SKU: AP.46617S
UPC: 038081532448. English.
Based on the 1842 Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name, this musically colorful depiction will engage your students by adding cross-curricular significance to reading the story. Those familiar will recognize the clock striking midnight at the masquerade ball. Highly programmatic and compelling!
SKU: HL.14030969
ISBN 9788759855294. 9.5x14.25x0.102 inches. English.
Work for Solo Piano. The composer writes: 'The Masque of the Red Death' was commissioned by and dedicated to Yvar Mikhashoff. The title refers to the short story with the same title by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's story about the plague terrifying a masquerade party was only one inspiration for the music, and my piece is in no way programmatic - even despite the very fast staccato clouds, plague bells and medieval-dance fragment that can be heard.
SKU: AP.46617
UPC: 038081532431. English.
SKU: HL.267679
Niels Marthinsen's Cupid and Death - A Sombre Masque for Seven Players (1994). Commissioned by the Sonanza Ensemble. Manuscript copy Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk Seven Players: Flute, Clarinet in A (also Bass Clarinet), Percussion (1 player on Chimes, Vibraphone, Bass Drum), Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello.
SKU: HL.215244
12.0x17.0x0.63 inches.
Hardcover full score. Text in Polish, German, and English. This edition of the works of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz is based on critically examined sources. It includes all his compositions. The aim of the edition is to present the composer's original text as authentically as possible. This is not an easy task. The source materials of Karlowicz's music are very diverse in nature. Apart from most of the songs, the composer prepared for printing and published in his lifetime the following: Serenade for Strings Op. 2, Prelude and Fugue Op. 5, Concerto in A major for Violin and Orchestra Op. 8, Returning Waves Op. 9 and Eternal Songs Op. 10. Being highly experienced in writing for a symphony orchestra, and knowledgeable in the modern method of instrumentation in the neoromantic style, he prepared his scores with great care. The remaining symphonic poems were not published before the composer's death; and the 'Rebirth' Symphony, the manuscript of which miraculously survived the ravages of World War II, was issued only in 1993, as part of the present Complete Works edition. During this war the autographs of the most compositions by Karlowicz, including all his symphonic poems (except for The Sorrowful Tale), were lost. The present publication, therefore, is based as a rule on the first editions, compared with extant autographs or authorized copies of the scores. The amendments of misprints or self-evident mistakes on the part of the composer are not indicated graphically in the text but referred to in the Editorial Notes.
