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Mixed Trios. By Various.
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Score); Masterworks;
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Concerto. 20th Century;
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English.
Carl
Vine's Piano Concerto No.
1 (1997) is one of three
large-scale works
composed with pianist
Michael Kieran Harvey in
mind---the others being
his first two piano
sonatas. Vine describes
it as a conscious and
continuous tribute to the
piano concerto as a
medium and historical
entity, a fact most
apparent in the slow
movement, with its long
melodic lines evoking
both Ravel and Bach. This
25-minute concerto is
cast in the familiar
three-movement form, with
fast outer movements
framing a central slow
movement. The outer
movements share some
material (particularly in
some lively
conversational
interchanges between
piano and trumpet), and
also some typically
pianistic glitter across
the orchestra, with harp
and glockenspiel ensuring
that the piano is less of
an outsider than might
have otherwise been the
case.
Cantata for Whitsunday
- Urtext. Composed by
Johann Kuhnau. Edited by
Erler. David. Choir;
stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Cantata; Baroque;
Renaissance/early
Baroque. Sheet Music. 4
pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
32090-15. Published by
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The cantata
Daran erkennen wir, dass
wir in Ihm bleiben is
intended for the first
Whitsun holiday. It is
based on a text by Johann
Christoph Wentzel
(1659-1723), the yearly
volume in which it
appears dates to August
4, 1703 and is dedicated
to, among others, Hn.
Joh. Kuhnau / | Chori
Musici bey der | Stadt
Leipzig Directori [Herr
Joh. Kuhnau / Director of
Choral Music at the City
of Leipzig]. It can be
assumed that Kuhnau's
composition originated
near the time of the
text, thus within his
first years in office as
the Leipzig St. Thomas
cantor. Kuhnau follows
the structure of
Wentzel's poem in a
Dictum and four verses
with introductory sonata,
although some details are
varied. In comparison to
other works by Kuhnau,
the scoring is fairly
large with five vocal
parts, trumpets, timpani,
oboes, and bassoon as
well as two violins and
violas each. The short
performing time, on the
other hand, makes the
cantata suitable for
liturgical use, too.Audio
samples: Opella Musica,
camerata lipsiensis,
cond. Gregor Meyer (cpo,
2013).
Sonata in C major for
two Violins, two
Trumpets, Organ,
Violoncello and Bass.
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Edited by
Minos E. Dounias. This
edition: urtext edition.
Folded. Barenreiter
Urtext. Part, anthology.
K. 263. 1 pages. Duration
17 minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA04735_82.
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ISBN 9790006454662.
32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.
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Sonata in C major for
two Violins, two
Trumpets, Organ,
Violoncello and Bass.
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Edited by
Minos E. Dounias. This
edition: urtext edition.
Folded. Barenreiter
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Cantata for Whitsunday
- Urtext. Composed by
Johann Kuhnau. Edited by
David Erler. Choir;
stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Cantata; Baroque;
Renaissance/early
Baroque. Sheet Music. 4
pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
32090-20. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.OB-32090-20).
ISBN
9790004350430. 10 x 12.5
inches.
The cantata
Daran erkennen wir, dass
wir in Ihm bleiben is
intended for the first
Whitsun holiday. It is
based on a text by Johann
Christoph Wentzel
(1659-1723), the yearly
volume in which it
appears dates to August
4, 1703 and is dedicated
to, among others, Hn.
Joh. Kuhnau / | Chori
Musici bey der | Stadt
Leipzig Directori [Herr
Joh. Kuhnau / Director of
Choral Music at the City
of Leipzig]. It can be
assumed that Kuhnau's
composition originated
near the time of the
text, thus within his
first years in office as
the Leipzig St. Thomas
cantor. Kuhnau follows
the structure of
Wentzel's poem in a
Dictum and four verses
with introductory sonata,
although some details are
varied. In comparison to
other works by Kuhnau,
the scoring is fairly
large with five vocal
parts, trumpets, timpani,
oboes, and bassoon as
well as two violins and
violas each. The short
performing time, on the
other hand, makes the
cantata suitable for
liturgical use, too.Audio
samples: Opella Musica,
camerata lipsiensis,
cond. Gregor Meyer (cpo,
2013).
Cantata for Whitsunday
- Urtext. Composed by
Johann Kuhnau. Edited by
David Erler. Choir;
stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Cantata; Baroque;
Renaissance/early
Baroque. Sheet Music. 8
pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
32090-26. Published by
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ISBN
9790004350447. 10 x 12.5
inches.
