Discovery Level 2-With apologies to Mozart! This is a Christmas adaptation of the famous Rondo alla Turk with plenty of fa la las and holiday cheer for every program. An absolute delight!

Mozart's 'Rondo alla Turca' is the basis for this innovative twist on 'Jingle Bells!' Your audience will love catching the rapid text as the familiar and sequential melody is volleyed through the choir. Pierpont's rarely-heard third verse is a hoot. 'Oh, what fun it is!' / Choeur TTB

Mozart's 'Rondo alla Turca' is the basis for this innovative twist on 'Jingle Bells!' Your audience will love catching the rapid text as the familiar and sequential melody is volleyed through the choir. Pierpont's rarely-heard third verse is a hoot. 'Oh, what fun it is!' / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble. Therefore it is the subject which this type of presentation must sustain – or, better, provoke. Büchner’s Lenz is a description of the conditions within a process of collapse, moments of destruction already occurred but not yet accepted, evident in the points of contact with the environment. And it was those points of contact which Michael Fröhling attempted to reconstruct onstage. Lenz’s distraught state is always the same; only the proximity of the environment to that distraught state grows and ebbs. The musical consequence An hour of extreme chamber music results from this description: always bound for the main character – actually, not a commentary, but the main character himself as a multilayered level of action. Although Lenz acts on many levels – or tries to or believes he is – he has no room to manoeuvre. That is why he is also tightly interwoven in his sonic surroundings; the voices which only he hears are just as much himself as the two men with whom he foregathers (the liberal pragmatist Oberlin and the alert merchant who always “does the right thing” in every situation) – they evoke responses which he deeply desires. Omnipresent Friederike is just as much his inner world as Nature is – Nature, which he can no longer perceive unless it is personified, enlivened or dead. Therefore, the music’s task is both to motivate the “situation” (atmospherically) and to be the psychological constant (via a network of entangled references per se) in an action as it is played out. The compositional process December 1977 to June 1978 – a period identical to the stepwise understanding of an existence as that of Jakob Lenz. Yet the more the historical figure became precisely attendant in my intellect in terms of data and atmosphere, the more it retreated in favour of a cipher of disturbance as I began to understand Lenz. Thence the explanation for the failure of the attempts to approach him – including my attempt to interpret him via musical representation – because, essentially, Lenz himself is the failure. Only the naked stages of that failure remain portrayable, i.e. including the failure of those who wish to “help” Lenz, for example, while Lenz himself is already trapped inextricably in a state of complete destruction. I tried to compose my way into that situation as far as possible; the insistence of several rhythmic and harmonic configurations is the palpable expression of the main character’s ever-recurring rigidity. One sound pervades the entire work. The musical stage For me, this is a place where very magical and very human things take place. In Jakob Lenz, the human aspects often switch to magical ones, since the realism of a self-suasive, unhinged soul takes on surreal traits – or we simply cannot understand that otherwise except as not being real. A character like Jakob Lenz on the stage is complex due to the fact alone that it harbours many stages within itself, and music must represent those constantly present stages. I have tried to do so in the most direct way – by not cleanly separating the musical layers, but keeping them constantly in evidence until they must break forth, each in accord with its own dramaturgy. In an overview, the large form takes on aspects of a rondo, performed in overlapping layers – a type of rondo relief, since perspectives of psychological proximity and distance are indeed formulated musically as atmospheric relations. Above all: the thread on which Jakob Lenz hangs is the current onto the listeners’ hearts. Wolfgang Rihm (January 1979)/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

