Par CASKEN JOHN. From One Thread for solo viola is in a single movement but with three clearly defined sections that draw on the Baroque suite. The first section is a capricious Fantasia which is followed by a short Sarabande, rather stately but with irregular metres, and the piece ends with an urgent Courante. Writing for a solo instrument is about tracing a single line and this reminded me of th…

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…

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…

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…

Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Brahms? elegy Nänie op. 82, based on the poem by Friedrich von Schiller, was composed in 1880/81 following the death of the painter Anselm Feuerbach, whom Brahms greatly admired. In contrast with the poem, Brahms? Nänie ends full of hope: after earthly decline, beauty can live on in art. As in his Deutsches Requiem op. 45, in Nänie Brahms creates a musical connection between m…

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…

Arrangement: Halsey Louis. Par HALSEY LOUIS. These lyrical and atmospheric carols for the Christmas season offer choirs the chance of exploring treasures from one of the most musical of nations. The Welsh texts are accompanied by new English singing translations. All five carols are arranged for SATB chorus with Organ (or Piano) accompaniment. / Date parution : 1999-08-26/ Recueil / SATB

Five Christmas Songs op. 1. Par SIBELIUS JEAN. The Urtext edition (2023) of Jean Sibelius’ Five Christmas Songs op. 1 for voice and piano is based on the critical edition presented in the volume VIII/2 Works for Solo Voice Vol. 2 of Jean Sibelius Works (JSW) edited by Jukka Tiilikainen. The lyrics are included in Swedish, Finnish and English. Sakari Ylivuori's introduction illuminates the histor…

Frühe Lieder I (1910/1911) - Erstausgabe. Par SIMON KLAUS. All songs and lieder composed in the years 1910-1937 by the composer Erwin Schulhoff from Prague, who was persecuted by the National Socialists, are now published in three volumes for the first time, documenting his very different creative phases and stages of life: Whereas Vol. I and II stand for the emancipation from being a successor to…