The cantata
Daran erkennen wir, dass
wir in Ihm bleiben is
intended for the first
Whitsun holiday. It is
based on a text by Johann
Christoph Wentzel
(1659-1723), the yearly
volume in which it
appears dates to August
4, 1703 and is dedicated
to, among others, Hn.
Joh. Kuhnau / | Chori
Musici bey der | Stadt
Leipzig Directori [Herr
Joh. Kuhnau / Director of
Choral Music at the City
of Leipzig]. It can be
assumed that Kuhnau's
composition originated
near the time of the
text, thus within his
first years in office as
the Leipzig St. Thomas
cantor. Kuhnau follows
the structure of
Wentzel's poem in a
Dictum and four verses
with introductory sonata,
although some details are
varied. In comparison to
other works by Kuhnau,
the scoring is fairly
large with five vocal
parts, trumpets, timpani,
oboes, and bassoon as
well as two violins and
violas each. The short
performing time, on the
other hand, makes the
cantata suitable for
liturgical use, too.Audio
samples: Opella Musica,
camerata lipsiensis,
cond. Gregor Meyer (cpo,
2013).
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Cantata for Whitsunday
- Urtext. Composed by
Johann Kuhnau. Choir;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. Cantata;
Baroque;
Renaissance/early
Baroque. Piano/Vocal
Score. 24 pages. Duration
12'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 32090.
Published by Breitkopf
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ISBN
9790004186688. 7.5 x 10.5
inches.
The cantata
Daran erkennen wir, dass
wir in Ihm bleiben is
intended for the first
Whitsun holiday. It is
based on a text by Johann
Christoph Wentzel
(1659-1723), the yearly
volume in which it
appears dates to August
4, 1703 and is dedicated
to, among others, Hn.
Joh. Kuhnau / | Chori
Musici bey der | Stadt
Leipzig Directori [Herr
Joh. Kuhnau / Director of
Choral Music at the City
of Leipzig]. It can be
assumed that Kuhnau's
composition originated
near the time of the
text, thus within his
first years in office as
the Leipzig St. Thomas
cantor. Kuhnau follows
the structure of
Wentzel's poem in a
Dictum and four verses
with introductory sonata,
although some details are
varied. In comparison to
other works by Kuhnau,
the scoring is fairly
large with five vocal
parts, trumpets, timpani,
oboes, and bassoon as
well as two violins and
violas each. The short
performing time, on the
other hand, makes the
cantata suitable for
liturgical use, too.Audio
samples: Opella Musica,
camerata lipsiensis,
cond. Gregor Meyer (cpo,
2013).
Urtext. Composed
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Edited by Franz
Beyer. Stapled.
Chor-Bibliothek (Choral
Library). Mass;
Classical. Choral score.
Composed 1780. 44 pages.
Duration 20'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #ChB 5289-02.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.CHB-5289-02).
ISBN
9790004412046. 7.5 x 10.5
inches.
According
to the date inscribed in
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's
autograph score, the
present mass was composed
in March 1780. The
instrumental setting
(oboes, trumpets and
timpani add color and
festive splendor to the
work) rightly suggests
that the work was in all
likelihood performed with
the Church Sonata K. 336
at the Easter high mass
in the Salzburg
cathedral. Since
Archbishop Hieronymus
Count Colloredo wanted
the mass text to be
treated as succinctly as
possible, Mozart offered
him a richly orchestrated
Missa solemnis in the
terse form of a Missa
brevis.The brilliant,
festive character of the
Mass K. 337 is abruptly
interrupted by a powerful
Benedictus in a harsh A
minor, the most striking
and revolutionary
movement in all of
Mozart's Masses, in the
strictest contrapuntal
style ... (Alfred
Einstein). What could
have inspired Mozart to
such unexpected rigor?
But there is another
surprise yet: while the
dark drama of the Holy
Week seems to radiate
from this Benedictus, the
following Agnus Dei in
the distant key of E flat
major sounds, with its
soprano solo and
concertante oboe, bassoon
and organ, like a song of
thanksgiving filled with
the warmth and light of
Easter.Other features
worth noting are the
three unisons between the
alto and bass heard at
the Deus pater omnipotens
in the Gloria (bars
22-32), the a cappella
illumination of the words
Jesu Christe found a
little later (bar 62) and
the descending
chromaticism evocative of
death at the Crucifixus
in the Credo.
(Incidentally, Mozart had
initially planned a
different movement for
the Credo of this mass,
superscribed Tempo di
Chiaconna; he wrote out
136 bars but, for some
unknown reason, never
completed it.)While the
Coronation Mass K. 317 of
1779 is one of Mozart's
most well-known mass
settings, its later
composed frllow piece K.
