Prelude ! l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to 'Afternoon of a Faun') for Flute, Clarinet and Piano)

SKU: PR.11440719S

UPC: 680160011087. 8.5 x 11 inches.

Sambuca, which most people know today as a licorice-flavored liqueur, was the name the Greeks gave to a kind of sharp, shrill-sounding harp, of Eastern, possibly Jewish origin. The Greeks then gave this same name to a wooden flute made from the elder bush, and in the middle ages it was also associated with the viol, at least to the extent that the Hurdy-gurdy, an instrument shaped like a viol and played by means of a rotating wheel, was sometimes called a Sambuca rotata. Thus, the word Sambuca is tied up with the ancestors - in each case, ancestors of ow birth, as it were - of the modern harp, flute, and viola. Somehow, the present-day association with alcohol seems very meet, in that a certain objectionable quality seems to have gone with the name - in 1545 one George Ascham wrote, This I am sure... all maner of pypes, barbitons, sambukes... be condemned of Aristotle. The word Sambucistria - for a female Sambuca player - was used by Plutarch and others to evoke a feeling of foreign-inspired decadence [Grove's Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 1984]. Currier's work is truly a Sambuca sonata. Written for the three Sambuca instruments, Currier has first of all seemingly endeavoured to make the harp part particularly Sambuca-like (i.e., sharp and shrill) with its many nail and xylophonic effects, but more importantly, has used musical material that corresponds to the low-brow, somewhat Dionysian, indeed, today even Bacchanalian implication of the name - thus, rock music seems to inspire a great deal Currier's work [the Samba, an appropriately Bacchanalian Brazilian Carnival dance, in duple meter with syncopations, while apparently having no etymological connection to Sambuca, might seem to be musically involved, too]. The Sambuca which lies behind this rather drunken piece is probably the only musical instrument which became a model for an instrument of war; one Craxton wrote in 1489 that Sambuce is an engyn whiche is made in manere of a harpe able to perce a walle. But whether talking of the modern liqueur or the ancient instrument condemned of Aristotle and mentioned four times in the Book of Daniel, it is a shame that Debussy - inspired by the Dionysian side of classical culture (as in Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune) - seems to have remained ignorant Sambuca, a word which to some extent must lie behind all works for this wonderful instrumentation which he invented, and which I might seem to have striven unconsciously, equally ignorant, to make the sole basis of Currier's work - until, having completed this piece, written for harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet, and rummaging around for a title, I chanced upon it in an old dictionary.

SKU: FA.MFRO001P

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Over the years 1908-16, Debussy had produced a viable scenario for Usher on his third attempt. Butwhen he came to making a complete draft of the music, he seems to have lost interest during Roderick Usher's long monologue, even though he was setting his own text. As in No-ja-li he jumped to the next passage that interested him, in this case the exciting final melodrama and the collapse of the Usher house itself. In the process of completing the missing half of the score, I discovered that by reusing Debussy's material for similar psychological situations across the opera, and by metamorphosing existing ideas (as Debussy does with Melisande's theme in his opera Pelleas et Melisande), the only things I really needed to add were linking material and any passages where fast music was required. So the 'nightmare scherzo', and Lady Madeline's escape from her coffin and her final bloody revenge on her brother are all mine, but most of the rest is existing Debussy in changing contexts (in which the Russian technique of 'changing backgrounds', both harmonic and textural, proved extremely useful, as it did to Debussy in his Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune). Eventually, both my completed ballet No-ja-li and the House of Usher were successfully premiered in 2006 and the latter soon began to find its way into the established repertoire in Europe and the US. To further support this, I transcribed some of the highlights of Debussy's score as A Night in the House of Usher for organ, and subsequently piano--with a focus on Scene 2 and the final, horrific and maca-bre melodrama. This climaxes in the double deaths of Roderick Usher and his Sister Madeline, together with the disintegration of the ill-fated House of Usher into the stagnant lake-all beneath a blood-red moon.In this form it was first performed by Ian Buckle in the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds in 2010.

SKU: BR.OB-5399-15

ISBN 9790004338346. 10 x 12.5 inches.

