Ten Easy Pieces. Par SCOTT CYRIL. The English composer Cyril Scott (1879–1970) studied piano and composition at the Frankfurt Conservatoire. In 1898 he returned to Liverpool to work as a composer and teacher. He composed for every musical genre from opera and symphonies to chamber music, but always took a special interest in writing easy teaching material for children and young people. The collect…

Rachmaninoff composed his collection of 13 songs op. 34 in 1912, but it was only three years later that he added a little closing piece without any text: the Vocalise, which soon outshone the other songs in terms of popularity and renown. Since its first performance in 1916 this expressive, melancholy piece has circulated in countless arrangements by others. Rachmaninoff himself made an arrangemen…

Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Volume 9 of the new Urtext edition of Schubert's lieder contains lieder composed during the spring and summer of 1816, some of which follow upon series started in 1815. They are available in separate books for high, medium and low voice. The volume was completed by the eminent Schubert scholar Walter Dürr who passed away at the beginning of 2018. It was in 1816 that Schubert co…

The latest addition to the Novello Handel Edition. A stage work of 1745 based on John Milton's classical masque Comus created from a compilation of songs by Handel and Thomas Arne, both pre-existing and original, with the text adapted by John Dalton. This is the first ever complete publication of the work and is edited by Handel scholar Colin Timms.This work is for three or four Sopranos, Mezzo-So…

Gabriel Fauré's Chanson De Mélisande for Soprano and Orchestra. Reduction for Voice and Piano. 'An enchanted dream' ' poet Charles Van Leberghe's words give us an idea of the audience's enthusiasm at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Piccadilly on June 21st, 1898, when the first English language performance of Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck was performed, with incidental…

The edition is the first part of the commissioned work Our Lady's Minstrel. While Prelude paraphrases the famous chorale Salve Regina in a slow waltz, the gipsy-like cheerful waltz of Dance forms a stark contrast to it. The whole work is completed by Three Poems for soprano and organ (ED 22299). / Clarinette Et Orgue

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…

Revisione Di A. Zedda Con Prefazione In Italiano E Inglese. Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was an Italian composer who is best remembered for his operas. The 1815 masterpiece Il Barbiere Di Siviglia is widely considered the greatest of comic operas. The libretto was adapted by Cesore Sterbini from the first of a trilogy of plays by the French dramatist Beaumarchais, considere…

This critical edition of the Trio is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series III, volume 1. Debussy's Piano Trio, his second surviving instrumental work, dates from late summer 1880, just as the composer was turning eighteen. The Trio was long thought to have survived only in an autograph score of its opening movement, plus a cello part showing three more movements. In the ear…