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pixel * SOPRANO AND PIANO *

Chaos in fourteen lines
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pixelTimothy Raymond
Chaos in fourteen lines
Cast in two parts, Timothy Raymond’s cycle of seven songs represents a kind of musical portrait of an American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose reputation as a master of verse, and of the sonnet in particular, was offset by her adventurous – even notorious – personal life. A ‘Counting-out Rhyme’ (the genre of the children’s ‘One potato, two potato …’ game) opens the sequence and recurs in fragments as a kind of Mussorgskyan link (like the ‘Promenade’ in Pictures) both between and within a few of the songs. As in some counting-out games, the rhyme might partly be understood as a metaphor for something of a quasi-fatalistic nature.

Part I explores themes of love, regretting its loss and sometime futility. Part II, opening with the lightest song in the work, rapidly darkens to a nightmarish mood and concludes with the sonnet (fourteen lines) that, paraphrased, gives the work its title. Its succinct expression of the philosophical and technical dilemmas of the poet, as she struggles to put the violent and demonic tyranny of existential Disorder into the Order of the poem, is reminiscent of the age-old conflict of Dionysus and Apollo — the archetype that has underpinned so much artistic endeavour.

Chaos in fourteen lines was commissioned by Canadian pianist Margaret Bruce.
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Composer: Timothy Raymond
Publication date:  March 2024
Instruments: Soprano and piano
Format: Full score
Duration: c.10'
Pages: vi/26
ISMN: 979 0 708213 17 8 
Code: HH602.FSC
Price: £15.00               more information

Leaflet 1. Counting-out rhyme         (pdf)
Leaflet 2. Time does not bring relief (pdf)
Leaflet 3. Ebb                                 (pdf)
Leaflet 4. Desolation dreamed of      (pdf)
Leaflet 5. Thursday                         (pdf)
Leaflet 6. Some things are dark       (pdf)
Leaflet 7. Chaos in fourteen lines     (pdf)
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pixel * TWO MOTETS FOR BASS, TWO VIOLINS AND CONTINUO *

Two motets from Concerti sacri, Op. 3
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pixelGiuseppe Aldrovandini
The ten motets (Concerti sacri) Op. 3 by Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707), for solo bass voice, violins and continuo, are among the composer’s most attractive works. Published in Bologna in 1703, they stand on the borderline between seventeenth-century bel canto and the progressive trends represented by Alessandro Scarlatti and, later, Antonio Vivaldi. The two motets published here (the concluding concerti of the set) delight through their euphony and the sheer swagger of Aldrovandini’s vocal writing. Read more
Composer: Giuseppe Aldrovandini
Editor: Michael Talbot
Publication date:  March 2024
Instrument: Bass, two violins and basso continuo
Format: Full score and parts
Series: Baroque
Pages: xi/37 + 2 x 4 + 2 x 8
ISMN: 979 0 708213 05 5 
ISBN: 978 1 914137 55 6 
Code: HH590.FSP
Price: £24.00               More information

Notenbeispiel Recedant Lacrimae (pdf)
Notenbeispiel Volate, Nubila (pdf)
ed. Michael Talbot
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is included in the Grade 6 Piano syllabus of the ABRSM

The Little Ballerina / Nocturne
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pixelChristian Hartmann
Den lille danserinnen (‘The Little Ballerina’) evokes a charming, gracious, light-footed dancer, while Nocturne makes the piano sing in the romantic tradition. Both these delightful short pieces would be ideal encores!
Composer: Christian Hartmannn
Publication date:  April 2016
Instruments: Piano
Format: Performing score
Duration: c.4'
Pages: iii/4
ISMN: 979 0 708146 15 5 
Code: HH398.SOL
Price: £7.95               More information

Notenbeispiel Music example (pdf)
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"I love these two little pieces, and I am sure many late intermediate players will enjoy them equally."
Read Andrew Eales's review in Pianodao
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Spring 2024
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