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Suite Hébraïque
Features: Traditional Musical Materials in Ernest Bloch’s Works for Viola The Process of Variation in Volume 33 Number 2 Number 33 Volume Ligeti’s Sonata for Viola Solo Journal of the American ViolaSociety American the of Journal Viola V33 N2.indd 301 11/13/17 6:42 PM Viola V33 N2.indd 302 11/13/17 6:42 PM Journal of the American Viola Society A publication of the American Viola Society Fall 2017: Volume 33, Number 2 p. 3 From the Editor p. 5 From the President News & Notes p. 6 Announcements p. 7 Robert Bridges collection at the Primrose International Viola Archive Feature Articles p. 9 Transformation and Distortion: The Process of Variation in Ligeti’s Sonata for Viola Solo:Kevin Nordstrom makes a compelling case for his variation-based analysis of Loop and Facsar from Ligeti’s monumental sonata. p. 19 Ernest Bloch’s Suite Hébraïque and Meditation and Processional: Historical Overview and Analysis of Traditional Musical Materials: Bloch scholar Alexander Knapp provides a detailed and illuminating analysis of Bloch’s Jewish music for viola, along with an enlivening description of the 1950 Ernest Bloch Festival in Chicago. Departments p. 35 With Viola in Hand: Anne Lanzilotti and John Stulz discuss their approaches to performing modern viola repertoire, based around the repertoire listed for the Lucerne Festival Academy audition. p. 45 Orchestral Matters: Julie Edwards introduces us to the viola section of the Utah Symphony. p. 51 Recording Reviews: Carlos María Solare reviews CD’s from violists Melia Watras, Kim Kashkashian, Sheila Browne, and Roberto Díaz. -
Piano; Trio for Violin, Horn & Piano) Eric Huebner (Piano); Yuki Numata Resnick (Violin); Adam Unsworth (Horn) New Focus Recordings, Fcr 269, 2020
Désordre (Etudes pour Piano; Trio for violin, horn & piano) Eric Huebner (piano); Yuki Numata Resnick (violin); Adam Unsworth (horn) New focus Recordings, fcr 269, 2020 Kodály & Ligeti: Cello Works Hellen Weiß (Violin); Gabriel Schwabe (Violoncello) Naxos, NX 4202, 2020 Ligeti – Concertos (Concerto for piano and orchestra, Concerto for cello and orchestra, Chamber Concerto for 13 instrumentalists, Melodien) Joonas Ahonen (piano); Christian Poltéra (violoncello); BIT20 Ensemble; Baldur Brönnimann (conductor) BIS-2209 SACD, 2016 LIGETI – Les Siècles Live : Six Bagatelles, Kammerkonzert, Dix pièces pour quintette à vent Les Siècles; François-Xavier Roth (conductor) Musicales Actes Sud, 2016 musica viva vol. 22: Ligeti · Murail · Benjamin (Lontano) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano); Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; George Benjamin, (conductor) NEOS, 11422, 2016 Shai Wosner: Haydn · Ligeti, Concertos & Capriccios (Capriccios Nos. 1 and 2) Shai Wosner (piano); Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Nicolas Collon (conductor) Onyx Classics, ONYX4174, 2016 Bartók | Ligeti, Concerto for piano and orchestra, Concerto for cello and orchestra, Concerto for violin and orchestra Hidéki Nagano (piano); Pierre Strauch (violoncello); Jeanne-Marie Conquer (violin); Ensemble intercontemporain; Matthias Pintscher (conductor) Alpha, 217, 2015 Chorwerk (Négy Lakodalmi Tánc; Nonsense Madrigals; Lux æterna) Noël Akchoté (electric guitar) Noël Akchoté Downloads, GLC-2, 2015 Rameau | Ligeti (Musica Ricercata) Cathy Krier (piano) Avi-Music – 8553308, 2014 Zürcher Bläserquintett: -
Passacaglia and Lament in Ligeti's Recent Music
tijdschrift 2004 #9/1/2 22-01-2004 09:16 Pagina 1 stephen taylor Passacaglia and lament in Ligeti’s recent music1 György Ligeti’s music since his opera Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) could be described as a collage of different compositional techniques. Two of the most prominent are passacaglia, and a melodic figure Ligeti calls the ‘lament motive’, based on the descending chromatic scale. Passacaglia and chromatic scales have appeared in Ligeti’s music since his student days, but they have become especially prominent in his recent music. This essay examines the development of these two