| Catone In Utica Conducteur [Score] Boosey and Hawkes
The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most...(+)
The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most dramatic libretti, premiered in Verona in the spring of 1737 in a setting by Vivaldi, contain some of his finest, most mature, and most original arias, and are published here for the first time. They evince a potential dramatic intensity that makes us regret all the more the loss of the first act. Only one aria of Act I can be definitely recovered from a surviving opera, but the rest has now also been successfully reconstructed by Alessandro Ciccolini, whose intimate knowledge of Vivaldi's working methods, combined with brilliant stylistic insight won universal acclaim for his work on Vivaldi's Motezuma and Ercole sul Termodoonte. Ciccolini has also composed cadenzas and da capo variations for all the arias, published here in an appendix.A complete recording under the direction of Alan Curtis is available from Naïve Records(OP30545).Press Quotes:'[For his completion,] Alessandro Ciccolini, who, mindful that Vivaldi frequently adapted vocal music for his instrumental works and vice versa, has composed the missing passages using themes from the concertos as his starting point. His arias dovetail beautifully with Vivaldi's scheme of things...' The Guardian'Ciccolini and Curtis deserve enormous credit for transforming an incomplete obscurity into a coherent and compelling opera.'Gramophone'The opera survives incomplete, but this is a fascinating and apt reconstruction and there is some marvellous stuff here.' BBC Music Magazine / Conducteur
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| Die Feen Wwv 32 Conducteur [Score] Schott
The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for th...(+)
The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to make Wagner's work more accessible for research and performance, but the edition only reached 10 volumes - some with grave shortcomings - and was discontinued after Balling's death in 1925. A further attempt at a complete edition by Otto Strobel was abandoned at the preliminary stages.This third attempt at a complete edition will be the first scholarly, critical edition, based on an evaluation of all the accessible source materials and the latest findings of serious Wagner research. As the edition is also intended for practical performance, the musical text has been kept free of philological insertions - these are listed in the appendices of each volume in the Critical Commentary. Numerous, partly unpublished works - some relatively unknown - and variant versions are published here for the first time. The edition presents authentic texts for Wagner specialists and researchers and critically based performing materials. Contrary to widely held opinions, even the well-known works of Wagner are not necessarily available in reliable editions. The genesis, history and performances directed by Wagner himself are extensively documented so as to present as complete an image as possible of Wagner's compositional intentions. / Conducteur
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| Symetrie LA TOMBELLE
FERNAND (DE) - FANTAISIE
BALLADE - SCORE Conducteur Symetrie
Dans sa Fantaisie Ballade pour harpe à pédales, unique œuvre connue de l’au...(+)
Dans sa Fantaisie Ballade pour harpe à pédales, unique œuvre connue de l’auteur pour la harpe Érard solo, La Tombelle n’emprunte pas directement son thème principal à un chant traditionnel précis, mais nous joue l’artifice d’écrire une musique dans l’esprit des ballades anciennes. Le sens de ballade à privilégier dans cette partition est celui de la vision qu’en donne le xixe siècle avec une forme plutôt libre (ce qu’accentue le terme « fantaisie ») et aux accents parfois mélancoliques. Bien que la mélodie principale de cette pièce soit formée de trois phrases musicales, comme le nombre de strophes de certaines ballades médiévales, il manque ici un envoi récurrent qui pourrait démontrer un hommage explicite à la forme poétique prisée par Machaut ou Villon. La présente édition se fonde sur un brouillon autographe non daté, sauvé de sa lente mais certaine destruction dans un sombre grenier, demeure de colombidae plus amateurs de roucoulements que de musique, pour être placé aux archives du diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat. Le manuscrit, malgré l’écriture claire de La Tombelle, possède un certain nombre de repentirs ainsi que des indications sur le fonctionnement de la harpe à pédales. Quelques oublis ont été corrigés ainsi que certaines précisions concernant les changements de pédales. Concernant les deux glissandos que comporte la pièce (mesures 92 et 151), le compositeur a noté sous la portée les « sons homophones ». Le premier correspond donc à une septième diminuée (la-si #-do-ré #-mi b-fa #-sol b) et le second terminant l’œuvre, à une échelle pentatonique (sol-la-si-do b-ré-mi-fa b). / Partitions classique / Ensemble et orchestre / Conducteur / Symetrie
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