Par MUHLY NICO. Overture for solo cello was written in response to 'Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla' by Anatoliy Fatakhov. / Date parution : 2024-06-01/ Répertoire / Violoncelle

Par MUHLY NICO. This short work is written for a chamber ensemble of flute, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), violin and cello. It takes its title from a man named James Drown, who in the early 19th century spent 5 months on a remote island in the South Atlantic. To mark the passing time, he carved a notch in a stick for each day he was there - the Calendar Stick, as it is now known, is displayed…

Par MUHLY NICO. A short variation on the “America the Beautiful” tune takes the original and does two processes to it: the first is a kind of shattering, where the melody is buried inside fast filigree. These are interrupted by two kinds of slow material: ecstatic chords, widely spaced and in a jagged, unstable rhythm, and a kind of rocking-song, in which the original tune is hidden in a repetitiv…

The Orgelbüchlein Project is a collective composition project aiming to complete Bach's unfinished manuscript known as 'Orgelbüchlein'. In the 'Little Organ Book', Bach laid out a complete hymnal of short organ chorale, 164 in all, but only completed 46 of them. Why the remaining 118 were left as blank pages, with only a title at the head, remains a mystery, but they inspired organists William Whi…

Description Noël! 3 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed-voice choirs, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents range from the Baroque to the present: familiar settings of traditional and lesser-known carols through the ages to Howells, Berkeley and Warlock, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney …