SKU: SU.45001130
Cello Duration: ca. 11' Composed: 1998 Published by: Dead Elf Music.
SKU: GH.GE-12090
ISBN 979-0-070-12090-6. 185 x 262 mm inches.
SKU: GH.GE-11955
ISBN 979-0-070-11955-9. 255 x 350 mm inches.
SKU: FG.55011-852-2
Timo-Juhani Kyllönen's Three songs op. 34a (1994) for soprano and cello spotlight three poems from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (1550−1069 BC).Duration: 12'Movements:I HorusII The Soul of ReIII Hail to you, my heart!
SKU: PE.EP73479
ISBN 9790577019888. 297 x 210mm inches. English.
At First Light was commissioned by Eric Bruskin, a resident of Philadelphia, USA, in memory of his mother. Eric had a longstanding enthusiasm for my work, and I was touched to be the person he approached for a task which is both a privilege and a daunting responsibility. In a sense, no music can ever measure up to the weight of love or the hope of consolation vested in it under such circumstances - but in memory I carry the deaths of both my own parents, and I was able to draw upon that. Eric's fondness for my Cello Sonata (itself written in memoriam) led him to ask that I include a solo 'cello part in the new work - but his attachment also to my polyphonic sacred choral writing meant that he wanted a centrepiece which would be both a showcase of that approach and the celebration of a life well lived. Therefore, the seven movements of At First Light arrange themselves as a series of slow meditations surrounding an exuberant 9-minute motet in which the lamenting cello falls temporarily silent.Eric's Jewish faith meant that approaching an agnostic humanist brought up within the Anglican tradition was hardly free of problems! Gradually, though, I was able to win his approval for a collated mosaic of texts. This embraces some liturgical Latin (necessary for the motet) as the shared preserve of broad western culture in general, but balances it with a secular approach to loss, celebration, remembrance and the many shades of our mourning those whom we see no longer. Eric was adamant that he did not want the title Requiem; but what has emerged is still a form of semi-secular Requiem in all but name, taking its title instead from a phrase in the poem by Thomas Blackburn set as the third movement. This seemed to suggest succinctly how the loss of one very close to us is an awakening into an unfamiliar world where everything is changed. Following the exuberant central movement, the texts by the Lebanese-born Kahlil Gibran and the US, Kentuckian poet Wendell Berry first address the departed loved one directly, then place us within an imaginary funeral cortege, where the perennial and universal in human experience become personal without subscribing explicitly to any particular faith (or lack of it). The final text of all is a translation of a Hebraic prayer, requested and provided by Eric Bruskin, which serves to mirror its Latin counterpart heard at the outset.Throughout, the lamenting cello represents a commentary on the experience articulated in the text. It evokes and, in a sense, tries to embrace and sanctify the individual existential journeys of the bereft, as they in turn seek to make their own sense of what the short-lived Second World War poet Alun Lewis called 'the unbearable beauty of the dead' (movement 5).In a modern world hostage to ever greater menace, displacement, bloodshed and anguish, I hope fervently that this music not only brings a measure of solace to the person who commissioned it, but also makes its own small contribution to bailing out the sinking ship of humanity.
SKU: SU.45001460
Violoncello & Piano Duration: 9' Composed: 2007 Published by: Dead Elf Music.
SKU: BA.BA09332
ISBN 9790006533749. 32.5 x 26.6 cm inches.
Manfred Trojahn’s amply dimensioned piano quartet in four movements with a duration of approx. 40 minutes was composed and developed in several stages. The inner movements, a Vivace characterised by lombard rhythms and vitality and a dream-like adagio were written in the Mozart Year 2005. By 2008 the outer movements were completed. The opening Adagio “Zerbrochenes Lied” is an imposing lamentation of the dead whereas the Finale, a profound, moving “Wanderlied”, was dedicated to Trojahn’s friend and composer Wilhelm Killmayer on the occasion of his 80th birthday.In this way Trojahn’s work stands in the tradition of Mozart’s two piano quartets, but adds a biographical element.This is a large, musically demanding but rewarding work for ambitious musicians.
SKU: SU.45001430
Violin, Violoncello & Piano Duration: 12' Composed: 2014 Published by: Dead Elf Music.
SKU: SU.45001170
Viola and Cello Duration: 4' Composed: 1997 Published by: Dead Elf Music.
SKU: SU.27040040
A cycle of five songs for soprano, cello and piano, setting poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. The harmonic language mixes tonal and non-tonal styles.Soprano, Cello & Piano Duration: 18' Composed: 2009 Published by: Hutter Music.
SKU: SU.80300194
Christina Rossetti’s text is beautifully reflected in the quiet, almost detached mood of the beginning of this setting, which changes to a more impassioned sorrow at the words, I shall not see the shadows. SA and piano; optional cello, harp. Easy-Medium. SA, piano, optional harp and cello Published by: Treble Clef Music Minimum order quantity: 8 copies.
SKU: SU.45001300
Score & Set of PartsPublished by Dead Elf MusicComposed: 2009Duration: 12'.
