Piano Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596495

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Sacred,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3100069. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596495).

I've found that music with autobiographical references has a particular expressive strength.

I was in Finland once (performing at the World Tango Summit in Seinäjoki, 2011). The city of Seinäjoki is quite close to the Arctic Circle, so in summer the sun doesn't really set: instead of a night you have several hours of an eternal twilight.

The feeling was that of a transition stopped in time, as a slow motion film of someone springing over a wide river. This can be a wonderful experience (and for me it was), but can be also unnatural to us, Latinamericans, used to the day is sun and night is no sun approach to life.

Anecdotically, the temperature during these days in Seinäjoki was 31 Celsius. So my experience of Finland is that of a very warm place. I guess other persons have colder experiences.

There are three versions of this piece:

Piano solo (pedal all throughout, resonances) 7:24

Tibetan singing bowls 7:40

Electronic sounds (ambient) 7:50

The bowls version is recorded at A = 432 Hz. The solo piano and the electronic versions are at A = 440 Hz.

 

Summer Twilights in Finland are Particularly Long was composed in Bremen on 5 May 2017. 

 

Cover Art: Juan María Solare, based on a foto by Chado Nihi (released under license CC0, and used by explicit permission: You are welcome to use it for any non-harmful purposes).

 

Listen on:

https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/summer-twilights-in-finland-are-particularly-long

or on Spotify / Deezer etc.

 

Updated, general information:

http://www.juanmariasolare.com/summer_twilights_in_finland_are_particularly_long.html

Piano Solo - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Juan María Solare. Contemporary Classical, Post-Romantic, Neo-Classical, Repertoire, Funeral. Score. 8 pages. Published by Juan Maria Solare

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596539

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score. 7 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3880115. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596539).

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/juan-maria-solare/ausente

Ausente (Abstent) is an atonal milonga. If Franz Liszt composed a Bagatelle without tonality, why not a milonga without tonality. This piece is placed somewhere between classical music and new tango.

 

Moderator Louis Barabbas wrote about Ausente for the BBC blog Fresh On The Net nr. 305 (19 November 2018), http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2018/11/faves305

 

Described as 'somewhere between classical music and new tango' the artist’s phrasing here is telling: somewhere rather than something. For in Juan Maria Solare’s Ausente (absent) we are certainly transported. Each angular phrase jutting up like stone columns or distended stalactites in a limey cave. The trickling thrust of its furtive intent feels somehow elemental yet focused through an urban noir prism, drops of heavy water in varying temperatures, some icicles and some steam, shards of smoky light poking around slow moving fan blades and between the rusty teeth of ancient window grills, monstrous warped shadows cast up from humble orphaned minutiae. Music as beautiful and unsettling as it is hard to dance to.

The idea of dancing this piece was a surprise for me, since tango music doesn't need to be danced to (you can also just listen to it). But if you wonder how this tango would appear danced, imagine it is not called tango but contemporary ballet rooted in tango - and suddenly you find ways of dancing it... provided an open-minded choreographer is on board! If someone wants to dance this music in the style of the tango of 1920, they will have a hard time. It would be like trying to dance Strawinsky's Le Sacre du printemps as if it were the Blue Danube Waltz.

 

Juan María Solare

 

http://www.JuanMariaSolare.com

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596553

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Latin,Standards. Score. 32 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4602713. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596553).

Juan María Solare

 

 

 

 

 

From a Window

 

 

 

10 piano pieces

 

 

 

1 - Juan Has a New Piano                                        02:29

2 - Gazing                                                                   04:37

3 - Cross That Bridge When You Come to It     03:45

4 - Premonición                                                         03:26

5 - La tocaya                                                               03:33

6 - Seul, pendant un instant                                     04:25

7 - Predictions of the Velvet Gentleman                       04:39

8 - The Antarctic Also Exists                                   02:00

9 - An Old Cottage in Arun                                     02:26

10 - New Harry Pottery House                                       05:30

From a Window - Juan María Solare

 

The pieces of this piano album have been composed between 2011 to 2018. All of them belong to the aesthetic of neo-classical music, in some cases with a salt of tango flavour (clear in Premonición).

 

The fingerings in the scores are only suggestions - albeit meaningful ones. Be sure that they have been tested in practice. Those are the fingerings that I actually use.

 

 

Listen to this album in Spotify and similar streaming platforms:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3L4VfFsqSb4iax62Wl3FOd

 

https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/from-a-window

 

All the pieces were performed by the composer, Juan María Solare, and recorded at the Studio Onix II, Cervelló / Barcelona, Spain, in January 2018.

Recording Engineer: Bruno Sanfilippo (brunosanfilippo.bandcamp.com)

 

Digital release: 8 March 2019, label Double J Music (Bristol, UK)

Physical release: label Janus Music & Sound (Bremen, Germany)

 

 

Artwork: Juan María Solare. Fractal image created with the JWildfire software designed by Andreas Maschke (jwildfire.org).

 

Trivia: Actually, this particular fractal image was what inspired the title of the album.

 

Stats: in the first month after its release (on 8 March 2019) the focus track, La tocaya, reached 90.000 streams on Spotify.

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String Ensemble,String Trio Cello - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596493

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Instructional,Standards. Score and parts. 43 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3088705. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596493).

Six Thinking Hats for 3 violoncelli  (in the first position)

The title of these six pieces for cello trio refers to the theory of the Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono. This is a tool that provides a means for groups to think (plan and decide) together more effectively - or at least in a cohesive way.

