Vocal solos, orchestra (Soprano Voice Solo, 3 Alto Voice Solo, Tenor Voice Solo, Bass Voice Solo, 2 recorder, Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Hn, Trp, 3V, Va, Bassi(Vc, double bass, bassoon, Erzlaute, harpisc.))

SKU: BA.BA10702-01

Opera in three acts. Composed by George Frideric Handel. Edited by Graham Cummings. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Halle Handel Edition (HHA) Series II, Volume 25. Complete edition, Score. HWV 28. Duration 3 hours. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10702_01. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA10702-01).

ISBN 9790006550159. 33 x 26 cm inches. Text Language: Italian. Preface: Cummings, Graham. Pietro Metastasio.

Full instrumentation: soprano solo/3alto solo/tenor solo/baritone solo/2bass flute/flute/2oboe/2horn/t rumpet/3violin/viola/bass .

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With Variants, Examples and Advice for Playing and Improvising on any instrument. Edited by Pascale Boquet, Gerard Rebours. Music Books/CDs. Teaching Works. Level: Grade 0. 144 pages. Published by Editions Fuzeau Classique - France (French import).

Choral Cello, Flute, Harp, Oboe, Percussion, Piano, Viola, Violin 1, Violin 2, alto voice, bass voice, soprano voice, tenor voice

SKU: PR.31241902S

From Terra Nostra. Composed by Stacy Garrop. Full score. Duration 3:15. Theodore Presser Company #312-41902S. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.31241902S).

UPC: 680160690589. English.

Commission ed by the San Francisco Choral Society and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Terra Nostra is a 70-minute oratorio on the relationship between our planet and humankind, how this relationship has shifted over time, and how we can re-establish a harmonious balance. Part I: Creation of the World explores various creation myths from different cultures, culminating in a joyous celebration of the beauty of our planet. Part II: The Rise of Humanity examines human achievements, particularly since the dawn of our Industrial Age, and how these achievements have impacted the planet. Part III: Searching for Balance questions how to create more awareness for our planet’s plight, re-establish a deeper connection to it, and find a balance for living within our planet’s resources. In addition to the complete oratorio, stand-alone movements for mixed chorus, and for solo voice with piano, are also available separately.
Terra Nostra focuses on the relationship between our planet and mankind, how this relationship has shifted over time, and how we can re-establish a harmonious balance. The oratorio is divided into three parts:Part I: Creation of the World celebrates the birth and beauty of our planet. The oratorio begins with creation myths from India, North America, and Egypt that are integrated into the opening lines of Genesis from the Old Testament. The music surges forth from these creation stories into “God’s World” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, which describes the world in exuberant and vivid detail. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “On thine own child” praises Mother Earth for her role bringing forth all life, while Walt Whitman sings a love song to the planet in “Smile O voluptuous cool-breathed earth!” Part I ends with “A Blade of Grass” in which Whitman muses how our planet has been spinning in the heavens for a very long time.Part II: The Rise of Humanity examines the achievements of mankind, particularly since the dawn of the Industrial Age. Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” sets an auspicious tone that mankind is on the verge of great discoveries. This is followed in short order by Charles Mackay’s “Railways 1846,” William Ernest Henley’s “A Song of Speed,” and John Gillespie Magee, Jr.’s “High Flight,” each of which celebrates a new milestone in technological achievement. In “Binsey Poplars,” Gerard Manley Hopkins takes note of the effect that these advances are having on the planet, with trees being brought down and landscapes forever changed. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “A Dirge” concludes Part II with a warning that the planet is beginning to sound a grave alarm.Part III: Searching for Balance questions how we can create more awareness for our planet’s plight, re-establish a deeper connection to it, and find a balance for living within our planet’s resources. Three texts continue the earth’s plea that ended the previous section: Lord Byron’s “Darkness” speaks of a natural disaster (a volcano) that has blotted out the sun from humanity and the panic that ensues; contemporary poet Esther Iverem’s “Earth Screaming” gives voice to the modern issues of our changing climate; and William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much With Us” warns us that we are almost out of time to change our course. Contemporary/agrarian poet Wendell Berry’s “The Want of Peace” speaks to us at the climax of the oratorio, reminding us that we can find harmony with the planet if we choose to live more simply, and to recall that we ourselves came from the earth. Two Walt Whitman texts (“A Child said, What is the grass?” and “There was a child went forth every day”) echo Berry’s thoughts, reminding us that we are of the earth, as is everything that we see on our planet. The oratorio concludes with a reprise of Whitman’s “A Blade of Grass” from Part I, this time interspersed with an additional Whitman text that sublimely states, “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love…”My hope in writing this oratorio is to invite audience members to consider how we interact with our planet, and what we can each personally do to keep the planet going for future generations. We are the only stewards Earth has; what can we each do to leave her in better shape than we found her?

