Arrangeur: Siegfried Petrenz. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. George Frideric Handel is considered England’s first and foremost composer of oratorios. Above all, the Messiah is regarded as the epitome of sacred music and in German-speaking countries it is also one of the most often performed works in the genre. The version of the Messiah which is most often performed today is a combination of various…

Compilation. The Piano Treasury of Easy Classical Music is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This tremendous piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the pianist who loves classical music. No other single volume can provide the wealth of exquisite piano selections contained within these pages. Here you will find t…

Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year. A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selec…

Description The Oratorio Anthology - Tenor Newly edited and engraved arias, compiled by Richard Walters. Songlist Ach, Mein Sinn (St. John Passion) [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Behold And See If There Be Any Sorrow (Messiah) [Handel, George Frideric] Benedictus (Mass In B Minor) [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Comfort Ye, My People (Messiah) [Handel, George Frideric] Cujus Animam (Stabat Mater) [Ross…

Music for Royal Occasions is an exciting volume of pieces written for coronations and other royal celebrations over the past five centuries. It includes long-standing favourites, such as Handel's Zadok the priest and Parry's I was glad - and works from earlier years, such an Henry Purcell's I was glad and the delightful Rejoice in the Lord alway . Many well-loved composers were commissioned to wri…

Par GRAINGER PERCY ALDRIDGE. Between 1920 and 1940 Grainger published a loose series of piano transcriptions under the title of 'Free Settings of Favourite Melodies' in order to make a wide audience acquainted with the music of great composers. Five pieces that prove his feel of tone colours and his highly developed understanding of the piano and its possibilities, have been included in this volum…

A Comic Opera. Par BICKERSTAFF ISAAC (Arr. TOMS EDWARD). 'Love in a Village' was first performed on 8 December 1762 at the Covent Garden Theatre (London). It was to become one of the most popular British musical stage works of the century, and by 1791 it had also gained international acclaim. The question of why this pastiche comic opera was able to develop this special attraction can be described…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. The episode from Ovid‘s “Metamorphoses” in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo’s advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, has inspired the masterworks of many artists. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose famous marble sculpture is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, is only one example of this. M…

Schumann 'Scènes Forêt', op. 82 datent de l'année 1848-1849. Ce fut la période la plus créative du compositeur, mais celui qui a été marquée par des troubles révolutionnaires et l'incertitude politique. Ainsi que des compositions chorales et les grandes oeuvres dramatiques, y compris l'opéra 'Genoveva' et 'Manfred' de Schumann créé le piano, Scènes intimes cycle de la forêt, inspiré par les illust…

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…

Nouvellement révisées et transcrites, cette compilation de Richard Walters. / Voix / Partition