Gluck Complete Edition V/2. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. While Christoph Willibald Gluck dedicated his artistic life almost entirely to the composition of works for the opera stage, he also produced a number of instrumental works which have been somewhat marginalized until recently. This volume of the 'Gluck Complete Edition” (GGA) is the first to present 17 symphonies attributed to Gluck in a historical-critical edition - furthermore, the volume includes a new version of one of the trio sonatas published in 1961 as part of the GGA. Current research indicates that no reliable information about the genesis of the respective works exists for any of the symphonies attributed to Gluck. This is due to a lack of both autograph sources and reliable data pertaining to the history and first performances of these works. It is assumed that some of the existing symphonies might in fact be the lost overtures of Gluck's earlier operas. Others were possibly written to be performed in private or public concerts. The greatest challenge for the editors of this volume was posed by the question of authenticity and authorship of the works presented here. As no autographs exist for any of the symphonies bearing Gluck's name, the only indicators of authorship are attributions in the copies of score and parts, either original or added at a later time. The reliability of these attributions for individual works largely depends on the respective state of source material, meaning available sources as well as the condition of the respective copy. A thorough authenticity analysis concluded Gluck's authorship as valid in the case of 13 symphonies, while in the case of four other symphonies, diverging attributions lead to the acceptance of open authorship. As a result, this volume includes all compositions for which, according to the most current research, Gluck's authorship has not been refuted. In the case of two symphonies, one concerto for flute, and six trio sonatas published in 1961 as part of the GGA, Gluck's authorship has been disproven - detailed explanations are included in the volume's Foreword (Ger). The Foreword also discusses the individual instrumental works attributed to Gluck by various encyclopedias. In addition to the detailed Foreword, the volume includes facsimiles of representative source excerpts. The Critical Commentary (Ger) analyzes the state of sources and includes extensive information on editorial principles and performance practice./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Full Score-The Persian traditional music (called the Dastgah Segah) is based on intervals made of three quarter-tones and natural whole-tones. Segah has no interval in common with the European/ Western equal-temperament tuning. This lack of common intervalsbetween the Segah mode and the equal-temperament tuning will lead to a cognitive dissonance if this mode is set against the equal-temperament system. My goal has been to elaborate on the innate tensions that exists between the two interval systemsand use it as a symbol for the existing political and cultural tensions between the Persian and the Western cultures. The piece consists of two Persian traditional instruments the Ney (Persian vertical bamboo flute) and the Kamanche (Persian spikefiddle) as the musical representatives of the Persian culture set against the Western orchestra as the musical representative of the Western culture. A small ensemble of Western instruments consisting of a harp and string quintet accompanies thePersian instruments. The harp is tuned to the Segah intervals and the string quintet plays in the Segah mode. The orchestra is performing inthe Western equal- temperament tuning. From the very first bars of the main section of the piece confusionsand misunderstandings arise. The orchestra being unable to play in Segah or understand the mode becomes more and more agitated. Musical tensions between the soloists and the orchestra lead to musical confrontations and finally to musicalviolence. The orchestra becomes extremely violent and militaristic and tries to suppress the soloists efforts to express their musical thoughts. In the midst of all these confusions and cultural misunderstandings musical connections and attractionsstart to take place. The orchestra and the soloists find themselves musically attracted to each other and start imitating each others musical phrases. Cognitive dissonances start to be gradually transformed to musical dialogues symbolizing thegradual replacement of the clash of civilizations with the dialogue of civilizations. Segah was written for Khosrow and Kian Soltani and premiered at the Segah Festival on January 15 2016.

Concert Overture-The Hebrides Op.26   Concert Overture   The Hebrides the third in Bärenreiter’s series of critical editions of Mendelssohn’s great overtures is one of Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s most performed compositions.  Previously this work was only available in one composite version: the Julius Rietz edition from the 1860s.   The new Bärenreiter edition consist of two versions each containing additional material from further sources.   Version one the “Rome” version exists itself in two versions and has never beenpublished in a performing edition.  Version two the “London” version also exists in two versions one of which was published by Mendelssohn in 1835.   This pioneering edition documents the development of the composition and the various changes made by Mendelssohn.  The new edition offers orchestras for the first time the possibility to perform this famous work based on all known sources. Score and large format orchestral parts with both versions back-to-back   First ever Critical Edition   Edited by Christopher Hogwood  

