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Songs of Love & Friendship

Songs of Love & Friendship

When the Groot Omroepkoorʼs (Netherlandʼs Radio Choir) Chief Conductor Benjamin Goodson and Stiftfestivalsʼ violinist-director Daniel Rowland approached me to write a piece for them, I immediately googled Dutch poets. I was intrigued to find the French-sounding name, Isabelle de Charrire (1740  1805). Also known as Belle van Zuylen, she was born and brought up in Utrecht, where the premiere of this new composition would take place. In the 18th century, it was common for well-to-do families to appoint French tutors for their children and, as a result, everything Belle wrote was in that language. Her writings cover all aspects of life and love, but I was particularly drawn to these two poems. 1. Companion, for which I have taken three verses from her longer poem Heureux moineaux, tells of her envy at how much easier sparrowsʼ relationships with each other are than those between humans. The poem was Belleʼs reaction to hearing of the philandering Marquis de Lassay, inspiring her to express that it is good to flee from love and to prefer a less jealous, less worrisome friendship. The violin sets the scene, imitating authentic sparrow calls from Californian, Argentinian and Spanish sparrows and the choir enters, taking the sparrowsʼ rhythms and harmonizing the pitch progressions. Here, the English words feature alongside the original French as a bird-like accompaniment. 2. Conquest, or Quels accents vien-je dʼentendre is a beautifully structured and intensely passionate poem, written as a song for Mademoiselle de Tuyll de Serooskerken, elder daughter of Lord of Zuylen. It was originally set to the air: Vous amants, que jʼintresse  possibly a pre-existing tune or one composed by Belle herself. I have relished creating overtly romantic harmonies with restless textures in English accompanying the yearning melody in French. The violin alternates between accompanying them in lilting broken chords and soaring ardently over the choir. I am deeply grateful to both Benjamin and Daniel for asking me to do this and to AVROTROS and the Stiftfestival for commissioning the work, on the occasion of Benjaminʼs inaugural concert as the choirʼs Chief Conductor. Roxanna Panufnik (8 June, 2020)

SEK 143.00
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Earth and Sky

Earth and Sky

Earth and Sky was commissioned by the BBC for the Proms 2000 season. In keeping with the millennial theme, a work presenting a vision of the future was requested. Trying to be helpful, the BBC provided me with the predictions of various pundits, but their ideas seemed dizzyingly contradictory. Then the simple thought struck me that however varied and complex the answers, the big questions will always remain the same. We may now have a map of the human genome, but how to use the map? "How shall I know where I should go? How may I see the I that’s me?" As a musician I am hopeful that, no matter how the world develops, future generations will still come together to "dance and sing and play". The mysterious power of music to bind us socially and inspire us individually seems to be built into our genes. So, a song of questions; a song about music – these were the ideas which I took to Vikram Seth, who had generously agreed to write the words for me. The resulting poem provided lots of inspiration. It is entirely monosyllabic, enabling considerable variety of rhythmic treatment. I love its permutations and its imagery of paradox and inversion and I have amused myself by playing similar games with the musical material. But there is seriousness as well as fun – the text’s juxtaposition of the certainty of death with the search for purpose in life achieves great poignancy when sung by young voices. (Alec Roth)

SEK 90.00
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Transcriptions for Violin and Piano

Transcriptions for Violin and Piano

This long-awaited collection by internationally renowned violinist Simon Fischer offers brilliant additions to the violin repertoire. His transcriptions follow in the tradition of romantic arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries and are intended for current performance practice on modern instruments. Including transcriptions of popular melodies and less well-known music, this collection provides virtuosic as well as easier repertoire suitable for both encores and recital pieces.This long-awaited collection by internationally renowned violinist Simon Fischer offers brilliant additions to the violin repertoire. His transcriptions follow in the tradition of romantic arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries and are intended for current performance practice on modern instruments. Including transcriptions of popular melodies and less well-known music, this collection provides virtuosic as well as easier repertoire suitable for both encores and recital pieces.

SEK 281.00
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Arion and the Dolphin

Arion and the Dolphin

Music runs through the story of Arion, which begins with a singing competition in Sicily. Arion wins the prize, and this puts his life in danger: his newfound wealth excites the greed of the sailors who are supposed to bebringing him back to Corinth, and they threaten to kill him. They allow Arion to sing one last song, and the power of his singing attracts dolphins to the ship.  At the end of his song, he jumps overboard, and one of thedolphins carries him to safety.  So Arion’s musical gift gets him into trouble, but it is also his salvation.   The idea of being rescued by a music-loving dolphin is very appealing. In RobertGraves’account of the myth, the dolphin could not bear to be parted from Arion, and accompanied him back to court, where “it soon succumbed to a life of luxury.”  However, Herodotus says that, after hisrescue and return to Corinth, Arion failed to return the dolphin to the sea, and it died there.  Apollo placed the dolphin among the stars, and next to it, Arion’s lyre, in recognition of his musical skill.  Thisis one of the mythical explanations of the origins of the constellations Delphinus and Lyra. It seems natural to sing a story that has singing at its heart. When I was asked by the Nicholas Berwin Charitable Trust to writea choral work for Making Music, something that would be within reach of many choirs, and involve children, this story struck me as ideal: the men of the chorus could be the bloodthirsty sailors, and the women could create anatmosphere of mystery for the arrival of the dolphins, represented by children’s voices. There would be one solo voice: Arion, the marvellous singer. Andrew Fardell, the conductor who was advisor to this commission, hadsuggested that I might use the same instrumentation as a popular arrangement of Orff’s Carmina Burana, a work that, as well as using children’s chorus, features a solo countertenor. I thought the magical, otherworldlyquality of this

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Alwyn and Carwithen: Piano Works

Alwyn and Carwithen: Piano Works

Doreen Carwithen and her husband William Alwyn were two of the most versatile composers working in Britain in the mid- to late-20th century. Between them they scored more than 100 films, as well as music for the concert hall, including the scores for Odd Man Out (Alwyn) and Boys in Brown (Carwithen). Daniel Grimwood's recording is a wonderful introduction to the couple's extensive catalogues of piano music, containing Carwithen's taut, neoclassical Sonatina and Alwyn's 12 Preludes and Grieg-inspired Fantasy Waltzes. This is warm, lyrical music which quietly pushes boundaries while always attractive and well-written for the instrument. This is Daniel Grimwood's thirdrelease for Edition Peters Sounds following highly-acclaimed recordings of piano music by Fauré and Henselt.

SEK 197.00
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