Matériel : Partition + CD
SKU: PR.114414250
UPC: 680160607846.
Lowel l Liebermann's 4th String Quartet was commissioned by the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival and the Wood Library, Canandaigua, NY, for the Orion Quartet in celebration of their 20th Anniversary. The quartet was premiered by the Orions at the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival in Rochester, NY on February 9th, 2008. To quote the writer Mark Greenberg: It's a remarkable piece. The mood is elegiacal and meditative, the melodic lines sinuous and searching, the harmonies rich and astonishingly beautiful. Liebermann works within the traditions of Western tonality, but that is a mansion with many rooms. Liebermann inhabits all of them as his expressive purposes require, and he doesn't mind knocking down a wall to create new harmonic spaces. The Fourth Quartet doesn't exactly fit the neoromantic niche into which Liebermann is sometimes placed. Much of the music, especially near the beginning, is a highly advanced and fluid chromatic expressionism with modernist tendencies. Sometimes this roiling cloudscape breaks open to allow a patch of near-classical harmony and almost-resolution. Near the midpoint the clouds lift in leaping modulations. Several chordal passages recall Russian Orthodox chant. Suddenly, when you've begun to think the somber, deliberate pace has gone on a bit too long, Liebermann introduces a kind of hobbled, stilted jazz idiom. The piece dies in pensive quiet.
SKU: HL.49007218
ISBN 9783795716608. German.
Wie unterscheiden sich Opernbesucher von den Besuchern eines Peter Alexander- oder Boney M.-Konzertes? Welche Partei werden Besucher eines Konzertes von Jethro Tull wahlen? Ist Musik eine Art Trost fur das Liedermacherpublikum? Solche und ahnliche Fragen werden in diesem Buch anhand von Umfrageergebnissen beantwortet. In einer westdeutschen Grossstadt (Koln) haen die Autoren Publika verschiedener Musikveranstaltungen mit einem fur alle gleichen Fragebogen untersucht: die Besucher von Peter Alexsander (Schlager), Boney M. (Internationale Popmusik), von Wolf Biermann und Klaus Hoffmann (Liedermacher), der Londoner Symphoniker unter Claudio Abbado, des Orlando Quartetts (Kammermusik), des Gurzenich-Orchesters, von Maria Hellwig (Volksmusik), Jethro Tull (Rockmusik), des Jazzhaus-Festivals (Moderner Jazz), einer Veranstaltungreihe Neuer Musik sowie zweier Opernvorsellungen. Dazu Stichproben einer Fernsehsendung (Bio's Bahnhof) und aus diversen Sport-Publika. Demoskopie im Konzertsaal ist nach Rock People (1974) und Das Jazzpublikum (1978) der Abschluss einer Trilogie zur Musik-Rezeptionsforschung vor Ort, ein auch international in dieser stilistischen Breite noch einmaliges Projekt. Die uberraschenden und verbluffenden Ergebnisse, die den gangigen Vermutungen z.T. krass wiedersprechen, werden ausfuhrlich dargestellt und hin und wieder unkonventionell prasentiert. eine unvoreingenommene theoretische Erorterung der Daten zeigt selbst dort recht klare Interpretationsmoglichkei ten auf, wo bislang eher Vorurteile und Ratlosigkeit die Diskussion bestimmen.
SKU: AP.1-ADV6409
ISBN 9783892215400. UPC: 805095064094. English.
String Connection with Clarinet, is a three-movement suite that offers a sound-world that is somewhere between jazz and modern classical, with floating tonal centers and unpredictable rhythmic movement. Recorded by Andy Miles and the Auryn Quartet on their CD Crossing Borders and arranged for solo clarinet and string quarter by Rolf Küehn. Titles include: Connection * Contacts * Encounter.
SKU: HL.48025253
UPC: 196288142973.
The title is a combination of the terms saxophone and collage, which already gives a hint to the essential design of the piece: Several different compositional aspects such as sound layers, melodic sections, aleatoric elements and, last but not least, jazz-like moments are placed in always different relations with each other, collaged as it were. This original composition is a valuable addition to the repertoire for the classical and modern instrumentation of the saxophone quartet.
SKU: HL.48025254
UPC: 196288142980.