Six distinct states are identified and assigned a hat color:

* Information (white hat): considering exclusively what information is available, what the facts are.

* Emotions (red hat): instinctive gut reaction or statements of emotional feeling (but not without any justification)

* Bad points judgment (black hat): logic applied to identifying flaws or barriers, seeking mismatch (the cons of an issue).

* Good points judgment (yellow hat): logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony (the pros).

* Creativity (green hat): statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes.

* Thinking (blue hat) - thinking about thinking, a control instance.

In my Trio, these color hats are assigned to different characters or moods. For instance the red hat is the most emotional last piece, very rhythmical. Or the black hat corresponds to a reflexive, rational piece which is not pessimistic but rather extreme reflexive, pondering. Or the blue hat, which should reflect the thinking about thinking and is therefore a canon.

Technically speaking, all pieces are written for cello in the first position (sometimes extended or stretched), which makes them quite suitable for young cellists or adult beginners.

The total duration of the work is about 12 minutes. The durations of the single pieces are:

  I = Enfática insistencia (white hat)           [1'00]

 II = Milonga serena (yellow hat)               [1'45]

III = Estado de alerta (green hat)               [1'45]

 IV = Canon arcaizante (blue hat)               [4'00]

  V = Coral en quintas (black hat)               [1'00]

 VI = Finale arrabbiato (red hat)               [2'30]

All these pieces can be performed individually.

These six pieces for three cellists were composed in Bremen (and Worpswede) between 20th and 29th February 2012. They are dedicated to Juliane Dehning (who also kindly made essential suggestions about the bowings). International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC): T-803.196.242-3

Recorded in La Rioja, Argentina by Dora Heisecke, Roque González & Mariana Alcaraz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DluACws6DE

More information: http://www.juanmariasolare.com/six_thinking_hats.html

Piano Solo - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596506

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Standards,World. Score. 10 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3363803. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596506).

Juan María Solare:  Acuarelas junto al río inmóvil (Watercolours alongside the still river)

 five nocturnes for piano solo

The still river is the River Plate; the novelist Eduardo Mallea (1902-1982) refers to Buenos Aires as the city next to the still river, an allusion to its lack of haste.

This cycle of piano pieces is a collection of five short nocturnes. The first four Acuarelas were composed in Buenos Aires between 9th and 12th April 2007, the fifth piece was conceived on 4th May and written down on 6th May 2007. All five pieces have practically the same formal structure.

Concerning the musical language or style, I would classify this work under contemporary classical with interferences from modern jazz and new tango (imagine Astor Piazzolla listening to a recording of Thelonious Monk playing preludes of Alexander Scriabin).

Single titles and approximate durations

I - Bruma matinal  (Morning Mist) [1'10]

II - Flecha flotante  (Floating Arrow) [1'00]

III - Vaivén de los juncos  (Sawying Reeds) [1'15]

IV - Orilla urbana  (Urban Shore) [2'00]

V - Incandescencia estática  (Static Incandescence) [0'45]

ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code): T-802.466.008-1

The Acuarelas were recorded by Juan María Solare in London on Friday 23rd May 2014.

Recorded and Mixed by Eduard Muhaxheri

Assistant Engineer: Matteo Dessi

Grand piano Wendl & Lung

Cover Art: Alban Low

Label Janus Music & Sound (Bremen, Germany), JMS-004

More about the piece, also sound examples:

http://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_acuarelas_junto_al_rio_inmovil.html

The recording of Acuarelas is on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, amazon mp3, etc.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1kVamUJLLSqbQnFURSpxYA

Video of the fourth piece,Orilla urbana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usiEGpImyco

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596630

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Instructional,Sacred. Score. 22 pages. Juan Maria Solare #6602197. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596630).

Juan María Solare: On the Concept of Limit (seven piano pieces)

In this work crystallises an idea that has been haunting me for some time: that the titles of the individual pieces should read like lines of a poem.

1) Up to a Certain Point

2) Nothing Gets Lost

3) Yet All Will Be Forgotten

4) At the End of the Day

5) Even the Sky Has a Limit

6) However, However

7) Only the Present Has No Limits

There is a fancy order of keys in this cycle: in ascending thirds (both major and minor but without a regularity). Indirectly, this is a structural quotation of Beethoven's variations Opus 34 (only that he chose a descending order of keys). Additionally, you will find three times 4/4 time signature and three times 3/4, and one instance of 5/8 (asymmetrically arranged).

1) C major (4/4)

2) E major (3/4)

3) G minor (4/4)

4) B major (4/4)

5) D minor (5/8)

6) F minor (3/4)

7) A major (3/4)

The seventh and last piece is dedicated to Martina Lindner.

These pieces were composed in Bremen, Germany, in September 2021

Juan María Solare, www.JuanMariaSolare.com 

Piano,Viola - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596542

Composed by Erik Satie. Arranged by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Wedding. Score and part. 5 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3884159. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596542).

Erik Satie (1866-1925): 1eme Gymnopedie (First Gymnopedie), for alto saxophone and piano

Original: for piano solo, published in Paris in 1888.

This version for alto saxophone and piano was arranged by Juan María Solare in 2018 (respecting the original key). This version an be also performed in clarinet or viola and piano (separate parts).

Performers are kindly requested to incude the arranger's name in the programmes and in their declaration to the Performing Rights Society:

Arranged by Juan María Solare

Performing Rights Society: GEMA (Germany)

GEMA-Werk.-Nr: 21742367-001

For particular requests (such as a change in key) contact the arranger: juanmariasolare.com/contact.html.