SKU: UT.HS-281
ISBN 9790215326385. 9 x 12 inches.
Sonata I (Les Fêtes de Flore); Sonata II (Les Champs Elisées); Sonata III (Le Jardin des Hesperides); Sonata IV (Les Amusemens d’Apollon chez Le Roi Admète); Sonata V (Les Jeux Olympiques); Sonata VI (Les Voyages d’Ulysse)Published in 1742 by the author with Boivin, Le Clerc and de Bretonne, Corrette’s Op. 25 was committed to the Knight of Orleans. It contains six sonatas with violin accompaniment. Nevertheless, on the frontispiece, Corrette reminds the possibility to perform these sonatas also for solo harpsichord; violin accompaniment is therefore considered as collateral and not crucial even though two instruments complete each other and continuously dialogue in a charming way. The composer declares the effect he requires to obtain at the beginning of sonata punctuating that the violin must play mezzo piano way and giving, once again, a great relevance to the keyboard. Despite the notices, imitations and plots between the instruments are so pleasant and constant that it is very improbable to imagine that violin role has considered as unsubstantial.In the fourth sonata, the only one written in minor tonality, Corrette supposes flute accompaniment as alternative to the violin. In this case, Italian style is evident, for example, in the third movement where the composer imitates Vivaldi with frequent unison passages.On technical plan, the harpsichordist is occupied in recurring hands crossing, playing suddenly overall keyboard.
SKU: BT.DHP-1043507-070
International.
Vivaldi was hugely successful as a composer in his day and amassed a fortune as many of his works were published during his lifetime. His works remain popular today and the three movements in this suite, Prelude, Allemande and Corrente are taken from a sonata for strings. Die drei Sätze dieser Suite stammen aus einer Sonate für Streicher des italienischen Meisters Antonio Vivaldi. Peter Knudsvig machte diese schöne Musik für Blechbläserquintett zugänglich. Le Quintette de Cuivres Rekkenze Brass a été fondé par des membres de lâ??Orchestre Symphonique dâ??Hof en Allemagne, et reconnu internationalement comme un des meilleurs ensembles du genre. La devise de lâ??ensemble se résume par â??BRASSzination® : la fascination par les cuivresâ?. Câ??est avec grand plaisir que nous vous présentons la Collection Rekkenze Brass qui couvre un large éventail de styles. Chaque Å?uvre publiée dans cette collection est accompagnée dâ??un compact disc sur lequel sont enregistrées les versions intégrales de la plupart des Å?uvres disponibles dans une interprétation unique du Rekkenze Brass. Instrumentation : 2 TrompettesSib, Cor en Fa/Mib,Trombone en Ut BC, Tuba.
SKU: HL.49020804
ISBN 9783254001184. German.
Obwohl Charles Ives (1874-1954) eine grundliche musikalische Ausbildung an der Yale University genossen hatte, schlug er sehr bald eine erfolgreiche Laufbahn als Versicherungskaufmann ein und widmete sich seiner musikalischen Arbeit nur abends und an den Wochenenden. In fast volliger Isolation vom Musikgeschehen der Zeit schuf er ein umfangreiches OEuvre, dessen grosse Bedeutung erst in den 60er Jahren entdeckt wurde: Ives entpuppt sich darin als radikaler Neuerer, der sowohl mit der damals gangigen musikalischen Syntax als auch den auffuhrungspraktischen Bedingungen seiner Zeit weitgehend brach. Allerdings ware es verfehlt, ihn bloss zum musikalischen Enfant terrible abzustempeln, das sich dank seiner materiellen Unabhangigkeit uber die Grenzen des Musikbetriebes hinwegsetzen konnte. Dafur war Ives ein viel zu reflektierender, verantwortungsbewusster Mensch, der zudem fest in der denkerischen Tradition des neuenglischen Transzendentalismus verwurzelt