SKU: M7.DOHR-12699
ISBN 9790202026991. German.
Die gro�en Feste des christlichen Glaubens verlangen nach einer besonderen kirchenmusikalischen Gestaltung. Die hier vorgelegten sechs kleinen Choralkonzerte dienen diesem Anliegen in besonderer Weise. Ihr Platz ist im evangelischen Gottesdienst jeweils vor der Predigt. Darüber hinaus können sie aber auch bei jedweder musikalischen Veranstaltung im Umkreis der jeweiligen Festzeit Verwendung finden. Die Singstimme ist ganz bewusst in einer Mittellage gehalten. So kommen Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass gleicherma�en zu ihrem Recht.
SKU: FG.55011-639-9
ISBN 9790550116399.
New Urtext edition (2020) of Einojuhani Rautavaara's String Quartet No. 1 is based on the composer's manuscript, incorporating corrections and comments by composer's hand in various sources. Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was one of Finland's internationally most successful composers. He made his major breakthrough with the Seventh Symphony, Angel of Light, in the 1990s, but his output includes numerous classic operas, concertos, chamber music works and choral works. Over his extensive career, he progressed from Neo-Classicism to strict dodecaphony to free-tonal Neo-Romanticism. His catalogue of influences over the decades includes Orthodox liturgical music and Finnish fiddlers. Rautavaara's first string quartet (1953) is from his Neo-Classical early period when he composed only little chamber music. Stravinsky and the Finnish folk music are present in the rhythmical first movement; later enters a characteristic scale alternating half and whole steps. After the Slavic romanticism of the slow movement Andante the fiddler is back in the cheerful Gigue.