337 - Mozart's last
completed mass before the
great C minor fragment K.
427 (417a) - has been
paid less attention, even
though it is an
outstanding example of
the Mozartian mass type
and contains parallels to
the Coronation Mass in
its disposition and in
the structure of its
various movements. The
score and piano reduction
of this new edition were
prepared on the basis of
the autograph
(Osterreichische
Nationalbibliothek/Vienna
, dass. no. Mus. Hs. 18
97512) and the Salzburg
performance material
(Staats- und
Stadtbibliothek/Augsburg,
dass. no. Hl. Kreuz 9).
We wish to thank both
libraries for putting the
source material at our
disposal.Franz Beyer,
Munich, Spring 1998.
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Cantata for Whitsunday
- Urtext. Composed by
Johann Kuhnau. Edited by
David Erler. Choir;
stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Cantata; Baroque;
Renaissance/early
Baroque. Sheet Music. 12
pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
32090-11. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.OB-32090-11).
ISBN
9790004350393. 10 x 12.5
inches.
The cantata
Daran erkennen wir, dass
wir in Ihm bleiben is
intended for the first
Whitsun holiday. It is
based on a text by Johann
Christoph Wentzel
(1659-1723), the yearly
volume in which it
appears dates to August
4, 1703 and is dedicated
to, among others, Hn.
Joh. Kuhnau / | Chori
Musici bey der | Stadt
Leipzig Directori [Herr
Joh. Kuhnau / Director of
Choral Music at the City
of Leipzig]. It can be
assumed that Kuhnau's
composition originated
near the time of the
text, thus within his
first years in office as
the Leipzig St. Thomas
cantor. Kuhnau follows
the structure of
Wentzel's poem in a
Dictum and four verses
with introductory sonata,
although some details are
varied. In comparison to
other works by Kuhnau,
the scoring is fairly
large with five vocal
parts, trumpets, timpani,
oboes, and bassoon as
well as two violins and
violas each. The short
performing time, on the
other hand, makes the
cantata suitable for
liturgical use, too.Audio
samples: Opella Musica,
camerata lipsiensis,
cond. Gregor Meyer (cpo,
2013).
Composed by Camille
Saint-Saens. Edited by
Michael Stegemann. This
edition: Edition of
selected works, Urtext
edition. Linen.
Saint-Saens, Camille.
Oevres instrumentales
completes I/3. Edition of
selected works, Score.
Opus 78. Duration 39
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA10303_01.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA10303-01).
ISBN 9790006559503. 33
x 26 cm inches. Key: C
minor. Preface: Michael
Stegemann.
The
third symphony by Camille
Saint-Saens, known as the
Organ Symphony, is the
first publication in a
complete
historical-critical
edition of the French
composer's instrumental
works.
I gave
everything I was able to
give in this work. [...]
What I have done here I
will never be able to do
again.Camille Saint-Saens
was rightly proud of his
third Symphony in C minor
Op.78, dedicated to the
memory of Franz Liszt.
Called theOrgan
Symphonybecause of its
novel scoring, the work
was a commission from the
Philharmonic Society in
London, as was
Beethoven's Ninth, and
was premiered there on 19
May 1886. The first
performance in Paris
followed on 9 January
1887 and confirmed the
composer's reputation
asprobably the most
significant, and
certainly the most
independent French
symphonistof his time, as
Ludwig Finscher wrote in
MGG. In fact the work
remains the only one in
the history of that genre
in France to the present
day, composed a good half
century after the
Symphonie fantastique by
Hector Berlioz and a good
half century before
Olivier Messiaen's
Turangalila
Symphonie.
You
would think that such a
famous, much-performed
and much recorded opus
could not hold any more
secrets, but far from it:
in the first
historical-critical
edition of the Symphony,
numerous inconsistencies
and mistakes in the
Durand edition in general
use until now, have been
uncovered and corrected.
An examination and
evaluation of the sources
ranged from two early
sketches, now preserved
in Paris and Washington
(in which the Symphony
was still in B minor!)
via the autograph
manuscript and a set of
proofs corrected by
Saint-Saens himself, to
the first and subsequent
editions of the full
score and parts. The
versions for piano duet
(by Leon Roques) and for
two pianos (by the
composer himself) were
also consulted. Further
crucial information was
finally found in his
extensive correspondence,
encompassing thousands of
previously unpublished
letters. The discoveries
made in producing this
edition include the fact
that at its London
premiere, the Symphony
probably looked quite
different from its
present appearance
...