war. So gesehen erstaunt es kaum, dass Ives sich ausser der Musik - und gewissermassen parallel dazu - noch eines andern Mediums, des literarisch-philosophischen Essays, bediente, um seinen Uberzeugungen Ausdruck zu verschaffen.Dies gilt insbesondere fur Ives' tiefsinnigsten und ausgereiftesten Text, die Essays before a Sonata (1920), der als Begleitschrift zur zweiten Klaviersonate (Concord, Mass., 1840-1860) des Komponisten konzipiert war. Allerdings sind die Essays keineswegs ein Werkkommentar im traditionellen Sinne: Sie gehen zwar von konkreten musikasthetischen Fragen (namlich der Problematik der Programmmusik) aus, weiten sich aber zu einer sehr subjektiv gefarbten Darstellung von vier hochbedeutenden amerikanischen Schriftstellern des 19. Jahrhunderts aus - die Rede ist von Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott und Henry David Thoreau. Die vier Hauptabschnitte der Essays, die den vier behandelten Autoren entsprechen, geben in ihrem innigen Konnex zu den vier Satzen der Concord-Sonata - er erstreckt sich von vagen inhaltlichen Vorstellungen und Bildern bis hin zu ganz konkreten syntaktischen und formalen Parallelen - Aufschluss uber die Kompositionsprinzipien nicht nur der Concord-Sonata, sondern der Musik Ives' ganz allgemein, so dass man die Essays before a Sonata als sehr gelungene und in ihrer Ausfuhrlichkeit wohl einmalige Paraphrase von Musik bezeichnen darf.Das Nachwort zu den 114 Liedern (1922) ist mit den Essays insofern verwandt, als es zwei langere Stellen aus ihnen zitiert. Diese Zitierpraxis - man begegnet ihr auch in Ives' Musik - ist bezeichnend fur Ives' Denkweise: Ives macht von seinem Stoff sehr flexiblen Gebrauch, er setzt ihn in der Art von Versatzstucken immer wieder neu zusammen und kommt so immer wieder zu einem neuen, anders gearteten Ganzen. So geht Ives im Nachwort weniger allgemein kunstphilosphischen Problemen als der ganz individuellen Frage nach, warum er die Musik nur als Nebenberuf ausuben wollte. Seine Antwort, die er mit seinem typischen Yankee-Humor vortragt, macht einerseits deutlich, wie sehr Ives von einem puritanischen Verantwortungsgefuhl gegenuber der Gesellschaft gepragt war, und zeigt andererseits Ives' tiefen Glauben an eine Musik, die fest im Alltagsleben verwurzelt und somit denkbar weit von der europaischen Tradition der art pour l'art entfernt war.Die Memos (ca. 1932-34) schliesslich sind ein Dokument ganz anderer Art: Weder sollten sie, wie die beiden andern hier vorgelegten Texte, ein bestimmtes musikalisches Werk begleiten, noch besitzen sie den hohen gedanklichen Ausspruch der Essays und des Nachworts. Es sind autobiographische Aufzeichnungen, die Ives ursprunglich diktierte, deren Manuskripte er aber danach mehrmals durchsah und korrigierte. Sie gliedern sich in drei lose aneinandergereihte Teile: Im Anlass betitelten Abschnitt nimmt Ives auf teils humoristische, teils sarkastische Weise zu den Anfeindungen Stellung, die ihm die damals sparlichen Auffuhrungen seiner Werke bescherten. Im Sammelalbum gibt er einen chronologischen Uberblick uber Entstehung und Gehalt seiner wichtigsten Werke. Und in den Erinnerungen verschafft Ives nochmals den Grundpositionen seiner idealistischen Musikasthetik, seiner Abneigung gegen jede Form von Kommerz und Routine und seiner Verachtung aller musikalischen Kleingeister Ausdruck. Uberdies sind die Memos - trotz ihrer defensiven Grundhaltung - so humorvoll, engagiert und bildreich verfasst, dass sie nicht nur die detaillierteste, sondern auch die wohl anregendste Primarquelle zum Leben und Werk dieses vielleicht eigenwilligsten Komponisten des fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts bilden.
SKU: IS.G6765EM
ISBN 9790365067657.
