The first published edition of Malcolm Arnold's playful 1956 overture written for the Gerald Hoffnung Festival. The orchestral score includes parts for three vacuum cleaners, an electric polisher and four rifles. / Orchestre

New Edition of the Complete Works V/5. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. In addition to his symphonies, Franz Schubert also wrote and handed down to posterity a total of eight finished concert overtures (two of them in two versions) between ca. 1811 and 1819. With the exception of the “Overture in D” (D 4) to the comedy “Der Teufel als Hydraulicus” (“The Devil as Engineer”) and the “Overture in D” (D 26), whose original title was cut out of the manuscript, they are all compositions which are associated neither with a drama nor a programme. They thus embody the type of the pure concert overture at an astonishingly early point in the history of music and are also in keeping with this terminologically by virtue of explicitly not having any other appellations whatsoever in the title: the epithet common for two works “in the Italian style” was only added posthumously. Our volume sees publication for the first time of the “Italian Overture in C” (D 591) in its two authentic versions, this being in contrast to the performance tradition based on a potpourri of the sources. The widely handed-down but corrupted musical course of the “Overture in D” (D 590) has likewise been rectified for the first time. Overshadowed by his symphonies, Schubert’s overtures have hitherto been largely undervalued both in their reception and in musical practice – including the “Overture in E minor” (D 648), which sees Schubert venturing into radically new spheres of expression to a greater extent than in virtually any other of his works./ Recueil / Orchestre

Par BOYCE WILLIAM. Edited by Gerald Finzi A collection that includes some of the liveliest and most attractive orchestral music by any 18th-century English composer - edited by a 20th-century composer who pioneered a reappraisal of Boyce's achievement. Most of the pieces are drawn from New Year and Royal Birthday Odes. Performing material for rental is available for eight of the Overtures. First published in 1957./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. The 'Coriolanus', 'Fidelio', 'Egmont' and three 'Leonore' overtures. Republication of the Breitkopf and Hartel edition./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par ARNOLD MALCOLM. Peterloo is the derisive name given to an incident on 16 August 1819, in St Peter's Fields, Manchester, when an orderly crowd of some 8,000 people met to hear a speech on political reform. On the orders of the magistrates they were interrupted by the Yeomanry, attempting to seize the banners they carried, and to arrest their speaker, Henry Hunt. Cavalry were sent in, eleven people were killed and four hundred injured in the ensuring panic. This overture attempts to portray these happenings musically, but after a lament for the killed and injured, it ends in triumph, in the firm belief that all those who have suffered and died in the cause of unity amongst mankind will not have done so in vain./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Rheinberger's concert overtures are completely beholden to the tradition of the genre established at least since the 1820s. The spread of this genre was favored in equal measure by the growth of bourgeois musical culture and the overwhelming model of Beethoven's nine symphonies, which sowed a certain perplexity and discouragement among composers of the next generation and led them to turn increasingly to the smaller single-movement genre in their orchestral music. Soon a generic distinction arose between two types of overture. One was the autonomous overture, whose character results from its specific introductory function. Rheinberger's Academic Overture follows in thissame line of tradition. The other type was the overture with subject-matter, in which the romantic inclination to recreate extra-musical material in music found an expecially fruitful field of exploration. Having originated as the opening item of an opera or play, the overture had, after all, long been accustomed to accommodating the contents of the work that followed. The concert overture on an extra-musical subject is in turn associated in particular with the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Rheinberger too, closely modeled his opp. 11 and 110 on Mendelssohn's overtures./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Rossini's popular overture is now available with complete performance material on sale. It is newly edited based on the forthcoming volume of the 'Works of Gioachino Rossini' (BA10506). This scholarly-critical practical edition contains almost two works in one as Rossini composed this overture firstly for his opera 'Aureliano in Palmira' and then also used it in 'The Barber of Seville'. The two overtures differ simply in their instrumentation. This new edition is an Urtext edition. Free of later additions to the instrumentation and other changes, it reproduces this famous work in the version which Rossini intended. Conductors can nowchoose to perform the overture to 'The Barber of Seville' without the frequently added second flute, second oboe and drums, which were not part of the opera's original instrumentation. First Urtext edition of the popular overture Foreword (Ger/Eng/It) Optimal page-turns in the parts/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Academic Festival Overture', 'Tragic Overture' and 'Variations On A Theme By Joseph Haydn'. Breitkopf & Hartel editions./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Overture. Par WEBER CARL MARIA VON. This is the Pocket or Study Score for the Overture from Weber's Der Freischutz./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Op. 62. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven?s ?Coriolan? overture was composed in 1807. Whether the work was originally intended as a concert overture or for the stage has not been clarified to this day. The work was first performed at the Palais Lobkowitz and it was the Lobkowitz family who played a decisive role in the transmission of the sources. For this new edition, Beethoven specialist Jonathan Del Mar incorporates various manuscript sources, including a handwritten set of parts that has never been considered before. As a result, numerous discrepancies could be clarified. / Date parution : 2022-04-05/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Description A towering figure among Russian composers of the late 19th century, Rimsky-Korsakov was one of music?s master orchestrators. The 3 works in full score in this collection, Dance of the Buffoons, Capriccio Espagnol, Russian Easter Festival (Overture), display his mastery of orchestration. They are reproduced from early authoritative scores. Songlist Capricio Espagnol Dance Of The Buffoons Russian Easter Festival Overture

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ?Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain works such as ?Preciosa', ?Oberon', and ?Euryanthe', the overtures, solo concertos and piano sonatas, the lieder and chamber works enjoyed great popularity and were widely known in Germany and abroad as late as the second half of the 19th century. However, any chance of a revival of Weber's influential and substantial oeuvre was wasted in the 1920s, when a complete edition - begun by Hans Joachim Moser and with potential contributors including Wilhelm Kempff, Hans Pfitzner, Max von Schillings, Fritz Stein and Richard Strauss - failed after the third volume.Ever since there have been numerous attempts to restart a complete edition of Weber's works, but as this kind of project would have required the co-operation of scholars from both sides of the inter-German border, the political situation after 1945 was not conducive to any such enterprise. Careful negotiations led to the first tangible steps in the 1980s. The intention, right from the beginning, was to place Weber's work in context, and not to separate his musical output from his influential work as a writer, critic and organiser in the musical field, but to publish his compositions together with his letters, diaries and other literary output as the best way to document the cross-fertilisation between his musical, literary and practical activities.Since the German re-unification both working-parties concerned - at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and at the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Detmold/Paderborn - have co-operated on the complete edition of the musical works (c. 45 volumes in 10 series: sacred music - cantatas, odes and other occasional works - stage works - lieder and vocal works - orchestral works - chamber music - music for piano - piano reductions - miscellanea, arrangements and orchestrations - works of doubtful attribution). The diaries (6-8 vols.) are edited in Berlin and the letters (8-10 vols.) and other writings (2 vols.) in Detmold. This complete edition aims to be a reliable basis of scholarly debate as well as for the authentic performance practice of Carl Maria von Weber's music. Conforming to the standards of recent historico-critical editions, the textual material will be based on all available authentic sources, accompanied by a detailed documentation of the genesis and a list of variants for each work. The musicological importance of the works will be evaluated by placing them in their historical context, the presentation of their genesis, history and Critical Commentaries. The letters, writings and diaries will be treated as inter-related and relevant to each other in the commentaries, therefore readers should benefit from a wealth of concise information and cross-references. / Score