From the youthful exuberance of Abduction from the Seraglio to the spectacular romanticism of The Magic Flute, Mozart's operas have enchanted audiences for more than 200 years. This handsome and inexpensive compilation encompasses 36 arias from such all-time favorites as The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni. Content :
IDOMENEO, RÈ DI CRETA / IDOMENEO, KING OF CRETE K366
Ilia's recitative and aria, Act I
[1] Quando avran fine omai'Padre, germani, addio!
Elettra's aria, Act I
[2] Tutte nel cor vi sento
Ilia's aria, Act II
[3] Se il padre perdei
Elettra's aria and marcia, Act II
[4] Idol mio, se ritroso altro amante'Odo da lunge armonioso suono
Ilia's aria, Act III
[5] Zeffiretti lusinghieri
Elettra's aria, Act III
[6] D'Oreste, d'Ajace
DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL / THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO K384
Konstanze's aria, Act I
[7] ach ich liebte
Blonde's aria, Act II
[8] Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln
Konstanze's recitative and aria, Act II
[9] Welcher Wechsel herrscht in meiner Seele'Traurigkeit
Konstanze's aria, Act II
[10] Martern aller Arten
Blonde's rondo, Act II
[11] Welche Wonne, welche Lust
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO / THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO K492
Cherubino's aria, Act I
[12] Non sò più cosa son, cosa faccio
Countess Almaviva's aria, Act II
[13] Porgi, amor
Cherubino's arietta, Act II
[14] Voi che sapete
Susanna's aria, Act II
[15] Venite, inginocchiatevi!
Countess Almaviva's recitative and aria, Act III
[16] E Susanna non vien''Dove sono'Ah! Se almen la mia costanza
Barbarina's cavatina, Act IV
[17] L'ho perduta! Me mechina!
Susanna's recitative and aria, Act IV
[18] Giunse al fin il momento'Deh vieni, non tardar
DON GIOVANNI K527
Donna Elvira's aria, Act I
[19] Ah! Fuggi il traditor!
Donna Anna's aria, Act I
[20] Or sai chi l'onore
Zerlina's aria, Act I
[21] Batti, batti
Zerlina's aria, Act II
[22] Vedrai, carino
Donna Elvira's recitative and aria, Act II
[23] In quali eccessi Mi tradì
Donna Anna's recitative and aria (rondò), Act II
[24] Crudele''Troppo mi spiace'Non mi dir
COSÌ FAN TUTTE K588
Dorabella's recitative and aria, Act I / Scene 3
[25] Ah scostati'Smanie implacabili
Despina's aria, Act I / Scene 3
[26] In uomini, in soldati
Fiordiligi's recitative and aria, Act I / Scene 3
[27] Temerari, sortite'Come scoglio'Rispettate, anime ingrate
Despina's aria, At II / Scene 1
[28] Una donna a quindici anni'Dee in un momento
Fiordiligi's rondò, Act II / Sce
[29] Per pietà, ben mio, perdona'A chi mai mancò
Dorabella's aria, Act II / Scene 3
[30] È amore un ladroncello
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE / THE MAGIC FLUTE K620
The Queen of the Night's recitative and aria, Act I
[31] O zitt're nicht, mein lieber Sohn!'Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren
The Queen of the Night's aria
[32] Der Hölle Rache
Pamina's aria, Act II
[33] Ach, ich fühl's
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO K621
Vitellia's aria, Act I
[34] Deh se piacer mi vuoi'Che ceicamente crede
Servilia's aria-minuet, Act II
[35] S'altro che lagrime
Vitellia's recitative obbligato and rondò, Act II
[36] Ecco il punto, O Vitellia'Non più di fiori vaghe catene

Opera in five acts Version with recitatives. Par GOUNOD CHARLES. Charles Gounod’s international renown is based on the success of his opera „Faust“ after Goethe’s drama: The aging Faust makes a pact with the devil. He sells his soul to Mephistopheles and in return gets back his youth – and he experiences new happiness in love when he meets the young Marguerite. The vocal score to Gounod’s masterpiece (completely sung version) assembles many popular numbers such as Marguerite’s “Jewel Aria” and the “Lied of the King in Thule” as well as Mephistopheles’s “Rondo of the Golden Calf” and Faust’s Cavatina “Salut ! demeure chaste et pure”./ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

If you performed Go For Baroque you won't want to miss It's A Classic! Audrey Snyder once again adds her clever lyrics to several well-known themes from the Classical Period. Featured composers include Mozart and Haydn with themes including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Rondo Alla Turca Symphony No.40 In G Minor and Trumpet Concerto In E-flat

The American jazz legend Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) was equally distinguished as composer and pianist. Studies at the College of the Pacific and with Darius Milhaud at Mills College led to the founding with fellow students of the experimental Jazz Workshop Ensemble which recorded in 1949 as the Dave Brubeck Octet. Later in 1958 the combination of Brubeck with drummer Joe Morello double bassist Eugene Wright and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond quickly achieved an overwhelming popular success as the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The Quartet's experimentation with time signatures unusual to jazz produced works like Blue Rondo a la Turk and TakeFive introducing millions of enthusiastic young listeners to unexplored regions of jazz.This folio contains several of his most popular works arranged for Piano Voice and Guitar.

If you performed Go For Baroque you won't want to miss It's A Classic! Audrey Snyder once again adds her clever lyrics to several well-known themes from the Classical Period. Featured composers include Mozart and Haydn with themes including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Rondo Alla Turca Symphony No.40 In G Minor and Trumpet Concerto In E-flat

William Schuman's setting of a poem by Genevieve Taggard takes as its theme the necessity of simple pleasures and the importance of each person. This version is for upper voices. The song is in a loose rondo form and the music alternates between the main jerky almost angry music and the smooth but still precise middle section with its growing self-belief.

Classic répond aux Jazz ', c'est un thème bienvenu pour les nombreuses chorales, surtout si le choeur veut répéter un répertoire varié qui représente de nombreux styles. Dans ces arrangements basés sur les oeuvres de Bach (Menuet), de Brahms (Wiegenlied), de Schumann (Träumerei) et de Susato / Choeur Mixte