Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'Requiem in C minor? of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings. Dispensing entirely with solo voices, it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both choir and orche…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn's contemporaries frequently mentioned his 'Hymn of Praise” in the same breath as Beethoven's Ninth - and often enough viewed it as an imitation. Mendelssohn authority John Michael Cooper, in his extensive Introduction to this new Urtext edition, shows that the comparison is completely unfounded: with this work Mendelssohn created a new genre to which he…

Bach composed his oratorio for the Feast of the Ascension in Leipzig in 1735. Though this work has the duration of a cantata, the choice of text places it among the oratorios. It combines the biblical account of the Ascension with chorales and free madrigal poems.As in other works which were composed during this same year (e.g. the 'Christmas Oratorio?), Bach reveals a special fondness for colourf…

Kantate Zum Neujahrsfest. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. A new edition of the Neujahrs-Kantate, which previously appeared in an edition based on manuscript copies from the 19th century. The present edition is based on a manuscript from 1762 which was first discovered in 1971; this source varies considerably from the previously known manu-scripts and it presents a clearer version of the cantata./ Réper…

A sensational finding provided the impetus for this new edition. In autumn 2014 a hitherto unknown Mozart autograph of the famous Piano Sonata in A major (with the enduring 'Turkish March?) surfaced in Budapest. After a painstaking study of the manuscript and a meticulous comparison with all of the other sources, G. Henle Publishers is now issuing the first definitive Urtext edition of significant…

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…

Partition pour Choeurs soli et orchestre. Edition : copies manuscrites 1700 et 1741, édition 1729 Le fac-similé regroupe trois versions de ce motet : Copie Philidor de 1700 - Edition Boyvin de 1729 - Manuscrit Cauvin de 1741. Présentation par Jean Saint-Arroman et Philippe Lescat : Les sources - les documents musicaux - comparaison entre le manuscrit Philidor (1700) et les parties séparées (1704) …

Ed. critica A. Borin - A. Moccia - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. With Il Teuzzone, RV 736, the collected edition of operas by Antonio Vivaldi gains a new volume that brings to completion the pair of operas written by the ?Red Priest? for Mantua. Premiered during the last days of 1718, the opera preceded by a few months the production of Tito Manlio, RV 738 (PR 1411). This …

Instrument : cello and piano - Series : Edition Schott - Single Edition - Nombre de Pages : 8 - The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 5)

Par REGER MAX. Separate edition from Volume 11, 'Lieder und Chorwerke' of the Max Reger Hybrid Edition of Works.Among other things, this volume from the Reger Hybrid Edition contains the piano reductions of Reger's choral symphonic works which were prepared between 1903 and 1914: Gesang der Verklärten (Song of the Transfigured) op. 71, Psalm 100 op. 106, Die Nonnen (The Nuns) op. 112, Der Einsiedl…