Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. The solo cantatas of Handel (most of them written in Italy during the years 1707-09) are commonly regarded as works of apprenticeship in which he forged a musical technique that would stand him in good stead as a composer of Italian operas. Available here is the first volume of solo Cantatas for Soprano with Basso Continuo. This highly authoritative edition has been ed…

Trauerfeier. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Two versions survive: 1st version composed 1736/37, 2nd version in the first half of the 1740s. The versions differ only in instrumentation, and both are integrated in this edition. / Mottet / Répertoire / Choeur SATB, 2 Litui (2 Cors), Cto (Violon) et 3 T

The underlying idea of this work is a magic square, known in China as Lu Shu. In 1553, it was named Sigillum Saturni (Seal of Saturn) by the philosopher of religion Agrippa von Nettelsheim, who assigned a magic square to each planet. It is an arrangement of the numbers 1-9 in a grid such that the numbers in all rows, all columns, and both diagonals equal the same constant, which looks like a symbo…

Par HOROWITZ VLADIMIR. In this edition, two legendary transcriptions of Carmen by Horowitz are published for the first time. The arrangements were made 10 years apart and show two independent approaches to Bizet's popular operatic melodies. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Piano

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course o…

First Urtext edition of the original piano reductionViolin/piano score with a separate Urtext solo violin partWith optimal page turns in the solo violin part by means of a fold-out page and vacat pagesForeword by the editor (Cz/Eng/Ger) Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editor / Violon Et Piano

Trilogie Sacrée. Par BERLIOZ HECTOR. The history of the composition of the oratorio is odd: the kernel of this three-part work were the movements from the middle section, the “Flight to Egypt, ” which Berlioz composed on a whim in 1850 and which he passed off as the work of a baroque composer whose existence he himself had invented. In 1854 the triptych, which was completed with the parts entitled…

Ed. critica P. Everett - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di A. Frigé. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. This volume presents the vocal score of Vivaldi's Stabat Mater RV 621 for alto, strings and continuo, based on the critical edition by Paul Everett. Composed for the church of Santa Maria della Pace in Brescia, it was performed, for the first time, on 8 March 1712, for the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary c…

One of the first documentary collections of Negro folk songs was compiled in 1867 by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. Under the title Slave Songs of the United States, this collection of 136 authentic folk songs of the Negro people revolutionized America's understanding of this music. The book, which contains spirituals, work songs, field hollers, soldier songs …

Par KRAUS JOSEPH MARTIN. The first volume of the new scholarly edition contains the complete chamber music without a keyboard instrument. The most important group of works comprises the string quartets, 10 of which have survived. They were composed during the 1770s, whenHaydn was developing this class of music. The differing balance between such contrasting musical elements as entries in imitation…