techniques, focusing on their combination in the Horn Trio and Violin Concerto. These works not only show us how Ligeti uses the same ideas in different contexts; they also provide an overview of his recent compositional technique. Of the various compositional devices that appear in Ligeti’s music since his opera Le Grand Macabre (1974-77), two of the most prominent are the passacaglia and a melodic figure Ligeti calls the ‘lament motive’, based on the descending chromatic scale. Table 1 shows a list of works from the opera to the late 1990s in which these techniques appear. This essay examines the two slow movements that combine them: the fourth movement of the Horn Trio, ‘Lamento’, from 1982, and the fourth move- ment of the Violin Concerto, ‘Passacaglia: Lento intenso’, written a decade later. While both movements have much in common, their differences also highlight how Ligeti’s music has developed since he embarked on his new style in the early 1980s. -
20Th-Century Repertory
Mikrokosmos List 641. - 2 - January 2019 ....20TH-CENTURY REPERTORY 1 Antheil: The Wish opera - Risley, Pickett, cond, Bomhard LOUISVILLE LOU 564 A 12 2 Arnold: Tam O'Shanter Ov; Beckus Ov; Sym 2 - Royal PO, cond.comp, Hollingsworth EPIC LC 3422 A 8 (gold US) 3 Babajanian: Heroic Ballad (comp.pno, USSR RSO, Rachlin)/ Tchaikovsky: Concert CLASSIC ED CE 7 A 8 Fant (Nikolayeva, USSR SSO, Kondrashin) 4 Bacharach: Casino Royale - cond.comp (Colgems US pressing) S RCA COSO 5005 A 50 5 Badings: Louisville Sym/B.Weber: Prel & Passacaglia/Sowerby: All on a Summer LOUISVILLE LOU 566 A 8 Day - Louisville Orch, Whitney 6 Barber: Melodies Passageres (Bernac, Poulenc); Dover Beach (S.Barber bar, Curtis NEW WORLD NW 229 A 10 SQ)/ N.Rorem: Songs (Gramm, Curtis, Bressler, Curtin, etc) (p.1978) M\S 7 Barber: Summer Music/Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik/Jolivet: BIS LP 291 A 10 Serenade/Saeverud: Slatter - Bergen Wind Quintet (gatefold) 1984 S 8 Bax, Arnold: Fantasie Sonata (vla, hp); Vla Sonata - M.Thomas, S.McDonald hrp, KLAVIER KS 570 A++ 10 D.Stevenson pno (p.1982) S 9 Bennett: Guitar Con (cond.Atherton)/ Rawsthorne: Elegy/ Walton: 5 Bagatelles/ RCA ARL1 49 A 8 Berkeley: Theme & Variations - J.Bream guitar (p.1973) S 10 Berger, Arthur: Polyphony/Surinach: Ov Feria Magica/M.Kupferman: Sym 4 - LOUISVILLE LOU 584 A 8 cond.Whitney 11 Berio: Epifanie; Folk Songs - Berberian, Juilliard Ens, cond. comp. S RCA LSC 3189 A 10 12 Bernstein: Candide Ov; Sym Excs from On the Town, On the Waterfront, Fancy Free, DECCA PFS 4211 A 8 EW5 West Side Story - Royal PO, cond.E.Rogers -
Ramifications of Surrealism in the Music of György Ligeti
JUXTAPOSING DISTANT REALITIES: RAMIFICATIONS OF SURREALISM IN THE MUSIC OF GYÖRGY LIGETI Philip Bixby TC 660H Plan II Honors Program The University of Texas at Austin May 9, 2017 ________________________________ Charles Carson, Ph.D. Butler School of Music Supervisor ________________________________ Elliott Antokoletz, Ph.D. Butler School of Music Second Reader Abstract: Author: Philip Bixby Title: Ramifications of Surrealism in the Music of György Ligeti Supervisors: Charles Carson, Ph.D. Elliott Antokoletz, Ph.D. György Ligeti is considered by many scholars and musicians to be one of the late twentieth century’s most ingenious and influential composers. His music has been particularly difficult to classify, given the composer’s willingness to absorb a multitude of musical influences, everything from high modernism and electronic music to west-African music and Hungarian folk-song. One aesthetic influence that Ligeti acknowledged in the 1970s was Surrealism, an early twentieth-century art movement that sought to externalize the absurd juxtapositions of the unconscious mind. Despite the composer’s acknowledgement, no musicological inquiry has studied how the aesthetic goals of Surrealism have manifested in his music. This study attempts to look at Ligeti’s music (specifically the music from his third style period) through a Surrealist lens. In order to do this, I first establish key definitions of Surrealist concepts through a close reading of several foundational texts of the movement. After this, I briefly analyze two pieces of music which were associated with the beginnings of Surrealism, in order to establish the extent to which they are successfully Surreal according to my definitions. Finally, the remainder of my study focuses on specific pieces by Ligeti, analyzing how he is connected to but also expands beyond the “tradition” of musical Surrealism in the early twentieth century. -