No less
exciting than the work
itself is the history of
its composition and
reception, which are
described in an extensive
foreword. With his
Symphony, Saint-Saens
entered right into the
dispute which divided
French musical life into
pro and contra Wagner in
the 1880s and 1890s. At
the same time, the work
succeeded in preserving
the balance between
tradition and modernism
in masterly fashion, as a
contemporary critic
stated:The C minor
Symphony by Saint-Saens
creates a bridge from the
past into the future,
from immortal richness to
progress, from ideas to
their
implementation.
On
19 March 1886 Saint-Saens
wrote to the London
Philharmonic Society,
which commissioned the
work:
Work on the
symphony is in full
swing. But I warn you, it
will be terrible. Here is
the precise
instrumentation: 3 flutes
/ 2 oboes / 1 cor anglais
/ 2 clarinets / 1 bass
clarinet / 2 bassoons / 1
contrabassoon / 2 natural
horns / [3 trumpets /
Saint-Saens had forgotten
these in his listing.] 2
chromatic horns / 3
trombones / 1 tuba / 3
timpani / organ / 1 piano
duet and the strings, of
course. Fortunately,
there are no harps.
Unfortunately it will be
difficult. I am doing
what I can to mitigate
the
difficulties.
As
in my 4th Concerto [for
piano] and my [1st]
Violin Sonata [in D minor
Op.75] at first glance
there appear to be just
two parts: the first
Allegro and the Adagio,
the Scherzo and the
Finale, each attacca.
This fiendish symphony
has crept up by a
semitone; it did not want
to stay in B minor, and
is now in C
minor.
It would be
a pleasure for me to
conduct this symphony.
Whether it would be a
pleasure for others to
hear it? That is the
question. It is you who
wanted it, I wash my
hands of it. I will bring
the orchestral parts
carefully corrected with
me, and if anyone wants
to give me a nice
rehearsal for the
symphony after the full
rehearsal, everything
will be fine.
When
Saint-Saens hit upon the
idea of adding an organ
and a piano to the usual
orchestral scoring is not
known. The idea of adding
an organ part to a
secular orchestral work
intended for the concert
hall was thoroughly novel
- and not without
controversy. On the other
hand, Franz Liszt, whose
music Saint-Saens'
Symphony is so close to,
had already demonstrated
that the organ could
easily be an orchestral
instrument in his
symphonic poem
Hunnenschlacht (1856/57).
There was also a model
for the piano duet part
which Saint-Saens knew
and may possibly have
used quite consciously as
an exemplar: theFantaisie
sur la Tempetefrom the
lyrical monodrama Lelio,
ou le retour a la Vie op.
14bis (1831) by Berlioz.
The name of the organist
at the premiere ist
unknown, as,
incidentally, was also
the case with many of the
later performances; the
organ part is indeed not
soloistic, but should be
understood as part of the
orchestral
texture.
In fact
the subsequent success of
the symphony seems to
have represented a kind
of breakthrough for the
composer, who was then
over 50 years of age.My
dear composer of a famous
symphony, wrote
Saint-Saens' friend and
pupil Gabriel Faure:You
will never be able to
imagine what a pleasure I
had last Sunday [at the
second performance on 16
January 1887]! And I had
the score and did not
miss a single note of
this Symphony, which will
endure much longer than
we two, even if we were
to join together our two
lifespans!
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Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Cantata; Baroque;
Renaissance/early
Baroque. Sheet Music. 4
pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
32090-16. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.OB-32090-16).
ISBN
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inches.
The cantata
Daran erkennen wir, dass
wir in Ihm bleiben is
intended for the first
Whitsun holiday. It is
based on a text by Johann
Christoph Wentzel
(1659-1723), the yearly
volume in which it
appears dates to August
4, 1703 and is dedicated
to, among others, Hn.
Joh. Kuhnau / | Chori
Musici bey der | Stadt
Leipzig Directori [Herr
Joh. Kuhnau / Director of
Choral Music at the City
of Leipzig]. It can be
assumed that Kuhnau's
composition originated
near the time of the
text, thus within his
first years in office as
the Leipzig St. Thomas
cantor. Kuhnau follows
the structure of
Wentzel's poem in a
Dictum and four verses
with introductory sonata,
although some details are
varied. In comparison to
other works by Kuhnau,
the scoring is fairly
large with five vocal
parts, trumpets, timpani,
oboes, and bassoon as
well as two violins and
violas each. The short
performing time, on the
other hand, makes the
cantata suitable for
liturgical use, too.Audio
samples: Opella Musica,
camerata lipsiensis,
cond. Gregor Meyer (cpo,
2013).
