Score and parts. 22+16+12 pp. $29.95, Presser Order number 494-02433 (EICM-32)
The
initial six movements of the Sonata of the Wanderings for guitar and
violoncello, are all inbued with the idea of reflecting on different feelings,
impressions and sensations of the same person. The several dramatic collisions
in these movements employ divergent styles and trends, such as the Bossa-Nova
improvisation in movement V. The dramatic center of the work is in movement VI,
reaching there a culmination of tension which resolves in the catharsis of the
last movement, an open finale of the Sonata. The cover drawing by
Vasilii Iuriev is meant to illustrate the mood of this work .
Jan
Freidlin was born in southern Siberia in 1944 and studied in Odessa where he
later taught as Head of the Music Theory department at the famous Stolyarsky
Special Music College. He currently teaches at the Levinsky Teachers College in
Tel Aviv. Jan Freidlin received the Grand Prix of Varna International Cinema
Festival (1978), the AKUM Prize (Israel) for “Miscenscens”—Sonata for
Violin & Cello (1993), 2nd Prize for “Letters from Arles” for Guitar at
the 1995 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the Liberson Prize for Piano
Trio Nº 2 (Israel, 1995). His works were performed in the former USSR, Germany,
France ,UK, Italy, Australia, Brasil, USA. His “Sonata in Three Visions” for
Solo Harp was chosen by the International Harp Contest in Israel for the 1998
Contest as the required Israeli work.
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