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John Corigliano: Fantasia On An Ostinato (Piano)

John Corigliano: Fantasia On An Ostinato (Piano)

Composer's NoteFantasia On An Ostinato is based on a famous repetitive passage by Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony No.7, second movement). That music is unique in Beethoven's output because of a relentless ostinato that continues, unvaried except for a long crescendo and added accompanimental voices, for over four minutes. Beethoven's near-minimalistic use of his material and my own desire to write a piece in which the performer is responsible for decisions concerning the durations of repeated patterns led to my first experiment in so-called minimalist techniques.

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Lan Adomian: Dance For Violin And Piano

Lan Adomian: Dance For Violin And Piano

Later famous for his numerous film scores, (among the best known were 'Ten Days to Tulara', 'Cry of the Bewitched' and 'Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle') Adomian was born into a Jewish family in the Ukraine and emigrated to the USA via Romania. He quickly developed an interest in Negro music, met Ives, Copland, Ruggles and many of the other influential composers and then went to Spain during the Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. These diverse influences led him into radio and television and he continued to compose, eventually becoming rightly celebrated for his talent. This lively and challenging Dance plays with rhythms and harmonics to create a fairly short but virtuosic piece for the advanced player.

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John Adams: The Chairman Dances (Score)

John Adams: The Chairman Dances (Score)

John Adams emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century as one of the most influential and widely performed American composers since Copland. 'The Chairman Dances' is a 'foxtrot for orchestra' that emerged as an offshoot of the composer's 1986 political opera 'Nixon in China'. It has become one of the composer's most popular works. In this piece, from the third act of the Opera, protocol and ceremony are forgotten as the audience is led into the apparent privacy of the characters' bedrooms to hear their intimate discussions. Each sings of his or her current personal concerns, while at some level the couples (Dick and Pat, Chairman and Madam Mao) connect with each other on the emotional plane of nostalgia. The Nixons reminisce about their early, pre-public married lives. The Maos look back to their youthful idealism and budding romance, and foxtrot together to the wistful tune that forms the basis of this composition. The chugging and coloristic flashes that begin the work give way to the dance theme proper in the strings. The work 'runs out' instead of ending, in imitation of the hand-wound gramophone which had accompanied the dancing of the Maos in earlier, happier times.First performed in January 1986 by the Milwaukee Smphony Orchestra, the piece was commissioned by the National Endowment For The Arts.

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Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (Libretto)

Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (Libretto)

The libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Rigoletto' was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse which was so controversial it had been banned in Paris after one performance. Le roi here is the Duke, a renowned womaniser, who seduces ladies as their husbands are taunted by his hunchback jester Rigoletto. An elderly nobleman, Monterone, curses them both for seducing his daughter and Ceprano, whose wife has been with the Duke, plots with the courtiers to punish him.Rigoletto is suspected of keeping a mistress, so while Rigoletto is out, the Duke slips into his house and finding Rigoletto?s daughter Gilda, he proffers his love to her and she is smitten. After he leaves, the courtiers break in and carry off Gilda to the Duke?s bedchamber. Soon Rigoletto enters and realises the mistake just in time as the dishevelled Gilda runs in. As Monterone is led to the dungeon, Rigoletto vows to avenge them both. Rigoletto pays the assassin Sparafucile to murder the Duke as his sister Maddalena flirts with him. However, Maddalena persuades her brother to kill not the Duke but the next visitor to the inn instead, so, overhearing and resolving to sacrifice herself for the Duke, Gilda enters the inn and is stabbed. Rigoletto finds Gilda dying and begging forgiveness: Monterone's curse is fulfilled.This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto, in the original Italian with an English version by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

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