Parker String Quartet Shines with Electric Concert Performance by STEVE HICKEN
10/8/13: For Immediate Release Lesley Bannatyne 617-495-2791 [email protected] Internationally Acclaimed Parker Quartet Named Blodgett Quartet-in-Residence at Harvard University Music Department The Harvard University Department of Music is delighted to announce that the Parker Quartet will join the music department teaching faculty at Harvard University beginning in the fall of 2014. “Thanks to the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence Program, we have been fortunate to have had a Quartet-in-Residence for four weeks a year since 1985,” said Music Department chair Alexander Rehding. “However, the role of performance in the music department and the University has changed significantly, and this is the right time to bring professional musicians to campus as full-time residents. We are confident that the extended exposure to the string quartet will be highly beneficial to our students, especially our many talented undergraduate performers, allowing them to engage in the practice of chamber music on an unprecedented scale. We welcome the Parker Quartet to Harvard with immense pleasure.” The renowned Parker Quartet (Daniel Chong, Ying Xue, violin; Jessica Bodner, viola; Kee- Hyun Kim, cello) will, as part of the expanded Blodgett residency, present free concerts each year for the general public and recitals as part of the Dean’s Noontime concert series. They will teach, participate in class demonstrations, read and perform student compositions, and coach Harvard undergraduate chamber ensembles in weekly master classes for Harvard credit. The Parker Quartet’s full time presence in the program will allow for the expansion of the chamber music and performance study opportunities for students in the Harvard University Music Department. -
Catálogo General
11-jun-19 Abreu,Zequinha - Concierto de violin () Suite iberia () any CD A2 Leila Josefowicz Berlin Radio Symphony LP De La Rocha André Boreyko Vivo 22/10/99 Tico-tico no fuba () Triana () Agay,Denes - RW 052/1 y en VHS 66/1 Clase de Flautas CD 100 Miguel Baselga Ferraz Concierto de Carnaval 1994 Fecha 2m-2m CD C9 José Cubiles aproximada Little rhapsody / granpa's ragtime () vl-pn Accolay,Jean-baptiste 1845-1910 CD F8 Alumnos de Ferraz Concierto benéfico a Cancion catalan () vl-pn Manos Unidas. Ferraz, 22/3/01 CD X31 Andrés Cárdenes/L. Manriquez Concierto Nº 1 La menor() Albeniz,Isaac 1860-1909 Love song (from 6 canciones) Nº 6 () CD P10 I. Perlman The Juilliard Orchestra gt-gt-gt CD O6 David Oistrakh Lawrence Foster Iberia () Yampolsky/Kollegorskaya/Makarov RW 014/1 y en VHS 06 Cecilia Briones Ferraz CD A1 P.DE LUCIA/J. Malagueña (españa) OP. 165 Nº 3 () Clase de Anna Baget BANDERA/J.M.CAÑIZARES SELECCION CD K2/8 Kreisler RW 024/2 y en VHS 08 Esther Sánchez Ferraz pn Tango (arr. kreisler) OP. 165 Nº 2 () Clase de violín de la profesora Adriana Adieu a sevilla () CD K2/8 Kreisler Marchinkova TP 13 De La Rocha CD X5/2 THIBAUD RW 030 y en VHS 24 Clara Berea Ferraz LP P. ZUKERMAN ZUKERMAN Clase de Violín de Anna Baget Almería () RW 008 y en VHS 03 Blanca Esteban Ferraz RW 030 y en VHS 24 Noemí del Toro Ferraz CD 100 Miguel Baselga Concierto de cuerdas Discursos Dionisio / Anna Clase de Violín de Anna Baget CD C9 José Cubiles con Paloma O'Shea y Daniel Benyamini Con la RW 036 y en VHS 30 Sonsoles Acosta Ferraz Amalia Op. -
Library Orders - Music Composition/Electronic Music
