Format : Study Score / Miniature
SKU: CF.B3473
ISBN 9781491161999. UPC: 680160920679. Key: C major.
Composed in 1924, Ernest Bloch’s Méditation Hébraϊque is a plaintive and reverent musical reflection that flows through many emotions in a series of uninterrupted movements: Moderato, Allegro deciso, and Moderato. Passionate rubato phrases are flecked with light touches of ornamentation, much like the inflections of a cantor's voice. Hemiola rhythms, dynamic swells, and contrapuntal interaction with the piano lead the soulful voice of the cello to its upper range in a dramatic dialogue that eventually descends to a more subdued and stately resolution. Cellist and teacher Julian Schwarz provides practical fingerings and phrase markings to achieve the alternating bright and warm tone that are essential to adequately express the sacred beauty of the music. .
SKU: HL.49046544
ISBN 9781705122655. UPC: 842819108726. 9.0x12.0x0.224 inches.
I composed the Piano Concerto in two stages: the first three movements during the years 1985-86, the next two in 1987, the final autograph of the last movement was ready by January, 1988. The concerto is dedicated to the American conductor Mario di Bonaventura. The markings of the movements are the following: 1. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso 2. Lento e deserto 3. Vivace cantabile 4. Allegro risoluto 5. Presto luminoso.The first performance of the three-movement Concerto was on October 23rd, 1986 in Graz. Mario di Bonaventura conducted while his brother, Anthony di Bonaventura, was the soloist. Two days later the performance was repeated in the Vienna Konzerthaus. After hearing the work twice, I came to the conclusion that the third movement is not an adequate finale; my feeling of form demanded continuation, a supplement. That led to the composing of the next two movements. The premiere of the whole cycle took place on February 29th, 1988, in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the same conductor and the same pianist. The orchestra consisted of the following: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, percussion and strings. The flautist also plays the piccoIo, the clarinetist, the alto ocarina. The percussion is made up of diverse instruments, which one musician-virtuoso can play. It is more practical, however, if two or three musicians share the instruments. Besides traditional instruments the percussion part calls also for two simple wind instruments: the swanee whistle and the harmonica. The string instrument parts (two violins, viola, cello and doubles bass) can be performed soloistic since they do not contain divisi. For balance, however, the ensemble playing is recommended, for example 6-8 first violins, 6-8 second, 4-6 violas, 4-6 cellos, 3-4 double basses. In the Piano Concerto I realized new concepts of harmony and rhythm. The first movement is entirely written in bimetry: simultaneously 12/8 and 4/4 (8/8). This relates to the known triplet on a doule relation and in itself is nothing new. Because, however, I articulate 12 triola and 8 duola pulses, an entangled, up till now unheard kind of polymetry is created. The rhythm is additionally complicated because of asymmetric groupings inside two speed layers, which means accents are asymmetrically distributed. These groups, as in the talea technique, have a fixed, continuously repeating rhythmic structures of varying lengths in speed layers of 12/8 and 4/4. This means that the repeating pattern in the 12/8 level and the pattern in the 4/4 level do not coincide and continuously give a kaleidoscope of renewing combinations. In our perception we quickly resign from following particular rhythmical successions and that what is going on in time appears for us as something static, resting. This music, if it is played properly, in the right tempo and with the right accents inside particular layers, after a certain time 'rises, as it were, as a plane after taking off: the rhythmic action, too complex to be able to follow in detail, begins flying. This diffusion of individual structures into a different global structure is one of my basic compositional concepts: from the end of the fifties, from the orchestral works Apparitions and Atmospheres I continuously have been looking for new ways of resolving this basic question. The harmony of the first movement is based on mixtures, hence on the parallel leading of voices. This technique is used here in a rather simple form; later in the fourth movement it will be considerably developed. The second movement (the only slow one amongst five movements) also has a talea type of structure, it is however much simpler rhythmically, because it contains only one speed layer. The melody is consisted in the development of a rigorous interval mode in which two minor seconds and one major second alternate therefore nine notes inside an octave. This mode is transposed into different degrees and it also determines the harmony of the movement; however, in closing episode in the piano part there is a combination of diatonics (white keys) and pentatonics (black keys) led in brilliant, sparkling quasimixtures, while the orchestra continues to play in the nine tone mode. In this movement I used isolated sounds and extreme registers (piccolo in a very low register, bassoon in a very high