Concert Overture-The Hebrides Op.26   Concert Overture   The Hebrides the third in Bärenreiter’s series of critical editions of Mendelssohn’s great overtures is one of Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s most performed compositions.  Previously this work was only available in one composite version: the Julius Rietz edition from the 1860s.   The new Bärenreiter edition consist of two versions each containing additional material from further sources.   Version one the “Rome” version exists itself in two versions and has never beenpublished in a performing edition.  Version two the “London” version also exists in two versions one of which was published by Mendelssohn in 1835.   This pioneering edition documents the development of the composition and the various changes made by Mendelssohn.  The new edition offers orchestras for the first time the possibility to perform this famous work based on all known sources. Score and large format orchestral parts with both versions back-to-back   First ever Critical Edition   Edited by Christopher Hogwood  

Concert Overture-The Hebrides Op.26Concert OvertureThe Hebrides the third in Bärenreiter’s series of critical editions of Mendelssohn’s great overtures is one of Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s most performed compositions.  Previously this work was only available in one composite version: the Julius Rietz edition from the 1860s.The new Bärenreiter edition consist of two versions each containing additional material from further sources.Version one the “Rome” version exists itself in two versions and has never been published in a performing edition.  Version two the “London” version also exists in two versions one of which was published by Mendelssohn in 1835.This pioneering edition documents the development of the composition and the various changes made by Mendelssohn.  The new edition offers orchestras for the first time the possibility to perform this famous work based on all known sources. Score and large format orchestral parts with both versions back-to-back First ever Critical Edition Edited by Christopher Hogwood

Par DUFOURT HUGUES. Il s'agit d'une oeuvre particulièrement représentative du genre de peinture qui a pris son essor pendant le Xe et XIe siècles sous le règne de la dynastie des Song du Nord (960-1127) et qui place la peinture chinoise sous le signe de l'unité retrouvée. Le style 'nordiste', inauguré par Ching Hao et Kuan T'ung se trouve porté à son point de tension extrême par Fan K'uan (fl. 990-1020) dont le Voyage par-delà les fleuves et les monts figure et résume la peinture des grands maîtres classiques de cette époque. L'art du trait calligraphique s'applique au traitement des parois et des surfaces, tout comme les rides en goutte d'eau servent à renforcer les effets de hauteur. Il existe, dans cette toile, une certaine contradiction entre l'éloignement des choses et le caractère abrupt d'un mur primordial qui s'impose avec une évidence absolue. On voit une imposante falaise rocheuse s'arracher d'un abîme et s'élancer jusqu'au ciel, comme un surgissement de l'inaccessible, surplombant un paysage escarpé que vient encore aiguiser le relief âpre et tourmenté de la végétation du premier plan. A la verticale, une broussaille de forêts lointaines semble agrippée aux sommets. Sur la droite, la chute vertigineuse d'une cascade tombant des hauteurs se déroule comme un ruban de soie. En avant-plan, un groupe de rochers laisse entr'apercevoir, plus bas, une caravane de mules dont le trait presqu'imperceptible laisse pressentir l'insignifiance de l'être humain face à l'immensité de la nature. On notera aussi le style sévère et dépouillé de ce paysage majestueux, son allure austère et solennelle qui souligne le caractère sacré des montagnes - la demeure des dieux - dans la peinture monumentale de paysage des Song du Nord. L'altitude est le véritable personnage de cette oeuvre célèbre, une peinture sur soie, d'encre et de couleurs légères, qui est conservée au Musée national du Palais de Taipei, à Taïwan. J'ai cherché à rendre ce sentiment plénier de la nature au grand orchestre, en sorte que l'articulation du souffle ne soit jamais interrompue par des notations accidentelles ou des velléités de développement. La pièce se déroule d'un seul tenant, comme une trame élémentaire, à l'image d'une continuité où toute interruption est arbitraire. Elle est parcourue d'un seul rythme enveloppant des tensions opposées - ascension et suspens, émergence et pesanteur. Une association instrumentale y domine, celle du pupitre des clarinettes allié à celui des trombones, avec des modes de jeu qui projettent les trombones dans l'extrême grave et diffractent le son de la clarinette en un tremblement de multiphoniques. Deux compositeurs, Ivàn Solano, clarinettiste, et Dominique Delahoche, tromboniste, ont bien voulu me guider dans cet inventaire des nouvelles ressources instrumentales. Il est difficile de parler de la forme de l'oeuvre, puisqu'il s'agit d'une transformation incessante, constitutive, à l'instar d'une forme-flux sans cesse renaissante et tendue vers un perpétuel effort d'intégration et de condensation. La forme n'est plus qu'une puissance obscure et négative qui se confond avec le rythme de la couleur ou de la masse. Une toile de fond 'd'harmonie-timbre', constamment dressée, suggère l'étendue et la profondeur, et figure, si l'on veut, une sorte de fond spatial qui serait l'espace même du paysage. Les seuls événements qui scandent le processus sont des 'coulées de forces' qui excèdent toute limite définie et suggèrent des régimes dynamiques variés. Ce Voyage par-delà les fleuves et les monts, d'après Fan K'uan, est l'objet d'une commande conjointe de l'Orchestre Philarmonique de Nice et du CIRM. Hugues Dufourt / contemporain / Répertoire / Orchestre

