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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Quattro Mani - Kindred Spirits
Bridge is delighted to present a disc of new duo-piano works composed for the stellar Quattro Mani all of which are première recordings. The disc is a varied program of music which includes John Novacek's Three Rags for Two Pianos, an updated-take on the traditional rag genre, William Bland's two movement work Kindred Spirits, an intense concert waltz, and a set of variations based on a tune by the rock band “Limp Bizkit” and Lance Hulme's Manic Music, written in a hyper-intense quasi-minimalist style. | 
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| |  | The Music of Stephen Jaffe Volume 3
This third volume of Stephen Jaffe's music focuses on orchestral music, with the largest work being the American composer's 32 minute Cello Concerto, a virtuoso composition dedicated to and performed by David Hardy, the principal cellist of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, here playing with Denmark's Odense Symphony Orchestra. Yehudi Wyner writes that “Jaffe's instrumental writing is brilliant and sonorous; the orchestrational textures are exquisite....My response to Jaffe's music exceeds admiration. I simply love it.” |
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| |  | The Music of Stephen Jaffe Volume 2
Born in 1954, Stephen Jaffe is an important emerging American composer. This release coincides with the National Symphony Orchestra's world premiere performance in January 2004 of Jaffe's new "Cello Concerto", and brings to the catalog two major Jaffe scores from the 1990s--the thirty-five minute "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra" and the more compact 20 minute "Chamber Concerto ("Singing Figures") for Oboe and Five Instruments". Jaffe's music is truly "American" in that it reflects a pioneering spirit--a voice that resembles none of the "isms" that populate our present day musical landscape. Composed for a large orchestra, Jaffe's violin concerto begins with a simple diatonic melody which is soon transformed and developed. The language of this work ranges from the most simple and direct melodies to very dense clouds of sound in which the violin soloist is temporarily enveloped. Violinist, Gregory Fulkerson and the Odense Symphony Orchestra (Denmark) give a heroic account of this major work. As sprawling and dramatic as Jaffe's violin concerto is in language and size, his chamber concerto offers a more reduced presentation of equally beguiling materials. This light and airy composition inhabits a world that is not so far removed from an 18th century divertimento, with even its colorful instrumentation (strings, piano, harpsichord and celesta) suggesting older models. Jaffe's vivid and complex rhythmic materials, however, are anything but "ancient," and Speculum Musicae with solo oboist Stephen Taylor give this work a sparkling performance. “Stephen Jaffe [offers] music that beguiles the ear, touches the heart, and satisfies the mind.” Classics Today | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | David Starobin - Newdance18 New Dances for solo guitar
1999 GRAMMY NOMINATION: BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE
1999 AFIM 'Indie' Winner: BEST SOLO ALBUM David Starobin’s Newdance is the American guitar virtuoso’s first solo CD in more than 6 years- a disc much anticipated by guitar aficionados. Newdance consists of 18 new dance pieces by 18 leading composers, all composed for Starobin. Newdance presents an inspired and eclectic collection of new guitar music, ranging from rags, waltzes and tangos to chaconnes and courantes, to abstract visions of the dance, all performed brilliantly by the artist that Soundboard Magazine called: "arguably the most influential American classical guitarist of the 20th Century." | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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