A performance of a work by Jan Freidlin in Australia

February 20, 2011: Freidlin: Dancing Pines Waltz (2010) for flute, and guitar, by the "Orfeo Duo"
M. Foot ( flute ) & L. Brady ( guitar ),
,Burnside Civic Library
, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide, Australia

Jan Freidlin's "Suite Tricolore" in Concert in Jerusalem

19 of December 2010

" SUITE TRICOLORE "
by Jan Freidlin

for Flute, Cello & Piano
in 3 parts

at Henry Crown Great Hall
Jerusalem ( recorded for a Radio broadcast )

performers :

L. Eitan ( Fl ) , Micha Haran ( V-c ) , A. Erez ( P-no )

Dancing Pines Waltz for Flute and guitar by Jan Freidlin

This piece, originally for alto saxophone and piano, is presented here in a new arrangement by the composer for flute and guitar. Performed by the "Duo ORFEO" from Australia - Maria Foot ( Flute ) & Lincoln Brady ( Guitar )

This piece is also available for violin and guitar. Information about Jan Freidlin is available on our site.

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.

More videos of works by Jan Freidlin available on Youtube

Several videos of works by Jan Freidlin have been posted on youtube:

Rainy Day Rhapsody for Cello and Piano is an extended one movement work in several large sections: performed here by Cellist Micha Haran and the composer at the piano:

Part 1

Part 2

The Suite Tricolore is a three-movement work for Flute, Violoncello and Piano written by the composer after a trip to Paris. There are two performances on Youtube:
Movements 1 and 3, performed by L. Eitan ( Fl ), M. Haran ( V-c ) & A. Erez ( P-no )

A performance in Klangbrucke Aachen Germany in 2007 by N. Becker ( Fl ), M. Purrer ( Vc ) & Dm. Veselovsky ( P-no ) where the final movement was played as an encore.

The works are available directly from Musik Fabrik or through any of our dealers.

Performances of Musik Fabrik works on Youtube

Both David W. Solomons and Jan Freidlin have new performances uploaded to Youtube which may be watched on their service at the links below.

For Solomons :

Tants Fraylachs for Clarinet Quartet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqoFjRLSONE
Performed by the Fell Clarinet Quartet

Sagesse for Alto voice and Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uhh1NcYfaI
Performed by the Composer

Petticoat Lane for Clarinet and guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLcnkI8Viyg
Performed by by Duo Musaikòn in 2008:
Davide Compostella (clarinet)
and
Alessandro Balsimini (guitar)

For Freidlin :

Mvt. III (Night Seine Blues) from the Suite Tricolor for Flute, Violoncello and Piano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08sJjvBEPJI&feature=channel
Performed by Natalie Becker ( Flute ), M. Purrer ( Vc ) and Dmytro Veselovsky ( P-no )

All of these works are available directly from Musik Fabrik

Musik Fabrik welcomes composer Gloria Coates

The newest addition to Musik Fabrik's roster is the American composer Gloria Coates, the woman composer who has written more symphonies than any other woman in history. Ms. Coates' First Symphony "Music for Open Strings" is considered one of the most important works in microtonal music and has written fifteen other symphonies, many of which have been recorded by major orchestras. She has also written nine string quartets, a great deal of chamber music, vocal music and for the theatre.

Her first work published by Musik Fabrik is her Elegy for flute and piano, and was part of our collective homage to Claude Lévi-Strauss on his 100th birthday. The composer gave the following program note for this work :

Elegy was written as a commission in 2002 in the wake of the tragedy of September 11th. Because the emotions were too close to me, I didn't feel like having this work performed. Thus I wrote a different piece for that commission and put Elegy away on a shelf.
It was forgotten completely until this fall when Elizabeth Weinzierl, the German flutist, who had originally commissioned the piece, asked to perform it with the pianist Eva Schieferstein in a concert in Munich's Performing Center Gasteig. Thus, the premier took place October 12, 2008.
A few days later, Paul Wehage asked for a composition in celebration of Claude Levi-Strauss' 100th. birthday. One remembers his great writing Tristes Tropiques which is a romantic elegy on the Amazon.
My own Elegy not only expressed my feelings about the injustice and destructive impulses in the 2001 terrorist attack, but could also include other negative forces in our civilization today such as the destruction of the Amazon. Thus, I have dedicated this work to the 100th. birthday of Claude Levi-Strauss and his untiring energy to elevate the spiritual and ecological thinking and actions in our threatened world.

Elegy for Flute and Piano is available on our Flute music catalog.