JAMES HORNER: Pas de Deux (Double Concerto) + P???rt, Sollima, Einaudi – FLAC/mp3

James Horner, Oscar-winning Titanic composer, dies aged 61 in plane crash

James Horner, the Oscar-winning composer of Titanic, has died aged 61 in a plane crash in southern California.

A single-engine plane registered to Horner crashed near Santa Barbara on Monday morning. The identity of the pilot was
not initially known, but Horner’s death was later confirmed by Sylvia Patrycja, his assistant, on her Facebook page,
the Hollywood Reporter said.

“We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart and unbelievable talent,” Patrycja wrote. “He died doing what
he loved. Thank you for all your support.”

The remarkable rise of Norwegian siblings Mari and Hakon Samuelsen is the result of their artistry and enterprise.
For more than 20 years on stage, the brother and sister-phenomen have connected with audience and musicians across
the world. A chief aim of the Samuelsens is to enlarge and expand the repertoire for cello and violin. In autumn 2014 the
duo gave the world premiere performance of the Double Concerto "Pas de Deux" by Oscar-winning composer
James Horner in the 175th anniversary with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with conductor Vasily Petrenko.

Alongside international careers, Mari and Hakon Samuelsen have a strong rooth to their native Norway. Growing up in
most beautiful surroundings outside Hamar, they have always felt a strong bound to their home-district. 10 Years ago
they founded A Christmas Concert from Norway, Klassisk Julekonsert. This event presents friends and colleges of Mari
and Hakon from their national and international relations. The concert have been hosted by HH. Princess M???rtha
Louise of Norway and broadcast on national and international tv-networks for the last five years. December 7th
this year the concert will again take place in Vang Church, Hamar.

The Norwegian brother and sister have been shown great honour from the regional gouvernment and have
received several Culture-prices over the years. In March 2014, Mari and Hakon returns as soloists for the official
opening of the new concert house.

Mari and H???kon have appeared as soloists at venues including Carnegie Hall, Th???atre des Champs-Elys???es,
Konzerthaus Berlin, Smetana Hall, Victoria Hall, Kremlin Hall, the Oslo Opera, Wolf Trap Centre in Washington DC
and at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. The duo’s highly acclaimed performances of the Brahms Double
Concerto in Milan with I Pomeriggi Musicali in May 2011 resulted in immediate re-invitations for both 2011/12
and 2012/13 seasons.

This season, they returned to Milan with pianist, Behzod Abduraimov to perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.
In May 13 the duo made their debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in UK-tour with Brahms
double-concerto and conductor Alexander Shelly. In December they will return to Liverpool as soloists in the
concert-serie, the Spirit of Christmas, with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The concerts will be
presented by BBC’s Classic FM’s John Suchet and broadcast on December 23rd.

Music Composed by
James Horner
Arvo P???rt
Giovanni Sollima
Ludovico Einaudi

Played by
Mari Samuelsen (violin)
Hakon Samuelsen (cello)
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)

With the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Conducted by
Vasily Petrenko
Clark Rundell

Date written: 2011-2014

How would you describe the music to someone who’s never heard it before?
It’s far from being a traditional concerto, more a duet for cello and violin with orchestral accompaniment.
I saw it as a piece in motion, as a traditional dance piece – a pas de deux – where the lines that the
two soloists play embrace each other. I’ve always wanted to write a ballet.

You haven’t written anything ‘classical’ since the 1980s. What was the biggest challenge in composing Pas de Deux?
No double concerto for the violin and cello with orchestra has been written since Brahms [sic!]. So that was always
in the back of my mind – not in an intimidating way but in a ‘How do I solve this puzzle?’ sort of way.

The biggest challenge was deciding the musical language I wanted to speak – whether it was going to be
something more adventurous tonally or something slightly less adventurous tonally, but perhaps more
accessible. I wanted the piece to be very accessible yet push the soloists and the orchestra – but not
crazy challenging, there’s no point in that.

So you aimed primarily for an accessible sound world?
There are only so many patterns of melodies and rhythms and I think at a certain point the language
has to be expanded a little bit. But audiences aren’t comfortable with music that is atonal – or what
they perceive as atonal – so we are locked into this relatively tonal structure.

Did you have a musical ‘EUREKA!’ moment where everything fell into place?
I don’t have eureka moments – I don’t write like that. It just wrote itself in a way. I usually get an
idea for something and it’s a 30-minute idea. With film, I have to tame it down to being 12 minutes
or 8 minutes or whatever the film’s needs are. So it was easy to generate a 30-minute piece in that respect.

Is there a moment in the piece that you’re most proud of?
The whole piece of music is very impressionistic, so there is no one part that I’m proud of. It is
very vaporous in its nature and the colours I chose. The orchestration I did is very typical of my
sense of colour. It is a lot like painting for me when I talk about orchestration. It’s brush strokes
and colours and all about that sort of magic that happens. It’s less about long melodic lines and
sonata form and those things – it’s more about expressing an idea in a gesture and having it performed.

