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lundi 2 avril 2012

Ophiucus by Thérèse Brenet for mandolin, viola, celtic harp and guitar

Thérèse Brenet's work for mandolin, viola, celtic harp and guitar Ophiucus has just been publisehd by Musik Fabrik


This title, which refers to a giant planet discovered by astronomer Donald McCarthy of the University of Arizona, expresses Thérèse Brenet’s favorite image of the infinity of Time and Space. Planet V. P.8B is 21 light-years away from Earth ; such a distance along suffices to encourage one to reflection.



This cosmic reverie is emphasised by a fragment of Nietzsche’s poem Nocturne, the recitation of which may be inserted by the instrumentalists over the playing of the music.



“Innumerable suns gravitate in deserted space; they speak through their light to all in the darkness. But I live in my own light. I drink the flames which shoot forth from me”



The reverie is also expressed by the absence of a conclusion, characteristic of the work. Thérsèe Brenet has deliberately omitted the double bar which traditionally closes a musical piece ; the work is not brought to a conclusion - it still resonates while fading away in an endless perdendosi suggesting the idea that we would find these fugitive harmonies in the cosmos, if we could pursue the speed of sound...




L'&Oelig;uvr de Thérèse Brenet pour mandoline, alto, harpe celtique et guitar, Ophiucus vient d'être éditée par Musik Fabrik


Ce titre qui rappelle la découverte par l’astronome Donald McCarthy (University of Arizona) d’une planète géante dans la constellation d’Ophiucus, traduit l’image du prédilection que Thérèse Brenet se fait de l’infini du temps et de l’espace. La planète V.P. 8B est à 21 années-lumière de la Terre ; et ce seul effet de distanciation peut suffire à nous faire rêver. .



Cette rêverie cosmique se trouve ici soulignée par le fragment d’un poème de Nietsche, Nocturne, dont la récitation par les instrumentistes peut être inéérée sur la musique.



“D’innombrables soleils gravitent dans l’esapce désert ; ils parlent par leur lumière à tout ce qui est sombre [...]. Mais je vis dans ma propre lumière, je bois les flammes qui jaillissent de moi...”



Elle est exprimée aussi par l’absence de conclusion qui caractérise lœuvre et c’est volontairement que Thérèse Brenet n’a pas mis la double barre qui clôt traditionnellement une pièce musicale : lœuvre n’est pas achevée, elle résonne encore en s’éloignant dans un perdendosi sans fin, suggérant l’idée que, si nous pouvions les poursuivre à la vitesse du son, nous retrouverions en quelque point du cosmos ces fugitives harmonies..

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mardi 11 janvier 2011

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

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vendredi 19 novembre 2010

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.

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vendredi 24 septembre 2010

"Soliliquy" for solo guitar by David W. Solomons



Performed by the Composer and available from our guitar music catalog.

For more information about David W. Solomon's, please visit his personal website.

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mardi 21 septembre 2010

Masks for Guitar by Jan Freidlin

Jan Freidlin's work for the guitar performed here by A. Belousov


Parts 1-3

and



Parts 4-6

This piece is available in our guitar music catalog.

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samedi 24 octobre 2009

Two World premières of works by Thérèse Brenet

Two works by Thérèse Brenet will be premièred in the next few days.

Miss Brenet's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Seul tes yeux demeurèrent..." will be premièred at the Musicarama Festival in Hong Kong at the Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium,
Hong Kong, China on October 24, 2009 by Ho Hong-ying, violin, The , City
Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
, under the direction of Jean
Thorel
, a long-time champion of Brenet's music.

This concerto was inspired by the poem by Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen (1848), a memory of an ephemeral object of love

I saw thee once- once only- years ago:

whose intensity and cosmic references have rendered un forgettable:

All- all expired save thee- save less than thou:
Save only the divine light in thine eyes-
Save but the soul in thine uplifted eyes.
I saw but them- they were the world to me!
I saw but them- saw only them for hours,
Saw only them until the moon went down.


The work is divided classically into three movements :

I. The pearly lustre of the moon went out:
II. Only thine eyes remained. They fill my soul with beauty.
III. How fathomless a capacity for love!

Then, on October 30, 2009: Brenet's Des roses de Paestum à la rose des vents
de Dougga
for guitar will be premièred by Marco del Greco, Guitar, “Eviva la Chitarra”
organised by Donne
in Musica
at the Scuderie Aldobrandini, Frascati, Italy. The work will then be performed several more times in Rome during the month of November.

This four minute work for guitar solo was inspired by the juxtoposition of images of the famous Rose Gardens in Paestum Italy and the "Rose des vents" in Dougga, Tunisia, which suggested an interplay of perfumes and winds across the Mediterranean Sea. The work was written specially for this series of concerts in celebration of Donne in Musica's Jamila project, involving women in music around the Méditerranean bassin countries.

More information about these works is available on Miss Brenet's page on our site, as well as in our guitar music catalog and our string music catalog.

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lundi 28 septembre 2009

New work for solo guitar by Thérèse Brenet: Des Roses de Paestum à la rose des vents de Goubba

Musik Fabrik has just published a new work by Thérèse Brenet for solo guitar : Des Roses de Paestum à la rose des vents de Goubba. This work, written for the Adkins-Chiti Donne In Musica foundation in Rome, will be premièred during the month of October in a series of concerts dedicated to the foundations "Jamila" project, which explores music by women composers written on both sides of the Mediterranean sea.

The work is available in our guitar music catalog.

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lundi 11 mai 2009

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

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mardi 14 octobre 2008

Thérèse Brenet's "Des Graines de Sable d'or aux Mains", Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra in Paris tomorrow

For anyone in Paris, there is a performance of Thérèse Brenet's Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Townhall annex of the 14th arrondissement: The guitar soloist is Gérard ABITON, with the Stringendo ensemble under the direction of Jean Thorel.

Thérèse Brenet's work is inspired by Edgar Alan Poe's poem "A Dream within a Dream" and its more "cosmic" significations :

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?


Me 15 X 2008 / 20h30 / Doors open at 20H00 precisely

Annexe of the Townhall of the XIV° Arr (5 minutes from metro/RER : Denfert-Rochereau or Mouton Duvernet)

Rue Durouchoux / 75014

VIVALDI: C° Guitare en ré

VIVALDI : Motet « Invicti Bellate »

NEVIN : La Guitare (1896), 1° audition française

BRENET : C° Guitare (1988-2005), Création mondiale, dans la version définitive

LANGLAIS : Suite Bretonne

DJORDEVIC : « Upstream from Sorrow »

FRANCK: Psaume 150

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : Fantasia on Christmas Carols



Soloists : Gérard ABITON, guitar / Sophie de TILLESSE, mezzo

Ensemble Vocal du Chesnay / Silvio SEGANTINI

Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo / violon solo : Christophe Pïerre

Jean Thorel



Tickets : 18 et 13 euros

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