register, canons played by the swanee whistle, the alto ocarina and brass with a harmon-mute' damper, cutting sound combinations of the piccolo, clarinet and oboe in an extremely high register, also alternating of a whistle-siren and xylophone). The third movement also has one speed layer and because of this it appears as simpler than the first, but actually the rhythm is very complicated in a different way here. Above the uninterrupted, fast and regular basic pulse, thanks to the asymmetric distribution of accents, different types of hemiolas and inherent melodical patterns appear (the term was coined by Gerhard Kubik in relation to central African music). If this movement is played with the adequate speed and with very clear accentuation, illusory rhythmic-melodical figures appear. These figures are not played directly; they do not appear in the score, but exist only in our perception as a result of co-operation of different voices. Already earlier I had experimented with illusory rhythmics, namely in Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962), in Continuum for harpsichord (1968), in Monument for two pianos (1976), and especially in the first and sixth piano etude Desordre and Automne a Varsovie (1985). The third movement of the Piano Concerto is up to now the clearest example of illusory rhythmics and illusory melody. In intervallic and chordal structure this movement is based on alternation, and also inter-relation of various modal and quasi-equidistant harmony spaces. The tempered twelve-part division of the octave allows for diatonical and other modal interval successions, which are not equidistant, but are based on the alternation of major and minor seconds in different groups. The tempered system also allows for the use of the anhemitonic pentatonic scale (the black keys of the piano). From equidistant scales, therefore interval formations which are based on the division of an octave in equal distances, the twelve-tone tempered system allows only chromatics (only minor seconds) and the six-tone scale (the whole-tone: only major seconds). Moreover, the division of the octave into four parts only minor thirds) and three parts (three major thirds) is possible. In several music cultures different equidistant divisions of an octave are accepted, for example, in the Javanese slendro into five parts, in Melanesia into seven parts, popular also in southeastern Asia, and apart from this, in southern Africa. This does not mean an exact equidistance: there is a certain tolerance for the inaccurateness of the interval tuning. These exotic for us, Europeans, harmony and melody have attracted me for several years. However I did not want to re-tune the piano (microtone deviations appear in the concerto only in a few places in the horn and trombone parts led in natural tones). After the period of experimenting, I got to pseudo- or quasiequidistant intervals, which is neither whole-tone nor chromatic: in the twelve-tone system, two whole-tone scales are possible, shifted a minor second apart from each other. Therefore, I connect these two scales (or sound resources), and for example, places occur where the melodies and figurations in the piano part are created from both whole tone scales; in one band one six-tone sound resource is utilized, and in the other hand, the complementary. In this way whole-tonality and chromaticism mutually reduce themselves: a type of deformed equidistancism is formed, strangely brilliant and at the same time slanting; illusory harmony, indeed being created inside the tempered twelve-tone system, but in sound quality not belonging to it anymore. The appearance of such slantedequidistant harmony fields alternating with modal fields and based on chords built on fifths (mainly in the piano part), complemented with mixtures built on fifths in the orchestra, gives this movement an individual, soft-metallic colour (a metallic sound resulting from harmonics). The fourth movement was meant to be the central movement of the Concerto. Its melodc-rhythmic elements (embryos or fragments of motives) in themselves are simple. The movement also begins simply, with a succession of overlapping of these elements in the mixture type structures. Also here a kaleidoscope is created, due to a limited number of these elements - of these pebbles in the kaleidoscope - which continuously return in augmentations and diminutions. Step by step, however, so that in the beginning we cannot hear it, a compiled rhythmic organization of the talea type gradually comes into daylight, based on the simultaneity of two mutually shifted to each other speed layers (also triplet and duoles, however, with different asymmetric structures than in the first movement). While longer rests are gradually filled in with motive fragments, we slowly come to the conclusion that we have found ourselves inside a rhythmic-melodical whirl: without change in tempo, only through increasing the density of the musical events, a rotation is created in the stream of successive and compiled, augmented and diminished motive fragments, and increasing the density suggests acceleration. Thanks to the periodical structure of the composition, always new but however of the same (all the motivic cells are similar to earlier ones but none of them are exactly repeated; the