Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Die 'Messa di Rimini', 1809 für die Kathedrale in Rimini geschrieben, zählt neben der 'Petite Messe solennelle', dem 'Stabat Mater' und der 'Messa di Gloria' zu Rossinis umfangreichen Beiträgen zur Musica sacra. Sie besteht aus großangelegten Chorsätzen und Arien für jeden der vier Solisten; Ensembles begegnen dagegen nur zweimal, im 'Domine Deus' [Duett] und im 'Et in terra pax' [Quartett]. Eine melodienreiche und klangschöne, eher kammermusikalische Komposition, noch ohne die für Rossini später so typischen ausladenden Koloraturen und 'Crescendowalzen'. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Die 'Messa di Rimini', 1809 für die Kathedrale in Rimini geschrieben, zählt neben der 'Petite Messe solennelle', dem 'Stabat Mater' und der 'Messa di Gloria' zu Rossinis umfangreichen Beiträgen zur Musica sacra. Sie besteht aus großangelegten Chorsätzen und Arien für jeden der vier Solisten; Ensembles begegnen dagegen nur zweimal, im 'Domine Deus' [Duett] und im 'Et in terra pax' [Quartett]. Eine melodienreiche und klangschöne, eher kammermusikalische Komposition, noch ohne die für Rossini später so typischen ausladenden Koloraturen und 'Crescendowalzen'. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Die 'Messa di Rimini', 1809 für die Kathedrale in Rimini geschrieben, zählt neben der 'Petite Messe solennelle', dem 'Stabat Mater' und der 'Messa di Gloria' zu Rossinis umfangreichen Beiträgen zur Musica sacra. Sie besteht aus großangelegten Chorsätzen und Arien für jeden der vier Solisten; Ensembles begegnen dagegen nur zweimal, im 'Domine Deus' [Duett] und im 'Et in terra pax' [Quartett]. Eine melodienreiche und klangschöne, eher kammermusikalische Komposition, noch ohne die für Rossini später so typischen ausladenden Koloraturen und 'Crescendowalzen'. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Die 'Messa di Rimini', 1809 für die Kathedrale in Rimini geschrieben, zählt neben der 'Petite Messe solennelle', dem 'Stabat Mater' und der 'Messa di Gloria' zu Rossinis umfangreichen Beiträgen zur Musica sacra. Sie besteht aus großangelegten Chorsätzen und Arien für jeden der vier Solisten; Ensembles begegnen dagegen nur zweimal, im 'Domine Deus' [Duett] und im 'Et in terra pax' [Quartett]. Eine melodienreiche und klangschöne, eher kammermusikalische Komposition, noch ohne die für Rossini später so typischen ausladenden Koloraturen und 'Crescendowalzen'. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Die 'Messa di Rimini', 1809 für die Kathedrale in Rimini geschrieben, zählt neben der 'Petite Messe solennelle', dem 'Stabat Mater' und der 'Messa di Gloria' zu Rossinis umfangreichen Beiträgen zur Musica sacra. Sie besteht aus großangelegten Chorsätzen und Arien für jeden der vier Solisten; Ensembles begegnen dagegen nur zweimal, im 'Domine Deus' [Duett] und im 'Et in terra pax' [Quartett]. Eine melodienreiche und klangschöne, eher kammermusikalische Komposition, noch ohne die für Rossini später so typischen ausladenden Koloraturen und 'Crescendowalzen'. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2

The ?Petite Messe Solennelle? is the finest work of Rossini?s late years. He composed it between 1863 and 1864 at the age of 71 as a commission for Countess Louise Pillet-Will for the consecration of her private chapel where the work received its first performance in March 1864. Together with the ?Stabat mater? the mass is one of the composer?s most important sacred works.The unusual instrumentation with two Pianos and Harmonium is entirely in keeping with the Neapolitan Keyboard tradition of the 18th century which was cultivated in France in Rossini?s day. It forms a distinct contrast to the style of large-scale sacred compositionsas written by for example Liszt and Bruckner. Rossini explained that he wrote the later Orchestral version of the work dating from 1867 out of concern that if he did not do this other composers might orchestrate the mass too heavily in later arrangements.The Piano reduction by Andreas Köhs is extremely idiomatic and largely preserves the charming character of the unusual instrumentation.- Based on the Urtext of the series ?Works of Gioachino Rossini?.- Foreword in two languages (Eng/Ger).- With a separate Harmonium part and one part for Pianos I and II.

The ?Petite Messe Solennelle? is the finest work of Rossini?s late years. He composed it between 1863 and 1864 at the age of 71 as a commission for Countess Louise Pillet-Will for the consecration of her private chapel where the work received its first performance in March 1864. Together with the ?Stabat mater? the mass is one of the composer?s most important sacred works.The unusual instrumentation with two Pianos and Harmonium is entirely in keeping with the Neapolitan Keyboard tradition of the 18th century which was cultivated in France in Rossini?s day. It forms a distinct contrast to the style of large-scale sacred compositionsas written by for example Liszt and Bruckner. Rossini explained that he wrote the later Orchestral version of the work dating from 1867 out of concern that if he did not do this other composers might orchestrate the mass too heavily in later arrangements.The Piano reduction by Andreas Köhs is extremely idiomatic and largely preserves the charming character of the unusual instrumentation.- Based on the Urtext of the series ?Works of Gioachino Rossini?.- Foreword in two languages (Eng/Ger).- With a separate Harmonium part and one part for Pianos I and II.

