Little Suite

Contents: Albeniz: Orientale-Tango, Op. 164, No. 2 • Bartok: Bagatelle, Bear Dance, Valse (Ma mie qui danse), Op. 6, No. 14 • Bellini: Pinocchio • Bloch: Chanty (Poems of the Sea) • John Alden Carpenter: Impromptu • Chabrier: Habanera • Chavez: Prelude (Ten Preludes) • Debussy: Reverie, Valse Romantique • D'Indy: Aarau (Waltz from Helvetia), Op. 17, No. 1; Laufenburg (Waltz from Helvetia), Op. 17, No. 3; Le Chant des Bruyeres (The Song of the Heath) • de Falla: Serenata Andaluza • Farwell: Sourwood Mountain, Op. 78, No. 3 • Faure: Berceuse, Op. 56, No. 1; Impromptu, Op. 31, No. 2 • Fibich: Impression, Op. 44, No. 32 • Lukas Foss: Grotesque Dance • Godowsky: Nocturnal Tangier • Grainger: Spoon River • Granados: Rondalla Aragonesa • Griffes: The White Peacock • Guion: The Harmonica, Player (Alley Tunes) • Roy Harris: Little Suite • Krenek: The Moon Rises, Op. 83, No. 4 • Palmgren: Spring Night, Op. 22, No. 8 • Pinto: Marcha do Pequeno Polegar (Tom Thumb's March) • Prokofiev; Gavotte, Op. 12, No. 2; Marche, Op. 12, No. 1; Vision Fugitive, Op. 22, No. 16 • Rachmaninoff: Elegie, Op. 3, No. 1; Prelude in E Flat, Op. 23, No. 6 • Ravel: Jeux d'Eau; Pavane Pour une Infante defunte • Rebikov: Les Demons s'amusent • Reger: Humoresque, Op. 79a, No. 2 • Respighi: Notturno • Satie: Gymnopedie • Scriabin: Mazurka, Op. 25, No. 4; Poeme, Op. 69, No. 1 • Shostakovitch: Polka (L'Age d'or, Op. 22) • Sibelius: Romance, Op. 24, No. 9 • Soro: La Hiladora (The Spinner) • R. Strauss: An einsamer Quelle (By the Lonely Spring), Op. 9, No. 2; Traumerei (Revery), Op. 9, No. 4 • Stravinsky: Etude, Op. 7, No. 2 • Szymanowski: Etude, Op. 4, No. 3 • Thuille: Gavot.

Another important concert work by one of America's leading composers, now published for the first time.

Stelious Coucounarás was born in Athens 12. 5. 1936. After the highschool and during a law study, which he later gave u, studied composition in Athens bei Marios Varvoglis a pupil of Vincent d'Indy and Maurice Ravel and in Hamburg bei E. G. Klussmann, a pupil of R. Strauss. The compsitorial work of Stelios Couconarás covers nearly all categories of the serious music. Compositions of Stelios Coucounarás have been often played in Germany, Sweden, Greece, England, Israel, etc.
The fact, that many composers incline to overlook the Tuba has been by no means the motive to write this composition. Much more the fascination of an instrument which can play "a little more than everything". Here are four Tubas playing in a "democratic" way. No one is allowed to be more important than the others. Fleeting impressions between light and shadow could be the secret of the present little Suite.

Lista utworów:
Elegy for four Tubas (Coucounarás Stelios)

Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) to jeden z najsłynniejszych francuskich kompozytorów. Kompozycję "Petite Suite" na fortepian (cztery ręce) ukończył on w 1889 roku. Dzieło to pochodzi z wczesnego okresu twórczości Debussy'ego. Powstawało w czasie, gdy kształtowała się dopiero właściwa stylistyka jego dzieł. "Mała suita" nawiązuje do charakteru muzyki klawesynistów francuskich z przełomu XVII i XVIII wieku, takich jak Rameau, czy Couperin. Składa się ona z czterech miniatur o tanecznym charakterze: cz. I - "W łódce", cz. II - "Korowód", cz. III - "Menuet", cz. IV - "Balet".