general structure is therefore self-similar), an impression is created of a gigantic, indissoluble network. Also, rhythmic structures at first hidden gradually begin to emerge, two independent speed layers with their various internal accentuations. This great, self-similar whirl in a very indirect way relates to musical associations, which came to my mind while watching the graphic projection of the mathematical sets of Julia and of Mandelbrot made with the help of a computer. I saw these wonderful pictures of fractal creations, made by scientists from Brema, Peitgen and Richter, for the first time in 1984. From that time they have played a great role in my musical concepts. This does not mean, however, that composing the fourth movement I used mathematical methods or iterative calculus; indeed, I did use constructions which, however, are not based on mathematical thinking, but are rather craftman's constructions (in this respect, my attitude towards mathematics is similar to that of the graphic artist Maurits Escher). I am concerned rather with intuitional, poetic, synesthetic correspondence, not on the scientific, but on the poetic level of thinking. The fifth, very short Presto movement is harmonically very simple, but all the more complicated in its rhythmic structure: it is based on the further development of ''inherent patterns of the third movement. The quasi-equidistance system dominates harmonically and melodically in this movement, as in the third, alternating with harmonic fields, which are based on the division of the chromatic whole into diatonics and anhemitonic pentatonics. Polyrhythms and harmonic mixtures reach their greatest density, and at the same time this movement is strikingly light, enlightened with very bright colours: at first it seems chaotic, but after listening to it for a few times it is easy to grasp its content: many autonomous but self-similar figures which crossing themselves. I present my artistic credo in the Piano Concerto: I demonstrate my independence from criteria of the traditional avantgarde, as well as the fashionable postmodernism. Musical illusions which I consider to be also so important are not a goal in itself for me, but a foundation for my aesthetical attitude. I prefer musical forms which have a more object-like than processual character. Music as frozen time, as an object in imaginary space evoked by music in our imagination, as a creation which really develops in time, but in imagination it exists simultaneously in all its moments. The spell of time, the enduring its passing by, closing it in a moment of the present is my main intention as a composer. (Gyorgy Ligeti).
SKU: BO.B.3664
Cuarteto San Petersburgo (The Saint Petersburg Quartet) was written between January and March 2011. It owes its name to the fact that Saint Petersburg has been a very significant city for me. I was invited there in 1988 to take part in a big contemporary music festival, but my uninterrupted bond with the city started on 2002, thanks to the negotiations of my friend and pupil Albert Barbeta. Since then, I have constantly travelled there in order to record a considerable part of my repertoire: seventeen pieces. In addition to the concerts we went to, I took the opportunity during my trips to visit the well-known conservatoire where so many great personalities from the world of music composition once taught, and the place that launched the most important violin school in the whole of Russia: the school of Leopoldo Auer. Spending a long time in Auer's classroom writing my concert for violin and orchestra was an unforgettable experience for me. His large portrait motivated me even further.Cuarteto San Petersburgo evokes many of the most cherished and moving moments that I have had in this city. It is structured in four movements. The first one, Allegretto-Allegro, opens with an introduction that sets forth the two main themes, amid a soft and elastic atmosphere. The Allegro starts vigorously and in it we find changes in the tempo and moments of mystery, as well as certain seclusion, returning then to the emphatic theme where the counterpoint finds its place. The movement ends placidly.The Scherzo-marcato that follows is marked by a persistent rhythm of triplets that carries on from beginning to end. The tempo does not change, but brief and decided themes are introduced, as well as passages of counterpoint. Brief and dissonant chords are heard throughout the movement, which ends vigorously.The third movement, Ut, is a very special one. For a while already I had been playing with the idea of writing a movement that was to have the tonality C as a leitmotiv. This one is made up by two slow and static parts. In the first one, the first violin plays pizzicatti-glissandi. In the second, the first violin and particularly the violoncello settle on C while the other two instruments produce descending chromatic harmonies.Finally, the Introduccion-Presto (the Introduction-Presto). It starts with some bucolic passages which remind us of the introduction to the first movement. A fast and energetic Presto suddenly erupts. A kind of moto perpetuo which alternates with two expressive passages and, towards the end, a viola and violoncello tremolo, all of great mystery and expectation, make way for a resounding finale marcato.
