SKU: HG.FF-7051A
Nur in Chorstarke, ab 20 Stuck.
SKU: HG.FF-7051
ISBN 979-0-2028-5006-0.
SKU: HG.FF-8135-01
SKU: HG.FF-7052
ISBN 9790202800683.
SKU: HG.FF-8135-35
SKU: HL.49017658
ISBN 9790001150262. 9.0x12.0x0.347 inches. German - French.
The Belgian organist and composer Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823-1881) ranks among the most important organ teachers of the 19th century. A student of Adolf Friedrich Hasse in Breslau, he was familiar with the Bach organ tradition but also had a decisive influence on the French organ tradition. From 1849-1869 he was a teacher at the Conservatoire of Brussels and in 1869 he founded his own important church music school in Mechelen ('Lemmens Institute'). His 'Ecole d'orgue', published by Schott in 1862, has now been re-published as a reprint edition due to great demand.
SKU: FG.55011-676-4
Juhani Nuorvala (b. 1961) wrote The Five Chords That Shook My World (2020) for pianist Nicolas Horvath's Hommage a Glass project and it is dedicated to him. It's a fantasy meditation on the Train/Spaceship chords in Einstein, that repeating five-chord progression (Fm - Db - A - B7 - E) about which the composer has said that there's something strange, because it never fails to lift the audience to its feet. The duration of the piece is c. 6'30'', and it was premiered by Emil Holmstrom at RUSK festival (Pietarsaari, Finland) 20th November 2020. A notable variety of influences - microtonality, American minimalism, New Romanticism, popular music, techno - has been regarded as a special feature of Nuorvala's idiom. Despite this he is not a collage artist; instead he has blended various ingredients to create a mode of expression entirely his own. Nuorvala's works are often marked with frenzied rhythmic drive. He makes music using elements and materials that both the mind and the body respond to. He finds these elements not only in old or new classical music but in various forms of urban popular music, such as the electronic music of modern dance clubs.