Par KING ROBERT / RUTTER JOHN. Oxford Choral Classics: anglais Church Music rassemble en deux volumes d'environ 100 des plus beaux exemples de l'anglais la musique chorale sacrée des cinq derniers siècles. Le premier volume, consacré aux hymnes et motets, présente à la fois favoris et des Oeuvres moins connues, de la polyphonie de la Renaissance exceptionnelle Taverner, Tallis, Byrd et, à travers la restauration dirigée par Purcell, les Oeuvres glorieuses de la grande XIXe et XXe siècles compositeurs-siècle, y compris Wesley, Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, et Howells. Le volume contient un certain nombre d'Oeuvres plus importantes, y compris de Mendelssohn Ecoute ma prière, Stainer, je vis le Seigneur, et dicentis Naylor Vox: Clama, ainsi qu'une belle sélection de pièces plus courtes, de Gibbons O Seigneur, dans ta colère pour définir Walton moi comme un sceau sur ton cOeur. Avec le volume second compagnon de cantiques et de réponses, cette collection présente bipartite une enquête approfondie de la musique sacrée anglaise à son meilleur. / Recueil / Chant

Romantische Opera in three acts. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Alfonso und Estrella D 732 Romatic Opera in 3 Acts In late September or early October 1821 Schubert and his close friend, Franz von Schober, vacationed in the countryside of Lower Austria. Their first stopover was at Ochsenburg Castle, which belonged to the Bishop of St. Pölten (a close relative of Schober’s), after which they moved on to St. Pölten itself. Roughly a year earlier, two stage works by Schubert had been performed in Vienna: the one-act singspiel Die Zwillingsbrüder and the melodrama Die Zauberharfe. The librettos were both written by the seasoned Viennese playwright Georg von Hofmann, who blamed the press for the indifferent reception the two works weregiven by the audience. Schubert and Schober now decided, it would seem, to write a grand romantic opera uninfluenced by the workaday world of the theatre and beholden solely to their own ideas of what an opera should be. Not until 24 June 1854 was the opera finally performed in Weimar, under the baton of Franz Liszt. It only achieved success, however, in an arrangement by Johann Nepomuk Fuchs that was staged on many German and Austrian stages in 1881–2, allegedly with 'brilliant acclaim'. Urtext of the New Schubert Edition Full score (BA5540) and vocal score (BA5540-90) available for sale Performance material (BA5540-72) available for hire/ Répertoire / Chant