SKU: BO.B.3340
ISBN 9788480207591.
English comments: My dedication to the string instruments has been a constant throughout my compositional career and I knew that sooner or later the time would come to compose a concerto for violin and orchestra. That moment came in the autumn of 2002 and after ten months of uninterrupted work I finished it in August of 2003. It is a work structured similarly to the traditional concertos. An important impetus for the elaboration of my concerto was due to the ill-fated violinist Ginette Neveu. Her version of Sibelius' Concerto has always stayed with me. For this reason the first movement, Moderato-Allegro, begins with a contemplative atmosphere similar to that of Sibelius' Concerto in which the principal thematic ideas appear tentatively. These ideas, two rhythmic and two melodic, are reaffirmed through a broad development that culminates in an orchestral fullness. A calm, mysterious passage recalls the introduction and after becoming blurred, three bars burst in leading to the rapid section of the movement. Soloist and orchestra engage in a dialectic struggle of a dramatic nature. The agitation subsides leaving only a tranquil and suggestive clarinet phrase. This will be taken up by the soloist who leads up to the movement's most dramatic moment playing an accelerating triplet figure supported by an orchestral pedal in crescendo. From here the soloist's cadenza emerges beginning with soft double notes. It finishes with an ascending progression and the soloist settles into the high register to elicit the orchestra's intervention in a soft and transfigured atmosphere. Once internalised the second movement, Adagio poco sostenuto e leggero begins. It has a solemn character and opens with two trumpet calls answered by the violoncellos and the contrabasses. The violin soloist introduces and plays two nostalgic themes, the first in the low register and the second, more extensive, in the middle register. The soft and delicate Misterioso e leggero begins with the violin singing on high. The rhythm of the constant quaver figures gradually accelerates until the soloist provokes a dramatic full orchestra as in a cadenza. Once again, the Calmo, in which the soloist with less and less orchestral attire serenely bids farewell. A rising series of double stops by the soloist serves to initiate the Finale-Scherzo. In 6/8 rhythm and with the character of a rondo it carries us along in a carefree, virtuosic ambiance. The principal motives, brief and concise, emerge from the happy, playful theme presented by the soloist. With an intricate progression of rapid sixths in double stops it reaches a tense and somewhat combative moment. However this resolves itself in a diminuendo that the soloist peacefully takes up with the notes re-la to commence the cadenza. This culminates in a series of tied notes to reintroduce the principal theme. A moment of melodic suspension serves as a farewell before the brief and jovial final coda. --The authorComentarios del Espanol:A lo largo de mi carrera compositiva mi dedicacion a los instrumentos de cuerda ha sido constante y sabia que, tarde o temprano, llegaria el momento de componer un concierto para violin y orquesta. Este llego en otono de 2002 y, tras diez meses de trabajo ininterrumpido, lo termine en agosto de 2003. Se trata de una obra estructurada de manera similar a los conciertos tradicionales. Un importante impulso a la elaboracion de mi concierto lo debo al recuerdo de la malograda violinista Ginette Neveu. Su version del concierto de Sibelius ha permanecido siempre dentro de mi. Por ese motivo, el primer movimiento Moderato-Allegro se inicia con una atmosfera contemplativa cercana a la del mencionado Concierto, en la que aparecen cautamente las principales ideas tematicas. Con un amplio desarrollo se llega a un lleno orquestal en el que estas ideas -dos ritmicas y dos melodicas- quedan reafirmadas. Un pasaje calmo y misterioso rememora la introduccion. Tras desdibujarse, irrumpen tres compases que nos llevan a la parte rapida del movimiento. Solista y orquesta establecen un combate dialectico de caracter dramatico. La inquietud