SKU: HL.48024665

ISBN 9781540058003. UPC: 888680951535.

Jacques Offenbach's more than 100 stage works are an endless treasure trove of vocal highlights with highly different musical moods and lyrical themes. To mark the 200th birthday of the great composer in 2019, which is at the same time the year of the 20th anniversary of the Offenbach Edition Keck OEK, the editor and Offenbach expert Jean-Christophe Keck has assembled a selection of arias. The four-part collection arranged according to voice category shows a rather unknown, romantic side of Offenbach. Apart from rediscovered works and first editions, however, the collection is not complete without some of his unrivalled hits. This volume shows that the composer especially liked to entrust the tenors with tender, sentimental numbers. But the melancholy is not always as genuine as that of the involuntary jester from the opera comique of the same name (here represented by the well-known Ballad to the Moon): Characters like Pluto, Paris or Robinson Crusoe know how to use their melodious voices with quite some ulteriormotive to achieve their goal. The character Frantz, traumatized by war, from the grand opera Les Fees du Rhin, however, is one of Offenbach's few deeply tragic figures. Romantic Offenbach is aimed at fully trained and budding professionals as well as at Offenbach fans of every shade and colour, providing repertoire pieces for recitals, studies or private music-making.

SKU: HL.48023981

Curriculum vitae. Monumetum pro Ingeborg Bachmann was written in 2005 as a commission from the Haydn-Trio Eisenstadt for the project Bachmann set to music in honor of the 80th birthday of the important Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973).

SKU: HL.48025288

ISBN 9783793144106. UPC: 196288172123. 9.0x12.0x0.088 inches.

Grand Rag is part of a project in which 67 composers each composed a piece for solo musicians of ANAM (Australian National Academy of Music) in 2021. Elena Kats-Chernin wrote her piece in close collaboration with clarinettist Oliver Crofts for his creative and virtuoso skills. As in many of her ragtimes, the composer is interested in powerful expression and working with a limited tonal material. The clarinet part alternates between low and high registers in various sections. The piano is an equal partner, with clusters and clashing rhythms, pedal points as well as an unusual trill fantasy.

SKU: HL.48024275

9.0x12.0x0.052 inches.

Selber kundiger Chordirigent, erzielte Hans Chemin-Petit mit Kompositionen fur Vokalensemble seine grossten Erfolge. Neben grossformatigen ernsten Werken, vor allem auf biblische Texte, schuf er auch originelle Gelegenheitsstucke zu diesen zahlen auch diese drei Kleinigkeiten, wie der Titel zu ubersetzen ware. Jedes stellt rein gesanglich einen eigentlich instrumentalen Satztypusdar, wobei die Stimmen sich lautmalerischer Silben bedienen: Bom-bim-bom, la-la-la geht hier der Walzer, Bang! Bang! Ah! Oluejah! das Nachtstuck und Tatike-ta die Gigue. Geistreiche Schmankerln, gut geeignet als Konzertzugabe, doch auch der vom Komponisten verwendete Untertitel Studien hat seine Berechtigung und fordert zur Ubung in Polyphonie und Rhythmus auf.

SKU: BT.SCHBB5500235