The title refers to a Moroccan desert wind, but it was less a figurative association than merely the sound of the word that fascinated Johannes Boris Borowski. The lengthy one-movement work reveals the formal skills and the imagination of the composer born in 1979: A rhythmized melodic cell evolves into a construct with its very own structure, motivic-thematic work leads to two-dimensional sounds …

Terrestre was commissioned to celebrate the composer's fiftieth birthday and while the name Terrestre calls to mind earthbound things, the score suggests the physical sensation of taking wing. The first of the two movements, l'Oiseau dansant, describes an aboriginal tale of a bird that teaches a village to dance, while the second movement, l'Oiseau, un satellite infime (infinitesimal) takes flight…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. In association with the Mendelssohn House, Leipzig, Edition Peters proudly presents the Mendelssohn ‘Souvenir’ edition, containing a selection of piano works intended by Mendelssohn to be played at home, as generations of amateur musicians since the 19th century have done – learning to appreciate and love this wonderful music. Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words, in …

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Jan Van der Roost was commissioned to write this hymn by the “International Association for Human Rights” in Frankfurt. The commission specified that the instrumentation of this simple hymn should be so, that it can be performed by a variety of combinations of players. The piece starts with an “intrada” for brass ensemble based on the first bars of the hymn, but is “ad libit…

Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. Valzer Duetto from La Traviata, Act I, by Giuseppe Verdi, arranged for Flute Choir by Gudrun Hinze. This arrangement is dedicated to Nicola Mazzanti and the fantastic crew of teachers of the International Piccolo Flute Academy, who premiered the piece at the 2022 Annual Convention of the National Flute Association in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The situation in the original opera: …

Par ARAKELYAN KRISTINA. Reimagined in boldly contrasting settings, the Gregorian chant for Epiphany Alleluia: vidimus stellam shines radiantly in Kristina Arakelyan’s piano transcription of her own Star Fantasy. One of twelve new plainsong-derived organ pieces by women composers commissioned for Anna Lapwood’s award-winning anthology Gregoriana, it perfectly adapts for keyboard two hands. In a hus…

Par PEPIN CAMILLE. Il s'agit d'un cycle de mélodies pour mezzo-soprano, violoncelle et piano - commande de l'Association Olivier Messiaen au pays de la Meije - dédié à Anne Le Bozec, Yan Levionnois et Fiona McGown. Ce choix autour de la danse m'est venu à la lecture de cette phrase du poète américain Ezra Pound (1885-1972) - chef de file du mouvement imagiste et moderniste - dans son ABC of Read…