A cura di F. Della Seta - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte-Ricordi the well-known printer of classical opera presents the works of the great opera composers in its Critical Edition practical series. These revised definitive scores are produced by using all the currently available sources ranging from the original autographs to printed editions in line with strict philological and critical criteria. Each edition has a brief introduction providing the historical context for the opera in question. This series combines the rigour of a critical approach and a practical easy-to-follow editorial lay-out. The hidden sadness and frustration of living as a moral outcast the attempt to simulate innocence infrivolous living and the desperate search for relief from pain and anguish the destruction of all hope in an unrealistic love affair... this is Violetta Valery. Verdi penetrated the tormented sensitivity of her soul as he visualized her in his music transforming her individual fate into a universal representation of human suffering. His compassion for her however met with bigoted censure: the bourgeois public scandalized by the presence of a kept woman as a character on the stage gave the opera an icy reception at its premiere in Venice (Teatro La Fenice 6 March 183). Certainly an inferior cast for the occasion did little to help. Only the following year when La Traviata was revived for another production in Venice (Teatro San Benedetto) did the tale of Violetta manage to overcome this prejudice and win the unconditional esteem it so deserves.

Ed. critica di Alessandro Borin - ril. brochure-La Gloria E Imeneo RV 687 belongs to a group of so-called ‘French serenatas’ by Antonio Vivaldi namely a series of works composed and performed between the mid-1710s and mid-1720s of the eighteenth century in celebration of important recurrent and non-recurrent events relating to the Kingdom of France and its diplomatic representatives resident in Italy.This serenata was indeed commissioned from Vivaldi by the French ambassador in Venice Jacques-Vincent Languet Count of Gergy on the occasion of the wedding of Louis XV to the Polish princess Maria Leszczyska and was performed during a festa that took place inthe ambassador’s garden on the evening of 12 September 1725.This critical edition is based on the autograph score held by Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin. It also includes an Introduction that describes the genesis and the first performance of the Serenata the state of the sources and its musical content. The critical edition includes an apparatus that records all the variants between the autograph score and the secondary collate sources and a diplomatic- interpretative edition of the poetic text inferred – since no libretto has come down to us – by the words underlaid to the notes in the manuscript of the serenata.

Vocal Score to Giacomo Puccini's Messa Di Gloria for mixed voice choir and Piano accompaniment.

Ed. critica di Alessandro Borin - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di A. Frigé-The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score of La Gloria E Imeneo published in this catalogue. The opera belongs to a group of the so-called ‘French serenatas’ by Antonio Vivaldi namely a series of works composed and performed between the mid-1710s and mid- 1720s of the eighteenth century in celebration of important recurrent and non-recurrent events relating to the Kingdom of France and its diplomatic representatives resident in Italy.This serenata was indeed commissioned from Vivaldi by the French ambassador in Venice Jacques-Vincent Languet Count of Gergy on theoccasion of the wedding of Louis XV to the Polish princess Maria Leszczyska and was performed during a festa that took place in the ambassador’s garden on the evening of 12 September 1725.This edition is based on the autograph score held by Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria of Turin. It includes a brief Introduction and a critical apparatus that records all the variants between the autograph score and the secondary collate sources.

Rossini's Stabat Mater with 2 Soprano Tenor and Bass solos mixed chorus and Piano reduction accompaniment. Latin sung text with separate translations into Italian English German and French.