SKU: BO.B.3641
These Three Studies for Four-handed Piano were conceived of as a triptych whose unifying principles were to be the first-slow-fast movement order of the classical sonata and a symmetrical arrangement of tonalities with A major occupying the centre (F minor- A major- C minor). The term Studies alludes not so much to the 19th century pedagogical concept of pieces-as-exercises, as to an attempt to extend, investigate and study the possibilities of expression and texture of the piano for four hands.The First Study is generated out of a single rhythmical motif whose development is modified by the intervention of two contrapuntual passages. A certain difficulty of execution arising from the need to cross hands in both sections of the keyboard conforms, in this case, to the traditional definition of study as an exercise focussed on a specific technical problem.The second piece might be defined as a study of expression, being the explicit disposition of an ostinato accompaniment and two superior voices in conversation. I cannot help, listening to this study, being reminded of the texture of the slow Largo of Bach's Concerto for 2 violins and the manifest pathos of the Andante of Prokofiev's 2nd Violin Concerto.The Third Study is an exercise in rhythmical interpenetration in which continual changes of accentuation and metre are combined with passages of a light and mellifluous character.It is a long-standing ambition of mine to supplement this work with three more triptychs and, so, complete a set of twelve studies for four-handed piano.
SKU: BO.B.2256
SKU: BO.B.3177
Comentarios del Espanol:La Obra Rapsodia para Piano y Cobla (1953) destaca dentro de la produccion de Manuel Oltra por ser su primera obra compuesta para esta formacion instrumental. La produccion para cobla de Manuel Oltra contempla, ademas de la armonizacion de un centenar de ballets tradicionales catalanes, una docena larga de obras de concierto de forma, extension e instrumentacion variada, asi como un extenso catalogo de sardanas. La constante inquietud del compositor le ha llevado a realizar muy valiosas y logradas investigaciones timbricas. Fue el primero en combinar la cobla con instrumentos ajenos a los de la formacion tradicional consiguiendo exitosas especulaciones ritmico-melodicas. Rapsodia para piano y cobla se puede encontrar tambien en su version reducida para dos pianos. Obra compuesta por el mismo autor con el objetivo de facilitar el estudio de la obra al pianista para su posterior interpretacion con la cobla. Dado el exito de la Rapsodia para piano y cobla y gracias a su gran diversidad de timbres, en el ano 2004 Manuel Oltra creo una nueva version de la obra para orquesta sinfonica y que se publico el mismo ano en Editorial de Musica Boileau.
SKU: BO.B.3040
SKU: BT.MUSUMP62570
SKU: BO.B.3175
SKU: HL.14045581
ISBN 9788438708705. French.
SKU: TI.TR01352
SKU: HL.14045594
ISBN 9788438707944. French.
