SKU: HL.48187929
Jolas D'un Opera De Voyage Ensemble D'instruments Orchestra Full Score.
SKU: PR.816600040
UPC: 680160600045. 5.5x5 inches.
This disk contains study scores of all 41 of Mozart's Symphonies, as well as Concertos for Winds and Strings (Piano Concertos are on a companion CD-ROM), Serenades, Opera Overtures, Divertimentos, and other works.
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SKU: HH.HH575-FSC
ISBN 9790708185901.
Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800) was one of the most significant figures in Italian and French opera during the second half of the 18th century. His Diane et Endymion, a three-act tragédie lyrique based on the mythological tale of love between a goddess and a shepherd, was first performed in Paris in 1784. The overture reveals the composer’s mastery in capturing both the grandeur and intimacy of the drama. After a stately introduction, graceful melodies and lively contrasting sections with vibrant orchestration set the tone for an enchanting and emotional musical journey.
SKU: HH.HH575-IPT
ISBN 9790708185918.
SKU: BT.DVPF-21650
Italian.
SKU: HL.50600758
UPC: 888680659073. 9.0x12.0x0.837 inches.
Composed between 1927-1928 and based on Nikolai Gogol's story 'The Nose'.
SKU: HL.1189996
ISBN 9781705192443. UPC: 196288131649.
“Based on the motion picture A Wedding by Robert Altman and John Considine, premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman....there is no reason to resist this rarest of creations: a meaningful American comic opera.†-Mark Swed, LA Times.
SKU: BT.ALHE31215
French.
This edition of Les Biches by Francis Poulenc features the score for the whole Orchestra. Initially written as Ballet, it was revised as a suite for Orchestra in the 1940s. This piece has a light style, considered _x001A_beautiful andmelancholic_x001A_ by Jean Cocteau. Lasting 15 minutes 30 seconds, it is divided into five parts: 1. Rondeau 2. Adagietto 3. Rag-Mazurka 4. Andantino 5. Finale Francis Poulenc is French composer and pianist. He also producedPiano and Chamber pieces, Operas, ballets as well as some Orchestral works.
SKU: AP.43844
UPC: 038081497365. English.
The violins carry the duet lines all while in 1st position while the other sections have challenging arpeggios creating a beautiful string transcription that is very close to the original. Perfect to expand students' understanding of opera! (3:45).
SKU: BR.PB-5548-07
ISBN 9790004213582. 6.5 x 9 inches.
The Overture to Hermann and Dorothea is the only compositional result that Schumann reaped from Goethes epic poem. He had originally planned an entire opera, then a Singspiel, and finally an oratorio. In the end (1851), he quickly produced an orchestral score that remained unprinted during his lifetime. The striking thematic use of the Marseillaise is multiply motivated: Goethes poem unfolds in 1796, when the two eponymous lovers are fleeing from the French revolutionary troops; Schumann had directly experienced the revolutionary uprisings of 1848 in Dresden; finally, Louis Napoleons coup detat of 2 December 1851 must also have made an impact on the composer. The primary source of the Urtext edition of Schumanns Revolutionary Overture is the carefully written autograph.Urtext of the Revolutionary.
SKU: BT.ALHE33743
Operetta in one act composer in 1878-79.
SKU: HL.14028646
ISBN 9780853609629. 8.25x11.75x0.113 inches.
Opus 68a; Overture to the opera The Palace (1994). The libretto (by Irene Dische and Hans Magnus Enzenberger) is strongly influenced by Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and it alludes to the original Bretzner/Stephanie text as wellas the book King of The Kings by Ryszard Kapuscinski which tells of the downfall of Haile Selassie's court in Ethiopia. Facsimile Study Score. Duration 6-7mins. Orchestration: 2.2.2.2 4.2.2.1 Timpani, 2 Percussion, Harp, Strings.
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: BR.PB-5092-07
ISBN 9790004208434. 5.5 x 7.5 inches.
