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Thérèse Brenet's work for mandolin, viola, celtic harp and guitar Ophiucus has just been publisehd by Musik Fabrik
This title, which refers to a giant planet discovered by astronomer Donald McCarthy of the University of Arizona, expresses Thérèse Brenet’s favorite image of the infinity of Time and Space. Planet V. P.8B is 21 light-years away from Earth ; such a distance along suffices to encourage one to reflection.
This cosmic reverie is emphasised by a fragment of Nietzsche’s poem Nocturne, the recitation of which may be inserted by the instrumentalists over the playing of the music.
“Innumerable suns gravitate in deserted space; they speak through their light to all in the darkness. But I live in my own light. I drink the flames which shoot forth from me”
The reverie is also expressed by the absence of a conclusion, characteristic of the work. Thérsèe Brenet has deliberately omitted the double bar which traditionally closes a musical piece ; the work is not brought to a conclusion - it still resonates while fading away in an endless perdendosi suggesting the idea that we would find these fugitive harmonies in the cosmos, if we could pursue the speed of sound...
Andersen Viana's work Love Song for alto saxophonea and miarimba has just been published by Musik Fabrik. The work was written for saxophonist, docter and social activist Mecenas Magno and is in a freely-measured style which uses elements of Brazilian popular music. The work is available in our saxophone music catalog.
Jean-Baptiste Singelée's fantasy for soprano saxophone and piano Souvenir de la Savoie, opus 73 was used for the examinations for Adolphe Sax's class at the Paris Conservatory in 1860. Inspired by the folkmusic of this region of France, the work is in two large sections: an openning Cantabile passage followed by a more rapid section in the form of a rustic dance. The work is available in our saxophone music catalog.
Brazilian composer Andersen Viana begins a collaboration with Musik Fabrik through the publication of two Fantasietas, one for oboe and the other for trombone. These works are part of a series of small fantasies dedicated to various instruments, where the art and technique are used at high level of expressivity of each instrument. This project is still ongoing today, with the latest work in the series being the unpublished Fantasieta for Double bass solo in 2008. Other works will follow in the upcoming weeks.
Jacque Legerney's Intermezzo for solo piano has just been published by Musik Fabrik. The work is dedicated to Leguerney's close friend Thérèse Cahen and was prepared by the noted Leguerney expert Mary Dibbern.
Thérèse Brenet's Ces Hautes Mélodies dans le Paradis que Nous avons perdus : double concerto for viola, violoncello and orchestra (222bscl2/4331/tymp/3perc/hp/cel/strings) has just been published The work is in three moveements : I La première union avec Dieu 3'45" II Glissée de comètes 4' III Le Livre de l'Éternité 5'55". A set of score and solo parts are available for sale. The parts are available in our rental catalog.
Musik Fabrik welcomes the French composer Philippe Legrandgérard.
After studies at the Paris Conservatory and at The University of Paris VIII, Philippe Legrandgérard entered the World of contemporary music where he met the composers who most influenced his work : H. DUTILLEUX; P. MEFANO; P. FOUILLAUD; J. BERNARD; E. ALLANDIA, among others. Among many notable concerts, his works have been performed at the Centre Pompidou (notably by members of the Ensemble 2e2m), at the Teatro Politecnico in Rome (by members of the Gruppo strumentale Nuove Forme Sonore) and on Radio France. .
Two works by Legrandgérard are now in our catalog: "Macadam Nocturne" for octet and "Black-blackboulé" for viola and piano.
Musik Fabrik has just published two new works for violin and piano by the French composer Jacques Leguerney: the Ballade for violin and piano and the First Sonata for piano and violin. Both publications are critical editions prepared by noted Leguerney scholar Mary Dibbern.
The Ballade pour violon et piano was composed in 1925, with the first performance on February 3 of that year in a concert given by Madame M. Chabrol and Monsieur Pierre Lacroix. Lacroix and Chabrol also played in the first performance of Leguerney’s Premier Trio pour piano, harpe et violon in 1924. The Ballade was played again in 1929 with Lily Lacroix at the piano and Pierre Lacroix, violin. This concert was private and at the home of Leguerney’s aunt, Suzanne Duros. The dedication reads : "To Pierre Lacroix and Lily Lacroix as an expression of my very sincere affection and of my thanks."