Chorus (with soloists) and orchestra (SSATB - 0.2.0.1 - 2.0.0.0 - timp - str - b...(+)
Chorus (with soloists)
and orchestra (SSATB -
0.2.0.1 - 2.0.0.0 - timp
- str - bc)
SKU:
BR.PB-32090
Cantata for Whitsunday
- Urtext. Composed by
Johann Kuhnau. Edited by
David Erler. Choir;
stapled.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Cantata;
Baroque;
Renaissance/early
Baroque. Full score. 60
pages. Duration 12'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #PB
32090. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.PB-32090).
ISBN
9790004215708. 10 x 12.5
inches.
The cantata
Daran erkennen wir, dass
wir in Ihm bleiben is
intended for the first
Whitsun holiday. It is
based on a text by Johann
Christoph Wentzel
(1659-1723), the yearly
volume in which it
appears dates to August
4, 1703 and is dedicated
to, among others, Hn.
Joh. Kuhnau / | Chori
Musici bey der | Stadt
Leipzig Directori [Herr
Joh. Kuhnau / Director of
Choral Music at the City
of Leipzig]. It can be
assumed that Kuhnau's
composition originated
near the time of the
text, thus within his
first years in office as
the Leipzig St. Thomas
cantor. Kuhnau follows
the structure of
Wentzel's poem in a
Dictum and four verses
with introductory sonata,
although some details are
varied. In comparison to
other works by Kuhnau,
the scoring is fairly
large with five vocal
parts, trumpets, timpani,
oboes, and bassoon as
well as two violins and
violas each. The short
performing time, on the
other hand, makes the
cantata suitable for
liturgical use, too.
Audio samples: Opella
Musica, camerata
lipsiensis, cond. Gregor
Meyer (cpo, 2013).
Urtext. Composed
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Edited by Franz
Beyer. Choir; Softbound.
Partitur-Bibliothek
(Score Library). Mass;
Classical. Full score.
Composed 1780. 68 pages.
Duration 20'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #PB 5329.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.PB-5329).
ISBN 9790004210420. 10
x 12.5
inches.
According
to the date inscribed in
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's
autograph score, the
present mass was composed
in March 1780. The
instrumental setting
(oboes, trumpets and
timpani add color and
festive splendor to the
work) rightly suggests
that the work was in all
likelihood performed with
the Church Sonata K. 336
at the Easter high mass
in the Salzburg
cathedral. Since
Archbishop Hieronymus
Count Colloredo wanted
the mass text to be
treated as succinctly as
possible, Mozart offered
him a richly orchestrated
Missa solemnis in the
terse form of a Missa
brevis.The brilliant,
festive character of the
Mass K. 337 is abruptly
interrupted by a powerful
Benedictus in a harsh A
minor, the most striking
and revolutionary
movement in all of
Mozart's Masses, in the
strictest contrapuntal
style ... (Alfred
Einstein). What could
have inspired Mozart to
such unexpected rigor?
But there is another
surprise yet: while the
dark drama of the Holy
Week seems to radiate
from this Benedictus, the
following Agnus Dei in
the distant key of E flat
major sounds, with its
soprano solo and
concertante oboe, bassoon
and organ, like a song of
thanksgiving filled with
the warmth and light of
Easter.Other features
worth noting are the
three unisons between the
alto and bass heard at
the Deus pater omnipotens
in the Gloria (bars
22-32), the a cappella
illumination of the words
Jesu Christe found a
little later (bar 62) and
the descending
chromaticism evocative of
death at the Crucifixus
in the Credo.
(Incidentally, Mozart had
initially planned a
different movement for
the Credo of this mass,
superscribed Tempo di
Chiaconna; he wrote out
136 bars but, for some
unknown reason, never
completed it.)While the
Coronation Mass K. 317 of
1779 is one of Mozart's
most well-known mass
settings, its later
composed frllow piece K.
337 - Mozart's last
completed mass before the
great C minor fragment K.
427 (417a) - has been
paid less attention, even
though it is an
outstanding example of
the Mozartian mass type
and contains parallels to
the Coronation Mass in
its disposition and in
the structure of its
various movements. The
score and piano reduction
of this new edition were
prepared on the basis of
the autograph
(Osterreichische
Nationalbibliothek/Vienna
, dass. no. Mus. Hs. 18
97512) and the Salzburg
performance material
(Staats- und
Stadtbibliothek/Augsburg,
dass. no. Hl. Kreuz 9).
We wish to thank both
libraries for putting the
source material at our
disposal.Franz Beyer,
Munich, Spring 1998.