Les pièces les plus jouées dans une collection qui offre deux pages de commentaires sur les sources, le style et la forme - des conseils d'interprétation et de travail. / Guitare

für Violine und Klavier. Par SCHUMANN CLARA. The Romances op. 22 are today among Clara Schumann’s most popular chamber music works. For violinists and pianists, they’re also of particular importance due to the wealth of information by Schumann, Joseph Joachim, and Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski on fingering, bowing, and phrasing in these three pieces. While working on the composition and publicati…

Par DEUTSCH CATHERINE / RAGNARD ISABELLE. Ce livre brosse un portrait collectif des femmes en musicologies francophones depuis l’émergence de la discipline à la fin du xixe siècle jusqu’à la phase finale de son institutionnalisation universitaire dans les années 1970. Il met en regard différents contextes et réseaux dans lesquels la musicologie était pratiquée en français, des sphères parisiennes,…

Arrangeur: Hartmut Schick. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. When Antonín Dvorák started composing his String Quartet No. 10 in late 1878, none of his quartets had yet been performed. However this new work, deliberately cast in the 'Slavonic” style, quickly achieved international renown and has remained among one of the most popular string quartets by Dvorák. The authoritative Dvorák scholar Hartmut Schick has…

Edited by Ulrich Bartels, this companion volume to the recently-published 2-part inventions, is based on Bach's autograph,and also informed by contemporary secondary sources. / Cor

Coronation Anthems II - HWV 259. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Une impressionnante intemporalité : les solennels hymnes du couronnement (Coronation Anthems) Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, the King shall rejoice et My heart is inditing composés par Händel pour le couronnement de George II en 1727 font partie des chefs-d’œuvre de la littérature chorale. Zadok the priest a accompagné …

Par CARCASSI MATTEO. The first and foremost edition of these ever popular studies, which are to be found in almost every syllabus where the guitar is taught. Selected by the Examination Board of the Royal Schools of Music London 2009. This new expanded and revised edition is the only publication to reconcile the early sources of these Etudes with present day playing techniques. Several earlier edi…

2016 marks the first centenary of the death of Max Reger. In addition to his best-known field of creativity - organ music - his choral compositions form another major part of his oeuvre.This edition contains a selection of his sacred a cappella choral works. Their scoring, level of difficulty and length make them ideal for choirs who are wary of tackling the large-scale op. 110 motets. For the fir…

Fassung Iv. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. with the unfinished revision [1739] an an appendix. The St. John Passion ranks among the great vocal works from Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he made numerous changes. All previous editions of the St. John Passion have combined …

Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias are rightly considered as indispensable to every pianist. In his famous preface to the collection, Bach himself called it an 'Instruction? which teaches students and keyboard lovers to 'treat correctly? both two and three voices, to 'achieve a singing style in playing? and to 'acquire a strong foretaste of composition?. To this end, Bach created timelessly beautiful…

Par MAHLER GUSTAV. The Song of the Earth , composed in the summer of 1908, is Mahler’s best-known and most personal work. Reflecting drastic changes in his life, its immense emotional density is very moving. Until the very end, Mahler continued to refine the extremely differentiated instrumentation, as is evident in numerous retouchings in the autograph score and engraver’s model. It is therefore …

Par NUORVALA JUHANI. Juhani Nuorvala, described as an “electro-acoustic urban minimalist”, seeks inspiration from widely varied sources. With the enthusiasm of an explorer, he has delved into microtonality, French spectral music, techno and rock. It all becomes organically fused into his own idiom, often characterised by a frenzied rhythmic drive. Prélude non retouché (2012) for organ in ¼ comma m…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Schubert?s piano sonatas reflect the entire cosmos of his distinctive writing, spanning from an early experimentation with this form to the iconic last three sonatas, which the composer completed in 1828, the last year of his life. All three volumes are equipped with informative prefaces on the genesis and sources, as well as valuable notes on piano playing in Schubert's time (…

Suzanne Giraud est une compositrice captivante, sincère et profonde. Puisant à toutes les sources de la pensée, pénétrée de l'esprit humaniste de la Renaissance, de la littérature, des arts graphiques et de l'architecture, son oeuvre est l'une des plus personnelles, denses, exigeantes et immédiatement séduisantes d'aujourd'hui. La musique de Suzanne Giraud est mue par une écriture serrée, virtuose…

Volume 2 de la Wiener Urtext édition complète de 32 sonates pour piano de Beethoven en 3 volumes contient les sonates op. 26-57. Cette nouvelle édition tient compte de toutes les sources survivants qui a pris naissance au cours de la vie du compositeur: autographes, des épreuves d'graveur, et les premières éditions. Ceux-ci sont complétés par des informations vitales prises dès les premiers réimpr…