Kammeroper Nr. 2. Par RIHM WOLFGANG. Chamber opera does not mean “little opera.” On the same scale as chamber music is to the symphony, it is rather the other way of talking onstage. The movable apparatus permits sophisticated voice-leading. A large ensemble demands simple conception to achieve the complexity it perhaps intends; this can be formulated more sharply and nuanced in a chamber ensemble…

Par WEBERN ANTON. Anton Webern's late instrumental works have always been admired as examples of a systematic, innovative application of twelve-tone technique. From our perspective today, however, the reliance on older models of form and movement-structure, though of course never intended by Webern as a form of 'restoration,' seems equally important. How closely these aspects are interrelated can …

Par DE HAAN JACOB. Utopia is the name of a book written by the English author Thomas More and was published in 1516. The title is a word thought up by More himself, after the Greek language, meaning 'Nowhereland' and leading to the invention of the words utopian scheme and utopian. Utopia pictured an ideal state on an island far from the inhabited world. This idea was the basis of the composition.…

Eight timeless standards are presented in this collection of fresh vocal transcriptions and an accompanying CD with example vocals plus a separate minus-one background track for each song. Songs include: The Best Is Yet to Come · I Could Have Danced All Night · They All Laughed · Oh Look at Me Now · If I Had You · I'm Old Fashioned · A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square · The Lady Is a Tr…

Perfect as a concert opener, closer, or show piece, this lovely example of Viennese opera is now available, for the first time, in a form accessible for the student musician. Many opportunities to work on articulations, slurs, and phrasing are provided. (2:00) / Orchestre A Cordes

Eight timeless standards are presented in this collection of fresh vocal transcriptions and an accompanying CD with example vocals plus a separate minus-one background track for each song. Songs include: The More I See You · It Had to Be You · The Shadow of Your Smile · Watch What Happens · The Good Life · Call Me Irresponsible · Street of Dreams · I Should Care.

The work was composed in 1992 for the 85th birthday of Kurtág's teacher, Sándor Veress. The ensemble of instruments is unusual: two basset horns and two quarter-tone pianos (the well-known predecessor of the latter is Charles Ives' Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for two pianos). The special tuning in this case is not that the tonality moves in an ultra-chromatic direction, rather that it makes the cont…

The Ides Of March-A huge hit for The Ides of March back in 1970 this is a good example of an early horn band tune. With a driving rock pulse and the unmistakable brass riffs this chart works great for young jazz ensembles. Includes solos for trumpet and alto sax.

Based on God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen-A mix of original material and an old English song let you explore the musical tradition of “wassailing” with your band. Stephen Bulla's amazing knack for harmony and subtly unpredictable scoring always makes for aninteresting ride. Your winter concert deserves something to contrast the usual fare and you'll find just that in this fine example of y…

Standard Version with sung recitatives-Although almost unanimously condemned by contemporary Parisian critics for its overt sexuality and graphic final scene Carmen ultimately reached the public in a way that perhaps no other opera has. Bizet's aim (with Meilhac andHalevy who wrote the libretto) had been to transform the flaccid moralistic bourgeois genre of opéra comique into a more sophistica…