Rodelinda Regina de' Longobardi HWV 19; Opera in three acts.After Giulio Cesare and Tamerlano Rodelinda is the third masterly opera that Handel composed between December 1723 and January 1725. The words were written by Nicola Haym the author of many other Handel librettos. The first performance took place at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket London on 13 February 1725. Rodelinda thrives entirely on the ethical supremacy of conjugal love and thus prefigures the great operas by Gluck and Beethoven on the same subject. The plot is taken from the history of the Lombard royalty. Oskar Hagen’s revival of Rodelinda in 1920 ushered in the modern Handel operamovement.The work forms the climax to a series of dramatic masterpieces that includes Handel’s most significant operas. Handel returned to Rodelinda on two occasions in December 1725 and in May 1731. Many far-reaching changes were necessary owing to the different skills of the new singers. For example Handel wrote three new arias and a duet for the first revival. Yet the changes he made for this performance doubtless to accommodate the needs and wishes of the singers also improve the work’s dramatic substance.Our vocal score is based on the Urtext of the full score published in the Halle Handel Edition (II/16) and reproduces the various alternative readings and versions in an appendix.Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition.Full score (BA4064) & vocal score (BA4064-90) available for sale.Performance material (BA4064-72) available for hire

Par WEILL KURT. Trois Chansons by Kurt Weill is a set of three French songs for Voice and Piano. The lyrics have been written by Maurice Magre and Roger Fernay and the general level of difficulty is medium. The first piece, Complainte de la Seine (Complains of the Seine), is three page long and its lyrics are about what lies at the bottom of the river. The second song, Je ne t'aime pas (I don't love you), is a man telling someone that he doesn't love her, that everything is fine and that he is fine if she is happy. The third piece, Youkali is a highly rhythmic tango-habanera in fourpages, which depicts the island of Youkali. Kurt Weill (1900-1950) is a German composer who developed operas and some works for the concert hall./ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Description All 54 songs from 'Die Schone Mullerin', 'Die Winterreise' and 'Schwanengesang'. Breitkopf & Hortel edition. Songlist [Unknown] Abschied. Rellstab. Ade! Du Muntre, Du Frohliche Stadt Am Feierabend. Hatt Ich Trausend Arme Zu Ruhren Am Meer. Heine. Das Meer Erglanzte Weit Hinaus Auf Dem Flusse. Der Du Do Lustig Rauschtest Aufenthalt. Rellstab. Rauschender Strom, Brausender Wald Danksagung An Den Bach. War Es Also Gemeint Das Fischermadchen. Heine. Du Schones Fischermachen Das Wandern. Das Wandern Ist Des Mullers Lust Das Wirthshaus. Auf Einen Todtenacker Hat Mich Mein Weg Gebracht Der Atlas. Heine. Ich Unglucksel'ger Atlas Der Doppelganger. Heine. Still Ist Die Nacht, Es Ruhen Die Gassen Der Greise Kopf. Der Reif Hat Einen Weissen Schein Der Jager. Was Sucht Denn Der Jager Am Muhlbach Hier Der Leiermann. Druben Hinterm Dorfe. (First Version) Der Leiermann. Druben Hinterm Dorfe. (Later Version) Der Lindenbaum. Am Brunnen Vor Dem Thore Der Muller Und Der Bach. Wo Ein Treues Herze In Liebe Vergeht Der Neugierige. Ich Schnitt' Es Gern In Alle Rinden Ein Der Sturmische Morgen. Wie Hat Der Sturm Zerrissen Der Wegweiser. Was Vermeid' Ich Denn Die Wege Des Baches Wiegenlied. Gute Ruh, Gute Ruh, Thu Die Augen Zu Des Mullers Blumen. Am Bach Viel Kleine Blumen Steh'n Die Bose Farbe. Ich Mochte Ziehn In Die Sie Mir Gab Die Krahe. Eine Krahe War Mit Mir Die Liebe Farbe. In Grun Will Ich Mich Kleiden Die Nebensonnen. Drei Sonnen Sah Ich Am Himmel Steh'n Die Post. Von Der Strasse Her Ein Posthorn Klingt Die Schone Mullerin. Miller: Die Stadt. Heine. Am Fernen Horizonte Die Taubenpost. Seidl. Ich Hab' Eine Brieftaub' In Meinem Sold Die Wetterfahne. Der Wind Spielt Mit Der Wetter-fahne Die Winterreise. Muller: Eifersucht Und Stolz. Wohin So Schnell, So Kraus Und Wild Einsamkeit. Wie Eine Trube Wolke. (First Version) Einsamkeit. Wie Eine Trube Wolke. (Later Version) Erstarrung. Ich Such' Im Schnee Vergebens First Section: Fruhkingssehnsucht. Rellstab. Sauselnde Lufte, Wehend So Mild Fruhlingsraum. Ich Traumte Von Bunten Blumen Gefror'ne Thranen. Gefror'ne Tropfen Fallen Gute Nacht. Fremd Bin Ich Eingezogen Halt! Eine Muhle She' Ich Blinken Ihr Bild. Heine. Ich Stand In Dunklen Traumen Im Dorfe. Es Bellen Die Hunde, Es Rasseln Die Ketten In Der Ferne. Rellstab. Wehe Dem Fliehenden Welt Hinaus Ziehenden Irrlicht. In Die Tiefsten Felsengrunde Kriegers Ahnung. Rellstab. In Tiefer Ruh Liegt Um Mich Her Letzte Hoffnung. Hie Und Da Ist An Den Baumen Liebesbotschaft. Rellstab. Rauschendes Bachlein, So Silbern Und Hell Mein! Bachlein, Lass Dein Rauschen Sein Mit Dem Grunen Lautenbande. Schad' Um Das Schone, Grune Band Morgengruss. Guten Morgen, Schone Mullerin Muth. Fliegt Der Schnee Mir Ins Gesicht Pause. Mein Laute Hab' Ich Gehangt An Die Wand Rast. Nun Merk' Ich Erst, Wie Mud' Ich Bin. (First Version) Rast. Nun Merk' Ich Erst, Wie Mud' Ich Bin. (Later Version) Ruckblick. Es Brennt Mir Unter Beiden Sohlen Schwanengesang: Second Section: So Traulich Beisammen Standchen. Rellstab. Leise Flehen Meine Lieber Tauschung. Ein Licht Tanzt Freundlich Vor Mir Her Thrananregen. Wir Sassen Wasserfluth. Manche Thran Aus Meinen Augen Wohin? Ich Hort Ein Bachlein Rauschen

