Par FARKAS FERENC. “I wrote this Christmas cantata from Köröshegy at the request of the Council of the Komitat Somogy. When I visited the still unrenovated little church at Köröshegy about ten years ago I had no idea that this beautiful Gothic building would one day be the scene of the world première of one of my works. - The cantata is founded on four pillars: four organ soli which could be descr…

Concertos pour piano de Mozart de Henle et Breitkopf: la naissance d'un projet En 2006, le Henle-Verlag a lancé un projet ambitieux: une réduction pour piano András Schiff aux concertos K. 453, 467 et 488. Au cours des années à venir, tous les concertos pour piano de Mozart sera publié dans les éditions urtext complètement nouveaux. En coproduction avec Breitkopf and Härtel, concertos sélectionnés…

Dvorák?s Symphony No. 7 was commissioned by the ?Royal Philharmonic Society? in August 1883 and received its premiere on 22 April 1885 in London conducted by the composer himself. The following June the second movement was shortened by some 40 bars and the work was published in this form in 1885 by Simrock.The editor of this new scholarly-critical edition is Jonathan Del Mar who has gained an inte…

Sonate de Mozart, cette assemblée à partir de deux parties qui avait été composé à des moments différents. Le Rondo K. 494 est de 1786e C'est seulement en Janvier 1788 que Mozart a composé les deux morceaux K. 533, et avait Hoffman à Vienne publier les trois mouvements comme une sonate. À cette fin, il n'a, cependant, bien retravailler le Rondo, en intégrant un petit passage fugué - peut-être d'ap…

Wunderkind-Sonatas Volume II K. 10-15 Editor: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert Fingering: Ariane Haering In 1764 the eight-year-old Mozart wrote the Sonatas K. 10-15 in London. Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son's musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: That my boy [...] knows all of this with his 8 years that could be expected of a man of forty years. In short: whoever has n…

Wir küssen Ihnen tausendmal die Hände was commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as one of four chamber pieces to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart (the others being by DonaldCrockett Rand Steiger and Libby Larsen). It has something of the character of a musical letter to Mozart taking its title from the closing salutation that most often appears in his own let…

Par FARKAS FERENC. “I wrote this Christmas cantata from Köröshegy at the request of the Council of the Komitat Somogy. When I visited the still unrenovated little church at Köröshegy about ten years ago I had no idea that this beautiful Gothic building would one day be the scene of the world première of one of my works. - The cantata is founded on four pillars: four organ soli which could be descr…

Ein biblisches Singspiel für Kinder und Jugendliche. Par DUSSELDORFER KANTORENKONVENT. Das Singspiel erzählt die Geschichte von der Erwählung des jungen David, dem vorgeworfen wird, als verträumter Hirtenjunge seine kostbare Zeit mit Harfenspielen zu vertun. Mit seiner Musik gelingt es ihm jedoch, die Menschen zu bezaubern, ja sogar der geistig verwirrte König Saul wird durch Davids Gesang zeitwei…

Dvorák?s Symphony No. 7 was commissioned by the ?Royal Philharmonic Society? in August 1883 and received its premiere on 22 April 1885 in London conducted by the composer himself. The following June the second movement was shortened by some 40 bars and the work was published in this form in 1885 by Simrock.The editor of this new scholarly-critical edition is Jonathan Del Mar who has gained an inte…

The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartók.

In 1945 Bela Bartok described 'Mikrokosmos' as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for 'didactic' purposes, seeing them as a series of pieces in many different styles, representing a small world, or as the 'world of the little ones, the children'. Stylistically Mikro…