Corrette devint connu principalement par ses nombreuses oeuvres excellemment repêché école qui a suscité l'admiration de ses contemporains, et qui sont maintenant des sources importantes pour la pratique de la performance historique. Pas moins important, toutefois, est le oeuvre de composition de Corrette qui, comme au style, déjà anticipe les éléments de la période classique. La forme suit le con…

Tiefe Stimme / Low Voice. Par SCHUBERT FRANZ. Continuing the new Urtext edition of Schubert’s Lieder, editor Walther Dürr now presents Volume 6, for Low Voice. While volumes 1 to 4 of this series contain mostly Lieder that Schubert had published during his lifetime, volume 5ff. contain the remaining songs which are presented basically chronologically in the order of their Deutsch catalogue number.…

Opera In Three Acts. Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. Today, 'Samson et Dalila? is undoubtedly one of the best-known of Camille Saint-Saëns's thirteen operas, being more present in the repertoire of international stages than most other French 19th century compositions. During Saint-Saëns's lifetime, the opera was already regarded as the pinnacle of his dramatic stage works. The fact that the work's genes…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did not leave us a definitive version either in print or fair copy. The sources give evidence of four different versions used at four performances - 1724, 1725, around 1730 and d…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Although the ?fantasia? was already considered as old-fashioned around 1700, this genre exerted a particular fascination on the very young Bach ? he had since relocated to Köthen ? and theexperienced composer as well.Volume 3, the latest installment in the Complete Organ Works, gathers together all transmitted organ fantasias by Bach, the fragments of the fugues belongin…

Band 3: Spain, France, Italy, Portugal-Directory of Music Research. Répertoire International Des Sources Musicales (Rism). Internationales Quellenlexikon Der Musik, Serie C: Directory Of Music Research Libraries. Hrsg Rita Benton (Engl.)/ Recueil / Livre

Par SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. The second half of the 19th century represented something of a ?Golden Age? of the violin sonata in France: Influential violin sonatas such as those by Franck, Fauré and Saint-Saëns were among the successful works of this genre, inspiring many further compositions. Saint-Saëns? Violin Sonata No.1 was incorporated into the repertoire of numerous late 19th-century violinists…

Par MASSENET JULES. Parmi les poètes contemporains mis en musique par Massenet, Paul Mariéton (1862-1911), poète provençal et fondateur de la Revue félibréenne (1895), occupe une place singulière. Les deux hommes se connaissent depuis 1884 alors qu’ils envisagent la composition d’un opéra d’après la nouvelle Nerto ??de Mistral, projet abandonné en 1890. Néanmoins, Massenet et Mariéton continuent d…

Par BROWN ALAN. Edited by Alan Brown In conjunction with MB66, this volume draws on manuscript sources of Tudor keyboard music to create a comprehensive edition of all the material which has not yet found a place in the series, or in comparable library editions. First published in 1989./ Recueil / Piano

Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Richer than ever – Rameau’s “Zoroastre” in the version of 1756. Opera in five acts. Rameau’s revised version of his opera “Zoroastre”, which could be heard and seen between 20 January 1756 and 26 March 1757 at the Académie royale de musique, was favourably received. Also from today’s point of view the work profits dramaturgically from many of the changes and seems altoget…