Informationen zu "Modest Mussorgsky Arr: Simon Garcia Pictures at an Exhibition Double Bass Quartet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM851
EAN: 9790570458516
ISMN: M-57045-851-6
Beschreibung
'Pictures from an Exhibition ? A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann' is a suite
of ten pieces, plus a recurring and varied Promenade, composed for the piano
by Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano
composition and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become
further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by
other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel's arrangement being by far
the most recorded and performed. It was completed in only twenty days,
between 2?22 June 1874. Mussorgsky based his musical material on drawings
and watercolours by Hartmann produced mostly during the artist's travels
abroad. Locales include Italy, France, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Today
most of the pictures from the Viktor Hartmann (1834-1873) exhibition are
lost, making it impossible to be sure in many cases which Hartmann works
Mussorgsky had in mind. Simon Garcia's masterly transcription arranges a
number of pieces for double bass quartet, offering musical and technical
challenges for each player. Any number of movements can be performed and this
is music to be enjoyed by performers and audiences alike. Bassist and
composer Simon Garcia was born in Mugardos (Spain) in 1977 and graduated in
double bass from the Conservatorio Superior of Salamanca. He has worked as a
double bassist in the Royal Orchestra of Galicia, having also performed in
many orchestras throughout Spain, and is the bassist in the Symphony Wind
Orchestra of A. Coruna. He has collaborated with many musicians and
ensembles, particularly in the field of contemporary music, and has recorded
and performed on many commercial recordings and for television and radio
broadcasts. Simon Garcia has composed more than thirty works for double
bass, ranging from two to six players, alongside transcriptions of these
pieces for various chamber ensembles. His music has been performed in Mexico,
Venezuela, Uruguay, Denmark, Spain, Japan, Italy, Austria, Germany, Canada,
USA and UK by The Bass Gang, Bass Instinct and Il Quint-etto amongst others,
and some of his music was used as teaching material in the 2011 ISB Year of
Collaborative Music. Simon Garcia's music is lively, jazzy and rhythmic with
great forward momentum and drive. Accessible for players and audiences alike,
he writes colourful music of distinction and energy, employing the entire
range of the double bass.
