Texte et musique par Raoul Lay, adapté de la Mort-parrain des frères Grimm.Un père pauvres et les indigents cherche quelqu'un pour être le parrain de son enfant treizième. La mort semble lui la plus belle de toutes, parce qu'il traite tout le monde comme un égal. Comme les années passent, l'enfant devient un brillant médecin. La mort le permet, en apparaissant, invisible à tous, mais lui-au chevet…

Par LEOPOLD SILKE / REDEPENNING DOROTHEA / STEINHEUER . / Livre / Divers

'What's important in music that's based on a poem - on the emotion inspired by a poem - is the music and power of emotion it harbours within itself?. These words, written in 1949 by poet Pierre Reverdy, would make a deep impression on composer Betsy Jolas. She'd just sent the writer her Six mélodies for mezzo-soprano and piano composed on poems from his masterwork Plupart du temps. The songs were …

Zweistimmige Organa und Motetten des 14. Jahrhunderts. Das Erbe Deutscher Musik VII/10 und 11. / Mottet / Recueil / Voix

/ Voix Haute(s)

This setting of the opening to Psalm 102 was composed in the early 1680s. Purcell, who was in his early twenties, had succeeded John Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey around the beginning of the decade and his star was in the ascendant as a court composer. In this piece he pulls off a remarkable compositional coup: a single, gradual climax, lasting over two minutes and culminating on the final…

Blue Moon , written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, has had many treatments over the decades. Mel Tormé made a smooth hit version in the 1940s, Elvis Presley put it on his first album in 1956 and The Marcels had a doo-wop hit with it in 1961, but 'An American Werewolf in London' was the first movie to associate this most romantic of songs with lycanthropy. This brand new arrangement by…

Blue Moon , written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, has had many treatments over the decades. Mel Tormé made a smooth hit version in the 1940s, Elvis Presley put it on his first album in 1956 and The Marcels had a doo-wop hit with it in 1961, but 'An American Werewolf in London' was the first movie to associate this most romantic of songs with lycanthropy. This brand new arrangement by…

Par BARGIELSKI ZBIGNIEW . After the first performance of my Fourth Quartet, in Salzburg in 1997, the artists of the excellent Hugo Wolf Quartett approached me with the appealing proposition that I write a new quartet. Rather problematic, however, proved to be the musicians’ delicate suggestion that I invest the work with elements of a more pungent expression and elements of folklore – ideally Poli…

for alto voice and string trio. Par BRYARS GAVIN. Incipit Vita Nova (A new life is beginning) was written for male alto and string trio and sets those short phrases that appear in Latin rather than Italian in Dante's La Vita Nuova (New Life). It was composed in February 1989 to celebrate the birth of Vita, the first child of my friends Erica and Robert Hewison. I had decided to write the piece lon…

Vienna Version - 1767. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. With the premiere of Gluck's 'Alceste”, the 'Burgtheater” Vienna reopened its doors, concluding a period of moarning that had been decreed following the death of Archduchess Maria Josepha. Calzabigi's inspiration for the libretto, which, despite including an element of wonder, focuses entirely on death and the afterworld, most likely stemmed fr…

Par PEDRO D.DE. La Teoría completa de la Música en esta nueva edición revisada, ha mantenido intactas todas aquellas cuestiones teórico-practicas que son inamovibles, al tiempo que conserva por su probada eficacia, su estructura temática, lo que la convierte tanto en una obra de consulta como en una obra capaz de ser estructurada y adaptada tanto al currículo de Conservatorios como al de las Escue…