/ Violoncelle
SKU: FG.55011-517-0
ISBN 9790550115170.
Kalevi Aho's Piano Sonata No. 2 Hommage a Beethoven (2016) is a tribute to that great giant of the piano sonata, Beethoven. The very opening bars already allude to the older master's most mammoth sonata, the Hammerklavier, op. 106. In many places, Aho has spread the texture over three staves in his search for a mighty sound. The third movement is in the nature of a scherzo, drawing on musical material from the second movement of the Hammerklavier. There are no allusions to Beethoven in the fourth movement, but its texture, with bells, is somehow evocative of Mussorgsky's Great Gate of Kiev. The last movement gathers the sonata's motifs together again until, little by little, they disperse and chirruping birdsong leads the sonata to an enigmatic conclusion. The sonata is dedicated to Sonja Fraki, who premiered the work at Mantta Music Festival in August 2018.
SKU: FG.55011-415-9
ISBN 9790550114159.
Born in 1963, Hannu Pohjannoro is widely acclaimed as a composer of quiet, restrained music. It has been said of his music that it seems to have been 'sketched with a sounding quill': Pohjannoro is a composer for whom the magic of different pianissimo shades is of the utmost importance. Though Pohjannoro's aesthetic is distinctly modernist, he nonetheless acknowledges the importance for the compositional process of knowing and understanding musicaltradition. A portrait of Beethoven hangs in his study to remind him that the combination of visceral musical expression and structural strength and clarity is still an ideal to which every composer should strive. Of this work, the composer says: images, hommages is a series of miniature tributes to a number of artists whose works have had a profound effect on me - though, naturally, many other artists could have been included too. I wanted to avoid any form of musical quotation, so from the outset I decided to exclude other composers from the list altogether. As the focus of these miniatures, I therefore selected exponents of abstract art and some of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century - or, rather, examples of their works. images, hommages presents musical tributes to artists including Albers, Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Kafka, Harms, Calvino and Borges. images, hommages was awareded with the second prize at the VIII International Henri Dutilleux Composition Contest in 2017. Each musician will need their own copy of the performances score.
SKU: HL.49046328
ISBN 9781540081063. UPC: 888680989132. 9.0x12.0x0.142 inches.
A varied collection, from miniature to concert etude, which pays homage to Debussy's Feu d'artifice and a whimsical variation on thefinal movement of Beethoven's Opus 109.
SKU: DB.01-00705
ISBN 9790012207351.
SKU: CA.1040169
ISBN M-007-25426-1. German. Text: Schiller, Friedrich.
Score and parts available separately - see item CA.1040100.
SKU: CA.1040119
ISBN M-007-25115-4. German. Text: Schiller, Friedrich.
SKU: CA.1040100
ISBN M-007-25113-0. German. Text: Friedrich Schiller.
SKU: CA.1040105
ISBN M-007-25114-7. German. Text: Friedrich Schiller.