Jacques Leguerney began the composition of his First Sonata for Piano and Violin in 1926, shortly after beginning composition studies with Nadia Boulanger. She was reportedly quite enthusiastic about the natural talent of her new student, and offered to give him private lessons to supplement her analysis classes. Leguerney was already reticent about studying composition. In an interview in 1989, he remembered his feeling at that time, saying that "I found that this was useless work. If one is gifted for music, one is capable of writing harmonies."
Instead, Leguerney showed his Sonata to the French composer Albert Roussel, who was renting an apartment on Avenue Wagram in a building next to that of the Leguerney family. Leguerney remembered Roussel's apartment with its dark blue walls and gilded Indian statues! Roussel encouraged his efforts and said of the second theme of the first movement: "I would have liked to have written that."
The first performance of the Sonata was given by the pianist Thérèse Cahen (1897-1944) and the violinist Hortense de Sampigny (? – 1970) in a private concert. The violinist was already a well-known concert artist. De Sampigny finished her studies at the Paris Conservatory in 1915, where she was in the class of Jules Boucherit. In 1918 she married the French author Auguste Bailly (1878-1967). From 1921, she was a member of the Trio Trillat, founded by the pianist Ennemond Trillat with the collaboration of cellist Jean Witkowski. The Trio was active in concerts and recordings in France and abroad for about thirty years. De Sampigny later taught at the Conservatory as assistant to René Benedetti. Thérèse Cahen had studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Schola Cantorum, where she obtained a Second Prize. She was a faithful friend and muse for Leguerney, and recruited many musicians for first performances of his vocal and chamber works. She was deported to Auschwitz on July 31, 1944, a few weeks before the Liberation of Paris.
This edition of the Sonata was performed at a private concert in Vernon (France) in July 2011 by French violinist Marion Larigaudrie and pianist Mary Dibbern. It is based upon the autograph manuscript OL 23, on deposit at the Music Department of the Bibliothèque national in Paris.
Both works are available in our catalog of music for the violin.
Paul Wehage has just finished a piano sonata, which is dedicated to the French pianist Nicolas Horvath. Written in three movements, the fifteen-minute work explores a variety of textures and harmonic idioms. It is available in our piano music catalog.
A new work from Carson Cooman : Yizkor (2011) for piano. This four minute work for piano solo is dedicated to Jeff and Beth Grossman, in memory of Hugo and Irene Feingold. The Yizkor prayer is the Jewish memorial rite, recited in memory of departed family. It is traditionally said four times each year (on Yom Kippur, on the last day of Passover, on the second day of Shavout, and on the eighth day of Sukkot.) This piece is a musical Yizkor.
Two works for solo piano by the French composer Thérèse Brenet havec just been published by Musik Fabrik : Avec des éclats dorés d'espérance and Trois Préludes pour piano. Both of these works were written for the American pianist Raj Bhimani, who has performed both of these works extensively since they were written and who helped finalize these publications. His interpretation of these works will be featured in a forthcoming CD of Thérèse Brenet's chamber music.
The Trois Préludes have been described by the composer as being "sometimes sparkling, adventurous or brillant, sometimes more light, these harmonies are full of tragic vibrations and soft lights...to underline the sensitivity and temperament of the pianist".
The title of Avec des éclats dorés d'espérancew is an excerpt of a very beautiful and moving letter which the poet Pierre-Jean JOUVE wrote to Thérèse BRENET on the occasion of the première of another work "Résurection des morts". Without taking a position on technique or language, this work is not connected to any academic musical tradition of the past nor of the present. Both works are available in our piano music catalog.
Nicolas Horvath performs Le Chant d'un monde Lointain, the second of the Trois Préludes
Musik Fabrik continues the republication of historical 19th century saxophone works with the "Solo de Concours" written by Paul-Agricole Génin for Adolphe Sax's class at the Paris Conservatory. After a lyrical introduction which makes use of "echo" effects, a pastorale theme is presented and then treated in variations. The final variation is a virtuosic "valse brillante". The work is available in our saxophone music catalog.
Two composers have been added to the Musik Fabrik roster : Carlos Perón Cano and Nicolas Wind.
In addition to being a composer with a large opus of work, Carlos Perón Cano is also active as a violinist and conductor in Madrid. Over fifty of his works (which number 250 opus numbers) have been premièred in concert in Spain and elsewhere.
Nicolas Wind is a cosmopolitan composer based in Prague. Amade, his first string quartet, has been performed by the Epoque Quartet. He has written music for film, and for theater, as well as in a series of classical/pop fusion recording projects.
Please visit their pages and learn more about these exciting composers!