Die Aufzahlung von Schumanns Opernplanen gleicht einem abenteuerlichen Streifzug quer durch die Literaturgeschichte. Seinem ,,Haushaltbuch II, einer Art Tagebuch, konnen wir entnehmen, dass er sich am 28.Juni 1844 plotzlichmit dem ,,Corsar von Byron befasste. Schumann war zunachst von dem Stoff so begeistert, dass er sofort mit der Komposition begann, noch ehe der Plan wirklich ausgereift war, aber schon einen Monat spater wandte er sich einer anderen Arbeit zu, namlich den Faust-Szenen, die ihn bis 1853 beschaftigen sollten.Von einer Ouverture ist nichts bekannt, ein einleitender ,,Chor der Corsaren, in dem diese - mit ihren Frauen, denn es ist ein gemischter Chor! - in enger textlicher Anlehnung an den Anfang des Byronschen Versepos ihr wildes, ungebundenes Leben auf dem Meer besingen, wurde in vollstandiger Partitur niedergeschrieben. Ihm schliesst sich, ebenfalls vollstandig instrumentiert, ein Nachspiel an, das durch seine zauberhafte romantische Stimmung gefangennimmt. Ein c-uroll Akkord schlagt die harmonische Brucke zur Nr. 2 (Arie des Conrad), die in B-dur steht und mit den fur Schumann so typischen punktierten Figuren den Titelhelden als Kampfernatur zu charakterisieren sucht. Doch schon nach 5 Takten bricht die Partitur ab, von der Singstimme sind noch weitere 6 Takte, am Schluss ohne Text, niedergeschrieben.Die Urauffuhrung fand am 25. April 1981 im Rahmen eines konzertanten Opernabends mit dem Titel ,,Opernfragmente der Romantik im Badischen Staatstheater Karlsruhe statt.
SKU: BR.PB-5144
ISBN 9790004208885. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-4873
ISBN 9790004206706. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-4417
ISBN 9790004203316. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: RM.JOUB02855-BA
ISBN 9790231028553.
SKU: RM.JOUB02855-CO
SKU: BA.BA06861
ISBN 9790260104211. 34.3 x 27 cm inches.
LeoÅ¡ Janácek’s symphonic fragment Dunaj (The Danube) dates from the period of the composition of “Katya Kabanovaâ€. The composer was not concerned with a musical-picturesque description of a river landscape, but with the mythical link between women’s destinies and water.“Pale green waves of the Danube! There are so many of you, and one followed by another. You remain interlocked in a continuous flow. You surprise yourselves where you ended up – on the Czech shores! Look back downstream and you will have an impression of what you have left behind in your haste. It pleases you here. Here I will rest with my symphony.†Thus LeoÅ¡ Janácek described the idea behind the composition project which occupied him in 1923/24. However, after further work, it remained incomplete in 1926. His “symphony†entitled Dunaj has survived as a continuously-notated, four-movement bundle of sketches in score form. It is one of the works which occupied him until his death. The scholarly reconstruction by the two Brno composers MiloÅ¡ Å tedron and LeoÅ¡ Faltus closely follows the original manuscript.A whole conglomeration of motifs stands behind the incomplete work. What at first seems like a counterpart to Smetana’s Vltava, in fact doesn’t turn out to be a musical depiction of the Danube. On the contrary, the fateful link between the destiny of women, water and death permeates the range of motifs found in the work. It seems to be no coincidence that Janácek, whilst working on the opera Katya Kabanova, in which the Volga, as the river bringing death plays an almost mythical role, planned a Danube symphony, and that its content was linked with the destiny of women: in the sketches, two poems were found which may have provided the stimulus for several movements of the symphony. He copied a poem by Pavla Kriciková into the second movement, in which a girl remarks that whilst bathing in a pond, she was observed by a man. Filled with shame, the young naked woman jumps into the water and drowns. The outer movements likewise draw on the poem “Lola†by the Czech writer Sonja Å pálová, published under the pseudonym Alexander Insarov. This is about a prostitute who asks for her heart’s desire: she is given a palace, but then goes on a long search for it and is finally no longer wanted by anyone. She suffers, feels cold and just wants a warm fire. Janácek adds his remark “she jumps into the Danube†to the inconclusive ending.To these tangible literary models is added Adolf Veselý’s verbal account which reports that the composer wanted to portray “in the Danube, the female sex with all its passions and driving forcesâ€. The third movement is said to characterise the city of Vienna in the form of a woman.It is evident that in his composition, Janácek was not striving for a simple, natural lyricism. The River Danube is masculine in the Slavic language – “ten Dunaj†– and assumes an almost mythical significance in the national character, indeed often also a role bringing death. The four movements are motivically conceived. Elements of sound painting, small wave-like figures in the first movement, motoric, driving movements in the third are obvious evocations of water. And the content and the literary level are easy to discover. The “tremolo of the four timpaniâ€, which was amongst Janácek’s first inspirations, appears in the second movement. It is not difficult to retrace in it the fate of the drowning bather. The oboe enters lamentoso towards the end of the movement over timpani playing tremolo, its descending figure is taken over by the flute, then upper strings and intensified considerably. The motif of drowning – Lola’s despair – returns again in the fourth movement in the clarinet, before the work ends abruptly and dramatically.One special effect is the use of a soprano voice in the motor-driven third movement. The singer vocalises mainly in parallel with the solo oboe, but also in dialogue with other parts such as the viola d’amore, which Janácek used in several late works as a sort of “voice of loveâ€.
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SKU: HL.48187533
UPC: 888680843779. 6x8.25 inches.