4 soprano voice solo, tenor voice solo, 2 Flute, 2 oboe, 2 English horn, 2 Bassoon, 2 horn, 2 trumpet, Kettledrum, Strings, Basso continuo (4 Soprano Voice Solo, Tenor Voice Solo, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 EnglHn, 2 bassoon, 2 Hn, 2 Trp, timpani, Str, Continuo)

SKU: BA.BA02284

Dramma per musica in drei Akten. Composed by Christoph Willibald Von Gluck. Edited by László Somfai. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Christoph Willibald Gluck. Complete Works. Series III, Volume 8. Complete edition, Score. Duration 2 hours. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA02284_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA02284).

ISBN 9790006419586. 33 x 26.5 cm inches. Text Language: Italian, German. Translation: Hans Swarowsky. Pietro Metastasio.

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Solo voices, choir, orchestra (soprano voice solo (2 ), soprano, tenor voice solo, tenor voice solo (3), bass voice solo, mixed choir, ballett, piccolo, flute (2 ), oboe (2 ), clarinet (b flat) (2 ), bassoon (2 ), horn (4), trumpet (2 ), trombone (3), timpani, strings, basso continuo)

SKU: BA.BA04562-41

Dramma per musica in three Acts. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Bruce Alan Brown and Daniel Heartz. This edition: Complete edition. Linen. New Mozart Edition (NMA). II/5/11. Complete edition, Critical commentary. K. 366. 266 pages. Duration 3 hours, 30 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04562_41. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04562-41).

ISBN 9790006546633. 24 x 17.5 cm inches. Language: Italian. Giambattista Varesco.

This separately published Critical Commentary offers extensive information on the genesis, reception, sources, and readings of the works included in the music volume.

Orchestra Banjo 1, Banjo 2, Bass, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, Celesta, Cello, Clarinet, Electric Bass, Electric Guitar 1, Electric Guitar 2, English Horn, Flute, Harp, Mandolin, Oboe, Organ, Percussion 1, Percussion 2, Piano, Piccolo, Trombone 1, Trombone 2 and more.

SKU: CF.CY3233Y

Origianl Facsimile Edition. Composed by Lukas Foss. Full score (large). With Standard notation. 80 pages. Duration 37 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #CY3233Y. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CY3233Y).

ISBN 9780825890048. UPC: 798408090043. 11 x 14 inches.

...Around the time of the Bicentennial, when I got a commission to write my American Cantata, I found the need to be American again in my music, as I was in my early music. I started to combine my adventurousness of my more recent music with my earlier traditional style. And I found that I could be just as crazy, while being at the same time, to a certain extent, traditional! (excerpted from a Foss interview with classical radio host Bruce Duffie) A manuscript score is now available as custom print, offering a special glimpse into the genesis of this major Foss choral work.

(Orchestra)

SKU: BA.BA11903

Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by Jonathan Del Mar. This edition: urtext edition. Stapled. Score. Opus 84. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA11903_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA11903).

ISBN 9790006573783. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches.

Beethovenâ €™s incidental music op. 84 was written in 1809 for a performance of Goethe’s drama “Egmont” at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Numerous composers of the day tried their hand at writing music for the dramatic material of Goethe’s tragedy, several in collaboration with the author himself. The overture reflects the themes of the play through its expressive music, and over the last two hundred years it has become one of the most popular works by Beethoven conceived for the stage.

For this new edition, Beethoven specialist Jonathan Del Mar draws on various manuscript sources including a handwritten set of parts which has never been taken into account before. Thus, numerous discrepancies such as missing notes in the flute part or unclear bowing could be clarified for the first time.