LIBRARY ORDERS - MUSIC COMPOSITION/ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPOSER PRIORITY TITLE FORMAT PUBLISHER PRICE In Collection? Babbitt, Milton A Three Compositions for Piano score Boelke-Bomart 9.50 Bartok, Bela A Mikrokosmos; progressive piano pieces. Vol. 1, NEW DEFINITIVE ED score Boosey & Hawkes Inc. 0.00 YES Bartok, Bela A Mikrokosmos; progressive piano pieces. Vol. 2, NEW DEFINITIVE ED score Boosey & Hawkes Inc. 0.00 YES Bartok, Bela A Mikrokosmos; progressive piano pieces. Vol. 3, NEW DEFINITIVE ED score Boosey & Hawkes Inc. 0.00 YES Bartok, Bela A Mikrokosmos; progressive piano pieces. Vol. 4, NEW DEFINITIVE ED score Boosey & Hawkes Inc. 0.00 YES Bartok, Bela A Mikrokosmos; progressive piano pieces. Vol. 5, NEW DEFINITIVE ED score Boosey & Hawkes Inc. 0.00 YES Bartok, Bela A Mikrokosmos; progressive piano pieces. Vol. 6, NEW DEFINITIVE ED score Boosey & Hawkes Inc. 0.00 YES Bartok, Bela A Music for strings, percussion, and celesta score Boosey & Hawkes Inc. 0.00 YES Berbarian, Cathy A Stripsody : for solo voice score C.F. Peters Corp. 18.70 Berg, Alban A Violin Concerto score Warner Brothers Music Pub. 0.00 YES Berio, Luciano A Sequenza V, for trombone score Warner Brothers Music Pub. 19.95 Berio, Luciano A Sequenza VII; per oboe solo score Warner Brothers Music Pub. 15.95 Berio, Luciano A Sequenza XII : per bassoon solo score Warner Brothers Music Pub. 35.00 Berio, Luciano A Sinfonia, for eight voices and orchestra score Warner Brothers Music Pub. 125.00 Boulez, Pierre A Marteau sans maître : pour voix d'alto et 6 instruments score Warner Brothers Music Pub. -
20Th-Century Repertory
Mikrokosmos List 636. - 2 - July, 2018 ....20TH-CENTURY REPERTORY 1 Absil: Asymetries/Fontyn: Spirales/J.Jongen: Pages intimes/Quinet: ALPHA DBM-F 259 A 18 Novelettes/W.Woronoff: Vallees - Birguer-Parcelle Pno Duo (gatefold) S 2 Bacewicz: SQ 7/L.Pipkov: SQ 3 - Bulgarian SQ HARMONIA M HMO 30708 A 10 3 Basacopol, Carmen Petra: Miorita choreographic poem - cond. Conta S ELECTRECOR ST-ECE 2329 A 8 4 Berio: Epifanie; Folk Songs - Berberian, Juilliard Ens, cond. comp. (p.1970-1) S RCA LSC(IP) 3189 A 10 5 Berio: Laborintus 2 - Musique Vivante Ens, cond.Berio, Masson (gatefold) S HARMONIA M 2029370 A+ 12 6 Bernstein: A Quiet Place - Ludgin, Morgan, Brandstetter, cond.comp live, 3 x DGG 419761 A 45 1986 S 7 Bezancon, Guy: Ouvres originales (Meditation & Action) (gatefold) S SAVARAH SHL 1080 A 30 8 Bialas, Gunther: Indian Cantata/Genzmer: Fl Con - Brauer bar, Scheck fl, Berlin PO, DGG LPM 18404 A 8 GY3 cond.G.Konig (p.1958) 9 Blacher: Abstrakte Oper 1, Electronic Impulse, Pno Sonata Op.39, Apreslude, WERGO WER. 60017 A 12 What about this Mr.Clementi - Haefliger ten, Herzog, pno, etc, cond.Zirner (gatefold) (bklt) S 10 Bliss: Things To Come Suite, Welcome The Queen/ Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance DECCA SDD 255 A 8 EW5 Marches - cond.Bliss (p.1959) S 11 Bolling, Claude: Suite for Guitar & Pno - Lagoya gui, comp.pno, etc S CY 3007 A 10 12 Bondon, Jacques: 2 Guitar Concertos - Aussel, Ragossnig, cond.comp (gatefold) S CYBELIA CY. 655 A 8 13 Boulez: Domaines - Musicque Vivante, cond.Masson (gatefold) S HARMONIA M 2029353 A 10 14 Boulez: Structures for 2 Pnos Book 1, 2 - Kontarsky Duo (earliest gatefold jacket WERGO WER, 60011 A 10 with bound-in booklet) 1965 S 15 Britten: 6 Metamorphoses, Phantasy Quartet/Crosse: Ariadne - Francis ob, ARGO ZRG 842 A 8 Horwitz vln, etc (UK) (p.1976) S 16 Bussotti, Sylvano: Bergkristall, Lorenzaccio Sym - cond. -
Endangered Species the Harpsichord and Its New Repertoire Since 1960
Endangered Species The Harpsichord and its New Repertoire since 1960 Chau-Yee Lo Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of PhD The University of Leeds School of Music July 2004 The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. This copy has been supplied on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. II Contents Contents List of Examples iv Preface vi Acknowledgements viii Abstract ix Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 The Twentieth-Century Harpsichord 12 The Landowska Pleyel and the Modern Pedal Harpsichord 13 The Historical Harpsichord 19 Chapter 3 A Historical Narrative 27 Chapter 4 Finding New Sounds: Maurice Ohana's Carillons 47 