Drei Stücke
for 2 trp, hrn, trb, tba
Nr. 1 Linien des Engelstanzes (mp3)
Nr. 2 Rauch aus allen Dächern (mp3)
Nr. 3 Ausgeruhte Hände erheben (mp3)
(-) Premiere performance: 1994, John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Coffee House Brass
(-) West coast premiere: 2005, Queen Anne Lutheran Church, Seattle, Washington; Italico Brass
(-) European premiere: 2010, Akademie für Tonkunst, Darmstadt, Germany; Lutz Mandler and Manfred Bockschweiger (trumpets), Martin Walz (horn), Ulrich Conzen (trombone), Eberhard Stockinger (tuba)
Program notes
Each of the Drei Stücke (Three Pieces) is inspired by and named after a line from poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. These lines (Lines of the Angels' Dance, Smoke from Every Roof, Raising Well-Rested Hands) are windows through which the poems and my music meet.
(Stefan Hakenberg, 1994)
Reviews & press
Drei Stücke
Not too long ago I was swimming in a sea of modern music. After a while I found myself listening and enjoying a piece by Stefan Hakenberg written for brass quintet. Drei Stücke offers great opportunities for brass players who want to stretch out with some funky rhythmic expressions in the first movement, explore a variety of introspective sounds for brass instruments in the second movement and then end with some of the most cathartically pleasing playing a brass player might ever do in their career. Give these 3 movements a listen and perhaps some of Stefan’s other works as well.
DREI STÜCKE (MP3s)
1.) Linien des Engelstanzes
2.) Rauch aus allen Dächern
3.) Mit ausgeruhten Händen
recorded in Seattle with:
Ed Castro and Matthew Swihart, trumpets
David McBride, horn
Greg Powers, trombone
Mike Woolf, tuba
I think more of us should know about this piece and it should be performed as often as possible.
(Ed Castro, on the Mosaic Brass Quintet Web site