75x0.131 inches.
Pythikos Nomos is scored for alto saxophone (or clarinet in A) and piano. It was at the request of John- Edward Kelly that Brian Elias first decide to write a work for saxophone and piano. 'Pythikos Nomos' (Pyhton's Law) is an ancient Greek musical form, invented by Sakadas in 586 BC for the Pythian games to describe the battle between Apollo and the monster on the slopes of Parnassus. It is reputedly the first known genre of programme music. Brian Elias decided that the characteristic sounds of the saxophone would be well suited to ancient Greek rhythms, and was interested in the implications of this form as an early sonata shape. According to legend, Apollo fought and defeated the monster on the site, which came to be called Delphi. He returned to Delphi in triumph after a period of purification escorted by priests singing hymns of praise. Several versions of the instrumental form exist following the general storyline. Brian chose to base his piece around six sections: (i) Peira (introduction), (ii) Kataleusmos (Apollo incites the monster to battle), (iii) Imabikon (the battle), (iv) Spondeion (hymn of victory), (v) Katachoreusis (victory dance) (vi) Syrinxes (the last breaths of the dying monster). The central hymn of victory incorporates a quote from the first Delphic Hym, a surviving fragment of ancient Greek music. This work was written for John-Edward Kelly and Bob J.W.Versteegh, who gave the first performance on 1st July 1988 at the Wigmore Hall, London. Duration c.10 minutes. The score is in C.
SKU: HL.1479248
ISBN 9798350128666. UPC: 196288215301.
Ancestral Voices by Brian Elias is a short piano piece with a title taken from Coleridges famous poem Kubla Khan. While the piece is not programmatic, some of the imagery in the poem is the inspiration for the work. It was commissioned by the Music@Malling festival in 2023.
SKU: HL.263041
8.0x11.75 inches.
Brian Elias' Oboe Quintet was composed in 2016 for Oboe and String Quartet. Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of Andre Hoffmann, president of Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.
SKU: FG.55011-340-4
ISBN 9790550113404.
Einar Englund (1916-1999) was a major Finnish composer of symphonies, concertos and film music. His style is Neoclassical, which is also apparent in this fresh wind band transcription of his concert suite The Great Wall of China (1949). Rhytmically driven, satirical and striking, Elias Seppala's skillful transcription.
SKU: HL.1446144
ISBN 9798350124590. UPC: 196288206637.
I Saw a Peacock by Brian Elias is a set of six songs for baritone and piano, commissioned by Wigmore Hall and premiered by James Newby and Joseph Middleton. Of particular interest to the composer was the eponymous poem; though generally anthologised as a nursery rhyme, it contains apocalyptic and almost biblical imagery.
SKU: HL.280393
Brian Elias' Song for Medium Voice and Hurdy-Gurdy. Composed in 1986.
