Arr. Johan de Meij. Par HOLST GUSTAV. / Niveau : 2 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Arr. Johan de Meij. Par HOLST GUSTAV. / Niveau : 2 / Pièce de concert / Répertoire / Fanfare

Par MAHLER GUSTAV. Em Pianoehlungen: Chormusik der Romantik - Literaturem Pianoehlung - Gattungen: Weltliche Chorsätze -/ Répertoire / Voix

This volume comprises some of Gustav Mahler?s most significant and intimate work featuring authoritative editions of his orchestral settings of five poems by Friedrich Rückert and two songs to texts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy?s Miraculous Horn). Contents include songs to Rückert?s ?Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder? (Look not love on my work unended!); ?Ich atmet? einen linden Duft? (I breathed the breath of blossoms red); ?Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen? (O garish world long since thou hast lost me); ?Liebst du um Schönheit? (Lovst thou but beauty); and ?Um Mitternacht? (At midnighthour). From the Wunderhorn texts a rich source of poetic materials that occupied Mahler for fourteen years- come ?Der Tamboursg?sell? (The drummer-boy) and ?Revelge? (The dead drummer). English versions of all seven songs by John Bernhoff are included in the front matter of this publication. Original Dover (2002) compilation of seven songs published separately in authoritative early editions.

Gustav Holst's beautiful melody serves as the foundation from which Robert W. Smith fashions this remarkable work. From a haunting single voice a stunning climax is reached before giving way to a simple restatement. This is a highly moving emotion-packed work for concert band.

Xylophon Solo. Par PETER GUSTAV. Xylophon Solo / Niveau : 3 / Répertoire / Xylophone et Concert Band ou Harmonie

New Critical Edition – Octavo Score/ Kritische Neuausgabe 2002-New Critical Edition Octavo Score for Mahler's Symphony No.5. Published by the International Gustav Mahler Society Vienna

The traditional Hampshire folksong arranged for male voices by Gustav Holst. A Piano part is provided for rehearsal purposes only.

Par MAHLER GUSTAV. The Song of the Earth , composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler’s best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the very end, Mahler continued to refine the extremely differentiated instrumentation, as is evident in numerous retouchings in the autograph score and engraver’s model. It is therefore all the more regrettable that he was neither able to perform his “Symphony in Songs” himself nor that he was involved in its printing. Unfortunately, in the posthumously published first edition of 1912 and the subsequent editions edited by Erwin Ratz and Karl Heinz Füssl, many questions remained unanswered, while other were answered in a dubious way. The edition is the first text-critical one of the work on a scientifically sound basis. It offers not only a more reliable musical text, but also systematically and lucidly prepared information on the sources, their transmission and evaluation. All editorial decisions have been documented in a transparently comprehensible manner – in particular those leading to new audible results. Work-related notes on performance practice, which for the first time include Mahler’s conducting indications, offer valuable, indispensable interpretive aids. In addition to the regular five clarinet parts, the set of parts includes two additional parts (3rd clarinet/E b clarinet, bass clarinet/3rd clarinet in places where the latter plays E b clarinet) to allow performances with only four clarinets. The completely revised piano reduction reproduces the orchestral texture true to the score without losing sight of playability. Both Mahler’s piano autograph and the piano reduction by Wöss, which was commissioned by the composer himself, served as an inspiration for this. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Répertoire / Soli [AT] et Orchestre

Christina Rossetti wrote the words to this famous Christmas carol in 1872 in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem. They were set to music by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) for inclusion in the first edition (1906) of The English Hymnal edited by his life-long friend Ralph Vaughan Williams. Philip Sparke has carefully arranged the beautiful melody into this delightful version for concert band. A must for any Christmas concert.

Symphonie der Tausend-Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 is a work of exceptions. Seen from the outside this is true of the forces that are used: with its three choirs eight soloists and an orchestra of far more than one hundred musicians there are few similar works in the annals of music. This cast of performers determines the second exceptional element of the work the mix of instrumental and vocal characteristics that makes it to the prototype of a 'vocal symphony' which - as Mahler put it - 'is sung from beginning to end'. In turn the texts that are sung influence the structure of the whole replacing as it were the usual four movements of a symphony with twostrongly divergent 'parts'. And finally as if to emphasize this divergence the texts used - the hymn Veni creator spiritus in the first part and the final scene of Goethe's Faust in the second - are not only written in two languages but also separated in their origins by more than one thousand years. Thus it is a work of extremes and a work of contradiction. It seems however that it was exactly these distinctive features that lifted the symphony above the others and convinced Mahler that his Symphony No. 8 was 'the greatest' work 'that I have composed'. It is an understandable coincidence that he thus raised Symphony No. 8 to the same rank within his oeuvre as Goethe who claimed that the drama was his 'Hauptgeschäft' [main work] did with Faust. Even after composing his late works Mahler retained his belief that Symphony No. 8 was his 'opus summum'. (Christian Wildhagen)