Par LACOMBE HERVE. Au cours des siècles se sont édifiées une idée française de l’Italie et une idée italienne de la France. Dans l’histoire complexe des liens entre opéra français et opéra italien, il n’est pas exagéré de parler de rapports passionnels, faits d’attirances et de répulsions. L’opéra est un lieu d’échanges exceptionnellement riche, puisqu’il engage l’histoire de la musique et des mus…

Par BURNS ROBERT. This second volume of the songs of Scottish poet Robert Burns contains 70 songs excerpted from the chapter 'The Lasses' in a larger collection of 324 Burns songs compiled and researched by Serge Hovey. It includes songs expressing the poet's 'passion' for his wife Jean, and for 'that other species.' Robert Burns (1759-1796) spent his life collecting Scottish songs, using fragment…

The opera Nais was premiered on 22 April 1749 at the Academie royale in the Palais-Royal, Paris, in celebration of the signing of the so-called Treaty of Aachen. It was revived again in August 1764 shortly before Rameau's death and achieved great success as the 'opera of peace', even though it did not appear in print during the composer's lifetime.In numerous arias Rameau provides his singers ampl…

Niels W. Gade. Works Iv-9. Par WILHELM GADE NIELS. Works for Mixed Choir Niels W. Gade. Werks Volume IV/9 Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817& 1890) Works Edited by the Foundation for the Publication of the Works of Niels W. Gade, Copenhagen Niels W. Gade is one of the leading Danish composers of the nineteenth century. However only about half of his prolific œ uvre has appeared in print. Given this fa…

Archduke. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. By the time Beethoven completed the ?Archduke? Trio in 1811 he had been working on it for several years. In April 1814 he could finally give the work its première together with Ignaz Schuppanzigh and Joseph Linke, this being Beethoven?s last public appearance as a pianist. He dedicated the piece to his friend, pupil and patron, Archduke Rudolph of Austria. Today…

Par FAURE GABRIEL. This volume of 'oeuvres complètes de Gabriel Fauré” contains Fauré's four secular choral works in their orchestral arrangements, namely 'Les Djinns”, 'La Naissance de Vénus”, 'Madrigal”, and 'Pavane”. These works were composed between 1876 and 1887 - thereafter Fauré wrote choral compositions based only on sacred texts. The first three works are presented here for the first time…

Florentiner Sinfonie'. Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Rheinberger began work on his second Symphony during his visit to Italy with his wife in 1874. He was commissioned to write it by an orchestral society in Florence – an indication that his reputation had already spread throughout Europe. The autograph score contains a poem by his wife Fanny, which in four sections expressed the moods of impress…

Coronation Anthems I - HWV 258. 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 l…

Couverture Rigide Reliée En Lin. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Beethoven and Bärenreiter - a marriage made in heaven! It all started in 1996 with Symphony No. 9: Jonathan Del Mar's groundbreaking edition of this masterpiece marked the beginning of his new edition of the complete nine symphonies. They became a huge success and have been used by countless orchestras all over the world. In the run-up to…

Composed in January-February 1875, ?árka is the third symphonic poem in Smetana's six-part cycle Má vlast (My Fatherland). He first published it in a version for piano-duet issued by publisher Urbánek in 1880. The score of the first edition did not appear in print until 1888, four years after Smetana's death.Owing to the many errors in the first edition, Hugh Macdonald has based this new edition o…

Par ZEMLINSKY ALEXANDER. La musique d’Alexander Zemlinsky est longtemps injustement restée dans l’ombre de la deuxième École de Vienne, considérée comme «plus progressiste». Certes, Zemlinsky était amicalement très proche de l’une des personnalités les plus en vue de cette école, Arnold Schönberg, mais il n’a jamais franchi le pas de la radicalité dodécaphonique. Il n’en composa pas pour autant de…

Par FOGELBERG DAN. Daniel Fogelberg, décédé en 2007, était un auteur-compositeur, multi-instrumentiste, dont la musique s'inspire de sources aussi diverses que le folk, pop, musique classique, jazz et musique bluegrass et chanteuse américaine./ Recueil / Piano, Chant et Guitare

Par YI XU. Guo Feng, Chansons des Royaumes, titre de la 1ère partie du livre des odes qui est apparu il y a plus de 2500 ans, recueille 305 pièces de vers, chansons d'amours ou hymnes religieux. Guo Feng fait dialoguer le Qin, instrument aux sonorités sèches de cordes pincées, mais aussi aux sonorités frottées, étranges, immatérielles, auxquelles s'adjoignent les sons tenus et lyriques du violonce…

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…

Pour célébrer le 100e anniversaire de la naissance de Samuel Barber, nous sommes fiers de lancer cette importante nouvelle édition, qui comprend les éditions nouvellement édité et gravé de la totalité du contenu Collected Songs et dix premières chansons (1994), ainsi que de nombreux inédits tôt chansons. Les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Congrès et d'autres sources ont été consultées pour toute…