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Messen, lateinisch - Langue : Latin/ Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Messen, lateinisch - Langue : Latin/ Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB, 2 Hautbois, 2 Cors, 2

Oratorio in three parts-In quite characteristic fashion for the times Handel’s opera “Alessandro” looks at various episodes in the life and rule of Alexander the Great (356 323 BC). This legendary warrior and military commander conquered large parts of the world before meeting an untimely end at the age of 32. A central conflict in Handel’s opera is Alessandro being in love with two women Lisaura and Rossane who compete for his favour. In addition his claim to be of divine parentage is underlined occasioning him to demand the subservience of his followers which meets with vigorous disapproval.Handel composed “Alessandro” for the Royal Academyof Music to a libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli in the 1725/26 season. The work was premiered at the King’s Theatre in London on 5 May 1726. “Alessandro” was the first of five operas for the Royal Academy operas which saw Handel compose for three of the most famous singers of his time: Francesco Bernardi (called Senesino) Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.Ortensio Mauro’s libretto “La superbia d’Alessandro ” which was performed for the first time in Hanover in 1690 in a musical setting by Agostino Steffani and staged again in the city the following year under the title “Il zelo di Leonato” but with numerous alterations served as the source text for Handel’s “Alessandro”. One of the main aspects Rolli had to consider when preparing the libretto for the London performances was to keep the roles of the famous singers of the Royal Academy well balanced yet at the same time to engineer a musical contest between the prima donnas Cuzzoni and Bordoni (Lisaura and Rossane) as well. From a business point of view it made good sense for such rivalry would surely increase public interest in the opera.It is no longer possible to ascertain which changes Handel made during the following performance series of the 1727/28 season. For the performance series of 1732/33 Handel made substantial revisions to the opera: six numbers were deleted in their entirety the finale in part as well and the recitatives were made much shorter with the parts of Cleone and Leonato omitted

Jesu der du meine Seele BWV 78 (Jesu by Thy Cross and Passion)Cantata for the 14th Sunday after TrinityThe cantata Jesu der du meine Seele is one of the famous cycle of chorale cantatas which Bach wrote during the second year of his Leipzig appointment. It was probably performed for the first time on 10 September 1724 the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity in one of the principal Leipzig churches. The text is based on Johann Rist’s at that time widely known hymn of 1641. As in most of the cantatas of this cycle the corner-stones are provided by the first and last verses which appear in an unaltered form; whereas the middle verses were freely remodelled as ariasand recitatives.Urtext of the New Bach EditionPerformance material (BA10078) vocal score (BA10078-90) & study score format 22.5 x 16.5cm (TP1078) available for sale

Opera in three acts. Par STRAWINSKY IGOR. 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 Rake?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. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Solistes, Choeur et Orchestre

The first page of the autograph of the Mass K.49 (47d) bears below the author’s name the crossed-out (autograph?) suffix “in Wien” (“in Vienna”). “1768” and “in Wien” have been added by two other unidentified eighteenth-century hands.Mozart’s handwriting and the paper quality appear to verify this information. Moreover Mozart sketched the draft of the Gloria (measures 1 to 18) on a piece of paper the reverse side of which his father had used undoubtedly before that for the fair copy of the piano score of aria no. 11 from Bastien et Bastienne K. 50 (46). In Leopold Mozart’s list of works composed byWolfgang up to 1768 “Eine kleinere Messe a 4 vocibus 2 Violinis &c” (“a small Mass with 4 voices 2 violins etc.”) appears as the penultimate entry; the year 1768 was added by Mozart’s sister. Although the obbligato viola is not mentioned there this comnposition is surely the Mass K.49.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score performance material (BA4769) and vocal score (BA4769-90) available for sale.

The first page of the autograph of the Mass K.49 (47d) bears below the author’s name the crossed-out (autograph?) suffix “in Wien” (“in Vienna”). “1768” and “in Wien” have been added by two other unidentified eighteenth-century hands.Mozart’s handwriting and the paper quality appear to verify this information. Moreover Mozart sketched the draft of the Gloria (measures 1 to 18) on a piece of paper the reverse side of which his father had used undoubtedly before that for the fair copy of the piano score of aria no. 11 from Bastien et Bastienne K. 50 (46). In Leopold Mozart’s list of works composed byWolfgang up to 1768 “Eine kleinere Messe a 4 vocibus 2 Violinis &c” (“a small Mass with 4 voices 2 violins etc.”) appears as the penultimate entry; the year 1768 was added by Mozart’s sister. Although the obbligato viola is not mentioned there this comnposition is surely the Mass K.49.- Urtext of the New Mozart Edition- Full score performance material (BA4769) and vocal score (BA4769-90) available for sale.