Par LEWIS GEORGE. Although his Signifying Riffs (1998) for percussion and strings is halfway there, String Quartet 1.5: Experiments in Living (2016) is the first proper string quartet by composer George Lewis. Borrowing its title from the writings of John Stuart Mill, Experiments in Living leads the performers through a series of idiosyncratic episodes featuring extremes of gesture and extended te…

Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. Gluck Iphigénie en Aulide (Vocal Score) Tragedy - Opera in three acts Iphigénie en Aulide is the first of six operas that Gluck composed for the Académie Royale de Musique. In keeping with his plans for operatic reform, he sought to create noble, expressive and natural melodies that did justice to every language and every national spirit while eliminating the “ridic…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. A fabulous Vocal Score and Piano reduction version of Johann Sebastien Bach's Sleepers Wake! Loud Sounds The Warning or Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme. It is a sacred, rousing and powerful composition intended to be played on the 27th Sunday after Trinity. This is a joint German, English and French language version and contains the score for a full mixed SATB choir and …

Study Score. Par BRAHMS JOHANNES. Après l'édition Urtext nouveau sextuor à cordes de Brahms en op si bémol majeur. 18 (BA 9419, publié en Février 2011), Barenreiter présente maintenant l'édition Urtext nouvelles du sextuor à cordes en sol majeur op. 36. Ces deux sextuors à cordes de Johannes Brahms figurent parmi les points forts de la chaîne de répertoire romantique et certains de la musique de c…

Par VAINIO JENNAH. Composer Jennah Vainio sees End Credits for string trio (2016) as a portrayal of a person's inner mind: 'It is a beautiful, tender and introvert snapshot of a moment, a journey into the thoughts of a person. The work can be visualized by a video edited by myself. It is filmed shot by my father on an 8-mm film during a train trip in Germany in 1972. My grandfather briefly appears…

Tragic. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. The series of symphonies in the New Schubert Edition is a milestone of modern scholarly-critical editing, lending these works a transparency lacking in earlier editions of a more romantic bent. The eight symphonies trace Schubert 's artistic evolution from the First Symphony, which develops a theme from Beethoven's Eroica, to the Mozartean Fifth and the romanticism of t…

Anthem. Par PURCELL HENRY. The Anthem, in the post-Reformation church music of England was initially the term given to a choral work with an English biblical text. By the end of the 17th century it begins to take on Italian stylistic elements and becomes a cantata for solo voices, choir and orchestra. The anthem 'O sing unto the Lord' presented here, based on words of the 96th Psalm, is a particul…

Par BARTOK BELA. Bartok's 'String Quartet No. 5' was commissioned by the formidable Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, leading patron of chamber music in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century. Bartok is alleged to have composed the work in a one-month span of isolation in 1934, and it received its premiere in Washington, D.C. by the Kolisch Quartet in 1935. The String Quartet No. 5 was published…

Par BROWN JASON ROBERT. The complete vocal score for the musical, based on the novel by Robert James Walker, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The Bridges of Madison County won a Tony Award for Best Original Musical Score in 2014. / TV, Film, Comédie musicale / Recueil / Voix