Sacrificium a été commandé par le Festival International d'orgue de Saint-Albans pour ce qui est devenu un des concours d'orgue plus influents dans le monde. C'est un travail de 8 minutes exigeants qui défiera les artistes interprètes ou exécutants avec une abondance de contraste matériel tout en laissant l'espace pour l'interprétation individuelle. Casken fait référence à l'histoire d'Alban qui a sacrifié sa vie pour sauver un autre Christian, devenant ainsi le premier Martyr britannique dans sa note de programme et plus spécifiquement la Loi de l'échange de capes et tromperie qui a conduit à l'exécution d'Alban. Cette idée de prendre une nouvelle apparence est apparente dans la musique comme thèmes récurrents subissent des transformations, progressivement devenir absorbées dans nouvelles textures musicales. / Orgue
SKU: HL.49017864
ISBN 9790220131288. UPC: 884088567637. 9.0x12.0x0.107 inches.
Sacrificium was commissioned by the St Albans International Organ Festival for what has become one of the most influential organ competitions in the world. It is a demanding 8 minute work that will challenge performers with an abundance of contrasting material whilst still leaving space for individual interpretation. Casken refers to the story of Alban who sacrificed his life to save another Christian thereby becoming the first British Martyr in his programme note and more specifically the act of exchanging cloaks and deception which led to Alban's execution. This idea of taking on a new appearance is apparent in the music as recurring themes undergo transformations, gradually becoming absorbed into new musical textures.
SKU: FG.55011-875-1
Lotta Wennäkoski's Pige (2021-2022) for string quartet was commissioned to be paired with the Death and the Maiden quartet by Franz Schubert (pige is Danish for girl). The composer tells:The first movement Vorüber, ach, vorüber! is based on the first half of Schubert’s lied lying behind his The Death and the Maiden quartet. The maiden’s song in the beginning of the lied has not found its way to his string quartet, so I wanted to use this material in mine. The second move-ment Daktylus borrows its idea from the haunting pulse of Schubert’s chant of Death. Something fierce and something soundless can be heard here - along with other variants on the dactyl rhythm. For example, I’ve written a lyrically flowing melody based on the same rhythmic pattern (long-short-short).Schubert’s quartet is wonderful music and of course a cornerstone of the repertoire, and the death and the maiden is a strong, tempting and gloomy motif in art history. On the other hand, I just couldn’t help seeing the motif also as a - somewhat passé - image of an old male desiring the ulti-mately young female body. The third movement thus turns its gaze to the girl herself. Pigen og scrapbogen, The Girl and the Scrapbook, is joyful textural music - compiled of fragments and freely handled quotations that might spring to mind when thinking of a vital girl’s life.This product includes the full score and the set of parts.Movements:< br>1. Vorüber, ach, vorüber!2. Daktylus3. Pigen og scrapbogen (das Mädchen und das Scrapbuch)The first movement can also be performed separately as a prologue to The Death and the Maiden string quartet by Franz Schubert.
SKU: HL.49006862
ISBN 9783795720957. German.
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