Genesis Nr2

You'll appreciate the creative and sensitive compositional technique in James Curnow's engaging new work Genesis. The piece gives your grade 3 band the chance to shine in many ways as it progresses through many styles andmoods. Exciting and expressive moments for every section display the versatility of your band to excellent advantage. Masterful orchestration and several nice solo passages add to the depth and breadth of the music making thispossibly the nicest new work to be published this year. The more you study it the more you find to like.

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including tremolandi glissandi bridge bowing and de-tuning. This approach creates an ever changing and fluctuating timbral journey that has more in common with the Fluxus school Gerard Grisey or even Edgard Varese than with the seminal Symphony of SorrowfulSongs. Music of the very elements themselves.

The first part of Gorecki's remarkable cycle Genesis is a gritty and unforgiving exploration of pure sound and sonority. The strings are treated to a huge variety of effects and techniques including tremolandi glissandi bridge bowing and de-tuning. This approach creates an ever changing and fluctuating timbral journey that has more in common with the Fluxus school Gerard Grisey or even Edgard Varese than with the seminal Symphony of SorrowfulSongs. Music of the very elements themselves.

Fantasie-Après avoir achevé la création de la Terre Dieu créa l?homme et la femme. Il les bénit et leur dit : « Soyez féconds multipliez-vous remplissez la terre et soumettez-la. (?) ». Cette fantaisie illustre la manière dont l?homme a réellement fait usage de cette recommandation. Le passage d?ouverture décrit la création de l?être humain. Et puis très vite l?homme part en guerre contre ses frères. L?impossibilité d?enrayer le processus en cours conduit l?homme vers une déshumanisation. La nature et l?environnement souffrent plus que jamais des dommages causés par l?humanité. Dans sa logique de domination absolue l?homme a détourné et oublié le sens premier de la recommendationdivine : la responsabilité et le respect envers la terre.La nature finit toujours par reprendre ses droits. S?il veut survivre l?homme doit se réconcilier avec elle sinon il est amené à disparaître. L?humanité hésite encore quant au chemin à suivre tandis que des fanfares annoncent le Jugement dernier. Genesis (La Genèse se développe dans un environnement harmonique bitonal et dissonant en osmose avec la nature du sujet traité. Impressionnante sur le plan sonore cette œuvre reste néanmoins accessible et agréable pour les musiciens et le public.

In spite of the most enthusiastic reception at the work's premiere, the famous pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow criticized Verdi's Messa da Requiem as 'an opera in ecclesiastical robes?. Nonetheless, or maybe precisely for this quality, the work has conquered concert podiums worldwide.For this scholarly-critical edition, the editor has consulted no less than 16 sources, many more than were ever used for any other edition of the Requiem - some of these sources were never evaluated before and one source, a hand-written vocal score, particularly relevant to the evaluation of the 'Liber scriptus?, was newly discovered.As such, this edition offers new philological and editorial decisions regarding phrasing, articulation and dynamics and succeeds in presenting practical suggestions to solve musical problems and those concerning the interpretation of this famous work.This edition comprises a concise Critical Commentary in the score. The most important editions published in the 19th century are compared with regard to musicological questions in the work. The genesis of some misunderstandings included in the 1913 and 1964 Ricordi editions is traced. The first version of the 'Liber scriptus? for chorus is included in the appendix while the later version for mezzosoprano solo is to be found in the main part of the edition.- Verdi's monumental work in a Bärenreiter Urtext edition- Trilingual preface (Ital/Eng/Ger)- Critical Commentary (Eng) in the score- Idiomatic well-presented piano reduction / Violon I