Are there any particular composers who have influenced you?
I am sure in my early work there were influences of tons of people. Having studied all the ‘lads’
for so long, how do you get all of that stuff out of your head completely? There are so many
people I admire, particularly how certain composers solved problems – all the way from Richard
Strauss and Mahler to Arvo Part, Prokofiev and Benjamin Britten [And don’t we know it!].
His War Requiem is one of my absolute favourite pieces. It’s just a stunning piece.

I also love the music of Ligeti. I studied with him for almost a year in Hamburg. I took time off
from school and left London and worked with him and we studied Thomas Tallis, of all things,
because Ligeti was very influenced by that era of music even though you wouldn’t know it
from his own compositions.

Why have you decided to return to composing for the concert hall?
I guess I’ve come full circle in a way. I have sort of achieved what I wanted to achieve in the
film world and felt I needed to develop a new skill set to be able to write a successful concert
piece or ballet.

So I will be writing serious music, trying to still make a living in film in between, and seeing
how that develops. I’ve been commissioned to write a concerto for four french horns for the
London Philharmonic Orchestra. I know the horn players very well and I always ask for them
to play on my films.

Sharing of this album has ended, it’s now widely available. No re-ups and no further requests, please.

thank you!

Not exactly his first steps. He composed a few concert works during his student days and early career, apparently, but found movie work more lucrative (as so many do). Now that his "movie career" has run out of steam a bit (and his being fed up, no doubt, with both the dominance of the anti-virtuosic Zimmer sound and general attitude of film producers towards composers these days) and himbeing filthy rich by the way, he can embark on other ventures.

Thanks for sharing..?????????

Thank you in advance!

/thx for the quick response 🙂

thanks for sharing this 🙂

Many thanks for the offer. 😎

I’d like the mp3 link please.

Cheers. 🙂

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REceived ! Thank you Winpel

Yeah, that part made me laugh out loud. TITANIC alone must have earned him something like 50 million bucks. 😉

All sent.

Link Received. Thanks

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Link received. Thank you again!

Thanks!

Would you kindly send me the mp3 link for the cd?

Thanks a lot and best whishes,
Lucifer 😉

Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂

Sort that out for yourself.

Regards!

Thanks,

Rob

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Thanks, again!!

Would appreciate a flac link very much, thanks for this!

Cheers.

Can I have a link, please? [FLACK]

Thank you in advance!! 🙂

And don’t ask for the same link more than once. Otherwise I must assume you got no patience, and you will receive no link.

Thanks!!!

Cheers.

And again! :awsm:

Best whishes,

Lucifer 😉

Thanks!

Thank you very much in advance !

They released the album a week early in Norway. Still, being ahead of Ed Sheeran, David Guetta or Ariana Grande – that’s not bad for a half-hour classical concerto!

Thank you for your share and your time.

Thanks.

Could you send me the FLAC link?

Thanks a lot

All others: Sent.

This composition is masterful. I recommend it to everyone.

Please, send me the link in Flac if it’s posible.

Thank you very much! 🙂

wimpel69 – your efforts here have paid off again!

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a link, please

May I please have the mp3 link?

Thanks!

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And REMEMBER, people:

Today (May 25th) is the official start of album sales outside of Norway.

thank you 🙂

Thank you

Thanks so much!

ST

I think this will end the sharing period. Some people just don’t know, or don’t care.

Rest sent.

All sharing has now ended. Some people just have no respect.

can i have the link ? thank you

Link received. Thanks.

R.I.P James Horner

Please PM me the FLAC links and thank you for your share on this dark day.

thanks 🙂

RIP James.

RIP Mr. Horner

A link for the lossless version would be fantastic. Thank you very much in advance.

Thank you!

I would appreciate a Flac link for this Horner work.
Many thanks 😉

Encouraging to see this huge outpouring of love for James Horner. RIP.

Thanks man.

All the rest, sent.

Link 320kbps: PasDeDeux.zip (135,17 MB) – uploaded.net (http://uploaded.net/file/px9ufm0m)
Tracklist:
01. Pas de Deux: Part 1 (09:19)
…
07. Horner: Arabesque From (02:45)

Thank you

I would be honored to get the link for Pas de Deux, a wonderful piece of a music by the late, great James Horner! Thanks so much for re-opening this thread!

Many thanks in advance 😉

Thanks in advance! Much appreciated! 🙂

Thanks!

Many thanks in advance

Thanks!

Link received. Thank you!

Please may I get a FLAC link please?

Very many thanks 🙂

Thanks!

I wrote above that I was on holiday.

All sent.

The album is now widely availble, so sharing will be ending soon.

May I please receive the FLAC link? Thank you.

Sharing of this album has ended, it’s now widely available. No re-ups and no further requests, please.

Links received! Thank you!

Could you send me the link for the FLAC version?

Thanks a lot