The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most dramatic libretti, premiered in Verona in the spring of 1737 in a setting by Vivaldi, contain some of his finest, most mature, and most original arias, and are published here for the first time. They evince a potential dramatic intensity that makes us regret all the more the loss of the first act. Only one aria of Act…

There is something for everyone in this collection of Isabelle Aboulker's most beautiful melodies: the passionate vocalises of Je t'aime, composed for the fiery Patricia Petitbon, sit alongside limpid fables by La Fontaine (The Crow and the Fox, The Lion in Old Age and more), while the unnerving eeriness of the merchant of souls in Au Marché de Saint-Paul contrasts with the light humour of the Sav…

Vocal Score / Softcover. Par VERDI GIUSEPPE. In a letter of 2 January 1851, Verdi suggested for the first time Antonio Garcia Gutierrez play El Trovador as a possible subject for his new Opera: 'It seems to me very beautiful, imaginative, and full of strong situations'. Once he had settled on the subject, the composer immediately began looking for a theater in which to produce the Opera and after …

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Bärenreiter is closely connected with Mozart. The complete works of the ingenious composer have been published in the benchmark “New Mozart Edition” issued by Bärenreiter. Moreover, the vast majority of compositions are available in performing Urtext editions based on the musical text of the “New Mozart Edition”. There is hardly a musical area in which Mozart did not e…

Par . Come play music written by kings and clowns, Ladies and lawyers, dance masters, doctors, and troubadours. Welcome to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Creativity flourished throughout the times that produced writers, Artists, and scientists such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, da Vinci, and Galileo. That inventiveness is evident in the imaginative and eloquent music in this coll…

Have Fun Writing Music. Par HARRIS PAUL. Musical Doodles is the secret to having fun with composition! Writing music is often viewed either as complicated, with far too many rules, or something that a computer programme does for you. Imaginatively created by Paul Harris, this inspiring book is all about rediscovering a love for writing down music through musical doodling — enjoying and engaging wi…

Brahms had already announced his ?retirement' from composition when in the spring of 1894 he played chamber music with the cellist Robert Hausmann and the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. This encounter apparently renewed his enthusiasm for Mühlfeld's much admired playing and inspired him to write two clarinet sonatas in the summer of the same year. It remains unclear when exactly Brahms drafted vio…

Par ROSENBLATT ALEXANDER. ?Suzhou Gardens? is inspired by the Classical Gardens of Suzhou. Alexander Rosenblatt wrote his own Chinese-style melody and spiced up the composition with jazz chords and harmonies. There are many fountains and waterfalls in the gardens, so he tried to depict the overflows and colours of the murmuring water in his music. / Date parution : 2022-02-10/ Répertoire / Piano

This album presents a variety of country blues and original tunes played solo by Stefan Grossman as well as with friends.Some were recently recorded while others were released on projects that are no longer available but that Grossman thought fitted together nicely in the jigsaw pattern of his musical development.There is a tab/music booklet that has most of the tunes transcribed in a PDF format o…