With Critical Report. Par BARTOK BELA. The Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition is a joint project of G. Henle Publishers, Munich and Edition Musica Budapest. The volume at hand was edited by Klára Móricz. By publishing Concerto for Orchestra the score for one of Bartók’s truly importantorchestra works is now available. The well readable introduction describes the genesis of this work that Bartók…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók?s six string quartets, composed between 1908 and 1940, are 20th-century milestones of the genre. His First String Quartet is closely linked to his unhappy love for the violinist Stefi Geyer, to whom he sent the initial measures of its first movement in early 1908 with the remark: ?My song of death?. When he completed all three movements of the work a year later, he had…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. With its Bohemian echoes and thematic diversity, Symphony No. 8 enjoys a special status among lovers of Antonín Dvorák's music. For a long time, the performance material for this work has been notorious for its myriad mistakes. For his edition of Dvorák's 8th Symphony, editor Jonathan Del Mar was therefore faced with the task of making comprehensive corrections. He has taken i…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Composé à l’automne 1881, l’opus 61 est le dernier des quatuors de Dvorák appelés, chronologiquement parlant, quatuors «du milieu», et dont les modèles déterminants furent Beethoven et Schubert. Dans cette œuvre en Ut majeur, c’est surtout l’influence de Beethoven qui se fait plus particulièrement sentir, de la construction thématique jusqu’au travail motivique, et c’est seulem…

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…

Le Quintette à cordes en mi bémol majeur, Op. 97 (avec deux altos) est le troisième Dvorák oeuvres composées sur le sol américain.'A partir de trois ensembles de ce quintette, nous pouvons dire qu'ils reflètent l'influence de la musique américaine et de la vie en Amérique du compositeur', a écrit le 7 Janvier 1894, le critique musical américain Henry Krehbiel. L'utilisation de certains éléments mé…

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…

Ricos Konzert 1. Par NOONA WALTER. Mit Ricos Konzert erhalten Lehrer variables Unterrichtsmaterial, das sie begleitend zum jeweiligen Band der Schule einsetzen können. Die Schüler bekommen mit diesen Heften besonders motivierende Spielstücke, die sie auch im Konzert vorspielen können. Die Rico-Klavierschule geht einen Weg, der besonders für junge Anfänger (Kinder ab etwa 6 Jahren) zugeschnitten is…

Par BALAZS ARPAD. Árpád Balázs (*1937) composed the first version of the work between 1994 and 1996 for tárogató and concert band. Since this traditional Hungarian instrument is rarely found in ensembles abroad, a soprano saxophone can serve as an alternative solo instrument. The composer uses melodies from the early 18th century, from the age of Rákóczi's war of independence. An ambitious framewo…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók' s 'Romanian Christmas Songs' are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave ' the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, rather than a pious and religious one”. Nevertheless, he chose 20 melodies from this collection of ' colinde” and published them under the title of ' Christmas Songs”. In the first …

Stylish Arrangements Of Selected Highlights From The Leading 20Th Century Composer. Par BARTOK BELA. The Boosey and Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy. Bartók for Guitar features selected highlights from Bartók\'s most popular pedagogical repertoire including For Childr…

Par BARTOK BELA. Based on the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Z. 15009), this volume includes Bartók's complete works for male voices. The lyrics in this Urtext edition are in the original languages and in the translations authorized by the composer. Literal English translations are provided in the appendix, which also includes the early version of Four Hungarian Folk Songs and the German v…

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their studen…

Par BARTOK BELA. Les six quatuors à corde de Béla Bartók composés entre 1908 et 1940 sont au nombre des jalons du genre au XXe siècle. Ce coffret regroupe les œuvres en six partitions de poche pratiques et de qualité exemplaire. Chacune de ces œuvres très différentes est un bijou et déploie un véritable feu d'artifice de couleurs sonores pour les cordes et de finesses rythmiques. L’édition, superv…