The three symphonic sketches La Mer are, after Prelude a Lapresmidi dun faune, no doubt Debussys most frequently performed orchestral work. This success derives in part from its formal resemblance to a symphony, which had already been noted by the composers contemporaries, and in part from its sound, which was associated from the very start with the shimmer and iridescence of Impressionism.Peter Jost takes all major sources into consideration. Ultimately, the musical text of his Urtext edition is based on a copy of the second edition of the score, published in 1909, in which the composer incorporated his experiences as auditor and conductor into a last authorized version. After the cool reception given La Mer at its world premiere, Debussy revised the work and conducted the extraordinarily successful performances of it in early 1908 in Paris,London and Rome.

SKU: BR.OB-5399-30

ISBN 9790004338391. 10 x 12.5 inches.

The three symphonic sketches La Mer are, after Prelude a Lapresmidi dun faune, no doubt Debussys most frequently performed orchestral work. This success derives in part from its formal resemblance to a symphony, which had already been noted by the composers contemporaries, and in part from its sound, which was associated from the very start with the shimmer and iridescence of Impressionism.Peter Jost takes all major sources into consideration. Ultimately, the musical text of his Urtext edition is based on a copy of the second edition of the score, published in 1909, in which the composer incorporated his experiences as auditor and conductor into a last authorized version. After the cool reception given La Mer at its world premiere, Debussy revised the work and conducted the extraordinarily successful performances of it in early 1908 in Paris,London and Rome.

SKU: FH.FLE01

ISBN 978-1-55440-300-4.

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Slavonic Dances, op. 46, no. 1 Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military): II Franz Joseph Haydn
Le carnaval des animaux: Aquarium Camille Saint-Saens
HMS Pinafore: I'm Called Little Buttercup Arthur Sullivan
La forza del destino: Overture Giuseppe Verdi
Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40: Va godendo vezzoso e bello George Frideric Handel
Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military): III Franz Joseph Haydn
Ma Vlast: II Bedrich Smetana
HMS Pinafore: When I Was a Lad Arthur Sullivan
Nutcracker Suite: Overture Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral): III Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 (New World): I Antonin Dvorak
Faust: Soldier's Chorus Charles Gounod
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, op. 46: I Edvard Grieg
Symphony No. 102 in B flat Major: I Franz Joseph Haydn
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049: III Johann Sebastian Bach
Carmen: La garde montante Georges Bizet
Petite suite: Ballet IV Claude Debussy
Symphony No. 100 in G Major (Military): IV Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K 550: III Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 5: IV Ludwig van Beethoven
Carmen: Act 1, Prelude Georges Bizet
Faust Ballet Music: Danse antique Charles Gounod
Symphony No. 102 in B flat Major: IV Franz Joseph Haydn
Scheherazade, op. 35: IV Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral): I, II Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphonie fantastique: V Hector Berlioz
Die Zauberfloete: Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bolero Maurice Ravel
Scheherazade, op. 35: I Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049: I Johann Sebastian Bach
Symphonie fantastique: I Hector Berlioz
Carmen: Entr'acte (Prelude) Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor: IV Johannes Brahms
Die Zauberfloete: Overture Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 8 in G Major: IV Antonin Dvorak
Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72a Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor: IV Johannes Brahms
La mer: I, II, III Claude Debussy
Symphony No. 4 (Italian): IV Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 1 (Classical): II Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major (Eroica): IV Ludwig van Beethoven
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Claude Debussy
Sinfonie Mathis der Maler: I, II Paul Hindemith
Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 61: Scherzo Felix Mendelssohn
Petroushka (1947 revision): Part 1 Igor Stravinsky
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor: III Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio espagnol, op. 34: IV Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No. 1 (Classical): IV Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Orchestra: I, II, III, IV, V Bela Bartok
Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber: II, III Paul Hindemith
Das Lied von der Erde: VI Gustav Mahler
Peter and the Wolf, op. 67 Sergei Prokofiev
Le carnaval des animaux: 10. Voliere Camille Saint-Saens
Daphnis et Chloe: Troisieme partie Maurice Ravel
Guillaume Tell: Overture Gioachino Rossini
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Richard Strauss
Firebird Suite (1919 version) Igor Stravinsky
Symphony No. 9: IV Ludwig van Beethoven
Concerto for Orchestra: III Bela Bartok
Scheherezade, op. 35: IV Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Semiramide: Overture Gioachino Rossini
Symphony No. 5, op. 47: I, II Dmitri Shostakovich.

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