SKU: BA.BA07787
ISBN 9790006506996. 34 x 28.2 cm inches. Language: German. Text: Härtling, Peter.
For many, the title will awaken memories of the demonstrations against the clearance of the Flörsheim Forest to allow for a new runway at the Frankfurt Airport. Both the poem, which extends beyond this local incident to remind us of the seriousness of our global situation, and the music join together to form an expressive, universally valid call for the conservation of our core values, our future together: “Die Erde jedoch wird sich wehren. Sie wird uns, am Ende, nichts mehr geben als den Staub, in dem wir aufgehn.†(The earth, however, will resist. She will, in the end, not give us any more than dust, into which we will submerge.) It is up to us, to prevent the situation from advancing so far: “Wir, die wir zu ihren Schülern wurden, sollten die Lehre der Bäume verbreiten.†(We, the students, should spread the teachings of the trees.â€
SKU: SU.91570030
Medium Voice, Piano Duration 3' Version also available for tenor Published by: Subito Music Publishing Performed by Gino Quilico on the CD Steven Mercurio: Many Voices.
SKU: HL.51481639
UPC: 196288215851. 8.25x11.75x0.074 inches.
Gounod had no qualms about arranging well-known works by earlier masters after his own fashion. Thus in 1852 he added a melody with its own operatic climax to the famous arpeggios of the C-major Prelude BWV 846 from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. He first published instrumental versions of it under the title âMéditationâ, then tried fitting various texts to the melody until in 1859 he arrived at the definitive vocal version using the text of the Ave Maria. Already by the 1890s it was claimed that â[we] have heard this sweet melody innumerable times from the best lady singersâ, and its popularity has continued to the present day. Reason enough, then, for Henle Verlag to publish an Urtext edition of this worldwide hit, based on the sources and with appropriate critical commentary. In 1859, at the same time as the original edition for high voice, editions for middle and low voice, presumably commissioned by the publishers, were also issued. Following this model, the Henle Urtext edition of âAve Mariaâ is also offered in two transpositions for the lower register.
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SKU: HL.50600452
ISBN 9781495054549. UPC: 888680103217. 9.0x12.0x0.087 inches.
These handy CDs provide diction lessons along with professionally-recorded accompaniments to each piece in the matching folios of the same name.
