Par DONIZETTI GAETANO. Through works such as Verdi’s Requiem or Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, we know that the great composers of Italian bel canto opera also wrote marvelous sacred music. Yet most of these pieces are rarely performed. This is also true of Gaetano Donizetti’s Messa di Requiem, which he composed as an expression of grief at the early death of Vincenzo Bellini in 1835. Neither performe…

Par GOLDSMITH JERRY. Explore the captivating film score of Air Force One with this premium-quality study edition! Wolfgang Petersen’s 1997 blockbuster, featuring Harrison Ford as the U.S. President facing Russian terrorists aboard his own aircraft, became a worldwide hit, grossing over $315 million. Originally scored by Randy Newman, the soundtrack was completely reimagined by Jerry Goldsmith, who…

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the Little Hill. The opera – “a kind of Alice in Wonderland, but for adults”, says Crimp – lasts just over an hour and is cast in seven scenes. It is scored for five voices (S-S-MS-CT-Bar) and…

Cantata for the Second Day of Christmas. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Telemann composed “ Gelobet Seist Du, Jesu Christ ” (TvWV 1:612) for his cantata cycle of 1710–11. Although scored without Brass Instruments or Timpani, the brilliant, festive mood of the second day of Christmas prevails. The opening chorale and the final chorus form a frame for the four solo arias of the main section (ATB). Here…

Hob.XX:2. Par HAYDN FRANZ JOSEF. The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross (Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze) (Hob. XX:2) Oratorio (Vocal Version) The original orchestral version of 'The Seven Last Words' (Hob. XX:1A), probably composed in 1785/86, was later arranged by Haydn into an oratorio, probably in 1795/96. It is scored for SATB soloists, mixed chorus (SATB) and or…

Parti Orchestra. Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. The orchestral set contains: 3 copies of Vl I and 3 copies Vl II 2 copies of vla, 2 copies of cello 1 copy of organ, contrabass, trumpet and oboe. Today the Gloria RV 589 (BA 7674) is one of Vivaldi's best-known compositions and one of the most frequently performed sacred vocal works from the Baroque period. Vivaldi wrote the ; Gloria as a self-contained work …

Premiered in London in 1733, Handel's 'magic opera? 'Orlando? is based on a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capeci that derives indirectly from Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem 'Orlando furioso?.This subject was very popular at the time and was frequently set to music, e.g. by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Agostino Steffani and Joseph Haydn. The title role of Orlando is the last one that Handel wrote for the cele…

The new reduction of Il barbiere di Siviglia is based on the critical edition of the full score by Alberto Zedda that, republished in 2009, appeared in turn as a fully revised edition - in the light of new sources and updated philological criteria - of the historic and pioneering critical edition of 1969. The 1969 Barbiere di Siviglia was based on the autograph and on manuscript and printed source…

Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah caused a sensation at its world première performance, sung in English, in Birmingham UK in August 1846. The huge forces marshalled for the occasion delighted the audience, who demanded no fewer than eight encores and loudly acclaimed the composer despite an injunction to observe the solemnity of the occasion by refraining from ap…