Par WENNAKOSKI LOTTA. Lotta Wennäkoski tells about her 10 minute long work Päärme (Hem) for piano trio: 'We often speak in music of crafting in a figurative sense, and craftsmanship is, for the composer particularly, a traditional professional virtue. I personally have from time to time nevertheless been interested in the concrete images aroused by handicrafts, the way fabrics feel, and sewing. Th…

Par SIBELIUS JEAN. The Suite is a student exercise, first performed 13. 4. 1889 at a musical soirée at the Helsinki Music Institute. Ferruccio Busoni, who was teacher of piano at the Institute at the time, described the first performance as follows: “We sharpened our concentration as we realised that we were about to hear something quite beyond the usual standard for student works…”. In the A majo…

For Flute, Clarinet In Bb, Harp, and String Quartet. Par LASH HANNAH. Form and Postlude is a piece in one continuous movement but with a distinct postlude which ends the work. I play throughout with the idea of pacing on many levels: the largest level is the idea of proportion of sections to one another, then harmonic rhythm (in the broad sense), then harmonic rhythm on a more local level, and of …

Par PACHELBEL JOHANN. Magnificat for a Chorus of four mixed voices and Basso continuo Pachelbel's choral works excel in the magnificence and festive splendour of their tonal effect, but at no point do they depart from an easy singable style. Simplicity of harmonic texture and voice leading is a characteristic of Pachelbel's art generally, but it asserts itself especially in these vocal composition…

L'intégrale des Sonates pour piano Edité d'après les sources par Christa Landon, revisé par Ulrich Leisinger Notes on Interpretation, Cadenzas and Embellishments by Rorbert D. Levin. Fingerings by Oswald Jones Urtext Lorsque Christa Landon présenta sa toute première édition des sonates pour piano de Haydn, les sonates du compositeur n'existaient encore que dans l'ombre de celles de Mozart et de B…

Par CHILCOTT BOB / KNIGHT SUSAN. 29 chants pour l'ASS accompagnés et non accompagnés Cette collection contient la voix supérieure des pièces originales et arrangements de partout dans le monde. Dans un grand éventail de styles, il ya la musique ici, pour convenir à tous les adultes ou les jeunes supérieur voix chorales. Le volume comprend des chants de compositeurs populaires et des compositions p…

Fragments K. 442. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Mozart often began work on a composition only to put it aside, unfinished. Some of these fragments contain wonderful music, as is proved by these three Piano trio fragments. Mozart composed them at different times as individual movements, though the posthumous first edition brought them together as a supposedly new and unknown Piano trio by the compos…