SKU: PR.144407670
UPC: 680160692859.
SKU: HL.14065883
SKU: VD.ED11420
ISBN 9790202024201. 12 x 9 inches.
SKU: HL.48010282
UPC: 073999658996. 9.0x12.0x0.085 inches.
Contents: JS Bach Bouree; Handel Horn Solo (Wassermusik); Schumann Larghetto and Allegretto; Purcell Largo; Haydn Minuetto; Gluck Pavane; Mozart Romanza; JS Bach Sarabande; Scarlatti Siciliano; Beethoven Theme.
SKU: CU.EC6081
SKU: TM.09781SC
SKU: CA.4047605
ISBN 9790007069827. Language: Latin.
Score available separately - see item CA.4047600.
SKU: PR.ZM10280
German.
SKU: TM.02809SET
Arranged for Carreras. Key of Ab. Score in set.
SKU: UT.NAP-8
ISBN 9790215320215. 9 x 12 inches.
Rorate caeli; Iam sole clarior; Infirmata, vulnerata; Totus amore languens; Mortales, non auditis?; Mitissime, dulcissime; Quae est ista; Diligam te, Domine; Properate, fideles; Est dies trophaei; Salve ReginaP erformance Material on Hire
SKU: TM.11421SET
SKU: HL.50579519
SKU: PR.110406720
UPC: 680160001316.
I have always been fond of writing works for specific people or organizations. It has been my good fortune during most of my creative career to be asked to compose for many extraordinary performers. The Sonata for Harpsichord Solo is such a case in point: it was written in 1982 for Barbara Harbach, a superb performer, close friend, and collaborator on many musical projects. The Sonata was premiered on March 2, 1984, in a recital given by Dr. Harbach at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. During my formative years as a composer, one seldom heard of the harpsichord as a modern instrument, though while I attended undergraduate school at Boston University, some of us banded together to construct a small harpsichord from one of the first do-it-yourself kits which began to appear in the late '40s. It was also during this time that I heard the Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord by my teacher Walter Piston and consequently specified that the accompanying instrument for my second violin sonata could either be a piano or a harpsichord. It was not until recently, however, that my interest in the harpsichord as a solo instrument for new music was aroused. This was because of the emergence of so many young virtuosi, such as Barbara Harbach, who are interested in the performance of new music besides the great harpsichord music of the Classical, Baroque, and pre-Baroque eras. The keyboard music of Domenico Scarlatti has always intrigued and fascinated me. The brevity, excitement, and clarity of this sparkling music is charming as well as exhilarating. It is this type of Baroque sonata that inspired the conception and form of my harpsichord sonata. The entire work is loosely based on the musical translation of Barabara Harbach's name, especially the conflict of the B (B-flat) and H (B-natural in German notation). This secondo rub or dissonance especially pervades the first movement, which is in a modified sonata form, pitting jagged and tense melodic elements against most lyrical and smooth lines. This second movement is a song-like melody accompanied by rolled chords which may be played on the lute stop of the instrument if this sonata is performed on a two-manual harpsichord. The final movement is an ever-driving joyous toccata which brings the work to an exciting close with a coda made up of accelerating repeated chords. --Samuel Adler.
SKU: CU.MA3572
SKU: LM.C04668
ISBN 9790230346689.
MUDA RRA Alonso : Pavane d'Alexandre - TARREGA Francisco : Malaguena facil - JOHNSON Robert : Alman - WEISS Silvius Leopold : Praeludium - PERNAMBUCO Juan : Chorus - REUSNER Esaias : Sarabande - DLUGRAI Adalbert : Villanella - DLUGRAI Adalbert : Finale - REUSNER Esaias : Gigue - NARVAEZ Jose-Luis : Cancion del Emperador - TARREGA Francisco : Tango - BEDARD Jean-Baptiste : Folies d'Espagne - NARVAEZ Jose-Luis : Guardame las Vacas - TARREGA Francisco : Maria (Gavotte) - WEISS Silvius Leopold : Fantaisie - SOR Fernando : Etude - DOWLAND John : Sir John Smith His Almaine - SCARLATTI Domenico : Sonate L.483 - MUDARRA Alonso : Fantasia - WEISS Silvius Leopold : Tombeau (sur la mort de M. Comte de Logy arrivee 1721) - CAMPION Francois : Air - CAMPION Francois : Gigue - SANZ Gaspar : Canarios - RONCALLI Ludovico : Passacaglia - RONCALLI Ludovico : Gigue - BACH Johann Sebastian : Sarabande - FRESCOBALDI Girolamo : La Frescobalda.