SAARIAHO - SCHUMAN
BALLET
Kaija Saariaho
Henri Sauguet
Born 14 October 1952, Helsinki, Finland
Born 18 May 1901, Bordeaux, France; died 22 June 1989, Paris, France
Limen (2009) Ballet.
Les Cinq Étages (1957) Ballet in 6 tableaux by Rodolphe de Liechtenhan and Wazlaw Orlikowsky after Pierre-Jean de Béranger.
Duration: 28’ Orch: vc solo; 4(III&IV=pic&afl).2.2+bcl.2(II/cbn)/4.0.0.0/timp.4perc/ hp.cel.pf/str
Duration: 41’ Orch: 2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/timp.perc/hp.cel.str Publisher: Heugel
Wayne McGregor explores the idea of liminality – thresholds of darkness and light, presence and absence, life and death. It is set to Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s cello concerto Notes on Light, centered around a solar eclipse, and is accompanied by a light installation by Tatsuo Miyajima.
Ole Schmidt Born 14 July 1928, Copenhagen, Denmark; died 6 March 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
Publisher: Chester Music Ltd.
Feber (Fever) (1957) Ballet.
Maa (1991) Ballet with music in seven parts.
Duration: 19’ Orch: 2+pic.2.2.2/4221/timp.3perc/hp/str Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
Duration: 90’ Orch: fl/perc/hp.kbd(hpd)/vn.va.vc/live electronics
The ballet is built around thematic archetypes such as doors, gates, stepping into new worlds, journeys and the crossing of waters. Each of the seven movements can also be performed separately.
Alfred Schnittke Born 24 November 1934, Engels, USSR; died 3 August 1998, Hamburg, Germany
Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen Score for sale
Labyrinths (1971) Ballet in five episodes.
Aulis Sallinen
Duration: 35’ Orch: perc(includes 13 Javanese gongs).hpd.cel/str(3.3.3.3.1) Publisher: Hans Sikorski Russian Works Available in North America only
Born 9 April 1935, Salmi, Finland
The Dragon Mountain (The Hobbit) (2000) Ballet.
Peer Gynt (1986) Ballet Based on Henrik Ibsen’s drama.
Duration: 55’ Orch: vc solo, fl solo; 3(2pic)33(bcl)3(cbn)/4.4.3.1/timp.3perc/pf.cel.hp/str
Duration: 150’ 3(pic,afl).3(ca).3(Ebcl,bcl).3(cbn)/4.4.4.1/4[+]perc/hp.hpd.cel.org.pf/ str(max 12.10.8.6.5) Publisher: Hans Sikorski Russian Works Available in North America only
Smaug the dragon plundered the gold treasures of the men and dwarfs of the lake town and made his lair under the Lonely Mountain, which had been the home of the dwarfs. Gandalf the wizard recruits the timid and comfortloving hobbit Bilbo Baggins for a grand quest to recover the treasure and the journey to the Lonely Mountain begins.
Sketches (1985) Ballet.
Publisher: Novello & Co
Duration: 47’ Orch: 1(pic).1(ca).2(Eb cl,bcl).2(cbn)/4.3.3.1/5perc/hpd.cel.pf.eorg/str
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Choreographic fantasia on themes from the works of Nikolai Gogol.
Born 30 June 1958, Helsinki, Finland
Publisher: G. Schirmer Russian Available in North America only
Obsidian Tear (2016) Ballet.
The Yellow Sound (Der gelbe Klang) (1973-4) Ballet Suite. Libretto (Russian, German) by Vasily Kandinsky.
Duration: 30’ Orch: vn solo; 3(3pic)+pic.3+ca.3+bcl.3+cbn/4.3.3.1/timp.3perc/ hp.cel(pf)/str(14.12.10.8.6)
In Obsidian Tear, Wayne McGregor collaborates with Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, crafting the solitary despair of Salonen’s Lachen verlernt for solo violin and the nihilistic grandeur of his 2011 symphonic poem Nyx into a visceral exploration of myth and modernity.
Duration: 40’ Cast: S, pantomime Orch: 0010/0110/3perc/hpd.cel.pf.org.egtr.bgtr/vn.db; chorus on tp Publisher: G. Schirmer Russian Available in North America only
Publisher: Chester Music Ltd.
William Schuman Born 4 August 1910, New York, NY, USA; died 15 February 1992, New York, NY, USA
Leonard Salzedo Born 24 September 1921, London, UK; died 6 May 2000, Leighton Buzzard, UK
Judith (1949) Choreographic poem.
The Witch Boy (1956) Ballet in three scenes.
Duration: 24’ Orch: 2+pic.2+ca.2+bcl.2+cbn/4231/timp.2perc/pf/str
Duration: 35’ Cast: 4 female, 3 male dancers, corps de ballet Orch: 2(pic)222/4331/timp.perc/hp.pf/str
A fictional tale of revenge from the Biblical Apocrypha. Publisher: Associated Music Publishers
Undertow (1945) Ballet.
Set in the American Midwest, a village girl, object of the preacher’s advances, runs to the woods for safety. Here she witnesses the birth of the Witch Boy from beneath the cloak of the Conjor-Man. They fall in love and together return to the village where the villagers shy away from them, sensing something uncanny. The preacher, mad with jealousy, condemns the girl and stirs the village men into abandoning their dancing and attacking the Witch Boy. The girl dies and the Conjor-Man reappears to see the rebirth of the Witch Boy.
Duration: 25’ Orch: 3(2pic)2+ca.33/4231/timp.2[+1]perc/pf/str
The ballet concerns itself with the emotional development of a transgressor. The choreographic action depicts a series of related happenings, the psychological implications of which result in inevitable murder. Publisher: Associated Music Publishers
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