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New Publications 2009 - Blues beyond Borders
. . . to make the soul of the blues audible . . .
Just in time for the Frankfurt music fair we present our brand-new publications: this year we focused on Weinberg´s chamber music and especially on Blues beyond Borders. This is a project of dutch pianist Marcel Worms, who started commissioning composers during the nineties. He asked them to write Blues pieces for piano solo. Up to now, composers from 50 countries wrote about 170 new works. This year Peermusic Classical publishes a selection of these works in three volumes. The first one is available now. |
Marcel Worms writes about this project:
Around 1990, my love for both contemporary classical music and jazz resulted in a "love child": the crossover of the two genres, modern composed music with jazz influences. Especially during the 1920s, composers were bitten by the jazz bug, whereas by 1990 it seemed that further development of this genre was clearly in decline. It was my opinion that commissioning composers for new works could provide a new impulse.
The blues is one of the elementary foundations of jazz and its form provides the composer with a clear blueprint which I thought might increase the chance of my request being fulfilled . . . The composers were free to apply the blues in their own manner. The blue notes, the three fundamental chords, the blues keys, and the scheme of 12, 16 or 32 measures could all be used, but were not prerequisite. There was also room for improvisation. The only essential requirement was that each composer, in his own individual way, should try to make the soul of the blues audible, as well as its associated state of mind.
On June 19 the Deutschlandfunk broadcasts a feature about Marcel Worms and the project Blues beyond Borders.
View Sheet Music Blues beyond Borders
More sheet music from selected new publications
New Publications Spring 2009 (Selection)
Elliott Carter
- Elegy (Vlc, Pno) 3726, 12,00 Euro
John Musto
- Improvisation and Fugue (Pno) 3759 - 18,00
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
- Streichquartett Nr. 4 op. 20 3540A - 26,50
- Streichtrio op. 48 3706 - 20,50
- 12 Miniaturen (Fl, Pno) 3642 - 24,00
Stefan Wolpe
- 10 Frühe Lieder (Mittlere Stimme, Pno) 3689 - 19,50
Marcel Worms (Hrsg.)
- Blues beyond Borders 1 (Pno) 3751 - 25,00 (also available with CD)
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7 |
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- Selection -
Tzvi Avni:
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
1.9.2010 - Duisburg, Mercatorhalle
- world premiere -
2.9.2010 - Duisburg, Mercatorhalle
Duisburger Philharmoniker
Soloist: Heidrun Holtmann
Conductor: Jonathan Darlington
Arturo Márquez:
Danzón No. 2
7.9.2010 - Bilbao, Campos Theater (Spain)
8.9.2010 - Pamplona, Baluarte Hall
9.9.2010 - Donostia, Kursaal Hall
10.9.2010 - Vitoria, Principal Theater
Euskadi Orchestra
Conductor: Rubén Gimeno
Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Fantasia for Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra
10.9.2010 - Dabrowa Górnicza, Sala Teatralna Palacu Kultury Zaglebia (Poland)
Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Zabrzanskiej
Conductor: Slawomir Chrzanowski
Ahmed Adnan Saygun:
Inci'nin Kitabi (Inci's Book)
17.9.2010 - Recklinghausen, Festspielhaus
Sinfonietta Hungarica
Conductor: Nissim Frank
Julian Orbón:
Tres Versiones Sinfónicas
- swiss premiere -
18.9.2010 Luzern, Konzertsaal KKN
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Tobias PM Schneid:
I´m dancing on the edge of time
18.9.2010 - Aachen, Altes Kurhaus
Neue Musik Ensemble Aachen
Theo Loevendie:
Laps
Six turkish folk poems
The Liberator
De dag-en nachtegaal
23.9.2010 Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw
Asko Schönberg Ensemble
Julian Orbón:
Tres Versiones Sinfónicas
- austrian premiere -
23.9.2010 Wien, Konzerthaus
Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Jean-Louis Agobet:
Reverso
- swedish premiere -
30.9.2010 Örebro, Konserthus
Svenska Kammarorkestern
Rascher Quartett
Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
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