Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Amongst Rameau?s stage works which have come down to us in two main versions, such as ?Dardanus? (1739, 1744), ?Platée? (1745, 1749) and ?Zoroastre? (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long a period as ?Castor et Pollux?. After the work had been premiered in 1737, not until 1754 did Rameau decide to revise it. He asked his librettist ?Gentil-Bernard? to add an act to the tragedy and to give more weight to the brotherly friendship between Castor and Pollux. The main plot remains very similar to the one of 1737, aside from the fact that the sisters Télaïre and Phébé no longer are in love - the one with Castor the other with Pollux - but rather both with Castor which is the reason why Phébé is jealous of Télaïre. Already at the beginning of the first act Pollux relinquishes his love of Télaïre to the benefit of Castor. Castor, however, is killed by Linceus and finds himself in Hades. Pollux commits to saving his brother, sacrifices his immortality and declares his willingness to take Castor?s place in Hades so that his brother and Télaïre may be reunited. Jupiter, moved by this sacrifice, frees Pollux and bestows the couple immortality by giving them a place in the zodiac. Following the editorial principles of the ?Opera omnia Rameau? (and in contrast to the 1903 edition by August Chapuis issued within the old Rameau series), both versions of ?Castor et Pollux?, the version of 1737 (OOR IV.3) and the present version of 1754 (OOR IV.23), are published in two separate volumes in their entirety. Owing to the discovery of the original performance material, today preserved at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, the second version of 1754, which up until today was in the shadow of the 1737 version, can now be presented with its more tightly woven plot in all its vigor and dramatic momentum. This edition is enriched with twelve additions which enable the performance of the 1763-1764 version when the work was restaged. / Date parution : 2023-06-16/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

HANDELG.F. - ZADOK THE PRIEST HWV 258 - VOCAL SCORE / Choeur et ensemble vocal / Barenreiter

Oper in Funf Akten Version 1756. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Richer than ever ? Rameau?s ?Zoroastre? in the version of 1756. Opera in five acts. Rameau?s revised version of his opera ?Zoroastre?, which could be heard and seen between 20 January 1756 and 26 March 1757 at the Académie royale de musique, was favourably received. Also from today?s point of view the work profits dramaturgically from many of the changes and seems altogether richer and more tightly woven than the original of 1749. The subject matter of the libretto, derived from Ancient Persian sources, is timeless: the struggle between good and bad. The good is embodied by the religious reformer Zoroastre, a representative of the supreme light being Orosmade. He is opposed by the ambitious magician Abramane who serves Ariman, the spirit of the dark. The opera includes some of Rameau?s most ecstatic and spiritual musical numbers, such as the episode of sun worship in Act 3 with the sublime ?Hymne à la Lumière?, which, for unknown reasons, was not integrated in the revision of 1756. It is therefore included in Appendix 3 of this Bärenreiter edition. Incidentally, with ?Zoroastre? the prologue, wh ich had been customary since the beginnings of French opera in the 1670s, was abandoned. Instead Rameau was the first to introduce an overture which set the scene for the entire drama and thereby anticipated Gluck?s opera reform by many years. - One of Rameau?s main works for the stage, now available with all its versions - With a straight-forward piano reduction in the vocal score by François Saint-Yves - Available on sale full score (B0A8867-01) and vocal score (BA08867-90) - Performance material available for hire BA08867-72 - Jean-Philippe Rameau - Opera Omnia (OOR) IV/26 / Date parution : 2022-07-30/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Barenreiter en liaison avec les Archives Bach de Leipzig est fière de présenter la nouvelle édition de la Messe en si mineur Cette nouvelle édition présente de nouvelles conclusions et de nouvelles idées.: Des renseignements précieux pour les lectures de la partition autographe de la messe ont été tirées de la section 'Pièces de Dresde''' de 1733, en grande partie écrit par Bach lui-même. Les différentes lectures des parties sont clairement différenciées à partir des lectures de la partition autographe de l'utilisation des passages imprimés en gris. Pour la première fois annotations de JS Bach et CPE Bach peuvent être différenciés en utilisant une analyse d'encre (spectrographie des rayons X de plus de 500 places dans la partition). Toutes les corrections, ajouts et modifications par le fils de Bach et des lieux qui restent douteuses (en raison de l'érosion d'encre ferro-gallique) figurent dans l'édition entre crochets. ' / Chant Et Piano / Partition

Par FIBICH ZDENEK. The Czech composer Zdenek Fibich (1850–1900) had a keen interest in classical German literature. It therefore comes as no surprise that he had already set songs to texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe while still a student at the Leipzig Conservatory. Between 1865 and 1871 he composed 16 songs on texts by this famous German author for voice and piano. Ten of them have survived: the song “An den Mond”, dating from 1869, and nine further songs from Goethe’s novel “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre” were composed immediately after Fibich’s return to Prague in 1871. All ten now appear here in a single-volume Urtext edition edited by Barbora Kubecková. / Niveau : 4 / Répertoire / Vocal et Piano

Arrangeur: Andreas Köln. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. This edition of Franz Schubert's 'Magnificat” D 486 is based on the composer's autograph score and is the first to make use of his authorised performance material. It offers alternative readings that make the performance practice of Schubert's day accessible to today's performers. This entertaining large-scale 'Magnificat” was composed in September 1815. The edition is based on the Urtext from the 'New Schubert Edition” and offers an informative Foreword with editorial notes in German and English. The original figured bass numerals found in Schubert's score have been modernised in all performance material and meticulously adapted to meet the demands of today's performers./ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

La première de Zaïs a eu lieu à l'Académie Royale de Musique en 1748. Il a été relancé en 1761 et 1769, comptabilisent plus de 100 représentations au cours d'une période de plus de deux décennies. Comme allmost avec tous les opéras de Rameau, Zaïs a été soumis à une révision en profondeur du vivant du compositeur et au-delà.Notre nouvelle édition est disposé de telle façon que les artistes peuvent choisir entre la version, consolidée à Pâques 1748, et la version non révisée d'origine. Une série de compléments (pp. 287-355) présente les passages rejetée lors de la révision de Pâques, tandis que le score principal fournit des indications claires quant à l'endroit où un tel passage peut être substitué, le cas échéant. / Chant Et Piano / Partition