Format : Score and Parts
SKU: BT.AMP-468-140
English-German-French-Dutch.
Three Norwegian Sketches was commissioned by Åndalsnes Musikkforening, Norway, who are conducted by John Hudson. The three contrasting movements - TROLLVEGGEN (The Troll Wall), RAUMA ELV (River Rauma) and RAUMABANEN (The Rauma Line) - describe life and scenery around the town of Åndalsnes on the beautiful west coast of Norway. This is a challenging, imaginative and versatile new work, ideal for a concert or a contest. Three Norwegian Sketches werd geschreven in opdracht van de Åndalsnes Musikkforening uit Noorwegen, die onder muzikale leiding staat van John Hudson. De drie contrasterende delen TROLLVEGGEN (De Trollenmuur), RAUMA ELV (de rivier de Rauma) en RAUMABANAN (de Raumaspoorlijn) beschrijven het fraaie landschap rondom Åndalsnes, een kleine plaats aan de prachtige Noorse westkust. Dit is een uitdagend, verbeeldingsrijk en veelzijdig nieuw werk, dat ideaal is voor een concert of concours.Three Norwegian Sketches wurden von der Åndalsnes Musikkforening aus Norwegen in Auftrag gegeben, die von John Hudson geleitet wird. Die drei gegensätzlichen Sätze TROLLVEGGEN (Die Trollwand), RAUMA ELV (Der Fluss Rauma) und RAUMABANEN (Die Raumabahn) beschreiben das Leben und die Landschaft rund um die Stadt Åndalsnes an der schönen Westküste Norwegens. Dies ist ein anspruchsvolles, fantasievolles und vielseitiges neues Werk, das sich bestens für Konzerte und Wettbewerbe eignet.Three Norwegian Sketches est une commande de l’harmonie norvégienne Åndalsnes Musikkforening, dirigée par John Hudson. Ses trois mouvements contrastés « Trollveggen » (Le mur des trolls), « Rauma Elv » (La rivière Rauma) et « Raumabanen » (La ligne Rauma) dépeignent la vie et les paysages environnant la ville d’Åndalsnes, sur le splendide littoral occidental du pays. Stimulante, originale et adaptable, cette nouvelle pièce est idéale pour un concert ou un concours.
SKU: BT.AMP-468-010
SKU: SU.50024790
Published by: Seesaw Music.
SKU: HL.248688
UPC: 888680729080. 9x12 inches. English.
“Gordon Wright was the friend of a lifetime. For thirty years Gordon and I shared our two greatest passions: music and Alaska. Gordon was my musical collaborator, my next-door neighbor, my fellow environmentalist and my camping buddy. These miniatures are musical sketches of three moments and places in our friendship. Like Alaska, Gordon was larger than life. He always lived his own way. And he died just as he would have wanted. We found him lying on the deck of his cabin in the Chugach Mountains, curled up against his favorite birch tree, looking across the waters of Turnagain Arm toward the Resurrection Valley and the tiny settlement of Hope.” - John Luther AdamsThis music contains no normal stopped tones. All the sounds are produced as natural harmonics or on open strings. There are no harmonics higher than the sixth. So these sounds should be clear and resonant. Even so, balancing the harmonics with the open strings requires careful attention.The durations of the individual pieces are given at the end of each.The total duration of the set is about ten minutes.
SKU: BT.EMBZ15150
English-German-Hungarian.
The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived as a piano method. As the years went by, the series lost its didactic character, at it came to be seen as a document from Kurtág's workshop, offering a key to his grander symphonic, chamber and vocal works as well.Tenth volume is divided into two parts: In the first half, earlier, hitherto unpublished pieces line up from Suite, written in 1943, to the 1980s, providing insight into the development of Kurtág's musical language. The second half includes pieces composed between 2002 and 2011. The movements, often aphorismic in their briefness, hide associations with various aspects of European music history.Many of them are hommage or in memoriam pieces, or subjective personal messages to friends, colleagues, and beloved family members - and thereby to all music-loving people. This publication is printed on high quality, durable paper made from renewable raw materials in an environmentally friendly way.
SKU: PR.114408750
UPC: 680160013289. 8.5 x 11 inches.
This work was commissioned by the Friends of the Phoenix Public Library for the dedication of the new Music Room and made possible in part through the funds from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and Meet the Composer-Arizona. Diary of a Journey was composed between July and September 1995 for the group Arpeggio. During the early summer of 1995, my wife and I took a vacation to Prague and Budapest. It was the first trip for both of us to these former Iron Curtain capitals. The train ride through the beautiful country-side, the dilapidated small villages and towns, the magnificent architecture and the feeling of grandeur in the two major cities left an indelible impression on me. I longed to write some kind of an essay about it. Diary of a Journey is the result of some of these thoughts, which were sketched (musically) as we visited each place. There are four 'snapshots' or movements which do not portray a specific scene, but rather try to capture the impressions I gathered from the people we observed and met, and the many awe-inspiring experiences we had. Throughout the journey, I felt that people were clinging to a tenacious hope for a better future, no matter how long it will take to realize it. In the first movement each player portrays a struggle against all odds, and with great energy and even wit tries to overcome the obstacles, ending on one serene high note as a resting point after all the conflict. The second 'snapshot' tries to capture the deep faith of a newly regained religiosity. It is chant-like, and uses as its basic melodic material a famous Czech hymn, penned by the great religious reformer John Huss. This movement is played very freely, without bar-lines and with the hymn shining through the fervent chanting. The third movement is a kind of 'demonic' scherzo. Fast and furious, the three instruments vie with one another in a true perpetual motion frenzy, which is at times relieved by short, more pastoral melodic fragments. A rather wild ending should leave everyone breathless. Finally, in the fourth 'snapshot' the instruments play a bit more as a team, meaning that is that there is more melody with accompaniment, and more imitative music giving the impression of a group effort. The energy is still at a high level but long lyrical lines abound, accompanied and interrupted at times by undulating fast notes still depicting the struggle against the blight which any visitor notices all around these countries, yet also showing the determination of the people to conquer adversity. --Samuel Adler.
