Studie Zu 'Tristan Und Isolde'. Par WAGNER RICHARD. The sophisticated choral arrangements by Clytus Gottwald have found a place in concert life throughout the world. Now Gottwald has arranged two of Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, “Im Treibhaus” and “Träume”, for 16-voice choir a cappella. In his choral transcriptions Gottwald has transferred to traditional music the compositional techniques f…

Merry Christmas Everyone presents three all-time festive classics, arranged by the ever-inventive Gwyn Arch. There's something for everyone here: a jolly rendition of Merry Christmas Everyone, the beautiful, poignant When A Child Is Born, and the smoochy classic Last Christmas. Arranged for upper voices with piano accompaniment. The Choral Programme Series is now a well-established programming to…

Passionskantate. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Carus critical new edition is the very first edition of the Grabmusik which is based on Mozart’s separate autographs for movements 1–6, and 7–8, respectively. The fact that the final movement also contains two horn parts which have never appeared in print is an absolutely sensational discovery. Now the work may be again performed using Mozart’s las…

Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. One of the best-loved and most endearing works of the late Baroque, Vivaldi's set of Violin Concertos The Four Seasons Op. 8 are presented here in an authoritative Barenreiter Urtext edition. This publication of Vivaldi’s masterpiece is a critical performing edition of the Manchester manuscript source, which originates from Vivaldi’s circle and represents an alternative (in ma…

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Temporal Variations for Oboe And Piano was first performed on 15th December 1936 at the Wigmore hall in London, under the different name of Temporal Suite . Although Britten was pleased with the work, no further performance took place in his lifetime. The piece now though has earned it's place among Britten's most favoured pieces for Oboe and continues to delight audiences to…

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. When the librettist Paolo Rolli and George Frideric Handel composed an Italian opera about Scipio's conquest of the Iberian port city of Carthago Nova in 1726, these events from 209 BC were already almost two thousand years in the past. Research on the critical edition of the opera “Scipione” in the Halle Handel Edition suggests that the librettist and composer had so…

Tragédie-opéra Drame héroïque en trois actes. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. Christoph Willibald Gluck’s most popular opera “Orphée et Euridice” was performed in 1774 in Paris to sensational success. This new adaption followed the original Viennese version with Italian text that was first performed in 1762 under the direction of the composer in the Burgtheater. For the Paris version Gluck changed …

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…

Par SPOHR LOUIS. Louis Spohr?s technically, extremely demanding concertos have long been part of clarinetists? standard repertoire. Like the first clarinet concerto, this second concerto was composed for the clarinetist Johann Hermstedt, probably in the spring of 1810. Critics praised the concerto at its premiere, stating that it was ?undeniably one of the most accomplished works of art of its kin…

Par RANDS BERNARD. Habituellement prêt pour l'expédition après 7-11 semaines. Once my String Quartet Music was completed, a copy of the score was sent to each consortium member. The premiere performances of this project were given on March 14, 2022, at Constellation in Chicago. My own String Quartet Music is now in the process of becoming one of several movements of String Quartet No. 4. / Date pa…

Dramma per musica in thre acts. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Tamerlano HWV 18; Dramma per musica in 3 acts Handel began the composition of Tamerlano, one of the supreme masterpieces of Baroque opera seria, on 3rd July 1724. The libretto was an adaptation by Nicola Haym of Agostino Piovene's Tamerlano, Tragedia per musica, which had been set to music by Francesco Gasparini, and performed in Venice …

Par BOUTHIER CHRISTIAN. The energetic activities of three craftsmen at a local crafts market inspired the composer Christian Bouthier to write this work in three movements. The clockmaker gets many curious visitors at his stand. He patiently and proudly shows the precision work of his beautiful clocks and lets all of them tick - the small ones and large ones. The cooper (barrel-maker) skillfully p…

Little Piano Pieces - Kleine Klavierstücke - Petites pièces pour piano. Par ORBÁN GYÖRGY. György Orbán (born 1947) is among the most frequently performed contemporary Hungarian composers. His style incorporates a characteristic mix of classical, modern, cinematic, and jazz elements. In addition, he claims he ''loves splashing about in tonality,'' which makes his works accessible to the wider publi…

Waldkircha in Musica. Par DE HAAN JACOB. Jubilate’s main theme comes from the Gregorian chant on the Psalm Jubliate Deo omnis terra. The work itself was inspired by the sacredhistory of the Waldkirch (a forest village) community, located on the Swiss/German boarder. It tells a tale of the Irish and Scottish monks who build the first wooden church at the site of what is now Waldkirch, of the dramat…

Vitamin String Quartet from Bridgerton. Par GRANDE ARIANA. If you have tuned into the hit period drama on Netflix, Bridgerton, chances are you've also taken notice of the distinctive string quartet playing covers of today's top contemporary hits in decidedly classical arrangements. Hal Leonard is pleased to now present string quartet score and parts for this buzz-worthy music performed by Vitamin …