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DZ 1000
$ CAD 28.00 - € 25.00
56 p., Level 3
CD included
Special edition of the 1000th
CD also available seperately (DZ 1000CD)
After more than twenty years, here we are with our 1000th publication.
It's with an ambitious and very special project that we celebrate the event. The Four Seasons Grand Suite from Annette Kruisbrink is a gigantic work that lasts 61 minutes, for a total of 31 movements. The book is accompagnied by a wonderful recording of the work by the composer.
SPRING SUITE
1. Nature awakens
2. A new freshness
3. Birds preparing their nests
4. First steps of the fawn
5. The brook
6. Divine song of the nightingale
7. March of the snail
8. White tulips among the grass
SUMMER SUITE
9. The sun rises to its zenith
10. Bees collecting nectar
11. The frog and the water lily
12. The sea, touching the beach
13. The sunflower
14. A thunderstorm is gathering
15. The sun, disappearing behind the horizon
AUTUMN SUITE
16. The wind that blows
17. Dance of the spider
18. Withered leaf
19. Pearles of rain
20. Fog on the lake
21. The last flights of the swallows
22. The chestnut tree
23. Gusts of wind
24. The first snowflakes
WINTER SUITE
25. The sky is grey and dull
26. The owl heralds the cold
27. The snow, whirling about monotonously
28. Ice crystals
29. The moon illuminates the silent trees
30. Animal footprints
31. Flowers attempting to bloom
“The more astute reader will have noticed that the production number of this publishing house has now reached the 1000th edition and I think congratulations are in order!
With their 1000th edition comes not only their most ambitious project to date, but also possibly their finest production, certainly compared to the many l've seen from d'Oz. Marked as a “Special Edition” this new composition by the Dutch guitarist Annette Kruisbrink is a large-scale, substantial solo guitar piece with no less than 31 movements partitioned into four “suites”, each one representing the four seasons of the year, and the total work lasting just over one hour if the brilliant recording (supplied with the album) by the composer is anything to judge by.
Astonishingly, in an album of this magnitude of new music, there are no low points, no dips in standards, no instances where one thinks that Kruisbrink seems to have been under pressure to make up the numbers; each of these wonderfully descriptive pieces fit the bill perfectly. In the Summer Suite for example, one senses the bees, and the sea “touching the beach”, the menace of the approaching storm is felt, and the frogs can be heard!
Later on, the first snowflakes are almost fell at the conclusion to Autumn, and when Winter arrives, we know it.
This is spectacularly skilful, quality writing from a fine guitarist/composer whose performance on the accompanying CD is of equal stature to the music.
The presentation throughout is excellent, the fingering kept to a sensible level and there are four, imaginative and evocative full colour illustrations scattered throughout the book, these are by Arlette Ruelens, who, together with Annette Kruisbrink, is the other half of the Anido Guitar duo. Another artist, the wonderfully talented Corina Sierk, has provided the artwork for the front coyer. The standard to perform this work and do it full justice would have to be high, around the grade 7-8 mark.
A high-class, quality production in all areas.”
Steve Marsh (Classical Guitar Magazine)
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