This sonata (WeissSW No. 4, Dresden) is one of a new series of eight sonatas by Silvius Leopold Weiss arranged for the first time for guitar and published by Metropolis Music. Sonata XXIV comes from a set of tablature manuscript volumes in the Sächsisches Landesbibliothek in Dresden (Ms. Mus. 2841-â?V-â?1). There are five volumes with a total of 34 sonatas of Weiss for solo lute. The sonatas are ordered by key and further sorted by size or complexity. Sonata XXIV comes from Weissâ??s late â??productiveâ?? period, after 1730. The Sonata has six movements: Prelude, Ouverture (including allegro and largo), Courante, Bourée, Menuet and Gavotte. There is another copy of this Sonata, known as Parte (or Partita) no. 11, in a London Manuscript (British Library Ms. Add. 30387). The London Manuscript seems to be incomplete. It does not include a Menuet and a Gavotte. The Sonata in this Edition is based on the Dresden Manuscript. However, both the Prelude and the Bourée are coming from the London copy. The Dresden Prelude is regarded as spurious, and the London Bourée is more lively and in balance with the other movements. In a few passages of the Ouverture and the Courante I have made some adaptions on the basis of the London manuscript, to create the best of the two versions. In the Ouverture I have omitted the repeat indications. There are two Menuets in the Dresden Sonata. One has been crossed in the original manuscript with the accompanying note: ist nicht von Mr Weis. The other one has been added later, probably by the compiler of the volumes. The original London Prelude of this particular Sonata is composed in a â??simplifiedâ?? style; a common practice for adding preludes to lute sonatas in the 18th century. I have added the original example to my transcribed version. Perhaps it invites others to make their own arrangement. Originally, the Sonata is written in B flat major, a key often used by Weiss as it is appropriate for playing the lute. With the guitar, however, the key is rather awkward. For ease and effectiveness of playing, I have transposed the Sonata a minor third lower to G major. To create more concordance with the baroque tuning of the lute, the G string is lowered by a semitone to F sharp. I suggest using a capodastro to achieve the original pitch. Based on the present standard of A at 440 Hertz, the capo should be placed at the 3rd fret. However, during Weissâ??s lifetime, it was more common in many parts of Germany to use a standard of A at 415 Hertz -â? a semitone lower. So, to hear the pitch heard by Weiss and his contemporaries, the capo should then be positioned at the 2nd fret.
SKU: UT.GCE-20
ISBN 9790215328259. 9 x 12 inches.
Given that appendices have since been included in other volumes, it now seems appropriate to compile an appendix for Volume 1A in the form of a separate publication, Volume 1C of the series. Even with a whole volume available, however, it is impossible to include all known arrangements. Such a publication would be of disproportionate size: it would require about 600 pages, due largely to the two complete or near-complete sets of concerto arrangements. The present volume thus includes only selections from these sets of concerto arrangements and also only a selection from Edward Finch’s complete set of arrangements in the form of transverse-flute sonatas. The smaller sets of arrangements—either as solo sonatas or as trio sonatas—are included in their entirety.The available arrangements fall into three distinct categories: solo sonatas, trio sonatas, and concertos. There are fourteen arrangements by Edward Finch for transverse flute with figured bass; they are found in the so-called Armstrong-Finch manuscript and comprise a full set of twelve plus two duplicate versions. Four of these arrangements are included in the present volume. Three more arrangements for transverse flute or recorder with figured bass are found in anthologies of sonatas for these instruments published in the 1720s; they are all of them edited here. Geminiani’s Sonatas VII-XII were transformed into trio sonatas by Francesco Barsanti and published in this format in 1727. These arrangements are included here in complete form as well. A near-complete set of concerto arrangements—Sonata XI is missing—was composed by Charles Avison and a complete set by Gerhard Christoph Raupach, both sets composed probably in the 1730s. From each of these two sets, two examples were selected for inclusion in the present volume. They are supplemented by single concerto arrangements by William Hayes (after Sonata IV) and Johan Helmich Roman (after Sonata VI), composed at all probability in the 1730s as well. None of these concerto arrangements was published in the eighteenth century.
SKU: HL.14009567
8.25x11.75x0.234 inches.