desaparece hasta una tranquila e insinuante frase del clarinete. Esta sera recogida por el solista, quien, a base de una figuracion de tresillos cada vez mas rapidos apoyada por un pedal de la orquesta in crescendo, conduce hacia el momento mas dramatico del movimiento. De aqui nace la cadenza del solista, que se incia con suaves notas dobles. Finaliza con una progresion ascendente y el solista se coloca en el registro agudo para llamar la intervencion de la orquesta dentro de una atmosfera suave y transfigurada. Interiorizado es el segundo movimiento Adagio poco sostenuto e leggero. Con dos llamadas de las trompas respondidas por los violonchelos y contrabajos inicia el Adagio de caracter grave. El violin solista introduce y canta dos temas nostalgicos. El primero en el registro grave y el segundo, mas amplio, en el medio. Inicia el Misterioso e leggero, de caracter suave y delicado. Con el violin cantando en agudo. La constante figuracion de corcheas acelerara poco a poco el ritmo hasta que el solista a modo de cadenza provocara un dramatico lleno orquestal. De nuevo el Calmo, donde el solista, cada vez con menos ropaje orquestal, se despide serenamente. Una subida de dobles cuerdas a cargo del solista sirve para iniciar el Finale-Scherzo. Este, en ritmo de 6/8 y con caracter de rondo, nos transporta en un clima virtuosistico y despreocupado. Del tema alegre y jugueton presentado por el solista nacen los principales motivos, breves y concisos. Con una intrincada sucesion de rapidas sextas en doble cuerda se llega a un momento crispado y algo combativo que, sin embargo, se resolvera en un diminuendo que el solista recoge apaciblemente con las notas re-la para inciar la cadenza. Esta culmina con un suave rosario de notas en ligado para introducir de nuevo el tema principal. Un momento de suspension melodica sirve como despido antes de la breve y jovial coda final. La obra fue estrenada el 23 de septiembre de 2005 en el Teatre Monumental de Madrid por la Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE con Markus Placci de solista y Uwe Mund de director. Gravacion: RNE y Canal Clasico de TVE. --El Autor.
SKU: HL.44011052
UPC: 884088639976. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Philip Sparke's Sinfonietta No. 4 is comprised of three parts that are played as an uninterrupted whole. The _x001F_first movement begins with a lyrical fugato passage, framing a brisker and more rhythmical middle section. The second movement is slower and contains a long and expressive euphonium solo. The third movement is a salute to the sponsor of this commission: various percussion instruments conjure up sounds reminiscent of a carpenter's workshop, accompanied by a unison orchestral passage in a scat style.Philip Sparke schreef Sinfonietta No 4 voor de Fanfare St. Willibrordus Stramproy ter gelegenheid van het honderdjarig bestaan van het orkest in 2009. De opdracht kwam van Math en Nol Palmen van Timmerfabriek Palmen, die inhetzelfde jaar maar liefst tweehonderd jaar bestond. De compositie was een geschenk aan het fanfareorkest als symbool van de dubbele feestelijkheden.Sinfonietta No 4 werd voor het eerst ten gehore gebracht toen het orkestop 28 juni 2009 zijn honderdjarig jubileum vierde. De eerste openbare premiere vond op 18 oktober plaats tijdens het bondsconcours van de LBM te Venlo. Het werk bestaat uit drie aaneengesloten delen. Het eerste deel beschrijft hetdorp Stramproy - een lyrische fugato passage omsluit hier een sneller en ritmischer gedeelte. Het tweede deel is langzamer en bevat een lange, expressieve euphoniumsolo. Tot slot is het derde deel een muzikale groet aan TimmerfabriekPalmen: het opent met geluiden uit de werkplaats op diverse slagwerkinstrumenten, die een unisono passage in scatstijl in het orkest begeleiden.In 2010 heeft de componist het werk voor harmonieorkest bewerkt. Deze versie werdin november 2010 voor het eerst ten gehore gebracht door de Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band.Philip Sparkes Sinfonietta No. 4 besteht aus drei Teilen, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden. Der erste Satz beginnt mit einer lyrischen Fugato-Passage, die