Format : Sheet music + CD
SKU: BT.SY-2909
German-English.
With appealing melodies that would be right at home in catchy pop songs, Giuseppe Di Girolamoâ??s Guitar Poems indulges in the overwhelming beauty of the sound of the acoustic guitar. This publication contains all twelve pieces from Letters for You, supplemented by eight newly-composed titles that complete the collection. The pieces are presented progressively and contain comprehensive fingerings to make them as technically accessible as possible. Guitar Poems also includes first-rate demo recordings of all the pieces, performed especially for this edition by the young concert guitarist and international prize-winner Julia Trintschuk.Man schwelgt in der ganzen Klangschönheit der akustischen Gitarre und in eingängigen Melodien, die aus guten Pop-Songs stammen könnten: Das ist Guitar Poems von Giuseppe Di Girolamo. Die Ausgabe enthält sämtliche zwölf Stücke aus Letters for You, ergänzt um acht neu komponierte Titel, welche die Sammlung ideal abrunden. Alle Stücke wurden progressiv angeordnet und mit Fingersätzen versehen, um sie technisch noch leichter zugänglich zu machen. Ein zusätzliches Bonbon von Guitar Poems sind die erstklassigen Demo-Aufnahmen aller Stücke, die von der jungen Konzertgitarristin und mehrfachen internationalen Preisträgerin Julia Trintschuk eigens für diese Ausgabe eingespielt wurden.
SKU: OT.28102
ISBN 9789655050837. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Songs for voice and piano on poems by Rivka MiriamContents:Malchut (Kingdom)Nigun (Tune)Song Cycle - A Tree Touched a TreeThe Flow of Water as the Flow of LightLanguage: Hebrew. The text appears in the score in both Hebrew and Latin letters.Daniel Akiva is a composer, performer, and educator whose performances on guitar and lute have won great acclaim. Mr. Akiva graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem in 1981, where he studied classical guitar with Haim Asulin and composition with Haim Alexander. In 1987 he completed his studies at the Geneva Conservatorium in Switzerland where he studied lute with Jonathon Rubin and composition with Jean Ballisa. For many years he chaired the Music Department at the WIZO High School for the Arts in Haifa, which he founded in 1986, and served as the Artistic Director of the Guitar Gems Festival from 2006-2019. As part of his work at WIZO High School, he developed a method for teaching free improvisation that has been incorporated into the music program at the school.Mr. Akiva has appeared in concert as a guitarist and lutist and given master classes in Israel, Europe, Russia, the United States, and Latin America. Daniel Akiva’s compositional output includes works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, choir, voice and guitar, piano, and chamber orchestra. His works have been recorded on twelve CDs, the latest of which, Malchut, was issued by OR-TAV in 2014. A native of Haifa whose family has lived in Israel for over five hundred years, he was steeped in the Sephardic (Jewish-Spanish) tradition from his youth. Much of his compositional output has been devoted to a dialogue with the music of the Sephardic Jews. Daniel Akiva has also maintained a creative dialogue over many years with the poets and writers Amnon Shemesh, Rivka Miriam, and Avner Peretz.
