Load.CD’s First Printed Edition

Dec. 3, 2010 - PRLog -- The Load.CD Printed Edition 2010/11 has recently been published and is now available for order on the platform. The sheet music collection promotes new and interesting composers and wants to provide musical stimulus to interpreters and performers alike. Comprising over 120 pages and the works of ten contemporary composers, each of them members at Load.CD, the biographies and works descriptions are provided in English, German and Russian.
The selection of the included works is based on musical merit and uniqueness. Each score is accompanied by an introductory text and the composer`s biography. The collection comprises various instrumentations, including compositions for solo instruments, voice, chamber ensembles, wind and string orchestras.
Besides presenting the vision, aims and functions of the online platform, the volume is dedicated to the works of ten contemporary composers from different countries:
Denis Asimovich (Belarus) - Elegy
Boaz Avni (Israel) – Largo for Strings
James C. Burke (USA) - Albemarle
Michelle Diehl (USA) - Soliloquy
Dmitri Capyrin (Russia) – Music for Two
Frank Ezra Levy (Switzerland/USA) - Six Haiku for Our Time
Ernst Levy (Switzerland/USA) - Symphony No.11
Manfred Schwenkglenks (Germany) - Caprice
Arkadi Troitsky (Russia) – Sonatina Piccola
Hrachya Yessayan (Armenia) – The Christ Resurrection
One of the highlights are parts of the previously unpublished hand written sketch for the Symphony No. 11 of the renowned Swiss composer Ernst Levy (1895-1981). Thanks to the cooperation with the Basel University Library, Load.CD has digitized the original manuscripts of the composer’s invaluable oeuvre, all of which are now available at http://www.load.cd.
The Load.CD Printed Edition (http://www.load.cd/printededition.html) is part of the ambitious project aimed at promoting contemporary classical music and is distributed to composers, performers and musical groups/organizations, including educational institutions and music schools, as well as music related businesses around the globe. Personal copies can be ordered directly at http://www.load.cd, or downloaded as a PDF version.
For available advertising space in one of the next volumes of the Printed Edition please contact printed-edition@load.cd

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Based in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, Load.CD GmbH has established an online sales platform for sheet music and related performing rights. The company comprises an international team of music experts, content managers and programmers.
Created with the aim to reconnect music makers and buyers of classical music, www.load.cd provides performers and composers a market place for sheet music.
Members of www.load.cd can use their own personal page for the promotion and direct-marketing of the sheet music they offer and the option to utilise an alternative system to license performing rights on their own account.