Suite for Orchestra-Incidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne'Fauré wrote ?Pelléas et Mélisande? in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck?s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances he set about reworking the musical material into an orchestral suite. The premiere of the originally three-movement suite took place in February 1901 under the baton of Camille Chevillard.In December 1912 the four-movement version of ?Pelléas et Mélisande? was finally premiered. The additional movement the Sicilienne was taken from the third interlude of the incidental music. This delightful piece would later become one of Fauré?s mostpopular compositions and now exists in countless arrangements.Bärenreiter?s new scholarly-critical edition of the four-movement orchestral suite ?Pelléas et Mélisande? Op.80 is based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works? Volume IV/2 which appeared in 2016.First Urtext edition Based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works?Score and orchestral parts available for sale (BA7895)

Suite for Orchestra-Incidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne'Fauré wrote ?Pelléas et Mélisande? in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck?s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances he set about reworking the musical material into an orchestral suite. The premiere of the originally three-movement suite took place in February 1901 under the baton of Camille Chevillard.In December 1912 the four-movement version of ?Pelléas et Mélisande? was finally premiered. The additional movement the Sicilienne was taken from the third interlude of the incidental music. This delightful piece would later become one of Fauré?s mostpopular compositions and now exists in countless arrangements.Bärenreiter?s new scholarly-critical edition of the four-movement orchestral suite ?Pelléas et Mélisande? Op.80 is based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works? Volume IV/2 which appeared in 2016.First Urtext edition Based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works?Score and orchestral parts available for sale (BA7895)

Suite for Orchestra-Incidental music with the famous 'Sicilienne'Fauré wrote ?Pelléas et Mélisande? in 1898 originally as incidental music to Maurice Maeterlinck?s like-named play. After the premiere and subsequent performances he set about reworking the musical material into an orchestral suite. The premiere of the originally three-movement suite took place in February 1901 under the baton of Camille Chevillard.In December 1912 the four-movement version of ?Pelléas et Mélisande? was finally premiered. The additional movement the Sicilienne was taken from the third interlude of the incidental music. This delightful piece would later become one of Fauré?s mostpopular compositions and now exists in countless arrangements.Bärenreiter?s new scholarly-critical edition of the four-movement orchestral suite ?Pelléas et Mélisande? Op.80 is based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works? Volume IV/2 which appeared in 2016.First Urtext edition Based on ?Gabriel Fauré The Complete Works?Score and orchestral parts available for sale (BA7895)

