SKU: PE.0300598343
ISBN 9790300598345.
Original item: BB-RM2084-VLN1.
SKU: LM.C06787
ISBN 9790230367875.
SKU: PE.0300598815
ISBN 9790300598819.
Original item: BB-RM2063-SP.
SKU: HL.48025342
UPC: 196288176404.
New edition of Stravinsky's largest work, his only full-length work for the theatre, and his first major work in English. It also represents the culmination of his neoclassical years, after which he started to rethink his musical language. Inspired by an exhibition in Chicago in 1947 of a series of Hogarth prints, the depiction of the ironic progress of the spendthrift heir of a miser from wealth via debt to madness and death is, in essence, retained in the opera. Auden and Kallman's 'fable' wittily grafts onto Hogarth's quest narrative aspects of, among other sources, Classical pastoral, the Faust legend, fairy tale, circus, the Bible and opera in many different manifestations. This is brilliantly matched by Stravinsky's music, which takes as its source the whole of operatic history from Monteverdi to Verdi via Rossini and Donizetti and large doses of Mozart, yet it is neither parody nor pastiche. The RakeÂ’s Progress can be appreciated on many levels, which might explain why it is still one of only a handful of 20th-century operas never to have been out of the repertoire.
SKU: LM.C06796
ISBN 9790230367967.
SKU: LM.C06781
SKU: HL.14007521
ISBN 9788759872659. Danish-English.
Parts available on hire from Wilhelm Hansen. Accordion solo with piano reduction available (item 14042128).
SKU: HL.14005162
ISBN 9780711987586. 7.0x10.0x0.259 inches.
Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts from Grieg's Peer Gynt music, and a contemporary dance band. Not all of the present score was used - No. 3, Brighton, was omitted and cuts were made in nos. 5 and 6. In the latter, a savage cut deleted the references to the music of the other numbers in bars 13-20, including the trombone's scale, which alludes to a scene in which a child practices the piano unseen. Britten was not happy with the way his music was used, and this was to remain his only work for the commercial cinema composed in 1936.
SKU: TI.TR00883
ISBN 9790692047773.
SKU: HL.14010947
ISBN 9780711991637. 9.0x12.0x0.28 inches.
New edition 2001 Study Score. Suite 1, Scenes and Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat, a Ballet in two acts by G. Martinez Sierra after a story by D. Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. Conductor's score and orchestral parts are available on hire from the publishers.