High Voice and Orchestra SKU: HL.14020965 Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell D...(+)
High Voice and Orchestra
SKU: HL.14020965
Composed by Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Composed
1999. 92 pages. Chester
Music #CH60950. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14020965).
ISBN
9780711936959.
The
story centres on the
English princess Caroline
Mathilde (1751-1775),
sister of George III, who
at the age of 15 was sent
to Denmark to marry the
17-year-old eccentric and
schizophrenic Danish
King, Christian VII. The
ballet portrays her
unhappy marriage, the
King's growing madness
and her fatal love-affair
with Struensee, the
King's influential
physician, which leads to
their arrest, his
execution and her exile,
at the age of 20,
separated from her two
young children. This
suite begins with the
act's opening number: a
boisterous, stamping
dance to which the people
rudely mock Queen
Caroline Mathilde and her
lover Struensee. After
this comes a dark Adagio,
The Conspiracy, in which
the theme passes like
persuasion from mouth to
mouth, its variations
suggesting the different
attitudes of the
conspirators, firmly
controlled by the
brass-driven gestures of
the Queen Dowager. The
conspiracy then works
itself out at a court
masked ball, from which
the suite includes two
dances: a gavotte, and a
slow, lubricious
passacaglia that is a pas
de deux for Caroline
Mathilde and Struensee.
The Arrest comes with a
gathering rush of music
that envelops the King,
the Queen and Struensee,
leading to a vociferous
climax in which they are
held apart. In The
Execution, slow white
music for wordless female
voices, harp and low
strings is interrupted by
pathetic, alienated
outbursts from the King.
The suite ends, as does
the ballet, with a quiet
adagio lament for
clarinets and alto flute
as the Queen goes into
exile. Score. Duration c.
33mins.
Tenor Voice and Piano SKU: HL.14019832 Composed by Gian Francesco Malipie...(+)
Tenor Voice and Piano
SKU: HL.14019832
Composed by Gian
Francesco Malipiero.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2002. Chester Music
#CH03935. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14019832).
In 1918-19,
Gian Francesco
Malipiero wrote a
collection of seven
songs, commonly known as
Sette Canzoni.
They were initially
intended as a stand-alone
work, but became
incredibly popular when
they wereincluded as the
second act of the
composer's opera
L'Orfiede.
However, in recent years
the collection has come
to be recognised in its
own right as one of the
composer's
masterpieces.
Like
all of the seven
songs,the fifth,
Serenata
, is designed as an
individual mini-opera.
Scored for a solo Tenor
with Piano accompaniment,
it tells the story of a
young lover serenading
his beloved. At the same
time, unknown to him,
shesits inside lamenting
the death of a
relative.
S
erenata has been
translated from the
original Italian into
French by Henry
Prunieres, and into
English by Edwin
Evans.
No. 4 from Goyescas. Composed by Enric Granados I Campina. Edited by Ullrich...(+)
No. 4 from Goyescas.
Composed
by Enric Granados I
Campina.
Edited by Ullrich
Scheideler.
Sheet music. Henle Music
Folios. Classical. Single
sheet. G. Henle #HN1074.
Published by G. Henle
by Robert Burns; researched and arranged by Serge Hovey. For Vocal. songbook. Sc...(+)
by Robert Burns;
researched and arranged
by Serge Hovey. For
Vocal. songbook.
Scottish. Level:
Intermediate. Book. Size
8.75x11.75. 240 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
Publications, Inc.