“This edition of Les Biches by Francis Poulenc features the score for the whole Orchestra. Initially written as Ballet, it was revised as a suite for Orchestra in the 1940s. This piece has a light style, considered 'beautiful and melancholic' by Jean Cocteau. Lasting 15 minutes 30 seconds, it is divided into five parts: 1. Rondeau 2. Adagietto 3. Rag-Mazurka 4. Andantino 5. Finale Francis Poulenc is French composer and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces, Operas, ballets as well as some Orchestral works.&rdquo.
SKU: FG.55011-444-9
ISBN 9790550114449.
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) was one of Finland's internationally most successful composers. He made his major breakthrough with the Symphony No. 7, Angel of Light, in the 1990s, but his output includes numerous classic operas, concertos, chamber music and choral works. Over his extensive career, he progressed from Neo-Classicism to strict dodecaphony to free-tonal Neo-Romanticism, combining modernism with mystical romanticism in his later works. According to the composer, the role of the composer is to be mediator, a midwife, who helps the music become alive on its own terms; Listen to what the music wants to tell you, he told his composition students, sense where it wants to go. Rautavaara rose to great international fame with the success of his Symphony No. 7, Angel of Light (1995) powered by the prize-winning recording (Helsinki Philharmonic, Segerstam, Ondine label) later the same year. Many high-profile international commissions followed, creating yet more prize-winning recordings. To mark the 25th anniversary of the work's premiere - in its original form as the Bloomington Symphony - by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Pickett, Fennica Gehrman is publishing an entirely new edition of the symphony based on all available sources, including the composer's manuscript and his markings in various printed scores. This is a large-sized conductor score with extensive analysis of the work and its genesis.
SKU: HL.49047172
UPC: 196288143406.
When the 24-year-old Richard Strauss, assistant conductor in Munich, began the composition of his third tone poem in the summer of 1888, he saw himself close to the aspiration prescribed by his mentor Alexander Ritter: to become the successor of Richard Wagner as a musical dramatist. Strauss had already been working on the text of his first opera Guntram for a year and additionally devoted himself to programmatic orchestral works oriented to the musical language of Liszt and Wagner in order to prepare himself compositionally for his new task. With the aid of Strauss and other musicians including Ludwig Thuille and Friedrich Rösch who had been gathering for “Ritter's round table†in Munich between 1886 and 1889, RitterÂ’s intention was to achieve success on a broad front with the New German School following the death of its two protagonists Wagner and Liszt. We do not know whether Ritter and his supporters jointly planned Strauss's compositional path towards opera, determined the subjectsof his prospective tone poems and considered various strategies of their musical realization, but the influence of this group shouldnot be underestimated. It cannot be ruled out that the number of three tone poems was fixed, as was their sequence of composition, which would progressively achieve its zenith in an increasing orientation to Liszt and Wagner. The circle could possibly have also discussed initial links to literary subjects (Macbeth and Don Juan) and ultimately the abstention from this practice in the third and final tone poem. The subject of the work, or rather in StraussÂ’s formulation its “poetic modelâ€, has occasionally been interpreted from an autobiographical aspect. Strauss however did not experience serious illness until May 1891 and once more in June 1892, long after Tod und Verklärung had been composed. Even without an external reason, the material would have been only too attractive for an admirer of Wagner and Liszt like Strauss, not to mention for his mentor Alexander Ritter. The concept of 'death and transfiguration' had already played a central role in LisztÂ’s symphonic poems Tasso and Prometheus.
SKU: HL.49028919
ISBN 9790001028264.
SKU: HL.283507
Exit Music for Orchestra was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2006-07. Exit Music was commissioned by the Bergen International Festival for the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and is dedicated to Per Norgard on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Programme note It began with a dream, as it always does when I compose. I dreamt that I was standing in an open doorway on a hill in an otherwise open landscape. I do not know what was behind the door, but in front of it - towards the landscape - I saw my music disappearing. I stood looking for the music, and started to hear it, to remember it in time with its disappearance. The dream continued to recur as strange pictures in my daydreams, and I continued to try to write down the music that had vanished. It was also the dream that gave the piece its title- Exit Music. Exit Music is based on three simple songs (the songs that vanish through the doorway): a little lullaby, which continues to reappearin fragments; a strange polyphonic pop song that refers to a section of my opera Under the Sky; and a passionate little love song, which concludes the piece on the strings, very quietly and in unison. These simple songs are then constantly overpainted by enervating repeated motes in fairly simple rhythms, which push the songs out of the room. (Bent Sorensen).
SKU: HL.14040288
Opera in 4 acts for Soprano, Alto, 2 Tenors, 2 Baritones, 2 Basses, chorus and orchestra. Vocal Score.