einen schnelleren und rhythmischeren Mittelteil umrahmt. Der zweite Teil ist langsamer und enthalt ein langes, expressives Euphoniumsolo. Der dritte Teil ist ein Salut an den Sponsor dieses Kompositionsauftrags: Diverse Schlaginstrumente erinnern an die Klange aus einer Schreinerei, unisono begleitet von einer Orchesterpassage im Scat-Stil.Sinfonietta Ndeg 4 est une oeuvre en trois mouvements qui s'enchainent sans interruption. Le premier mouvement decrit le village de Stramproy. Il s'ouvre avec un passage lyrique en style fugue qui enserre un passage central plus rapide et plus rythme. Dans le second mouvement, la musique est plus apaisee. Un magni_x001C_fique solo d'euphonium traverse la trame musicale. Le troisieme et dernier mouvement illustre les activites de l'entreprise commanditaire de l'oeuvre. On entend les bruits de l'atelier dans un passage pour multi-percussions, qui ornemente une texture orchestrale a l'unisson, proche du scat.Sinfonietta No. 4 si compone di tre parti da eseguire senza interruzione. Il primo movimento inizia con un lirico passaggio fugato, che fa da cornice a una parte centrale piu veloce e ritmica. Nel secondo movimento la musica e piu calma. Un magni_x001E_fico assolo di eufonio attraversa la trama musicale. Il terzo movimento descrive in musica le attivita dell'azienda che ha commissionato il brano (un laboratorio di falegnameria), attraverso un passaggio per le percussioni che ornano un andamento orchestrale all'unisono.
SKU: BT.AMP-274-120
9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Philip Sparke's Sinfonietta No. 4 is comprised of three parts that are played as an uninterrupted whole. The _x001F_first movement begins with a lyrical fugato passage, framing a brisker and more rhythmical middle section. The second movement is slower and contains a long and expressive euphonium solo. The third movement is a salute to the sponsor of this commission: various percussion instruments conjure up sounds reminiscent of a carpenter's workshop, accompanied by a unison orchestral passage in a scat style.Sinfonietta No. 4 bestaat uit drie in elkaar overlopende delen. Het eerste deel bestaat uit een lyrische fugato dat overgaat in een sneller en ritmisch gedeelte. In het tweede, trage deel, komt een prachtige euphoniumsolo aan bod. Het derde deel bevat een muzikale knipoog naar de opdrachtgever van het werk waarin de componist diverse slagwerk instrumenten geluiden na laat bootsen die uit een timmermanswekplaats lijken te komen. Philip Sparkes Sinfonietta No. 4 besteht aus drei Teilen, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden. Der erste Satz beginnt mit einer lyrischen Fugato-Passage, die einen schnelleren und rhythmischeren Mittelteil umrahmt. Der zweite Teil ist langsamer und enthalt ein langes, expressives Euphoniumsolo. Der dritte Teil ist ein Salut an den Sponsor dieses Kompositionsauftrags: Diverse Schlaginstrumente erinnern an die Klange aus einer Schreinerei, unisono begleitet von einer Orchesterpassage im Scat-Stil.Sinfonietta Ndeg 4 est une oeuvre en trois mouvements qui s'enchainent sans interruption. Le premier mouvement decrit le village de Stramproy. Il s'ouvre avec un passage lyrique en style fugue qui enserre un passage central plus rapide et plus rythme. Dans le second mouvement, la musique est plus apaisee. Un magni_x001C_fique solo d'euphonium traverse la trame musicale. Le troisieme et dernier mouvement illustre les activites de l'entreprise commanditaire de l'oeuvre. On entend les bruits de l'atelier dans un passage pour multi-percussions, qui ornemente une texture orchestrale a l'unisson, proche du scat.Sinfonietta No. 4 si compone di tre parti da eseguire senza interruzione. Il primo movimento inizia con un lirico passaggio fugato, che fa da cornice a una parte centrale piu veloce e ritmica. Nel secondo movimento la musica e piu calma. Un magni_x001E_fico assolo di eufonio attraversa la trama musicale. Il terzo movimento descrive in musica le attivita dell'azienda che ha commissionato il brano (un laboratorio di falegnameria), attraverso un passaggio per le percussioni che ornano un andamento orchestrale all'unisono.
