Special Offer (November 2010)

Important works by Edisson Denisov and Giya Kancheli - Available on sale for the first time:

The Sikorski Music Publishing Group is well-known for its strong effort in supporting contemporary composers of Eastern Europe. Sikorski's broad repertory includes the works of the Russian composer Edisson Denisov and of the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli.

HARRASSOWITZ has compiled the following list of works by Edisson Denisov and Giya Kancheli, which are available for sale for the first time, now. All these editions are print-on-demand editions by Sikorski (Hamburg).

Edisson Denisov

Edisson Denisov (1929-1996) is considered, alongside Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke, one of the most important modern Russian composers. He first began studies in mathematics before studying composition with Vissarion Schebalin and Nikolai Peiko at the Tomsk Conservatory. From 1968 until 1970 Denisov worked at the Experimental Studio for Electronic Music in Moscow. He taught composition privately (his most important students were Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov) and he taught instrumentation and score playing at the Moscow Conservatory. The powers in charge did not wish to entrust him with a composition class due to his avant-garde tendencies. After the breakdown of the Soviet Union, Denisov was for a while Secretary of the Russian Composers’ Union and co-founder of the Moscow Ensemble for New Music. At first Denisov was encouraged by Dmitri Shostakovich but later his own work moved ever further away from the older composer’s influence, turning instead increasingly towards Western (especially French) models of contemporary music. Denisov’s wideranging work is characterised by free dodecaphony and micro-structural procedures with which he attains a great richness of atmospheric timbres.

Suite aus dem Ballett "Bekenntnisse". For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 159.00
HARR ID 105023537

Der Weihnachtsstern. For voice, flute and string orchestra. Full score.
EUR 50.50
HARR ID 105023538

Dein liebes Antlitz. For voice and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 79.00
HARR ID 105023544

Morgentraum. For soprano, choir and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 136.50
HARR ID 105023545

Giya Kancheli

Giya Kancheli (*1935) studied at the Conservatorium of Tbilissi with Iona Tuskiya from 1959 until 1963. He has been a freelance composer since passing his examinations. In 1971 Kancheli became Music Director of the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilissi. The composer moved to Berlin in 1991, where he received a stipend from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 1995 he was composer-in-residence of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in Antwerp. Since then Kancheli has been living in Belgium as a freelance composer. Even since Kancheli had started out as a composer of the “Soviet avant-garde” during the 1960s, he unceasingly worked out his own musical style in the years since then. Kancheli’s sound-world has something incredibly natural about it. His musical structures are based on emotional aspects such as intensification and tension, excitement and calm. He works with dynamic extremes and not infrequently demands extreme slowness. In terms of atmosphere, Kancheli’s music is closely connected with his homeland of Georgia without actually quoting Georgian folklore. Nostalgia and melancholy, as well as sadness over the political conditions in the former Soviet Union (“Life without Christmas”) and the destruction of the Georgian civil war mark his production.

...a la Duduki. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 54.00
HARR ID 105023546

...al niente. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 75.00
HARR ID 105023555

Ergo. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 44.00
HARR ID 105023553

Fingerprints. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 39.00
HARR ID 105023552

Noch einen Schritt... For orchestra and tape. Full score.
EUR 34.00
HARR ID 105023565

Rokwa. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 98.00
HARR ID 105023566

Trauerfarbenes Land. For large orchestra. Full score.
EUR 55.50
HARR ID 105023578

Warzone. For orchestra. Full score.
EUR 34.00
HARR ID 105023580

Broken chant. For violin, oboe and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 55.00
HARR ID 105023563

Childhood revisited. For oboe (clarinet), piano, bass guitar and strings. Full score.
EUR 51.00
HARR ID 105023564

Ex contrario. For 2 violins, string orchestra, keyboard, bass guitar and tape. Full score.
EUR 43.00
HARR ID 105023579

Kapote. For accordeon, percussion, bass guitar and string orchestra. Full score.
EUR 44.00
HARR ID 105023559

Lonesome. For violin and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 28.00
HARR ID 105023557

Sio. For string orchestra, piano and percussion. Full score.
EUR 37.00
HARR ID 105023576

Diplipito. For violoncello, counter tenor and string orchestra. Full score.
EUR 28.00
HARR ID 105023560

Dixi. For mixed choir and orchestra. Full score.
EUR 48.00
HARR ID 105023547

Musik für die Lebenden. Opera in 2 acts. Full score.
EUR 427.50
HARR ID 105023549

Magnum ignotum. For ensemble and tape. Full score.
EUR 44.00
HARR ID 105023548

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