Concert Band Signature Series. Par WALKER GEORGE. In 1946, George Walker was still doing graduate work at the Curtis institute when he composed Lyric for Strings, which would prove over the coming decades to become one of the most performed and enduring string orchestra works of the 20th Century. This first-ever edition for symphonic wind band was arranged by Dr. Luci Disano and premiered by The P…

Es-Dur. Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. Two complete settings of the Requiem by Johann Adolf Hasse are extant. Hasse composed the Requiem in C major on the death of the Elector Friedrich August 11 of Saxony. Only a few weeks later his son the elector Friedrich Christian also died. Presumably for this reason Hasse wrote the Requiem in D flat, and because of the shortage of time he used the Sanctus and Agnu…

Editeur(s) d'origine: Reinhard, August/ Recueil / Orgue

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Dedicated to the memory of Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin?s 2021 Concerto for Orchestra premiered at the BBC proms by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Benjamin said that the piece attempts ?to conjure a trace of the energy, humour, and spirit? of Knussen. It is varied and dynamic across its unbroken 18-minute span ? skittish lines play against still, suspended ones ? and full of…

Es-Dur. Par HASSE JOHANN ADOLF. Two complete settings of the Requiem by Johann Adolf Hasse are extant. Hasse composed the Requiem in C major on the death of the Elector Friedrich August 11 of Saxony. Only a few weeks later his son the elector Friedrich Christian also died. Presumably for this reason Hasse wrote the Requiem in D flat, and because of the shortage of time he used the Sanctus and Agnu…

Couverture Rigide. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. For his Paris 'Cythère assiégée?, Gluck drew on his eponymous opéra comique from 1759, transforming it into an opéra-ballet. The libretto which was expanded by Charles Simon Favart was adapted: Gluck added recitative passages, reworked individual sections and also added his own compositions, modifying them in parts. By March 1775, the compositional…

Kantaten I-Iii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. ?A widely-accepted form for the Christmas Oratorio is to perform parts I?III exclusively. In their concentration on the actual Christmas story they form a rounded whole. The present edition is conceived especially for this kind of performance. ? [Singen und Musizieren im Gottesdienst, Juli/August 2000] / Oratorio / Répertoire / Solistes SATB, Choeur SATB…

Op. 82. Par ELGAR EDWARD. Edward Elgar spent the summer of 1918 in the countryside. In August he received reports of the approaching end of the First World War, and this good news so inspired him that he was able to finish an initial draft of his great Violin Sonata in barely four weeks. Writing about it in his diary, he notated laconically: “Wrote some music”. His wife Alice was more enthusiastic…

Kantate Zum Ratswechsel In Leipzig. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's first cantata for the election of the Leipzig town council, composed in August 1723, is one of his most splendidly scored work from his Leipzig period. The choice of opening, with the 'representative' form of a French overture, was suited to a festive orchestral scoring. Two choral movements frame a middle section which consists…

Cette nouvelle édition indique que la composition populaire de Mozart est une oeuvre mature datant de son temps à Vienne, contrairement aux hypothèses précédentes, et que la terminaison traditionnelle ne correspond pas à la version originale. Les barres de clôture bien connus, qui ont évidemment été inclus dans cette édition, n'étaient pas en fait écrit par Mozart lui-même, mais probablement par A…