Gabriel Fauré's Chanson De Mélisande for Soprano and Orchestra. Reduction for Voice and Piano. 'An enchanted dream' ' poet Charles Van Leberghe's words give us an idea of the audience's enthusiasm at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Piccadilly on June 21st, 1898, when the first English language performance of Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck was performed, with incidental…

Score Parties. Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. When Beethoven wrote these three quartets he was 15 years old and a composition student of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. They reveal a strong Mozartian influence while the brilliant piano writing already gives a sense of the mature Beethoven. He may conceivably have written the works for the wealthy Mastiaux family in Bonn, as he gave piano lessons to …

Facsimile of the autograph score from the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth. Par WAGNER RICHARD. Knowledge, pity, redemption: Richard Wagner took up these major themes in “Parsifal”, the music drama that he completed 13 months before his death and referred to as his “most conciliatory work”. Already celebrated for its compositional technique and mystical sonorities at the …

Dvorák's 'Requiem?, for soloists, choir and orchestra, is one of the highlights within the international choral repertoire. Now Bärenreiter is presenting this work in an arrangement by Joachim Linckelmann with chamber orchestra based on the full score from the 'Complete Edition of the Works by Antonín Dvorák?.The arrangement dispenses with all the brass instruments except for a single horn- all th…

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. This study score is based on the score and complete performance material of Dvorák's famous B minor Cello Concerto (BA 9045) edited by Jonathan Del Mar and published in 2011. In addition the study score contains a Foreword by Dvorák scholar Jan Smaczny. Like every other major 19th-century cello concerto, Dvorák's concerto resulted from a collaboration between the composer and …

Sleep On takes pride of place on Hayley Westenra's album, Hushabye (Decca cat no: 4810351), written by Paul Mealor and dedicated to the Royal baby. This vocal score presents the piece arranged for SATB chorus and Piano. Also available for solo soprano and ensemble: Full Score NOV163889 Vocal Score (solo Soprano and Piano version) NOV163900 / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

For The Left Het For Piano et Orchestra. Par RAVEL MAURICE. In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War, commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel's most thrilling compositions and, for Wittgenstein, the most important of the many works he commissioned over the course of his career. This scholarly…

Miniature Score. Par MAHLER GUSTAV. This profound work which obsessed Mahler for seven years, is presented here in full score with original instrumentation, bar numbered movements and with ample margins at the bottom of each score page for notes and analysis./ Répertoire / Partition de Poche

Opera in three acts. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. ; Almira, Handel's first opera, was well received when premiered in 1705 at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The director was Reinhard Keiser, who, remarkably, had himself already set Friedrich Christian Feustking's text to music. The role of Fernando was sung by Johann Mattheson. The translation used by Handel leaves several Italian arias in …

Cantata for the First of Advent. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Study Score Archive Copy Schwingt Freudig Euch Empor BWV 36 (final version) Cantata for the First of Advent - Urtext of the New Bach Edition - Performance material (BA10036), vocal score (BA10036-90) and study score (TP1036) available for sale Bärenreiter 's editions of Bach Cantatas offer the authoritative text of the New Bach Edition me…