SKU: HL.14030979
Parts available: KP00248 The composer writes: The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval munks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again.
SKU: HL.14001159
ISBN 9788759805527. UPC: 888680792657. 8.25x11.75x0.106 inches.
Study score to Bent Sorensen's Adieu for String Quartet. The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval monks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again. Bent Sorensen.
SKU: HL.14030978
ISBN 9788759877142. UPC: 888680792640. 9.75x14.5x0.141 inches.
Score available: KP30120 The composer writes: The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval munks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again.
SKU: HL.14030980
ISBN 9788759871973. 12.0x16.0x0.285 inches.
Score available: KP00250 The composer writes: 'Even when I was writing Adieu, I knew that I wished to write Angel's Music. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on Angel's Music was started in Rome, where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at The Danish Academy. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however, it is true to say that, in the Roman churches I visited, I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels, together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico, (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome, but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are, in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet, reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance, and in the most expressive part of the piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet, the distant, extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece, was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that little songs (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density, these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form, I felt, that not only should the little songs be created, played and die out in an echo, but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which, from the distance, is getting closer and closer, culminates and at last disappears like an echo. Related to this, the general pattern of Angel's Music is divided into three: a pre-echo, culmination and echo.. The relationship between the three part is 5: 6: 4. The reason why I can say this precisely and prosaically is that it was necessary to me to mark the overall guidelines before I started to compose. I had to do this in order to enable the relationships to crawl from the general pattern almost fractionally into the smallest cells of the music, or more correctly; crawl from the small cells into the general pattern.'.
SKU: BT.DHP-1185968-070
ISBN 9789043156707. English-German-French-Dutch.
Con te partirò, which also became famous under the title Time to Say Goodbye, has burned itself into the collective musical consciousness above all in the interpretation by the blind Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli. In the 1990s this song raced up the singles charts and has since become almost indispensable at farewell celebrations, especially in the world of sports. Thanks to Anthony Grögersâ?? expressive arrangement, string quartets now have the opportunity to let this wonderful song ring out on suitable occasions, guaranteed to awaken the emotionsâ?¦Con te partirò, ook bekend onder de titel Time to Say Goodbye, heeft in de versie van de blinde Italiaanse tenor Andrea Bocelli een plek in ons collectieve muzikale geheugen veroverd. In de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw bestormde het nummer de hitlijsten, en sindsdien is het bij afscheidsceremonies, met name in de sportwereld, nauwelijks nog weg te denken. Dankzij Anthony Grögers expressieve bewerking hebben strijkkwartetten nu ook de mogelijkheid om dit prachtige lied bij passende gelegenheden ten gehore te brengen en daarmee ongetwijfeld een gevoelige snaar te raken.Con te partirò, auch unter dem Titel Time to Say Goodbye berühmt geworden, hat sich vor allem in der Interpretation durch den blinden italienischen Tenor Andrea Bocelli in das kollektive Musikgedächtnis eingebrannt. In den neunziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts stürmte der Titel die Single-Charts und ist seitdem bei groÃ?en Abschiedsveranstaltungen, insbesondere im Sport, kaum noch wegzudenken. Dank Anthony Grögers ausdrucksvollem Arrangement haben nun auch Streichquartett-Formationen die Möglichkeit, bei passenden Anlässen das wunderschöne Lied erklingen zu lassen. Da sind die Emotionen garantiert â?¦La chanson « Con te partirò » (« Avec toi je partirai ») est un véritable succès international gr ce son interprétation par le ténor italien Andrea Bocelli, qui lâ??a popularisée au Royaume-Uni sous le titre « Time to Say Goodbye ». Montée en flèche au hit-parade dans les années 1990, cette chanson est devenue incontournable lors des cérémonies dâ??adieux, notamment lors dâ??événements sportifs. Lâ??arrangement expressif dâ??Anthony Gröger permet aux quatuors cordes de faire sonner cette merveilleuse mélodie évocatrice lors dâ??événements appropriés.
