SKU: HL.50499693
ISBN 9790080148815. 9.0x12.0x0.06 inches. Miklos Perenyi.
One of the greatest contemporary cellists, Miklos Perenyi (b. 1948), appears with great success as a soloist and chamber musician on concert stages across the world. In addition to giving concerts and teaching, he has recently been engaged in composing primarily solo cello works and chamber music.
SKU: PR.114406980
UPC: 680160010806.
Shulamit Ran’s second string quartet, subtitled “Vistas,†occupies a large canvas that is cast in a traditional fourmovement mold, where the outer movements present, explore, and later return to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and scherzo-type third movement with a trio. In addition to tempo-based titles, the individual movements have subtitles that are evocative of each movement’s character, as follows: I. Concentric: from the inside out II. Stasis III. Flashes IV. Vistas.My second string quartet, “Vistasâ€, is a work cast in a traditional four-movement formal mold, with the outer movements, presenting and later returning to the work’s principal musical materials, surrounding a slow movement and a scherzo-type third movement.While the four movements’ “proper†names -- Maestoso con forza, Lento, Scherzo impetuoso, and Introduzione; Maestoso e grande – give some indication of the general character of the individual movements, I have also subtitled, less formally, each movement as follows: 1) Concentric: from the inside out 2) Stasis 3) Flashes 4) Vista. The images evoked by these titles tell one, I think, a bit more about the inner workings of the quartet.In the first movement, a prominently presented opening pitch (E) reveals itself, as the movement unfolds, to be a center of gravity from which ever-growing cycles of activity gradually evolve. While various important themes come into being as the movement progresses, their impact on the listener has, I believe, a great deal to do with their juxtaposition and relationship to the initial central point of gravity.Stasis is, as the name implies, a movement where activity seems, at times, almost suspended. Being also, as Webster’s Dictionary reminds us, “a state of static balance and equilibrium among opposing tendencies or forces,†it develops various materials, including ones from the first movement, without bringing them to points of resolution.Flashes is short and very fast, evoking in my mind the quick shimmer of fireflies, a “sudden burst of lightâ€, but also a “brief timeâ€. Perhaps, even, a “smileâ€?Finally, the last movement, Vista, is not only “a view or outlookâ€, but also “a comprehensive mental view of a series of remembered or anticipated events.â€Â After a brief recall of the opening of the second movement, this movement brings back all the important themes of the first movement in their original order. But just as going back can never really mean going back in time, the movement is much more than recapitulatory. By cutting through previously transitory passages and presenting the main ideas in a fashion more direct yet more evolved, it also sheds new light on earlier events, offering a retrospective, synoptic view of the first movement as it brings to culmination the work as a whole. “Vistas†was commissioned by C. Geraldine Freund for the Taneyev String Quartet of what was then Leningrad. It was the first commission given in this country to a Soviet chamber ensemble since the 1985 cultural exchange accord between the Soviet Union and the United States.
SKU: TM.540-3021SET
No. 1 Introduzione (Andante espressivo) – Scherzo (Presto) – Intermezzo – Adagio – Presto, No. 2 Allegro vivace – Andante quasi Variazioni – Molto piu lento – Scherzo (Presto) – Allegro molto, No. 3 Andante espressivo – Assai agitato – Un poco Adagio – Adagio molto – Finale (Allegro molto vivace).
SKU: HL.49044744
ISBN 9790220135217. 9.25x12.0x0.302 inches.
A wonderful work from the rich repertoire for string quartet with solo clarinet, Divertimento is full of folk, jazz and neoclassical influences. The piece was sketched on a train journey in 1926 and inspiration from this can be heard in the outer movements. It was later rescored for clarinet and string orchestra, forming Seiber's Concertino.
SKU: HL.49007036
ISBN 9790001075381.
SKU: HL.49007923
ISBN 9790001084703. UPC: 073999780284. 9.0x12.0x0.317 inches.
For clarinet, bassethorn, bass clarinet and piano. Score and parts.
SKU: HL.48183751
UPC: 888680859343. 9.0x12.0x0.191 inches.
Duo Concertant is a pretty Flute duet by Jind?ich Feld that lasts approximately fifteen minutes. An explanation of the symbols used is given at the beginning of the score. Written in the unique genre of its composer, this difficult duet is divided into five sections. I. Introduzione - Lento II. Toccata ? Allegro assai III. Intermezzo - Tranquillo IV. Scherzo ? Allegro vivo V. Epilogo - Lento This great piece is perfect for a recital or a concert. Jind?ich Feld was born in Prague in 1925. From a musician family, he specialised in Viola and Violin. He composed numerous pieces with a style that mixes his origins and occidental music from the 20th century. He later became composition professor operating worldwide..