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Solo voices, choir, orchestra (soprano voice solo (3), tenor voice solo (2 ), flute (2 ), oboe (2 ), english horn, bassoon (2 ), horn (4), trumpet (2 ), harpsichord, strings)

SKU: BA.BA04599-41

Serenade in two acts. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Pierluigi Petrobelli and Wolfgang Rehm. This edition: Complete edition. Linen. New Mozart Edition (Neue Mozart Ausgabe - NMA) Series I, Volume 5, No. 9. Complete edition, Critical commentary. K. 208. 79 pages. Duration 2 hours. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04599_41. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04599-41).

ISBN 9790006496310. 24.4 x 17.3 cm inches. Language: Italian. Pietro Metastasio.

This separately published Critical Commentary offers extensive information on the genesis, reception, sources, and readings of the works included in the music volume.

(Piccolo and Piano). Composed by Leos Janacek (1854-1928). Edited by Jirí Zahrádka. For Piccolo, Piano Accompaniment. Henle Music Folios. Softcover. G. Henle #HN1143. Published by G. Henle

Violin, Piano SKU: HU.HN410 Composed by Claude Debussy. Edited by Ernst-Gunter Heinemann. Strings, Repertoire, Solos. Sonata for Violin and Piano. Classical, Romantic. Softcover Book. 70 pages. G. Henle #HN410. Published by G. Henle (HU.HN410).

Woodwind Ensemble (Score & Parts)

SKU: HL.51481261

Set of Parts. Composed by Richard Strauss. Edited by Norbert Gertsch. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Softcover. 55 pages. G. Henle #HN1261. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481261).

UPC: 840126933031. 9.0x12.0x0.202 inches.

For flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (B flat), 2 bassoons, double bassoon or bass tuba, 4 horns (E flat major/B flat) with additional parts for horns in F. When he was a mere 18 years old, Richard Strauss composed the highly Romantic, one-movement Serenade for Wind Instruments, op. 7. Extremely popular among wind players to this day, this work recalls in instrumentation and structure Mozart's “Gran Partita”, which certainly served as a model for Strauss. The serenade was not premiered in its Bavarian homeland as might have been expected, butrather in Dresden, in 1882, under the direction of the then much-esteemed conductor Franz Wüllner, who had also given the inaugural performances of Richard Wagner's Rheingold and Die Walküre and later premiered Strauss' tone poems Till Eulenspiegel and Don Quixote. So it was a great honour for the young Bavarian! Editor Norbert Gertsch presents this little masterwork here for the first time in Urtext quality - in full score and instrumental parts - for which not just the first edition but also the autograph manuscript was scrutinised fastidiously.

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Soloists, Mixed choir (SATB), Orchestra (Soprano solo, Alto solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Mixed choir (SATB), Flute, Oboes (2), Trumpets (2), Timpani, Violins (2), Viola, Basso continuo)

SKU: BA.BA10722

Ode to St Cecilia. Composed by George Frideric Handel. Edited by Stephan Blaut. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Score. HWV 76. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10722_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA10722).

ISBN 9790006567713. 31 x 24.3 cm inches. Text Language: English.

Following upon “Alexander’s Feast” (1736), in 1739 Handel produced a second setting of the “Ode to St Cecilia” (“Song for St Cecilia’s Day”). At its première it was combined with “Alexander’s Feast”. Rather than a dramatic plot presentable in the theatre, the Ode, in its seven sections, offers a general hymn of praise to music and its impact. Accordingly, it largely consists of emotion-laden arias and festive orchestration.

Thi s edition, based on the Urtext from the “Halle Handel Edition”, offers the version heard at the first performance – the version preferred in today’s concert life. The foreword (Ger/Eng) provides many detailed notes on performance practice with regard to orchestration.

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Solo SATB choir; orchestra

SKU: HP.C5636O

Composed by Natalie Sleeth. Arranged by Thomas Fettke. Piano Accompaniment with Optional Orchestra. Vocal Solo Sheet Music Series. General Worship, Sacred. Set of Instrumental Parts. 53 pages. Hope Publishing Company #C5636O. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.C5636O).

UPC: 763628256364. Natalie Sleeth. 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Eccesliastes 3:1-8, Genesis 1:14, John 12:24, Psalms 1:3, Psalms 30:5.

Popular choral anthem Natalie Sleeth's popular choral anthem and hymn, also known as In the Bulb There Is a Flower, has been given a lovely new treatment by Tom Fettke for SATB choirs. The provocative text relates both to our present life and our hope of eternal life, as expressed in I Corinthians 15:35-58. This fresh setting emphasizes the resurrected life as it builds to the final victory stanza with driving rhythm and a change to common meter (4/4). This arrangement is also available in a medium-voice vocal solo in the key of F.

