- Ceci n'est pas un piano (2002)
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Annea Lockwood
for piano, video, and electronics
ca. 9'30"
- Pendulum Clocks (2014)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for soprano, baritone, percussion, bass clarinet, and clarinet in A, Bb, and Eb
ca. 56'16"
A kitchen lives by its own life even when nobody is home. It breathes, smells, yawns, flinches, claps, and snaps...and listens to... If only you are in your kitchen you are not alone. Your kitchen always has an encrypted dialog with you. If only two of you in the kitchen you are three of you, not two because your kitchen accompanies all your conversations. And keep in mind that your kitchen, where you usually have all your vitally important discussions is not your friend at some point. The kitchen likes a justice. If you are going to tell something to somebody start your conversation from far away. Choose any topic that would not relates to a subject of your previously planned conversation. For example, a long analysis about the history of the evolution of clocks... pendulum clocks! Magnetize! Make a magic! Win! Note that at 40.30 - 41.50 the stage suddenly darkened. Unfortunately the video cannot gives the real sparkling motions that accompany this scene on the stage during live performance.
Opera for two performers, Pendulum Clocks was premiered at the UMBC festival of contemporary music LIVEWIRE-10 on October 26, 2019.
Libretto by Rahilia Hasanova
Performers: Susan Botti, soprano and Gleb Kanasevich, clarinets
Recording engineer: Alan Wonneberger
Click here to watch to a video of the performance on YouTube.
Click here to view the libretto.
- Three Pieces for Solo Piano (1970 - 1974, rev. 2009)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for solo piano
ca. 16'00"
These three pieces can be performed individually or as a cycle:
Chaconne (1974), ca. 5'00"
Scherzo (1973), ca. 5'00"
Theme and Variations (1970), ca. 6'00"
Click here to view the scores.
- Yallivari (1975, rev. 2017)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for string quartet
ca. 8'15"
"Yalli" is an ancient Azerbaijani-Turkish collective dance that is a demonstration of the unit, solidarity, and friendship. Participants can be both women and/or men. Keeping each other by the hands and performing rhythmically coordinated step elements, dancers follow a leader who makes circle-like movements. Yalli is an expression of love to Nature and indefinite Life. "Yallivari" means yalli-like rhythmical beats.
- Zoom out - Zoom in (2012, rev. 2014)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for solo soprano saxophone
ca. 6'40"
- The Sea (1997)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for two pianos and saxophones
ca. 14'00"
Deniz (the Sea) originally was written for two pianos and two Saxophones. A year later I made the second version and revised this composition for two pianos and bass clarinet that was recorded in 1998. This composition is dedicated to the most mysterious sea in the world - the Caspian Sea.
Performers:
Farida Ahmadbayova, piano
Maya Sadigzade, piano
Nizami Zeynalov, bass clarinet
Click here to hear a recording of the version for pianos and bass clarinet on SoundCloud.
- Zilli (2013)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for woodwind reed quintet
ca. 8'28"
- The Rhythmical Streams (2009)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for flute and piano
ca. 10'00"
- The Mystical Moon (2010)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for orchestra
ca. 10'00"
- Warrior's Itinerary (1968-1988, rev. 2018)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for piano solo
ca. 20'00"
Warrior's Itinerary for five pianos is dedicated to a hero and represents a hero's life from his childhood to his death. The hero could be somebody who lives and fights for his ideas, wellness, and prosperity of his country, and entirely for the earth.
Click here to listen to a recording of this piece.
- Vernee (2010)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for chamber orchestra
ca. 15'50"
- The Mooghfil (2001)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for 8 cellos and 4 double basses
ca. 22'00"
This piece was also entitled "Mughfil."
- String Quartet III, Tetraksis (1995)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for string quartet
ca. 25'00"
String Quartet #3 was named Tetraxis and dedicated to the tragic history of Azerbaijan. Today the smock-faced devil is continuing to hover over the Earth. Tetraxis was premiered in Baku in 2004 and then premiered and recorded in Kohl, Germany in 2004 by the Minguet quartet.
Ulrich Istform, violin I
Annette Reisinger, violin II
Irene Schwalb, viola
Matthias Diener, violoncello
Audio recording made by Gideon Boss at the Deutschland Radio.
Click here to listen to the recording.
- Symphony No. 3 (1983)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for orchestra
ca. 14'34"
Click here to listen to the recording.
- String Quartet I (1974, rev. 2017)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for string quartet
ca. 15'00"
- String Quartet II (1982)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for string quartet
ca. 20'39"
Audio was recorded in 2004 by Deutschlandradio, Kohln by the Minguet Quartet, Germany.
Ulrich Isfort, Violin I
Annette Reisinger, Violin II
Irene Schwalb, Viola
Matthias Diener, Violoncello
Audio engeener: Gideon Boss
Click here to listen to the recording.
- Three Ghazals (1986, rev. 2017)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for mezzo soprano and piano
ca. 5'55"
Also titled "Three Gazelles," this is a vocal cycle for mezzo soprano, with lyrics by Samed Vurgun.
Her bagin, her bagchanin...
Alemin seyrine gel...
Elimin vurgunayam...
- Amorousness (1973, rev. 2023)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for flute and piano duo
ca. 11'12"
The original title of this piece, composed in 1973, was Sonatina/Sonata for flute and piano.
- consensus (1997)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for solo flute
ca. 8'24"
Eastern philospohers recommend us to be in an accordance with our thoughts, words, and actions. Could we follow this rule? Could we ever find some consensus between our chaotic feelings, wishes, and everyday lives? Our behavior is a reflection of our inner dialogs that are mirrors of our understanding of what we are as individuals. Our everyday efforts to understand ourselves and fight through every hardship are reflected in our inner dialogs.
I hope that this short explanation helps to feel the idea of the sonata for flute consensus.
- The solitary voice (1979, rev. 2008)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for orchestra
ca. 12'00"
Everything in Life is Vibration (Albert Einstein). Everything has its own unique vibration, frequency, and sound. It means everything has a unique voice that is an expression of its vibrations and frequencies. Everything...snowflakes, crystals, flowers, take on their shapes according to their particular vibrations and responding to multiple vibrations, sounds, and voices of the universe. The universe is a choir of the myriad of voices. Each voice has to find the shape and expression to resonate with the universe. Each voice, if it is out of the connection with the choir of voices of the universe, is the solitary voice.
The Solitary Voice was premiered by the symphony orchestra of University of Maryland Baltimore County on November 22, 2015. Conductor: E.Michael Richards
Click here to listen to the recording.