Passionskantate. Par HOMILIUS GOTTFRIED AUGUST. He was without argument our greatest church composer, wrote the lexicographer E. L. Gerber a few years after Homilius's death in 1785. As a result of the destruction of the Kreuzkirche during the Seven Years War, the longtime Kreuzkantor, a pupil of Bach, performed his professional musical duties primarily at the Frauenkirche in Dresden. The Passions…

Funeral Cantata. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Telemann's Funeral Cantata “Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin” appears here for the first time in print. A score of the work, until Second World War, was held in the Berliner Sing-Akademie. It was written by J. Dirmar, the former cantor at St Nikolai in Berlin and consisted of a four-page printed text. Full score, parts (BA3583) and choral score (BA3583-91) ava…

Ed. Critica E. Fadini - M. Moiraghi. Par SCARLATTI DOMENICO. This critical edition of all the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti is justified by the necessity of offering performers and scholars a text which is philologically faithful to the author’s intentions (in so far as this can be reconstructed through acomparative study of the surviving printed and manuscript sources) and which is presented as a…

Par HENZE HANS WERNER. The theme of Henze’s Ninth Symphony is his German homeland as he remembers it during the days of his youth and during the war years. He has written this work in homage to all the people who fought back against the oppression of the Third Reich and sacrificed their lives for freedom of thought. Hans-Ulrich Treichel adapted the text from a poem by Anna Seghers. Henze has calle…

Par PARK OWAIN. Footsteps by Owain Park was commissioned by Tenebrae with generous assistance from Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, Santander Discovery Foundation Grant, Britten-Pears Foundation and The Fidelio Charitable Trust. The work, for unaccompanied mixed choirs, explores the themes of travel, solitude and journeying. Owain Park says: 'Footsteps is the result of many months o…

9 Metamorphoses based on the Preludes Op. 28 by Fréderic Chopin. Par POOS HEINRICH. Bei einem Aufenthalt auf Mallorca 1838/39 fasste Frédéric Chopin 24 Klavier-Miniaturen zur Sammlung seiner „Préludes“, op. 28, zusammen. Den stumm-beredten Ausdruck dieser „Lieder ohne Worte“ sucht Heinrich Poos in seiner Komposition „Aprèslude“ durch Kombination von Texten von Heine, Claudius, Brecht u. a. zu verd…

Opus 19. Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. One of the answers found by Schönberg?s circle to the question about how musical processes could be shaped without a tonal context was in the extreme streamlining of the form. With Schönberg?s Six Little Piano Pieces op. 19 of 1911, the concentration on the essential is legendary. Behind its fleeting gestures lie hidden depths, shown especially through its supposed …

for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra. Par BRYARS GAVIN. The piece is dedicated to John Harle and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, who commissioned it with funds made available by South West Arts. It makes use of the saxophone's ability to play long expressive melodic passages, and was written too, having seen the Sinfonietta perform, with some of its individual players in mind. Although played…

Par BARTOK BELA. Based on the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Z. 15009), this volume includes Bartók's complete works for children's and female voices. The lyrics in this Urtext edition are in the original languages, but literal English translations are provided in the appendix, which also includes English versions of those of the 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses that were authorized by the …

Faksimile der Originalhandschrift. J. S. Bach 's Notebook for Anna Magdalena (1725). This hardback facsimile edition, bound in green with gold trimmings, and bearing the initials “A. M. B. ” and “1725” on the front cover, presents one of the greatest albums of household music. It is primarily the personal album of Anna Magdalena Bach (1701-1760), daughter of the court and military trumpeter Johann…

Par DOBRZYNSKI IGNACY FELIKS. Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski wrote eight nocturnes for piano. Five of them were published in 1833–1834 in two books as Opp. 21 and 24, while the remainder appeared in various occasional collections issued much later. The Nocturne in A major was written in 1846 and belongs to the group of works composed by Dobrzynski during his tour of German cities. That tour was designed…

Edizione Critica A Cura Di Federico Maria Sardelli - Ril. Brochure. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Antonio Vivaldi’s second published collection is fundamental to an understanding of the leap he took, at the end of the first decade of the eighteenth century, from provincial obscurity to Europe-wide fame. This edition asks and answers the hardquestions surrounding its exact date, its choice of dedicatee and …

Oratorio for Solo Tenor, Solo Violin, SATB, Children's Choir and Orchestra of Strings, Harp and Perc. Par ROTH ALEC. Alec Roth’s The Traveller is an oratorio for solo tenor, solo violin, SATB choir, children’s choir and an orchestra of strings, harp and percussion. In addition to writing six new poems for the piece, Vikram Seth has made English translations of twenty Indian texts from a rich varie…

Par DUPARC HENRI. We know Henri Duparc for only a small number of art songs he composed between 1868 and 1884, but his musical legacy is a rare one. Settings of works by Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, are masterworks of sensuous beauty, rich in emotion, artfully conveying the poetic atmosphere of their texts. Included in this one volume are all Sixteen songs and one duet, reprinted from authoritati…