A Gaelic Blessing is a simple and catchy piece by Craig McLeish. This piece will be particularly useful for school, junior and community choirs, and a tuneful introduction to singing simple contrapuntal lines. The second soprano part repeats the tune at bar 33 and should dominate here - the first sopranos and altos should support appropriately. Ease and beauty of tone should be of paramount import…

The first great orchestral psalmMendelssohn's first great orchestral psalm took almost six years to complete, from the initial sketches and the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. Its premiere which took place at the Leipzig Gewandhaus did not take place until 1838.Unlike his other orchestral psalms, Mendelssohn took the Latin words from the Vulgate as his principal text which stem…

Gluck Complete Edition V/2. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. While Christoph Willibald Gluck dedicated his artistic life almost entirely to the composition of works for the opera stage, he also produced a number of instrumental works which have been somewhat marginalized until recently. This volume of the 'Gluck Complete Edition” (GGA) is the first to present 17 symphonies attributed to Gluck in a h…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. “The Etudes op. 52 and op. 111 are little masterpieces of invention. On every page you encounter ingenious inventions for piano technique and sound.” (Isidore Philipp) What Isidore Philipp described in “Musica” in 1907 is still true today: indeed, the etudes of Saint-Saens offer a panopticon of French piano technique as complex as it is dazzling. Individual etudes, suc…

Par DEBUSSY CLAUDE. Debussy's only string quartet, composed in 1893, was his first masterwork. Together with two further works from this creative period, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and Pelléas et Mélisande, the quartet established the composer's position as the rising star of the French music scene. Discrepancies existed from the initial publication in 1894 between the score, corrected and …

The vocal score of Beethoven's Fidelio is based on the scholarly-critical edition of the full score prepared by Helga Lühning (Beethoven-Haus, Bonn) and the late Robert Didion (†). lt is the first one to make use of all the major sources. The opera's extremely long gestation and complex genesis, with its three versions between 1804 and 1814 and its four overtures, shed light on the huge amount of …

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Brahms’s Clarinet Trio, composed in 1891, was inspired by the exceptional musicality of clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. As he did for his horn trio, Brahms prepared a viola part as a possible alternative to the clarinet. Both scorings were rehearsed (the viola part being played by Joseph Joachim) prior to the premiere and publication of the work. Bärenreiter’s scholarly-critica…

Par JANACEK LEOS. Janácek's 2nd String Quartet, Intimate Letters, is regarded as a highlight of the modern string quartet literature. It was written during the composer’s last year of life, between 29 January and 19 February 1928, inspired by the ageing Janáèek's exceptional love for Kamila Stösslová. The Moravian Quartet devoted themselves to this impressive work; Janácek attended a total of thre…

The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition III/1/5. Par MARTINU BOHUSLAV. “Incarnation” (1956), Bohuslav Martinu’s fourth piano concerto, follows an atypical two-movement structure. It was composed for Martinu’s friend Rudolf Firkušný, who played from a copy of the autograph until 1970, when the composition was first put into print. The next work, “Concerto in B flat major for Piano and Orchestra”, kno…

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Le livre Vocal réelle est la réponse à l'ouvrage de faux. C'est une alternative à la pléthore de volumes mal conçues, illisibles, inexacts, mal edited qui abondent sur le marché aujourd'hui. Le livre Vocal réelle est extrêmement précis, soignée et vise, avant tout, pour un usage pratique. Tous les efforts réalisés pour le rendre agréable à effectuer. La sélection de musiques pour ce volume met en …

Generique- Perpetuum. Par PLATZER FREDERIC. Generique- Perpetuum / Niveau : Fin 2ème Cycle / Répertoire / 2 Flûtes Traversières et Piano

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI / SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius…

Par ALOIGI HAYES ANTONELLA. Brani di genere classico, jazz, folk, in facili arrangiamenti per piccoli gruppi.Strumenti ad arco (musica d'insieme), 40 parti staccate.Per piccoli ensembles di allievi dei primi corsi, una raccolta che propone un repertorio di brani originali e c che spaziano nei diversi generi musicali: melodie classiche, songs in stile jazz e folk. Il piacere di suonare in gruppo, f…

Herausgeber: Ernst-Günter Heinemann, Wolfram Enßlin Fing. Va: Jürgen Weber Fingersatz Gambe: Rainer Zipperling Generalbassaussetzung: Wolfgang Kostujak Wie sein Vater hat auch Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach drei Sonaten für Viola da Gamba komponiert. Sie stammen aus seiner Zeit am Berliner Hof Friedrichs des Großen und gaben dem herausragenden Gambisten der Hofkapelle Gelegenheit, sein virtuoses Könne…