SKU: HL.50603586
ISBN 9781705112670. UPC: 840126941463. 8.5x11.75x0.529 inches.
Composed from the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno; Philip's fourth symphony for orchestra named after the song by David Bowie.
SKU: HL.14007949
SKU: HL.14032395
8.5x11.75x0.526 inches.
This work was commissioned by the BBC (Scotland) and the Saltire Society to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Beethoven. The first performance was by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, 1970, conducted by James Loughran.
SKU: HL.14035403
UPC: 884088810498. 11.0x17.0x0.129 inches.
SKU: HL.14026108
UPC: 884088811266. 0.408 inches.
Composer's Note Once, we had a joint conception to create a concert telling a life story. The premiere was planned to take place on the Acropolis in Athens. It was intended to be a large event, a hybrid of a mystery play and an opera. Krzysztof Kieslowski would be the director, Krzysztof Piesiewicz was responsible for the script, and I was planning to compose the music. We thought it might be the first of a series of musical performances, to be developed in various interesting places around the world in the next few years. But it was life that authored a different ending: Krzysztof Kieslowski died in March of 1996. The first part of Requiem for My Friend is meant as a farewell to Krzysztof Kieslowski. I dedicate this music to him. Zbigniew Preisner.
SKU: HL.14023919
SKU: HL.14042181
ISBN 9781780389943. 12.0x16.5x0.53 inches.
Witold Lutoslawski's Symphony No.2 in full score.
SKU: HL.14043674
ISBN 9781783054725. 12.25x16.75x0.9 inches.
Phaedra by German composer Hans Werner Henze is a 'concert opera' in two acts whose first performance was given at the Berlin State Opera in 2007. Phaedra was Henze 's penultimate opera, and this item presents the full score, with the entire work lasting around 75 minutes. Featuring a unique libretto by Christian Lehnert and sound effects by Francesco Antonioni, this opera presents the wonderful story of Phaedra, filled with drama and fantastic music. This Full Score presents the work in German and English language, and features detailed instructions for the supplied CD, on which some sound effects are included that are to be used in conjunction with the instruments. Phaedrawas co-commissioned and co-produced by Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Berliner Festspiele, Theatre de la Monnaie Brussels, Alte Oper Frankfurt and Wiener Festwochen. Hans Werner Henze was a hugely prolific composer who drew influences from a wide number of sources. Phaedra is regarded as among his greatest works and would certainly make for a stunning performance.
SKU: HL.14036351
ISBN 9780711986121.
This work for orchestra was commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the BBC Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Davis in Tokyo, May 1997.
SKU: HL.14043321
ISBN 9781783055777. UPC: 888680045753. 9.75x13.75 inches.
Nebelheim Und Sonnenland is a fourteen-minute continuous suite for Orchestra of material from Hans Werner Henze's last operatic work, 'Gisela!' (2010).
SKU: HL.14007074
SKU: HL.280392
UPC: 888680971069. 8.5x11.75x0.281 inches.
The Cello Concerto is in four main sections that are played without a break. As with most of my work, the music throughout is generated from the ideas presented in the fi rst few bars, and these ideas and their variants appear freely in the different sections. Recurring material and references to earlier sections are used deliberately to create not only a sense of unity but also an impression of familiarity that aspires to induce a dream-like perception of the passing music, a kind of spiral. The piece opens with a slow introduction that gradually quickens into the first main section, an allegro. The form of the second section, which is in a lighter mood, is based on an early 13th century verse form, the Sestina, which consists of six stanzas of sixlines each, followed by an envoi. The words that end each line in the first stanza are rotated in a strictly prescribed pattern* to give the line-endings of the remaining stanzas; in this adaptation, each line consists of four bars, and the repetitions ensue according to the plan. The intricate repetition inherent in this form can also be seen as a form of spiral. The third section is an extended slow movement interrupted by a quicker episode that refers to the fi rst section. Generally lighter and in a similar vein to the second section, the final section includes a reference to the slow movement before returning to the lighter music that ends the piece. This work is dedicated to Natalie Clein.
SKU: HL.14041548
12.0x16.5x0.513 inches.
Kaija Saariaho's Notes on Light was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Musical Director James Levine, and given its first performance on 22nd February 2007 at Symphony Hall, Boston, USA, by the cellist Anssi Karttunen,with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Sarastre.
SKU: HL.14010947
ISBN 9780711991637. 9.0x12.0x0.28 inches.
New edition 2001 Study Score. Suite 1, Scenes and Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat, a Ballet in two acts by G. Martinez Sierra after a story by D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire from the publishers.
