Voice from Golden Hearts Publications

We will be introducing one Golden Hearts Publications piece per week for a while.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's this week's piece.Monologue for Solo Euphonium (1. Darkness / 2. Rondeau) / Ken'ichi Masakado [Euphonium Solo]https://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghmb-08Program notes :This is an adaptation of a work for trombone solo composed in 2000, consisting of four small pieces, each of which is a separate work.“Monologue 1: Darkness" is the second song of the original. This is the monologue of a man who wanders into the darkness in a dream. Although it is a twelve-note sequence, I dared to use many intervals...

We will be introducing one Golden Hearts Publications piece per week for a while.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's this week's piece.Suite per fagotto / Ippolito Parrinello [Bassoon and Piano]https://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghpb-01 Program notes :This is my first piece for bassoon and it was written in 2016 upon request by Maurizio Barigione, teacher of the Conservatorio di Musica of Trapani, who recorded the piece for the first time. It was first performed in public by me and Massimo Ferretti during LowBb Bassoon Cluster’s Masterclass in Trapani in 2017.The form is a reimagining of the baroque suite: the overall form...

Today I feature Taiwanese composer Ssu-Yu Huang, whose new work I recently launched.I have known her for a long time, since I started Golden Hearts Publications.A brief bio follows.Ssu-Yu Huang, a native of Taiwan, enjoys an active career in contemporary music. Her compositions cover a wide range of music with bold and delicate genre. Her music has been performed by professional musicians and orchestras around the world to critical acclaim. German conductor maestro Gunther Herbig praised her orchestral work of "a modern and complex style, presenting her own characters and creativity." She has received awards including the winner of the...

We will be introducing one Golden Hearts Publications piece per week for a while.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's this week's piece.Chaconne, on Japanese Folk Song "Sunayama" / Ken'ichi Masakado [Clarinet and Piano] [Score and Parts]https://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghmb-18Program notes :Composed in August 2019, commissioned by Noriko Kutaragi, a clarinet player who is a classmate at the university. On September 29 of the same year, we had a premiere in Oita City (the piano was Junko Kubo).“I want to play the arrangement of old Japanese songs” was the first plan by Ms. Kutaragi. During a meeting with her, a story...

We will be introducing one Golden Hearts Publications piece per week for a while.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's this week's piece.Oneness / Man-Ching Donald Yu [Flute & Piano]https://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghya-03Program notes :Oneness is a theological concept implicating that God is the only single entity in the universe, being without any parts. Yet, the concept of oneness is full of divine simplicity which traverses through time and space infinitely. The piece begins with tone D and ends in tone A and for most of the time, various consonant intervallic materials are superimposed with each other throughout the whole piece....