The orchestration by Camp Kirkland contains a Conductor's Score and parts for: Flute 1 & 2, Oboe, Clarinet 1 & 2, Horn 1 & 2, Alto Sax 1 & 2 (substitute for Horn 1 & 2), Trombone 1 & 2, Tenor Sax/Baritone TC (substitute for Trombone 1 & 2), Trombone 3/Tuba, Percussion 1 & 2, Harp, Violin 1 & 2, Viola, Clarinet 3 (substitute for Viola), Cello/Bassoon and String Bass, Keyboard String Reduction.

Orchestra

SKU: BA.BA06861

Sinfonie (1923-1928). Composed by Leos Janacek. Arranged by Leoš Faltus and Miloš Štedron. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leos Janacek H/3. Complete edition, Score, Set of parts. Duration 40 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA06861_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA06861).

ISBN 9790260104211. 34.3 x 27 cm inches.

Leoš Janácek’s symphonic fragment Dunaj (The Danube) dates from the period of the composition of “Katya Kabanova”. The composer was not concerned with a musical-picturesque description of a river landscape, but with the mythical link between women’s destinies and water.

“Pale green waves of the Danube! There are so many of you, and one followed by another. You remain interlocked in a continuous flow. You surprise yourselves where you ended up – on the Czech shores! Look back downstream and you will have an impression of what you have left behind in your haste. It pleases you here. Here I will rest with my symphony.” Thus Leoš Janácek described the idea behind the composition project which occupied him in 1923/24. However, after further work, it remained incomplete in 1926. His “symphony” entitled Dunaj has survived as a continuously-notated, four-movement bundle of sketches in score form. It is one of the works which occupied him until his death. The scholarly reconstruction by the two Brno composers Miloš Štedron and Leoš Faltus closely follows the original manuscript.

A whole conglomeration of motifs stands behind the incomplete work. What at first seems like a counterpart to Smetana’s Vltava, in fact doesn’t turn out to be a musical depiction of the Danube. On the contrary, the fateful link between the destiny of women, water and death permeates the range of motifs found in the work. It seems to be no coincidence that Janácek, whilst working on the opera Katya Kabanova, in which the Volga, as the river bringing death plays an almost mythical role, planned a Danube symphony, and that its content was linked with the destiny of women: in the sketches, two poems were found which may have provided the stimulus for several movements of the symphony. He copied a poem by Pavla Kriciková into the second movement, in which a girl remarks that whilst bathing in a pond, she was observed by a man. Filled with shame, the young naked woman jumps into the water and drowns. The outer movements likewise draw on the poem “Lola” by the Czech writer Sonja Špálová, published under the pseudonym Alexander Insarov. This is about a prostitute who asks for her heart’s desire: she is given a palace, but then goes on a long search for it and is finally no longer wanted by anyone. She suffers, feels cold and just wants a warm fire. Janácek adds his remark “she jumps into the Danube” to the inconclusive ending.

To these tangible literary models is added Adolf Veselý’s verbal account which reports that the composer wanted to portray “in the Danube, the female sex with all its passions and driving forces”. The third movement is said to characterise the city of Vienna in the form of a woman.

It is evident that in his composition, Janácek was not striving for a simple, natural lyricism. The River Danube is masculine in the Slavic language – “ten Dunaj” – and assumes an almost mythical significance in the national character, indeed often also a role bringing death. The four movements are motivically conceived. Elements of sound painting, small wave-like figures in the first movement, motoric, driving movements in the third are obvious evocations of water. And the content and the literary level are easy to discover. The “tremolo of the four timpani”, which was amongst Janácek’s first inspirations, appears in the second movement. It is not difficult to retrace in it the fate of the drowning bather. The oboe enters lamentoso towards the end of the movement over timpani playing tremolo, its descending figure is taken over by the flute, then upper strings and intensified considerably. The motif of drowning – Lola’s despair – returns again in the fourth movement in the clarinet, before the work ends abruptly and dramatically.

One special effect is the use of a soprano voice in the motor-driven third movement. The singer vocalises mainly in parallel with the solo oboe, but also in dialogue with other parts such as the viola d’amore, which Janácek used in several late works as a sort of “voice of love”.

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