Chapter 5 Continuum and After: Texture as a Formal Determinant 66 n'Dame scheert haar benen (1981) by Chiel Meijering 71 Schrootsonate (1990) by Ton Bruynel 81 Khod (1976) by Iannis Xenakis 88 Conclusion 102 Chapter 6 A Masterpiece, by an American Composer: Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961) 105 Introduction and Context 105 Elliott Carter and the Harpsichord 106 The Double Concerto 114 Preliminaries to the Analysis 118 Texture and Continuity: An Analysis of the Double Concerto 121 Towards a Critical History 168 Conclusion 170 Chapter 7 Conclusion: Endangered Species 173 Appendix A GyOrgy Ligeti: Facsimile of the Autograph Manuscript of -
Dover Quartet Joel Link, Violin Bryan Lee, Violin Milena Pajaro-Van De Stadt, Viola Camden Shaw, Cello
Streaming Premiere – Thursday, December 10, 2020, 7pm Dover Quartet Joel Link, violin Bryan Lee, violin Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola Camden Shaw, cello Filmed exclusively for Cal Performances at Gould Rehearsal Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, on October 15–16, 2020. PROGRAM Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809) Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, The Fifths Allegro Andante o più tosto allegretto Menuetto. Allegro ma non troppo Finale. Vivace assai György LIGETI (1923–2006) Quartet No. 1, Métamorphoses nocturnes INTERMISSION Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) Quartet in G major, Op. 106 Allegro moderato Adagio ma non troppo Molto vivace Finale. Andante sostenuto The Dover Quartet is represented by the Curtis Institute of Music, where it serves as the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence. www.curtis.edu www.doverquartet.com Recordings: Cedille Records, Azica Records Note: following its premiere, the video recording of this concert will be available on demand through March 10, 2021. 1 PROGRAM NOTES Where Medium and Genre Merge pable of conveying profound intimacy—the A story that Haydn and his first biographer cir- composer’s private soul, in contrast to the self- culated portrays the composer hitting on the consciously public sense of such orchestral gen- idea of the string quartet by happy chance res as the symphony. Alongside its lofty status as rather than design. Near the start of his career, music for connoisseurs, the string quartet has in the late 1750s, a music-crazed nobleman, maintained its role as a kind of sonic laboratory Baron von Fürnberg, requested something new for new compositional ideas. -
REVUE DE PRESSE Métamorphoses Nocturnes
REVUE DE PRESSE Métamorphoses Nocturnes QUATUOR BELA www.quatuorbela.com - [email protected] REVUE DE PRESSE Métamorphoses Nocturnes QUATUOR BELA www.quatuorbela.com - [email protected] REVUE DE PRESSE Métamorphoses Nocturnes QUATUOR BELA www.quatuorbela.com - [email protected] REVUE DE PRESSE Métamorphoses Nocturnes QUATUOR BELA www.quatuorbela.com - [email protected] REVUE DE PRESSE Métamorphoses Nocturnes Ligeti, György - Métamorphoses nocturnes Neue Maßstäbe Das Quatuor Béla wartet mit einer fulminanten Einspielung von György Ligetis Streichquartetten auf. Mit seiner genauen und detailreichen Einspielung der beiden Streichquartette György Ligetis, beim französischen Label æon erschienen, setzt das Quatuor Béla (mit Julien Dieudegard und Frédéric Aurier, Violine; Julian Boutin, Viola; Luc Dedreuil, Violoncello) neue interpretatorische Maßstäbe. Bereits der Anfang des 1953/54 entstandenen Streichquartetts Nr. 1 mit seinen ‚misterioso‘ aus der Stille sich herausschälenden Klängen wirkt wie ein spannungsvoll aufgeladener Doppelpunkt, der in eine fulminante Fortsetzung mündet. So agieren die vier Musiker im weiteren Verlauf energiereich in der rhythmischen Diktion, lassen sich in perfektem Zusammenspiel bei der Gestaltung der Unisono- Blöcke hören und zeichnen die vorgeschriebenen Extreme innerhalb der Dynamik mit scharfkantiger Artikulation. An einigen Stellen hinterlässt das Ensemble dabei in klanglicher Hinsicht gar den Eindruck einer mit ihrem Spiel druckvoll nach vorne treibenden Heavy-Metal-Band. Darüber hinaus ist