Par ABOULKER ISABELLE / EYMERY. Known for her Operas and Vocal works, contemporary composer, Isabelle Aboulker has won numerous prizes for her compositions. Her collaboration with Opera libretto writer, Christian Eymery led to the exciting Douce Et Barbe Bleue for soloists, children's choir and Piano. Aboulker has done a significant amount of work with children and as a result, she has specially c…

Par SCHERLIESS VOLKER. / Méthode / Livre

Popular songs, movie hits, opera arias, folksongs, classical songs. A Man Without Love (Quando M'Innamoro) - A Time For Us (Love Theme) - Addio a Napoli - Anema E Core (With All My Heart) - Antico Canto Siciliano (Wedding Procession - Sicilian Love Song) - Antonià - Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye To Rome) - Autumn In Romela Notte (This Is The Night) - Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina) - Cannetella - C…

Opera in five acts Version with recitatives. Par GOUNOD CHARLES. Charles Gounod’s international renown is based on the success of his opera „Faust“ after Goethe’s drama: The aging Faust makes a pact with the devil. He sells his soul to Mephistopheles and in return gets back his youth – and he experiences new happiness in love when he meets the young Marguerite. The vocal score to Gounod’s masterp…

Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. With the exception of his opera sinfonia, the present first edition of the Six Violin Sonatas by Johann Adolf Hasse is the only instrumental work by this composer whose authorship can be verified through his handwritten entries in a manuscript copy. The composer gave these pieces a profile completely tailored to the instrument, a fact which places them in sharp contrast to …

Par SZYMANOWSKI KAROL. (VII) The Polish idiom appeared in Szymanowskis music in 1920, foreshadowing the beginning of a new period of creativity, later called nationalistic. Before this idiom was realised and such compositions typical of the Polish style as the ballet Harnasie, the Mazurkas, Stabat Mater, Fourth Symphony and Second Violin Concerto had been written, the change in musical thinking an…

Handel's dramatic cantata Apollo And Daphne belongs to the composer's early years in Italy. It seems likely to have been written in Rome, where Handel lived intermittently between 1707 and 1710. Opera in Rome had been placed under a papal ban, but musical society in the performance of dramatic cantatas, which possessed most of the features of opera without requiring elaborate staging. Handel's pla…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…

Weihnachtskantate. Par SCHMELZER JOHANN HEINRICH. With this pastoral Christmas cantata by the long-serving Royal Hofkapellmeister of Vienna, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, we wish to draw attention to a prominent baroque composer whose vocal and instrumental works have yet to achieve their historical place in the “early music scene“ which they richly deserve. Schmelzer’s easily performable pastoral mu…

Par ADES THOMAS. The Libretto of Powder Her Face , an opera by Thomas Ades. The work was commissioned by Almeida Opera and premiered in the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham in July 1995, as part of the Cheltenham Festival. The libretto is by Phillip Hensher./ Livre / Livret

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. These settings of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins , the Jesuit poet, were written while Benjamin Britten was resident in America. The title is a shorthand form of a pious inscription, Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam , often placed at the head of a piece of work. Benjamin Britten was a central figure of 20th century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other v…

Dessau's String Quartet movement was written while he was also working on Brecht's opera Puntila. After Brecht's death in 1956 Dessau found himself looking for a new direction. On the one hand he was still working on music begun in collaboration with the poet, while on the other hand Dessau was trying to work towards a socially oriented musical aesthetic, which led him to compose songs for politic…