SKU: BT.AMP-274-140
Philip Sparke’s Sinfonietta No. 4 is comprised of three parts that are played as an uninterrupted whole. The _x001F_first movement begins with a lyrical fugato passage, framing a brisker and more rhythmical middle section. The second movement is slower and contains a long and expressive euphonium solo. The third movement is a salute to the sponsor of this commission: various percussion instruments conjure up sounds reminiscent of a carpenter’s workshop, accompanied by a unison orchestral passage in a scat style.Philip Sparke schreef Sinfonietta No 4 voor de Fanfare St. Willibrordus Stramproy ter gelegenheid van het honderdjarig bestaan van het orkest in 2009. De opdracht kwam van Math en Nol Palmen van Timmerfabriek Palmen, die inhetzelfde jaar maar liefst tweehonderd jaar bestond. De compositie was een geschenk aan het fanfareorkest als symbool van de dubbele feestelijkheden.Sinfonietta No 4 werd voor het eerst ten gehore gebracht toen het orkestop 28 juni 2009 zijn honderdjarig jubileum vierde. De eerste openbare première vond op 18 oktober plaats tijdens het bondsconcours van de LBM te Venlo. Het werk bestaat uit drie aaneengesloten delen. Het eerste deel beschrijft hetdorp Stramproy - een lyrische fugato passage omsluit hier een sneller en ritmischer gedeelte. Het tweede deel is langzamer en bevat een lange, expressieve euphoniumsolo. Tot slot is het derde deel een muzikale groet aan TimmerfabriekPalmen: het opent met geluiden uit de werkplaats op diverse slagwerkinstrumenten, die een unisono passage in scatstijl in het orkest begeleiden.In 2010 heeft de componist het werk voor harmonieorkest bewerkt. Deze versie werdin november 2010 voor het eerst ten gehore gebracht door de Osaka Municipal Symphonic Band.Philip Sparkes Sinfonietta No. 4 besteht aus drei Teilen, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden. Der erste Satz beginnt mit einer lyrischen Fugato-Passage, die einen schnelleren und rhythmischeren Mittelteil umrahmt. Der zweite Teil ist langsamer und enthält ein langes, expressives Euphoniumsolo. Der dritte Teil ist ein Salut an den Sponsor dieses Kompositionsauftrags: Diverse Schlaginstrumente erinnern an die Klänge aus einer Schreinerei, unisono begleitet von einer Orchesterpassage im Scat-Stil.Sinfonietta N° 4 est une oeuvre en trois mouvements qui s’enchaînent sans interruption. Le premier mouvement décrit le village de Stramproy. Il s’ouvre avec un passage lyrique en style fugué qui enserre un passage central plus rapide et plus rythmé. Dans le second mouvement, la musique est plus apaisée. Un magni_x001C_fique solo d’euphonium traverse la trame musicale. Le troisième et dernier mouvement illustre les activités de l’entreprise commanditaire de l’oeuvre. On entend les bruits de l’atelier dans un passage pour multi-percussions, qui ornemente une texture orchestrale l’unisson, proche du scat.Sinfonietta No. 4 si compone di tre parti da eseguire senza interruzione. Il primo movimento inizia con un lirico passaggio fugato, che fa da cornice a una parte centrale più veloce e ritmica. Nel secondo movimento la musica è più calma. Un magni_x001E_fico assolo di eufonio attraversa la trama musicale. Il terzo movimento descrive in musica le attivit dell’azienda che ha commissionato il brano (un laboratorio di falegnameria), attraverso un passaggio per le percussioni che ornano un andamento orchestrale all’unisono.