SKU: HL.50610173
The composer was inspired to write these pieces by the Corridor Quartet (Gyorgy Lakatos, Mihaly Duffek, Zsofia Stefan, and Sara Rebeka Toth), with their open attitude to music and their enchanting sound world. The timbres of the bassoon harmony are emphasised still more by being joined by the double bass, and by a voice or flute soaring above them. One reviewer writes of the CD Corridoors:'Easy to listen to, but modern: modern, and yet easy to listen to. And because of the sound of the bassoons, it's spiced with a kindof fantasy mood, a kind of ''Lord of the Rings'' feel.'(jazzma.hu, Karoly Gaspar) The name of the Corridor Quartet refers to a corridor that leads the listeners between different centuries, styles, and genres. It joins things together, and acts as a bridge, many doors opening off from it: classical, modern and folk, jazz and rock. Tibor Csuhaj-Barna is a jazz double bass player and composer, and an associate professor (DLA) at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.Over the last 30 years he has been an active performer on the Hungarian jazz scene, compiling and playing on many CDs. He has written music for theatres, choirs, and jazz lineups ranging from duos to big band.
SKU: HL.49018051
ISBN 9790001158138. UPC: 841886013520. 9.25x12.0x0.084 inches.
The Fugitive is a three-part jazz fugue in bebop style on a walking bass. The renowned Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet performed the world premiere of the work, created in 2002 by the Dutch recorder player and composer Karel van Steenhoven, founder member of the ensemble. The title is a play on the word 'fugue' and its old meaning of flight or chase. The parts chase after each other with fast solos and licks, flee from each other, until they reach a chaotic climax - after a short quote from the James Bond theme. A striking title by the recorder expert who brilliantly mixes traditional and modern forms, styles and stylistic techniques.
SKU: HL.49047483
UPC: 196288300670.
With the latest addition to the Guitar Music Collection series, author and composer Thomas Fellow (including Fellow Guitar Book) offers the most comprehensive and sophisticated selection of works to date in his own modern, stylistically open sound language. Fingerfood XXL Vol. 2 includes several multi-track âsuitesâ as well as longer concert pieces in the style of his üextremely successful first work Medusa. And so fingerstyle influences can be recognized as well as Mediterranean or Brazilian sounds, jazz or pop music - for the greatest joy of playing and intense listening pleasure. As a guitarist who has performed all over the world (European Guitar Quartet, Friend `n Fellow, Hands on Strings), Fellow concludes this issue with his solo arrangement of the 70s classic September by the band Earth, Wind and Fire, a celebrated highlight at many of his concerts. Fingerfood XXL Vol. 2 is aimed at performing guitarists, students and ambitious amateurs. The pieces are all complex, set at a higher level of difficulty (4-5) and offer an ideal addition to the modern guitar repertoire.
SKU: HL.49047072
UPC: 196288115038.
Thoma s Fellow, author of the successful standard work Fellow Guitar Book and guitarist who gives concerts worldwide (European GuitarQuartet, Friend `n Fellow, Hands on Strings), expands his Guitar Music Collection with this and the following volume by an extensive number of compositions in his own modern, stylistically open tonal language. This booklet with 18 DELIGHTFUL CROSSOVER PIECES is aimed at interested students, concert guitarists as well as ambitious amateurs. The pieces are demanding (level of difficulty 4 - difficult) and, thanks to the additional notation in TABS, are a perfect addition to the repertoire of modern guitar literature, even for players who are not familiar with music. FINGERFOOD XXL Vol. 1 includes shorter compositions (STARTER) and a whole series of ballads (SWEET). All pieces are concertante, buteach in its own way. And so fingerstyle influences can be recognized as well as Brazilian sounds, sometimes Fellow approaches jazz, sometimes pop music and always conveys joy of playing and listening pleasure.
SKU: HL.49019317
ISBN 9790001189323. UPC: 841886019034. 9.0x12.0x0.07 inches.
Up to now, the Dutch composer and performer Karel van Steenhoven, founder member of the renowned Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet, has mainly written demanding concert literature for the recorder. Now he has added an easy work for beginners to the recorder repertoire: 'A Musical Journey' was composed for two young recorder pupils and leads through different stylistic eras of European music history. Van Steenhoven was inspired by an old tune from Ancient Greek which moves from classical antiquity via the Middle Ages and Baroque era to jazz, swing and modern music in 14 short character pieces. In a playful and humorous way, children are thus introduced to the different styles of music. An excursion of educational value without missing out on fun and pleasure.
