Voice and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ20017A New Liszt Edition, Series IX. Vol.2...(+)
Voice and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ20017A
New
Liszt Edition, Series IX.
Vol.2.. By David
Trippett. By Franz Liszt.
EMB New Listz Edition.
Classical. Book
Hardcover. Composed 2019.
180 pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ20017A.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ20017A).
English-German-Hungari
an.
In 1845 Franz
Liszt embarked on a
project to compose an
Italian opera based on
Lord Byron’s
tragedy, Sardanapalus
(1821). It was central to
his ambition to attain
status as a major
European composer, with
premieres variously
planned for Milan,
Vienna, Paris and London.
But he abandoned it half
way through, and the
music he completed has
lain silently for 170
years.
Liszt’s difficulty
in obtaining a libretto
meant that composition
only began in April 1850.
He completed virtually
all the music for Act 1
in an annotated
piano-vocal score of 111
pages, contained within
his N4 music
‘sketch
book’. The unnamed
librettist was an Italian
poet and political
prisoner, seemingly
living under house
arrest, and a close
acquaintance of Cristina
Belgiojoso. His libretto
survives as underlay in
the N4 sketchbook and has
been critically
reconstructed and
translated.
Sardanapalo is
Liszt’s only
mature opera. While he
consistently referred to
it in French, as
Sardanapale, the
published title of the
Italian opera would
almost certainly have
used the Italian name,
hence this forms the
title of the first
edition. There are three
solo roles and a chorus
of concubines. The
manuscript was previously
thought to be fragmentary
and partially illegible,
but it was finally
deciphered to
international acclaim in
March 2017.
Liszt’s score
offers a richly melodic
style, with elements from
Bellini and Verdi
alongside glimmers of
Wagner and the symphonic
poems ahead: a unique
mixture of Italianate
pastiche and mid-century
harmonic innovation. It
remains quintessentially
Lisztian. The opera sets
Byron’s tragedy
about war and peace in
ancient Assyria: the last
King, effeminate in his
tastes, is drawn to wine,
concubines and feasts
more than politics and
war: his subjects find
him dishonourable (a
‘man queen’)
and military rebels seek
to overthrow him, but are
pardoned, for the King
rejects the ‘deceit
of glory’ built on
others’ suffering:
this leads only to a
larger uprising, the
Euphrates floods its
banks, destroying the
castle’s main
defensive wall, and
defeat is inevitable: the
King sends his family
away and orders that he
be burned alive with his
lover, amid scents and
spices in a grand
inferno. As Byron put it:
‘not a mere pillar
formed of cloud and
flame, but a light to
lessen ages.’ For
his part, Liszt told a
friend that his finale
‘will even aim to
set fire to the entire
audience!’
This critical edition
includes a detailed study
on the genesis of
Liszt’s
Sardanapalo in English,
German, and Hungarian,
the libretto in the
original Italian as well
as in English, German,
and Hungarian
translation, several
facsimile pages of
Liszt’s
manuscript, and a
detailed Critical
Report.
Piano and Vocal - advanced SKU: BT.DHP-1165710-401 Piano Reduction...(+)
Piano and Vocal -
advanced
SKU:
BT.DHP-1165710-401
Piano Reduction.
By Paul Mann. By Jon
Lord. Piano Reduction.
Composed 2016. 16 pages.
De Haske Publications
#DHP 1165710-401.
Published by De Haske
Publications
(BT.DHP-1165710-401).
ISBN
9789043150248.
The
28-year-old Jon Lord,
with no experience at all
of writing for orchestra,
composed this work in
only three months in the
lead-up to its premiere
with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra
and Malcolm Arnold. It
was his first workfor
orchestra, launching his
career as both a
classical composer and a
founding member of Deep
Purple. It is notably
rich in youthful
invention, sound in
structure, and
sophisticated in
craftsmanship. It broke
new ground at thetime,
and seems only to have
grown in stature across
the intervening years.
The full score appears
here in print for the
first time ever,
meticulously edited by
the
composerââ¬â¢s
long-time musical
collaborator Paul
Mann.
De 28 jaar
oude Jon Lord, die nog
geen enkele ervaring had
in het schrijven voor
orkest, componeerde dit
werk in slechts drie
maanden in de aanloop
naar de première
met het Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra en
Malcolm Arnold.
Hetbetreft dus zijn
eerste compositie voor
orkest en hij lanceerde
hiermee zijn parallelle
carrières als
componist en
medeoprichter van Deep
Purple. Het werk is rijk
aan jeugdige
vindingrijkheid, goed
opgebouwd en met
vakmanschapgemaakt. Het
was destijds baanbrekend
en het lijkt in de loop
der jaren alleen maar aan
zeggingskracht te hebben
gewonnen. De volledige
partituur verschijnt nu
voor het eerst op papier,
in een
consciëntieuze
bewerking doorPaulMann,
met wie de componist op
muzikaal gebied al jaren
samenwerkt.
Partitur und
Klavierauszug des
Concertos
können
käuflich erworben
werden. Das
Einzelstimmen-Set ist
ausschließlich
Leihmaterial. Auskunft
über
Leih-Bedingungen und
Preise erhalten Sie auf
Nachfrage.
Bittekontaktieren Sie:
HalLeonard Europe BV
- Rental
department E-Mail: rental@hall
eonardeurope.nl Der 28 Jahre alte
Jon Lord, der bis dahin
keine Erfahrung im
Bereichder
Orchesterkomposition
hatte, brauchte
für dieses Werk
nur drei Monate, bis es
mit dem Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra
unter der Leitung von
Malcolm Arnold
uraufgeführt
wurde. Seinerstes Werk
für Orchester ist
der Beginn
seinerparallelen Karriere
als Komponist und
Gründungsmitglied
der Rockband Deep Purple.
Das Stück zeichnet
sich durch jugendlichen
Einfallsreichtum, einen
strukturierten Klang
sowie ein
ausgeklügeltes
Könnenaus. Es galt
damals alsbahnbrechend
und seine Bedeutung
scheint in der
Zwischenzeit weiter
gestiegen zu sein. Die
Partitur erscheint hier
zum allerersten Mal im
Druck und wurde bis ins
kleinste Detail von Paul
Mann, einem
langjährigenmusika
lischenFreund des
Komponisten,
herausgegeben.