Vesperpsalm. Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl’Incurabili in Venice. Since the Ospedale was an institution for the musical training of gifted girls and young women, the vocal parts are scored for female voices. As Director of Music at the Saxon-Polish Court of Dresden, Hasse was also responsible for church music, and therefore he arr…

Riduzione per canto e pianoforte. Par . On 17 November 1868, Verdi made a proposal to Tito Ricordi to form a commission to select thirteen of the most representative composers of the era, asking each of them to compose a movement of the mass to be performed on the first anniversary of the death of the composer from Pesaro. The first performance, scheduled for the following November in Bologna, had…

A mass in the Revised Roman Ritual. Classically conceived, but featuring elements of Brubeck's jazz idiom, this dynamic mass can be performed in many different ways including with a jazz ensemble, as a concert piece, for church service, or its individual pieces could be used in non-Eucharistic worship such as Vespers and other celebrations. The work is set for soloists, chorus, piano accompaniment…

Par MAINTZ PHILIPP. Philipp Maintz was born in Aachen, Germany, in 1977. He received his first composition lessons from Michael Reudenbach. He studied composition with Robert HP Platz in Maastricht from 1997-2003, graduating with distinction, followed by a further degree in composition and electronic music with Karlheinz Essl at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz. He has received scholarships and i…

Par DOSS THOMAS. Cette œuvre est une commande de l’harmonie Marktmusik Timelkam pour célébrer son 170e anniversaire. Elle évoque la vie culturelle et l’animation de la ville de l’orchestre, Timelkam, en Autriche. Carnival dépeint une procession festive qui démarre sur la place du marché et se poursuit jusqu’à la nuit. Avec ses nombreux éléments carnavalesques, la pièce est une joie pour les interp…

Par FAGERLUND SEBASTIAN. Based on the film by Ingmar Bergman, Sebastian Fagerlund’s Autumn Sonata follows Charlotte Andergast, a celebrated concert pianist, as she visits the country home of her adult daughter, Eva. Charlotte has not seen Eva for seven years, during which time Eva and her husband Viktor have lost their three-year-old son Erik. Eva’s sister, Helena (Charlotte’s daughter), had been …

Une révolution dans la vie symphonique à Paris. Par DEMONET GILLES. Quelles raisons avancer pour expliquer l’indifférence dont Walther Straram a fait l’objet ? Elles sont certainement à chercher tout d’abord du côté de l’homme lui-même, de sa personnalité d’une discrétion extrême et de son détachement à l’égard des honneurs. Au demeurant, sa vie et sa carrière ont été courtes : largement autodidac…

Vesperpsalm. Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl’Incurabili in Venice. Since the Ospedale was an institution for the musical training of gifted girls and young women, the vocal parts are scored for female voices. As Director of Music at the Saxon-Polish Court of Dresden, Hasse was also responsible for church music, and therefore he arr…

Language Blues,Jazz,Rap
Rejetés en tant que Noirs, en marge comme musiciens (et doublement exclus comme Noirs et musiciens), blues singers, jazzmen et rappers parlent leur singularité. C'est cette singularité que traque Talkin? That Talk . son champ d?investigation est précisément délimité, qui se propose d'inventorier leur vocabulaire, tel qu'il se révèle dans des productions orales attestée…

Ces magnifiques volumes permettront d'initier les chanteurs classiques à l'American art song, et comprennent les pièces les plus étudiées dans ce genre. Ce sont les capacités vocales et musicales des institutions musicales et universités qui ont guidé le choix des oeuvres mises à disposition dans cette série. Les volumes Soprano et Mezzo-Soprano/Alto contiennent les mêmes chansons dans des tonalit…