Two new vocal works by Thérèse Brenet

Two new works for voice and piano (both of which also exist for voice and orchestra) by Thérèse Brenet have just been published by Musik Fabrik: Poème de Jade for Baritone Voice, Flute and Piano and Perles d'Ambre for female voice and piano.

Poème de Jade is a setting of seven Chinese poems which are taken from "La Flûte de Jade", a series of French translations of Chinese poems by Franz Toussaint. The voice part is intertwined with the flute part in a very expressive manner. The seven poems deal with images of love, of desire and ultimately with the role of the composer in Society. The work lasts for 17 minutes. The orchestral version is scored for 4 percussion, harp, harpsichord, piano and strings (44221)

Perles d'ambre is a wordless vocalize for female voice (low a to high b) and piano. The work is intended to be (in the words of the composer) "liberty, sensitivity and all of the expression of Music which breathes...in the infinite spirals of Love and Beaufy, above Space and Time.". The work lasts aproximately seven minutes. The orchestration is for 2 percussion, harp, harpischord and strings.

Both works are available in our vocal music catalog.

New edition of the Nadermann Sonata no. III for Flute and Harp in our Pierre Jamet Collection

As part of the Pierre
Jamet collection of historical works for the harp which have been
revised, fingered and annotated by the celebrated French harpist Marie-Claire
Jamet and by Christian Lardé, professeur honoraire of Flute
at the Paris Conservatory, a new edition of Naderman's Sonate no.
III for Flute and Harp has been prepared using a 19th century first
edition in the papers of Pierre
Jamet as the musicological source. This new editions will be performed
in concert at the Camac Harp Festival in Lille on October 2, 2009.
Other works are in preparation.

New from Jan Freidlin: works for two piano and piano with orchestra

We have just published a series of works by Jan Freidlin, which include Joyful Concertino for two pianos (useful for teaching as the first piano is less difficult than the second piano) as well as Contemplation for piano and string orchestra or two pianos. A performance of the work with orchestra is available on youtube :



Also the third movement of the Suite Tricolore Night Seine Blues has been arranged for solo instrument and piano, with many possible instruments (flute, saxophone, clarinet, violin, trumpet, etc). Here is a jazz performance of the work, with the composer at the piano :



All of these works are available directly from Musik Fabrik on the composer's presentation page.