- 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.
- 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.
- 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"
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Solar Winds (2016)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for woodwind quintet
ca. 14'00"
- Spinning Spheres (2015)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for French horn and marimba
ca. 9'02"
- The Pulse (2012)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for clarinet in Bb, violin, and piano
ca. 8'56"
Pulse represents the birth of the rhythmical patterns through variations of beats and accents. The mixture of melodic intonations, timbral colors, and gradually growing dynamical intensification creates entirely the pulse of this extraordinary composition.
Performers:
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinet
Airi Yoshioka, violin
Ina Mirtcheva, piano
Click here to listen to a recording of this piece.
- Plasma Clusters (2013)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for guitar quartet
ca. 5'34"
- Pazyryk (2014)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for septet
ca. 10'45"
- Khazri-Gilavar (2012)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for clarinet quartet and percussion
ca. 7'44"
- Impulse (1981)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for violin and piano
ca. 14'00"
Impulse is the first composition of the trilogy. Two others are Pulse (2012 for violin, clarinet, and piano) and Pulseless (2017 for violin, cello, and piano). Nature, starts everything from full ideas and logical impulses that have certain parameters for certain creations. A single impulse brings energy for upcoming pulsations. Timing for pulsations depends on how forceful the impulse is. All parameters of this process are related to the first impulse, that is the creative energy of its life. The force of this energy creates and emits all upcoming pulsations and after all gradually fading, freezes in the pulseless condition and silence. All these actions are coded insde of the first impulse.
The recording I have used for this video was made during the rehearsal in Tbilisi. The performers were Adila Javadzade, piano and Nino Shamugia, violin. Maybe it is far from an ideal recording but it is very valuable for me because performers captured the spirit and emotional vibrations of Impulse. I was amazed by their artistic approach. You may listen to another version of the concert premier of Impulse on my YouTube playlist collections. The Baku premier performance was featured by Adila Javadzade, piano and Elina Aliyeva, violin.
Click here to listen to the recording.
- Rondo for Two Violins (2012)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for two violins
ca. 7'33"
- On Thin Air (2018)
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Rahilia Hasanova
for soprano and violin
ca. 22'00"
On thin Air is a little drama for soprano and violin. I believe that many of us might have experienced something that is unusually strange or unexplainably unreal… Just one time in your life you might feel something that you never felt before or after… At such a moment you understand that everything that created around the holographic existence is bigger and deeper than you would be able to observe and absorb. At such a fleeting instant you are surrounded by the wonder… At such an astonishing flash your the only sensation is the admiration!
If you are endlessly high...
Suspended on thin air...
You contemplate the stars,
You can't reach Earth...
You try to understand what are you doing here?
If your breath is too short and almost frozen
You feel you're helpless at such position,
You know you're hopeless at such condition...
You hear your inner wordless scream!
If you are endlessly high...
If you can smell and taste the air...
You see gold sparkles through indescribable blue color
Your heart is not inside of you...
Your brain is not responding to you...
Your blood is desperately cold
Bombarding your brain by isotopes of thoughts,
Trying to stop all these and comprehend...
Are you alive?
If you are endlessly high...
Nothing above, beneath, and all around...
Nothing is up...Nothing is down...
And you try to connect your toes and ground
Willing to calm your tremor...
Am I flying or am I motionless?
Am I sensing margis between my dream and death?
No... No... it can't be..
No... No... No... No... your feelings are so real...
If you are endlessly high suspended on thin air
You have to feel a little fear and unexpected joy...
- Rahilia Hasanova
On Thin Air was premiered at Linnehan concert hall of the University of Maryland Baltimore County on October 20, 2023 by Duo Della Luna.
Susan Botti, soprano
Airi Yoshioka, violin
Recording engineer, Alan Wonneberger
Click here to listen to the recording.