SKU: HL.14010856
ISBN 9780711960879. 0.575 inches.
Fuego Fatuo has an interesting history. Manuel De Falla (1876-1946), often regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the 20th century, wanted to write an opera based around themes from Chopin, whomhe greatly admired. The stage work was never finished; however, several attempts have been made to arrange the work for orchestra, most successfully by the Catalan conductor Antoni Ros-Marba.
Despite its history,this orchestral suite is far from being a mere mish-mash of Chopin melodies; it is more of a meditation on Chopin's work in general, with the focus on the harmonic and textural elements which De Falla drew from his work.It forms a fascinating insight into the mind of a great musician.
SKU: HL.14010879
ISBN 9780711991644. 9.0x12.0x0.294 inches.
New edition 2001 Study Score. Suite 2, Three Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat, a Ballet in two acts by G. Martinez Sierra after a story by D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire from the publishers.
SKU: HL.14043216
ISBN 9781783056200. English.
Michael Nyman's Musique A Grande Vitesse (MGV) translates as ‘high speed music’ and was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North EuropeanParis-Lille line in 1993.
This piece of sheet music runs continuously, but was conceived as an abstract, imaginary journey; or rather five inter-connected journeys, each ending with a slow, mainly stepwise melody which isonly heard in its 'genuine' form when the piece reaches its destination.
Thematic 'transformation' is a key to MGV as a whole. Throughout the piece ideas - rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, motivic, textural -constantly change their identity as they pass through different musical 'environments'.
The opening bars establish both a recurrent rhythmic principle - 9, 11, or 13-beat rhythmic cycles heard against a regular 8 - and aharmonic process - chord sequences (mainly over C and E) which have the note E in common. (Coincidentally, MGV begins in C and ends in E). A later scalic, syncopated figure (again first heard over C, E and A)begins the second section, featuring Brass, in D flat.
The topography of MGV should be experienced without reference to planning, description or timetables. Its tempo changes and unpredictable slowings downbear no logical relation to the high speed of the Paris-Lille journey, while the temptation to treat MGV as a concerto grosso, with the Michael Nyman band as the ripeno, was resisted: more suitably theband (amplified in live performance) lays down the tracks on which MGV runs.
SKU: HL.14005162
ISBN 9780711987586. 7.0x10.0x0.259 inches.
Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts from Grieg's Peer Gynt music, and a contemporary dance band. Not all of the present score was used - No. 3, Brighton, was omitted and cuts were made in nos. 5 and 6. In the latter, a savage cut deleted the references to the music of the other numbers in bars 13-20, including the trombone's scale, which alludes to a scene in which a child practices the piano unseen. Britten was not happy with the way his music was used, and this was to remain his only work for the commercial cinema composed in 1936.
SKU: HL.14019121
ISBN 9781844492954. 9.0x12.0x0.303 inches.
Commissioned by the first Sibelius Conductor's Competition held in Helsinki in May 1995, as an obligatory piece to be rehearsed by all the competitors, Arena was performed in its totality at the annual Avanti! Chamber Orchestra's festival in Porvoo (Finland). Thematic thinking has never been a main feature in Lindberg's music, but here horizontal lines (one would not yet dare to call them melodies) gain some independence, for example in ornamental figures and in the intense cello solo around the middle of the piece. Arena also reveals some clearly new material - Lindberg has talked about Beethoven-like formal thinking, referring to a passage where the sense of movement seems to accelerate to an extreme so that finally one perceives only a motionless surface. Another new element - which was already used to some extent at the warmly hovering ending of Aura - is the almost romantic sound world and the suspension of the harmonies in the final climax, which can make one think of Mahler and Berg, or Lindberg's grand predecessor and compatriot, Sibelius. This is the Score, published by Chester Music; the duration of the pieces is approximately 16 minutes.
SKU: HL.14021025
ISBN 9780711986138. 5.5x7.5x0.164 inches.
Miniature Score. This work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was first performed on 13th May 1998 London. This piece is based on a genuine old tune 'Maxwell's Strathspey' which the composer found in an 1824 collection of Scottish melodies, and which unfolds at the start of the piece on solo cello. Variations and a bold up-tempo to the quick dance we know as a reel ultimately yield to the magic that has been promised right at the start: the northern lights take over at the end of the piece. Its inspiration comes from a walk to a community event in Hoy Hall, during which Davies saw the lights in the sky pulsing in and out of time with the sounds coming from the hall. Duration 12 minutes. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