Although almost unanimously condemned by contemporary Parisian critics for its overt sexuality and graphic final scene Carmen ultimately reached the public in a way that perhaps no other opera has. Bizet's aim (with Meilhac and Halevy who wrote the libretto) had been to transform the flaccid moralistic bourgeois genre of opéra comique into a more sophisticated type of staged work and he seems to have suceeded in Carmen. Each character has a musical significance and a unique expressive idiom the ultimate example being the dangerous exotic sensual Carmen herself depicted by an exotic and sinewy chromatic motive that also implies the insurmountable power of fate. Ina classic plot device she is contrasted with the 'good girl' of the opera Micaela whose main aria is set in the ternary form of the elevated bel canto French Grand Opera aria to imply her traditionally 'ladylike' retiring nature. Don José's musical styles reflect different levels in his descent from dutiful soldier to the underworld of obsession. This is the Schirmer edition of the Vocal Score with an English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

Bizet’s opera Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) is an exquisite combination of emotional turmoil and pervasive sadness containing a ceaselessly seductive score. Taken from the opera Au Fond Du Temple Saint is one of the most famous arias ever written for tenor and baritone voice and is available here with a piano accompaniment.The libretto for the opera was written in French by Eugene Cormon and Michel Carre. This edition has been edited by Roger Nichols and contains a preface critical commentary and the Duet text which has been translated into English and German. Note that the text written in the score is in French only.

Elgar was pre-eminently the composer of large forms. Complex, lengthy development of musical ideas was for him a measure of genius. His songs, with the exception of the orchestral cycle Sea Pictures , were not often the vehicles for his most striking ideas. Paradoxically, he was also bedevilled by a fine literally taste. He once told a friend that he felt it better to set the best second-rate poetry to music, for the most immortal verse is music already. Some of his songs are therefore settings of poets now all but forgotten, such as Arthur Salmon and Gilbert Parker: to their verse his music might make a vital addition. Elgar's songs offer authentic Edwardian reflections which we can value now in their own terms. These songs are full of echoes of a master's thoughts - and especially in the songs written for the stage - flashes of his genius. / Chant Et Piano

Inspired by texts by Polish poets contemporary to Chopin, improvised ?with the book of poetry in front of him? at emgirants' meetings, unfinished, some noted only in sketch form, never pblished during the composer's lifetime, though some instantly gained huge popularity in the form of reductions. In Chopin's creative output they hold a marginal position, among Polish songs ? they are outstanding. These works were edited by by I. J. Paderewski, L. Bronarski and J. Turczy?ski.

Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Amongst Rameau?s stage works which have come down to us in two main versions, such as ?Dardanus? (1739, 1744), ?Platée? (1745, 1749) and ?Zoroastre? (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long a period as ?Castor et Pollux?. After the work had been premiered in 1737, not until 1754 did Rameau decide to revise it. He asked his librettist ?Gentil-Bernard? to add an act to the tragedy and to give more weight to the brotherly friendship between Castor and Pollux. The main plot remains very similar to the one of 1737, aside from the fact that the sisters Télaïre and Phébé no longer are in love - the one with Castor the other with Pollux - but rather both with Castor which is the reason why Phébé is jealous of Télaïre. Already at the beginning of the first act Pollux relinquishes his love of Télaïre to the benefit of Castor. Castor, however, is killed by Linceus and finds himself in Hades. Pollux commits to saving his brother, sacrifices his immortality and declares his willingness to take Castor?s place in Hades so that his brother and Télaïre may be reunited. Jupiter, moved by this sacrifice, frees Pollux and bestows the couple immortality by giving them a place in the zodiac. Following the editorial principles of the ?Opera omnia Rameau? (and in contrast to the 1903 edition by August Chapuis issued within the old Rameau series), both versions of ?Castor et Pollux?, the version of 1737 (OOR IV.3) and the present version of 1754 (OOR IV.23), are published in two separate volumes in their entirety. Owing to the discovery of the original performance material, today preserved at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, the second version of 1754, which up until today was in the shadow of the 1737 version, can now be presented with its more tightly woven plot in all its vigor and dramatic momentum. This edition is enriched with twelve additions which enable the performance of the 1763-1764 version when the work was restaged. / Date parution : 2023-06-16/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Ed. critica A. Borin - A. Moccia - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte. With Il Teuzzone, RV 736, the collected edition of operas by Antonio Vivaldi gains a new volume that brings to completion the pair of operas written by the ?Red Priest? for Mantua. Premiered during the last days of 1718, the opera preceded by a few months the production of Tito Manlio, RV 738 (PR 1411). This edition of Teuzzone, the first in modern times, is based on the two complete sources to have survived: a copy originating from the composer?s own archive (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino, Raccolta Mauro Foà 33) and the one today housed in Berlin (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ? Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, N. Mus, ms. 125), which was made for the Mantuan production. Additionally, numerous secondary sources have been collated. An appendix to the volume contains the musical materials discarded by Vivaldi during the period preceding the opera?s premiere. The supporting texts for the edition report on new findings that have emerged from archival and documentary research. It has been established, for instance, that the aria Tu, mio vezzoso (I.03) is a borrowing from Alessandro Severo by Antonio Lotti, while the aria Tornerò, pupille belle (II.02) is a reworking of Nelle mie selve natie, an aria in Scanderbeg, RV 732. These examples reveal the pasticcio-like nature of this Vivaldi opera. In the section concerned with the description of the sources, which includes a meticulous codicological examination of the source in Turin, a bold attempt has been made to reconstruct the phases that the composition of Vivaldi?s opera underwent, an operation that sheds light on the inner workings of Vivaldi?s atelier. In addition, the close relationship of this score to a work with the same title staged in Turin with music by G. Casanova and A. S. Fiorè is analysed.

The Lieder Anthology. 65 Songs by 13 Composers. This edition presents 65 diverse songs by major composers of German art song, or lieder, and is the perfect one-volume lieder source for voice students. All the songs are new Vocal Library editions. Historical notes about the relevant history and background of each song are included, as are line-by-line translations for study. A select committee of experienced voice teachers was consulted to choose the most essential and vocally instructive songs in compiling this collection. Composers represented: Beethoven, Brahms, Franz, Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler, Fanny Hensel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Strauss, Wolf. Co-editor Dr. Virginia Saya, on the faculty of Loyola Marymount University, is a musicologist with a special interest in lieder. This collection includes the first American edition of Funf Ophelia Lieder by Brahms. 288 pages, sewn binding.