SKU: BT.DHP-1064029-070
ISBN 9789043127820. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.
Klezmer is the traditional music for weddings and celebrations of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. Its origin goes back to the sixteenth century. Klezmer was played by the klezmorim, travelling Jewish musicians who picked up something from local music culture wherever they went. Thus klezmer became a melting pot of various music styles. This music stays interesting because of its synthesis of familiar sounds and exotic turns ? as well as the simultaneously melancholic and cheerful mood. Roland Kernen has composed this three-movement work in klezmer style for flexible line-up.Part 1 Fl Ob Bb Clar S Sax Tpt Part 2 Fl Cor Ang Bb Clar Eb Clar A Sax Tpt Hn Part 3Eb Clar T Sax Bsn Hn Trom Euph Part 4 T Sax Bsn Trom Euph Part 5 Bass Clar Bari Sax Bsn Trom Euph Tuba Cont Bsn Opt. Mallets Timp Perc 1 Perc 2 Klezmer is de traditionele muziek voor bruiloften en feesten van de joden van Oost-Europa. De oorsprong ervan gaat terug tot in de zestiende eeuw. Klezmer werd gespeeld door rondtrekkende joodse muzikanten die overal waar ze kwameniets van de lokale muziekcultuur oppikten. De muziek vond later haar weg naar Amerika. Deze muziek blijft boeiend vanwege haar synthese van bekende klanken en exotische wendingen - evenals de gelijktijdig melancholische en vrolijkestemming. Roland Kernen maakte een driedelig werk in klezmerstijl voor variabele bezetting.Klezmer ist die traditionelle Musik für Hochzeiten und Feste der Jiddisch sprechenden Juden Osteuropas. Im vergangenen Jahrzehnt erlebte Klezmer eine Renaissance. Dank der Synthese von vertrauten Klängen und exotischen Wendungen sowie der zugleich melancholischen und fröhlichen Stimmung, bleibt diese Musik immer interessant. Roland Kernen komponierte dieses dreisätzige Werk im Klezmerstil für variable fünfstimmige Besetzung.Part 1 Fl Ob Kl B S-Sax Trp Part 2 Fl Cor Ang Kl B A-Kl A-Sax Trp Hn Part 3 A-Kl T-Sax Fg Hn Pos Euph Part 4 T-Sax Fg Pos Euph Part 5 B-Kl B-Sax Fg Pos Euph Tuba Kb Opt. Mallets Timp Perc 1 Perc 2La musique klezmer est la musique traditionnelle des mariages et célébrations des communautés juives de langue yiddish installées en Europe de l’Est. Jouée par les klezmorim, des musiciens juifs itinérants, cette musique se caractérise par des influences métissées et une large palette de sentiments. Klezmoresque est une œuvre en trois mouvements de style klezmer pour ensemble instrumentation variable.Part 1 Fl Htb Cl. Si♭ Sax. S. Trp Part 2 Fl Cor Angl. Cl. Si♭ Cl. Alto Sax. A. Trp Cor Part 3 Cl. Alto Sax. T. Basson Cor Trb Euph. Part 4 Sax. T. Basson Trb Euph. Part 5 Cl. Basse Sax. B. Basson Trb Euph. Tuba C. Cordes Opt.Mallets Timb. Perc 1 Perc 2 La musica klezmer è una musica festiva suonata in occasione di matrimonio e feste dagli ebrei dell’Europa dell’est che parlano ancora jiddish. E’ una musica dolce e malinconica che racchiude elementi conosciuti ed esotici. Roland Kernen ha composto questo brano in tre movimenti per strumentazione variabile a cinque voci.Part 1 Fl Ob Bb Clar S Sax Tpt Part 2 Fl Cor Ang Bb Clar Eb Clar A Sax Tpt Hn Part 3 Eb Clar T Sax Bsn Hn Trom Euph Part 4 T Sax Bsn Trom Euph Part 5 Bass Clar Bari Sax Bsn Trom Euph Tuba Cont Bsn Opt. Mallets Timp Perc 1 Perc 2.
