Par ZIMMERMANN BERND ALOIS. With this edition, Schott publishes the early two-movement string quartet by Bernd Alois Zimmermann for the first time. In a letter the composer wrote: 'I am still messing around with my quartet. This probably is the most concentrated work of composition - and the most abstract.' The string quartet belongs within the context of his early works which focussed on chamber …

Par CANAT DE CHIZY EDITH. Cette pièce est une commande des choeurs de l'Orchestre de Paris pour leur 30e anniversaire, choeurs particulièrement nombreux (122 choristes). Face à la difficulté d'utiliser au mieux cette impressionnante masse sonore, j'ai pris le parti d'une écriture en double choeur traitée en répons, en surimpression, ou en alternance. Selon ma prédilection pour la langue anglaise, …

nach Texten von Maurice Maeterlinck. Par ZEMLINSKY ALEXANDER. Two of Zemlinsky's representative songs from the early 20th century are presented here by editor Clytus Gottwald: Als ihr Geliebter schied, Op. 13 No. 4, and Und kehrt er einst heim, Op. 13 No. 5, in a transcription for five voices or chorus. Gottwald chose these as a logical pair, both dealing with 'parting and returning in vain,' yet …

Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition Volume 38. Par BARTOK BELA. The third volume in the Complete Edition contains Bartók's works for piano solo composed between 1914 and 1920. Bartók's pianistic oeuvre from the years of World War I span a broadly varied spectrum; in addition to simple arrangements of folk music (15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sonatina) and original pieces for the concert podium (Su…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók?s Second String Quartet was composed ? with several long interruptions ? between 1915 and 1918, after he had spent several years almost solely devoted to collecting folk music. The melody and rhythms of the riotous middle movement ?Allegro, molto capriccioso? provide impressive testimony of how his research trips had taken him as far as North Africa. The first edition of th…

Par JANACEK LEOS. One of Leos Janàcek 's last chamber music works was written in the autumn of 1926 at the suggestion of the pianist Otakar Hollmann (1894& 1967), an invalid from the First World War. Like his contemporary Paul Wittgenstein, Hollmann urged composers to write something for Piano left hand; he succeeded in winning over Bohuslav Martinu, Erwin Schulhoff and Janàcek to do this. Janàcek…

Par RAVEL MAURICE. Ravel’s plans for a piano concerto can be traced back to 1906, but it was only in early 1929 that the composer seriously started work on one. He later stated that he wrote it “in the spirit of the concertos by Mozart and Saint-Saëns”, the music being “cheerful and brilliant” and not “aiming for profundity or dramatic effects”. The outer movements are characterised by rhythmic dr…

Bärenreiter Urtext, Paperback. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Dvorák's Seventh Symphony was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in August 1883 and premiered in London under the composer's baton on 22 April 1885. Two months later he shortened the second movement by about 40 bars. The work was published by Simrock in this form in 1885./ Répertoire / Orchestre

Par NEWTON ABBY. Aujourd'hui le violoncelle est habituellement considéré comme un instrument classique, mais la fin XVIIe au début du XIXe siècle, il a été utilisé dans des ensembles folkloriques à fournir des rythmes faibles, conduites danse tunes et à rendre haunting airs écossais. Au sein de la Renaissance de la musique folklorique du passé quarante ans il y a eu un mouvement petit mais dédié à…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Vocal Score Cantata for Baritone Solo, SSAA chorus and orchestra Following the revelatory release of A London Symphony in its original version, the publication of Willow-wood is another landmark in our deepening understanding of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Last performed in 1909, the year of The Wasps and On Wenlock Edge, this setting of four sonnets by the Vic…