Urtext edition study score of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.2 In B-Flat Op.19.Features:Urtext edition at the cutting edge of scholarshipAn ideal reference edition for pianists students conductors and librariesEach score contains an introduction by Barry Cooper (Ger/Eng)Format 17.5 x 22.5 cmBarenreiter has now published the scores Critical Commentaries and the complete performance mat…

Monteverdi's opera 'L'Orfeo', based on the legend of Thracian singer Orpheus and his love of Eurydice, is a masterpiece of musical declamation and ornamentation. It was first performed during the 1607 carnevale in the 'Palazzo Ducale' in Mantua.When an edition remains true to its sources, this certainly does not mean that it is not also practical to use, as is demonstrated in this Bärenreiter edit…

Padre Pio's Prayer-A setting of Padre Pio's “Prayer after Holy Communion” commissioned by the Genesis Foundation and first performed by The Sixteen in June 2008 at Westminster Cathedral London.Padre Pio (1887-1968) was in his lifetime a controversial and holy man and was canonized St. Pius of Pietrelcina in 2002. He is known unofficially as “the patron saint of stress relief …

Weihnachtsmesse (liturgisch)-Of the 11 surviving settings of the Mass by Charpentier the present work the Messe de minuit is without doubt one of the most popular. Although Charpentier's Parisian career is quite well documented little is known about the genesis and first performance of the Messe de minuit. It is likely however that it was commissioned by the Jesuits of the church of Saint-Lo…

The first great orchestral psalmMendelssohn's first great orchestral psalm took almost six years to complete, from the initial sketches and the first version of 1830 to the final version of 1835. Its premiere which took place at the Leipzig Gewandhaus did not take place until 1838.Unlike his other orchestral psalms, Mendelssohn took the Latin words from the Vulgate as his principal text which stem…

Ed. Critica A. Borin. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Casa Ricordi Milano in partnership with Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia (Istituto Antonio Vivaldi). Critical edition by Alessandro Borin. The six Concerts op. VI for violin, strings and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi were published in Amsterdam by Roger in 1719. Although the contribution of Vivaldi was probably modest – even to assume that the collection wa…

Uses: General Thanksgiving Scripture: Genesis 1:1: Psalm 24:1-2: Psalm 66:1 This sparkling original is refreshingly innovative. With a text that focuses on the beauty of creation this anthem is especially well-suited for Spring services but could also find a home during the Thanksgiving season. The optional instruments allow directors to explore fresh new acoustic sounds in their service planni…

The first performance of ?Má vlast? as a six-part symphonic cycle took place on 5 November 1882. With the founding of the Czech Philharmonic in 1896 this work received a far greater reception. Since 1952 the music festival ?Prague Spring? has opened with this complete cycle.

This edition is based on the ?Study Edition of the Works of Bedrich Smetana?, vol. 14, supplemented by an up-to-d…

Bärenreiter continues its Urtext edition of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas with an important contribution. The frequently played Sonatas op. 2, Nos. 1-3, stem from the time when the young composer took lessons from Joseph Haydn in Vienna and are dedicated to his teacher. After Beethoven's three early sonatas which he wrote as a youth in Bonn, the so-called 'Kurfürsten-Sonaten?, Beethoven sta…

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. “The Etudes op. 52 and op. 111 are little masterpieces of invention. On every page you encounter ingenious inventions for piano technique and sound.” (Isidore Philipp) What Isidore Philipp described in “Musica” in 1907 is still true today: indeed, the etudes of Saint-Saens offer a panopticon of French piano technique as complex as it is dazzling. Individual etudes, suc…