Par MURAIL TRISTAN. Sables reprend certains des partis pris d'Altitude 8000, en les poussant plus loin: absence d'événements ponctuels (aucun son percussif), continuité extrême (aucun silence, si ce n'est au début de la pièce...). Les notes sont considérées comme de simples 'grains de sable' dont l'accumulation va créer des formes, des 'dunes'. La pièce n'est pas encore véritablement spectrale, mais utilise déjà des phénomènes de résonance naturelle. La note de programme écrite à l'occasion de la création précise: 'Le système harmonique utilise les seuls points de référence objectifs... qui sont les résonances naturelles et le bruit blanc, symbolisé par le cluster. La trame harmonique est en évolution permanente: il n'y a pas à un moment donné 'une harmonie', mais un processus de transformation harmonique qui est en cours... Le parti pris non événementiel entraîne qu'il est impossible de distinguer des parties distinctes. On peut seulement considérer cinq régions séparées par des moments où le (les) processus d'évolution se renverse(nt). Tout est soumis à cette règle: trame harmonique, orchestration, densités, intensités, architecture à un moment donné. Toutefois les processus en cours dans chaque ordre de phénomène ne sont pas nécessairement concomitants, et il existe des processus 'croisés'... Le principe de continuité entraîne une écriture 'microcosmique': les notes n'ont pas d'importance par elles-mêmes. On ne les individualise pas, on entend seulement l'évolution qui résulte de leur présence... Tristan Murail / contemporain / Date parution : 1975-01-01/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par KODALY ZOLTAN. Galánta is a small Hungarian market-town known to the travellers from Vienna to Budapest. The composer has passed there seven years of his childhood. There existed at that time a famous Gipsy-band which has disappeared in the meantime. Their music was the first 'orchestral sonority' which came to the ear of the child. The forbears of these gipsies were known already more than hundred years ago. About 1800 some books of Hungarian dances were published in Vienna, one of which contained music 'after several gipsies from Galantha'. They have preserved the old Hungarian tradition. In order to continue it the composer has taken his principal subjects from these ancient editions. (Zoltán Kodály, 1934) “Dances from Galánta” is now available in the New Conductor Score series. These completely redesigned scores stand out due to their carefully researched critical report and a highly legible, clean notation, all in the trusted Universal Edition quality./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Symphonic Fragment for Orchestra. Par SHCHEDRIN RODION. Emotional depth and riveting virtuosity - these elements are what characterise many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin has remained an original Russian composer whose bond with the musical folklore and poetry of his home country has never been severed. This 'Symphonic Fragment', premiered by Mariss Jansons with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, refers to the life of Beethoven and the first major existential crisis of the then 31-year-old composer from Vienna. Even if Shchedrin fails to include explicit quotations, suggestions of Beethoven's 'Eroica' can well be found. The study score on sale now allows one to become thoroughly acquainted with Shchedrin's masterly skills as a composer and his virtuoso treatment of the orchestra in this work./ Répertoire / Orchestre

The Enchanted Forest. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. This music is taken from the second act of my early opera King Stag. In the original, the aria - here rescored for the orchestra alone - is sung by the protagonist (tenor) who yearns to return to the woods, to nature, to the origins of his animal existence. The rondo is set in a very fast dance tempo (a Tarantella?) and is in three parts: the first one is cheerful and comic, the second one lyrical, almost romantically so, whereas the third one is impetuous and dramatic. The music of both pieces has been considerably rewritten and altered, in harmonic, melodic and rhythmic aspects. - Hans Werner Henze/ Répertoire / Orchestre

This edition of L'Ascension for Orchestra by Olivier Messiaen is the conductor’s edition. This religious work lasts approximately 27 minutes and is divided into four parts. I. Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son père (Saint John’s Gospel) II. Alléluïas sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel (Ascension Mass) III. Alléluïa sur la trompette Alléluïa sur la cymbale (Psalm 46) IV. Prière du Christ montant vers son père (Saint John’s Gospel) This piece also exists for Solo Organ. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a French organist and composer passionate about Ornithology and one of the most important composers of his century. Inspired by Japanese music he had a very special way of composing and his work can be identified by its complexity its diatonic aspect its harmony with limited transposition its colour and its additive rhythms. He composed many works related to ornithology and birdsong including the 'Bird Catalogue' in 7 volumes and the 'Treatise on Rhythm Colour and Ornithology' in 7 volumes.

Full Score-John Luther Adams' Become Ocean for Orchestra (Full score) 'Become OceanOver the years my orchestral music has become simpler and more expansive. Clouds of Forgetting Clouds of Unknowing (1991-95) contains four different musical textures. In the WhiteSilence (1998) has three. For Lou Harrison (2002) reduces this to just two. In Dark Waves (2007) I finally got to one. When Ifirst heard that piece I began to wonder if I could sustain asimilar sound for a longer span of time. The result is Become Ocean a meditation on the vast deep and mysterious tides of existence.Thetitle is borrowed from a mesostic verse that John Cage wrote in honor of Lou Harrison's birthday. Likening Harrison's music to a river in delta Cage writes: LiStening to it we becOme oceaN. Lifeon this earth first emerged from the sea. And as the polar ice melts and sea level rises we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.' – John Luther Adams