SKU: BT.AMP-274-020
Philip Sparke’s Sinfonietta No. 4 is comprised of three parts that are played as an uninterrupted whole. The _x001F_first movement begins with a lyrical fugato passage, framing a brisker and more rhythmical middle section. The second movement is slower and contains a long and expressive euphonium solo. The third movement is a salute to the sponsor of this commission: various percussion instruments conjure up sounds reminiscent of a carpenter’s workshop, accompanied by a unison orchestral passage in a scat style.Sinfonietta No. 4 bestaat uit drie in elkaar overlopende delen. Het eerste deel bestaat uit een lyrische fugato dat overgaat in een sneller en ritmisch gedeelte. In het tweede, trage deel, komt een prachtige euphoniumsolo aan bod. Het derde deel bevat een muzikale knipoog naar de opdrachtgever van het werk waarin de componist diverse slagwerk instrumenten geluiden na laat bootsen die uit een timmermanswekplaats lijken te komen. Philip Sparkes Sinfonietta No. 4 besteht aus drei Teilen, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden. Der erste Satz beginnt mit einer lyrischen Fugato-Passage, die einen schnelleren und rhythmischeren Mittelteil umrahmt. Der zweite Teil ist langsamer und enthält ein langes, expressives Euphoniumsolo. Der dritte Teil ist ein Salut an den Sponsor dieses Kompositionsauftrags: Diverse Schlaginstrumente erinnern an die Klänge aus einer Schreinerei, unisono begleitet von einer Orchesterpassage im Scat-Stil.Sinfonietta N° 4 est une oeuvre en trois mouvements qui s’enchaînent sans interruption. Le premier mouvement décrit le village de Stramproy. Il s’ouvre avec un passage lyrique en style fugué qui enserre un passage central plus rapide et plus rythmé. Dans le second mouvement, la musique est plus apaisée. Un magni_x001C_fique solo d’euphonium traverse la trame musicale. Le troisième et dernier mouvement illustre les activités de l’entreprise commanditaire de l’oeuvre. On entend les bruits de l’atelier dans un passage pour multi-percussions, qui ornemente une texture orchestrale l’unisson, proche du scat.Sinfonietta No. 4 si compone di tre parti da eseguire senza interruzione. Il primo movimento inizia con un lirico passaggio fugato, che fa da cornice a una parte centrale più veloce e ritmica. Nel secondo movimento la musica è più calma. Un magni_x001E_fico assolo di eufonio attraversa la trama musicale. Il terzo movimento descrive in musica le attivit dell’azienda che ha commissionato il brano (un laboratorio di falegnameria), attraverso un passaggio per le percussioni che ornano un andamento orchestrale all’unisono.
SKU: HL.44011051
UPC: 884088639969. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
SKU: HL.14007514
ISBN 9788759858370. International (more than one language).
Per Norgard PIANO CONCERTO 'Concerto in due Tempi' was composed 1994-95 and dedicated to Per Salo, the pianist who also gave the world premiere on May 5, 1996 with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam.The work has a duration of appr. 30 minutes. It unfolds itself as an uninterrupted interplay between the piano and the orchestral instruments, often in soloistic or chamber music combinations. An alto saxophone separates itself from the rest of the instruments, but contributes in a dramatic way to the ensemble playing, as a kind of 'anti-soloist'. 'Due tempi' does not refer to the number of movements, of which there is only one. This movement, however, invites a three-part interpretation (downwards, solo cadenza in the bass register, upwards!). The 'two tempi' in fact exist simultaneously and are in the ratio 7:5 (approximately the square root of two).Per Norgard.
SKU: HL.48024832
ISBN 9783793142577. UPC: 840126908725. 9.0x12.0x0.146 inches.
Commissioned by the SWR for the series attacca - geistesgegenwart music and premiered by the Minguet Quartet in Stuttgart in 2017,this work is the composer's second contribution to the premier genre of classical electronic music. In the sheet music edition, the through-composed one-movement form is framed by a quote each of Albert Camus and Friedrich Nietzsche on loneliness and fulfilment through the artistic act of creation. This form develops over an uninterrupted ostinato with initially simple intervals to which aregradually added intricate harmonies, garlands and playing effects and which increase and fade away at the end.
SKU: HL.14028022
ISBN 9788759861615. 12.0x16.5x0.52 inches.
Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a 'reverse' cousin of Polydrama the cello concerto. The former starts out extremely slow and speeds up gradually and the latter progresses in exactly the opposite way, but whereas the cello concerto is composed as one, uninterrupted stretch, the violin concerto is formally completely different: there are 4 movements, each of them combined via a 'ritornello', a solo-cadenza which appears 4 times (the works conclude with a solo) in almost the shape, i.e. the length varies from time to time.