Description G. Schirmer Operatic Anthology - Arias For Baritone Carefully chosen arias to anticipate the needs of singers, teachers and coaches for years to come. Songlist Ach, Wir Armen Leute (Hansel Und Gretel) [Humperdinck, Engelbert] Ah Per Sempre Io Ti Perdei (I Puritani) [Bellini, Vincenzo] Ah Pescator (La Gioconda) [Ponchielli, Amilcare] Avant De Quitter Ces Lieux (Faust) [Gounod, C…

One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius, Elgar, Enesco, Mahler and Schoenberg. A stud…

Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. Haydn composed his Symphony No. 77 along with his Symphonies Nos. 76 and 78 for a planned journey to England that never took place. Nonetheless, H.C. Robbins Landon calls these works the 'English symphonies” as they are stylistically closely linked to the 'London Bach”, Johann Christian Bach. Haydn himself, in a letter of 1783 to his Parisian publisher Charles-Georges Boyer,…

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…

Sixth and seventh positions. Par SZILVAY GEZA. The volume G of the popular Colourstrings violin tutors by Géza Szilvay studies every position of the violin in a separate volume: G1 the second position, G2 the third position, G3 the fourth position, G4 the fifth position and the last one, G5, the high positions (sixth and seventh). These books form an all-embracing, rich collection of shifting exer…

C'est le samedi 28 juillet 1855, au Conservatoire de Paris, que le concours de la classe de trombone eut lieu. Cette année-là, une matinée suffit à auditionner tous les candidats pour la raison qu'explique Paul Smith, dans la Revue et Gazette musicale: «'Toute la famille des instruments à vent ['] s'était donné rendez-vous avec une harpe dans une seule et même matinée. La guerre s'est chargée d'ab…

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI / SAINT-SAENS CAMILLE. One of the least known of the great Russian pianists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, Alexander Siloti (1863-1945) was one of the most influential and progressive. As a concert promoter, he introduced the music of dozens of composers to the Russian public in the famous Siloti Concerts of 1903-1917, including Albeniz, Debussy, de Falla, Delius…

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. This piece was commissioned by the ‘Concert Band Vlamertinge’ and is a plea for peace: the title translates as ‘Peace on Earth’. This is expressed by means of the vocal contribution expected from the performers. In various places of the piece you can recognize, the words ‘Et In Terra Pax’ - an appeal for peace - at first jumbled together but later more rhythmically structure…

HWV 258-261. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Une impressionnante intemporalité : les solennels hymnes du couronnement (Coronation Anthems) Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, the King shall rejoice et My heart is inditing composés par Händel pour le couronnement de George II en 1727 font partie des chefs-d’œuvre de la littérature chorale. Zadok the priest a accompagné le sacre du nouveau …

Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Dieses Werk wurde im Auftrag der Concert Band Vlamertinge geschrieben und ist ein Plädoyer an den Frieden: Der Titel bedeutet dann auch ‘Frieden auf Erden’. Dies kommt unter anderem im vokalen Anteil der Ausführenden zum Ausdruck. An verschiedenenStellen des Werkes erklingen, anfangs durcheinander dann zu einem rhythmischen und strukturierten Synchrongesang vereint, die Wort…