SKU: FG.55011-508-8
ISBN 9790550115088.
Kimmo Hakola's Wind Quintet op. 96 (2017) was commissioned by the Kimito Island Music Festival. The composer sees that making the ensemble ultimately breathe and express itself as an organic, coherent subject should be the aim in composing for wind quintet. The normal chamber-music configuration is not a sufficient basis for me in composing a wind quintet: the instruments have to be compressed, reduced, even crushed together so that, in pairs and different combinations, they produce new, viable audio units. Collision often generates something new. Kimmo Hakola has gone through a number of styles and influences in his career as a composer, his idiom expanding at times to embrace Romanticism, Orientalism and klezmer. He has attained international recognition with an output that spans various genres from intimate solo works to full-length operas such as La Fenice (2011) commissioned by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Many of his works are expansive and epic: his Piano Concerto (1996), for instance, clocks in at 55 minutes. Hakola says that he sees music as drama. His dramas explore almost Shakespearean extremes, from moments of raging sound and fury and violent battles to quiet moments of meditation and heart-rending monologues.
SKU: FG.55011-509-5
ISBN 9790550115095.
SKU: PR.164002120
UPC: 680160037582.
Works of chamber music including flute and strings are not nearly as numerous as those for clarinet, or even the oboe. Probably the reason for this is the less assertive, more pure tone the flute possesses - it can't compete for volume or range with the clarinet, except in its top octave, and the oboe's tone is more penetrating and easily discerned from within a string texture. Consequently, composers who have written for flute and strings have done so in lightweight divertimento works: compare, for instance, the delicate flute quartets of Mozart with his monumental quintet for clarinet and strings. When Karl and Joan Karber approached me with the ideas of writing a work for flute and string trio, I originally thought it would be best to write a humorous, rather offhand piece - but a look at their repertoire (mostly comprised of smaller works of the Rococo period) convinced me that it was the last thing they needed. In spite of the challenge (or maybe because of it?), I determined to write a large work, and a serious work. Zephyrus (named for the God of the West Wind, in deference to the flute) is a three-movement work, with each movement cast in a very different form, but all three being built of the same twelve-note series. There is also a rhythmic motive and a pair of themes that appear in all three movements. The first movement plays with the idea of contrast and persuasion. The flute, at the outset, is the hell-for-leather protagonist, charging and swooping around the strings - who seem oddly unconcerned by his passion. Indeed, they have a more somber song to sing - and as the movement unfolds, the flute becomes less and less active, while the strings become increasingly enlivened. By the midpoint, when all four instruments are finally in the same meter and the same tempo, the flute's energy has finally infected the other three players, and this energy does not let up until the movement's abrupt final cadence. The second movement begins with a tag from the first - as if the energy left over was too great to simply stop. At length, though, a very poignant flute melody appears over an almost bluesy harmony in the strings. After this has been fully exposed, a slight increase in motion, marked gently rocking in triplets, features a theme-fragment from Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 (Kaddish). Bernstein died as I was writing this work, and it seemed quite natural to encourage what was already implicit in the music, and create an Elegy for L.B. The music rises and peaks, then in the recapitulation of the opening the Kaddish theme reappears, as the ensemble suggests a gentle song of sleep. The final movement is a Rondo-Variations form, with the slight alteration of adding the main theme of the second movement in what would be the trio of the form. The ritornello theme is a kind of ethnic dance music, almost an allusion to the Klezmer ensembles of Eastern Europe. The successive episodes between the ritornelli are loosely organized variations on the basic theme, but always beginning with a metric modulation, a rhythmic changing of gears. The movement reaches and apex of speed and furious pulsing, then abruptly pirouttes, and finishes. Zephyrus was written between April and November of 1990 in Austin, Aspen, and Honolulu, and is dedicated to Karl Kraber and The Chamber Soloists of Austin. --Dan Welcher.
SKU: PR.16400212S
UPC: 680160037605.