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Canto de Galiana (Peter Heremans)
Louise (Peter Heremans)
En recuerdo de una morena (Peter Heremans)
Listen to a sound track of both compositions in the “catalogue” section
Cloud Study III
Instrumentation : Violin and Piano
Price : € 16,00
Order-# : LM 2018101733
Level : Contemporary Music
Cloud Study III
was inspired by Wislawa Szymborska’s poem “Clouds”
Clouds (by Wislawa Szymborska)
I’d have to be really quick
to describe clouds –
a split second’s enough
for them to start being something else.
Their trademark:
they don’t repeat a single
shape, shade, pose, arrangement.
Unburdened by memory of any kind,
they float easily over the facts.
What on earth could they bear witness to?
They scatter whenever something happens.
Compared to clouds,
life rests on solid ground,
practically permanent, almost eternal.
Next to clouds
even a stone seems like a brother,
someone you can trust,
while they’re just distant, flighty cousins.
Let people exist if they want,
and then die, one after another:
clouds simply don’t care
what they’re up to
down there.
And so their haughty fleet
cruises smoothly over your whole life
and mine, still incomplete.
They aren’t obliged to vanish when we’re gone.
They don’t have to be seen while sailing on.
Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
The Sway of the Branch II
Instrumentation : Two Violins
Price : € 16,00
Order-# : LM 2019021735
Level : Contemporary Music
THE SWAY OF THE BRANCH II is based on Su Tung P’O’s poem “On A Painting By Wang The Clerk Of Yen Ling”
– On A Painting By Wang The Clerk Of Yen Ling –
Su Tung P’O (1036-1101)
(Translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth)
The slender bamboo is like a hermit.
The simple flower is like a maiden.
The sparrow tilts on the branch.
A gust of rain sprinkles the flowers.
He spreads his wings to fly
And shakes all the leaves.
The bees gathering honey
Are trapped in the nectar.
What a wonderful talent
That can create an entire Spring
With a brush and a sheet of paper.
If he would try poetry
I know he would be a master of words.
Rain Study
Instrumentation : Piano solo
Price : € 24,50
Order-# : LM 2019021739
Level : Contemporary Music
Much of the material for Rain Study has its origin in Sanyombul, a Korean folk song. The words to Sanyombul state:
The sun that sets will rise again tomorrow
A life that passes will never return
The piece is the second of a series of studies for solo piano that was initiated by Piano Study 1 (1997). These are studies for both pianist and composer; the focus of both works is on the layering of melodies and the superimposition of the pianist’s hands. The work was written for Thomas Schultz and was first performed by him in San Francisco, in April 1999.
Hommage à Paul Delvaux (Michel Burton)
Instrumentation : Guitar
Price : € 7,90
Order-# : LM 2019031740
Level : Educational D and Contemporary Music
This composition consists in 4 parts : Belle immobile, Professeur Lidenbrock, Squelettes and Le train et la nuit.
The CD “Emeraude” was recorded by Miren Meuleman. All information can be found on http://www.cigales-asbl.net/
Keeper of your dreams (Jan Mees)
A certain degree of uncertainty (Jan Mees)
You can listen to a sound fragment of both compositions in the “catalogue” section
Meadow Study for piano solo (2016) by Hyo-shin Na
Hyo-shin Na composed Meadow Study while imagining the poet’s experience from Milosz’s poem.
A Meadow
Czeslaw Milosz
It was a riverside meadow, lush, from before the hay harvest,
On an immaculate day in the sun of June.
I searched for it, found it, recognized it.
Grasses and flowers grew there familiar in my childhood.
With half-closed eyelids I absorbed luminescence.
And the scent garnered me, all knowing ceased.
Suddenly I felt I was disappearing and weeping with joy.
This piece was premiered at the San Francisco Art Museum on September 25, 2016.
Modus I (Jos Mertens)