Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Between 1996 and 2000 Bärenreiter published scholarly-critical editions of Beethoven 's Nine Symphonies edited by the first class musicologist Jonathan Del Mar. The editorial process was a huge undertaking because of the complex source situation regarding Beethoven's Symphonies culminating in the Choral Symphony (No. 9) which came down to us in nearly 20 different sources…

Par BARGIELSKI ZBIGNIEW . After the first performance of my Fourth Quartet, in Salzburg in 1997, the artists of the excellent Hugo Wolf Quartett approached me with the appealing proposition that I write a new quartet. Rather problematic, however, proved to be the musicians’ delicate suggestion that I invest the work with elements of a more pungent expression and elements of folklore – ideally Poli…

Actus tragicus. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Mighty God, His time is ever best) BWV 106 'Actus tragicus' Cantata for a funeral service. Since there are no original sources or documents concerning the first performance of the funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit BWV 106, it is impossible to establish the year of origin of this work, called Actus tra…

Fassung Ii. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion ranks alongside the St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the B minor Mass as one of the great vocal works from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig years. In contrast to his other large-scale choral works, however, Bach never gave this work a definitive final form. Rather, for every performance he substantially revis…

The All Music Guide deems Machine Head part of the holy trinity of English hard rock and heavy metal (along with Led Zeppelin's 4 and Black Sabbath's Paranoid). This classic album has been emulated by nearly every rock band since its release in 1972. Our folio features note-for-note transcriptions of every note played by Ritchie Blackmore on all 7 legendary tracks. / Guitare

Kantate Zum Fest Mariae Reinigung. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Setting in E minor. A new edition of the version for solo soprano by Bach, which can hold a place alongside the version for bass solo. Bach originally composed the cantata for the Feast of Purification for a solo bass in the key of C minor [CV 31. 082/00]. Since its scoring for only one solo voice made it easily adaptable for performanc…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Three Klezmer Miniatures is Philip Sparke’s third work based on traditional Jewish klezmer melodies, after Shalom! and A Klezmer Karnival. Klezmer music originated in the ’shtetl‘ (villages) and the ghettos of Eastern Europe, where itinerant Jewish troubadours, known as ’klezmorim‘, had performed at celebrations, particularly weddings, since the early Middle Ages. In Three Klezm…

Michel Legrand: The Piano Collection is a definitive compilation of 25 best-loved songs by the award-winning songwriter, arranged for piano and voice. Michel Legrand has been a seemingly inexhaustible songwriter, film score and stage composer, arranger and jazz pianist since the 1950s. This collection brings together a superb selection of his songs and music, representing various facets of his pro…

Description Bb Edition. The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed without any copyrights or royalties paid to the master composers who created these musical canons. Hal Leonard is very proud to present the f…