A bold and majestic work, Gregson's Sonata For Four Trombones is a challenging work which is guaranteed to impress. Available here are the four separate Trombone parts.
SKU: FZ.5830
ISBN 9790230658300. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.
This facsimile of an original by Jean-Baptiste Quentin is part of our French classical music collection. Edition : Paris, l'Auteur, Boivin, Leclerc, c. 1742. Preface by the students of the CeFEdeM-Ile-de-France: biographical elements - hints about the score (terminology, time signatures, ornamentation, phrasing, continuo bass, distribution). Three separate instrumental parts sonata IV is a quartet (two instruments for the continuo bass). These remarkably well written chamber music pieces deserve to be brought to light. The quartet sonata for 2 violins, viola da gamba and continuo bass is a particularly fine work. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France (Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of a copy in the National Library of Berlin - Preuffischer Kulturbesitz Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv (Germany). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.
SKU: HL.14043723
ISBN 9781783059522.
This is an updated edition of Francis Poulenc 's 1962 work Sonata For Oboe And Piano , edited by Millan Sachania . Featuring the full score and a separate Oboe part, this exclusive edition also includes a download card, giving you instant online access to demonstration and accompaniment tracks. Originally completed in 1962, Poulenc 's Sonata For Oboe And Piano had been brewing in his mind for at least five years. The last of Poulenc 's trio of sonatas for woodwind instruments, he tragically passed away before it could be definitively engraved, leaving behind a work with a number of ambiguous notational marks that resulted in an incomplete first edition, publishedposthumously. A number of revisions have taken place, but this, expertly edited by Millan Sachania , aims to provide a playable, legible, precise and authoritative score that reflect closest Poulenc 's intentions. This new edition revises many minor details, including Piano chords, tied notes, the correction of various bars throughout as well as his crescendos during the third movement. At all points, Sachania has aimed to reproduce an authoritative and accurate score that is at once playable and a reflection of what Poulenc himself may have intended. This is a most exciting prospect considering the reputation that this work has garnered as a piece of profound poignancy. Dedicated to Sergey Prokofiev, it has been said that the mournful final movement, Deploration , is something of an obituary. What makes this edition of Sonata For Clarinet And Piano really special is the unique download card that provides exclusive online access to demonstration and accompaniment audio tracks. Professionally-recorded by renowned oboist Christopher Cowie and pianist Huw Watkins, the demonstration track allows you to hear exactly how the piece as a whole should sound, before the independent Piano-only track lets you take the place of the Oboe in your very own performance. This is a unique opportunity for oboists to learn from an authoritative.
SKU: PA.H07988
ISBN 9790260104471. 31 x 23.5 cm inches.
Piano Sonata No. 4 from the years 1962-1964 is dedicated to the memory of Fiser's friend, the pianist Antonin Jemelik, who died tragically. As a tribute to their friendship the composer incorporated into the introduction a quotation from their favourite work, Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70, by Alexander Scriabin. The tragedy of the death of the composer's friend pervades the emotionally intense passage of unison octaves which follows the three-bar quotation. From a compositional point of view this work is a masterpiece of the mid-Sixties. Written as one movement, the piece is divided into numerous mutually contrasting segments which themselves are clearly grouped into two sections, exposition and development. The individual themes are introduced in the first section and thematically expanded in the second section. The motif treatment lies almost exclusively in the fragmenting or curtailing of the theme, or in the use of a combination of several themes, for the most part brief and eloquent. This compositional method, together with a clear-cut manner of execution, mainly semitonal melody and sharply contrastive dynamics, lends force and transparency to the piece. Piano Sonata No. 4 was completed in 1964 together with Symphonic Fresco, Concerto da camera for piano and orchestra and Fifteen Prints after Durer's Apocalypse and has earned its rightful place alongside them as masterpieces of Fiser's oeuvre.The work was first performed by Pavel Stepan in Prague's Rudolfinum in 1965. The new setting for this piece is based on the single edition to date (Panton, 1969); only with regard to a few inconsistencies in the score was it necessary to consult the composer's manuscript (kept at the National Museum - Czech Museum of Music).
