for String Quartet. Par BAKER CLAUDE. A VOICE PASSES provides musical commentary on three haiku by the 19th-century poet Masaoka Shiki and one by the legendary master he most admired, Yosa Buson. Stricken with tuberculosis and addicted to morphine in the later years of his short life, Shiki wrote a large number of haiku that dealt with the pain and suffering caused by his illness. Of these, many w…

Par GARCIA JOSE MAURICIO NUNES. Garcia, born in 1767 in Rio de Janeiro, and priest and music director at the cathedral there, is still hardly known. Among his spiritual works are four settings of the Mass for the Dead. The present „Missa dos Defunktos“ was commissioned by the Portuguese King Dom Joao VI in the memory of Queen Maria I, who died in 1816. The composition, in the key of D minor, shows…

Transcription For Pianoforte / Italian - English Edition. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Ever since their first publication in 1725, LE QUATTRO STAGIONI (The Four Seasons) have collectively been known as one of the most significant compositions by Vivaldi. Today they are without doubt the most frequently programmed of Vivaldi´s works, provided here in transcription for piano solo based on the critical editi…

Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev commissioned many composers to write music for the theatre. This was what caused Serge Prokofiev to compose the four part Scytische Suite (also known as Ala and Lolli) in 1916, from which The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits can be heard on this CD. This suite is one of Prokofiev's first works, and received negative criticism…

G-Dur. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The G major mass of Mozart followed a very special type of mass pattern, namely, that of the 'Missa pastoralis'. In Mozart's time it was a widespread type of mass, especially in Bohemia and Italy, in which melodies and rhythms like those familiar from pastoral Christmas music were frequently found. The themes in this type of mass are song-like and often make use…

Copie des éditions Durand (version Saint-Saëns). Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. This volume contains all 63 of Rameau's works for keyboard, published between 1706 and 1741, including well-known pieces as 'Musette En Rondeau', 'Tambourin', 'Les Niais De Sologne' and 'La Poule'. From the complete works edition edited by Camille Saint-Saens./ Répertoire / Clavier ou Orgue Electronique

Par BUXTEHUDE DIETRICH. In the tradition of Protestant missa brevis compositions, the music of this Mass was written in the so-called stile antico” following 16th-century models and known as Palestrina style. The surviving copy, in the Düben Collection, dates from 1675. Buxtehude adopted the strict form of the “stile antico, ” contrapuntal polyphony without instrumental accompaniment for various c…

Par HOGESTEIN HENK. Scotland is famed for its rich landscapes and proud heritage. It is also the country that is known for ‘housing’ the Loch Ness Monster. In celebration of their heritage the Scots annually hold their Highland Games treating audiences to the traditional ‘sports’ competed by their clan descendents. The Dutch composer Henk Hogestein used the Scottish Highland Games as a source of i…

Par HAHN. Having been considered as a 'fashionable' and 'cliche' composer of his day, Hahn 's compositions are possibly not as well-known as they ought to be. Premières Valses for Piano, however, shatter these prejudices held, representing the engaging diversity of the composer's music. Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) entered the Paris Conservatoire at 10 years old. He received a high st…

Par DE PADILLA JUAN GUTIERREZ. Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590-1664) was a Spanish-born Mexican composer of the Renaissance period. Although born in Málaga, Spain, he moved to Puebla, Mexico in 1620, and was later appointed maestro de capilla of the Puebla Cathedral in 1628. He is most well-known for his choral works, with a large number of them surviving to this day. Instrumentation: 6 Bassoon…

à 26 in concerto. Par BIBER HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ. This first edition of a mass by Biber offers a new glimpse of the colourful and contrastful world of the Baroque. Since the publication of his 'Missa Salisburgensis' in 1903, no mass with this kind of many-voice scoring has appeared in print. This edition not only enriches the multi-choir repertoire, but also is an important contribution to study o…

Ergänzt Von Robert D. Levin. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The Requiem is known to the general public in the version undertaken immediately after Mozart's death by his pupil Franz Yaver Süßmayr. The attacks against Süßmayr's completion began in 1825, when the so-called 'Requiem Controversy' erupted. Over the last decade a number of musicians have attempted to cleanse the Requiem of the deficiencies…

3. Charakterstudie. Par PASCULLI ANTONIO. Antonino Pasculli was known as the 'Paganini of the Oboe' for the virtuosity and ease with which he played his instrument. This edition of his Galopade - 3rd Character Study For Oboe And Piano is based on the first print published by G. Ricordi from Milan./ Répertoire / Hautbois et Piano

Track Clear ~ Laisser Passez !. Par STRAUSS EDUARD. Eduard Strauss, the third son of Johann Strauss the Elder, was born on March 15, 1835, in Vienna. Originally, Eduard looked for employment in the diplomatic service, but he also studied music theory. He became a harpist in the Strauss orchestra in 1855. In 1862, he joined his two famous brothers Johann Jr. and Josef as a conductor of the family o…

Par JOLIVET ANDRE. Andre Jolivet (1905-1974) established his love for composition from a young age. This remained throughout his life, and he held the post of Professor of Composition from 1966-1970 at Paris Conservatoire. Concerto No. 2 for Trumpet was composed in 1955, and remains highly regarded. Jolivet, himself a cellist, wished to explore composition for all instruments and therefore has a c…