BR-CPEB D 3 (Wq 240) - Oratorio. Par BACH CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL. Of the three oratorios which Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed when he was music director in Hamburg, Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu is particularly intended to create splendor and effect with its use of magnificent-sounding trumpets and timpani. Bach liked this work very much and had it published in 1787, the year before his…

Par PURCELL HENRY. This, the first of Purcell's Operas for the professional stage, is edited in Vocal Score format by Margaret Laurie. The first performance of this work was produced by Betterton, with great success, at the Dorset Garden Theatre in June 1690. The text was an adaption, almost certainly by Betterton himself, of Flethcer and Massinger's play, 'The Prophetess'. / Opéra-opérette / Rép…

BR-CPEB D 3 (Wq 240) - Oratorio. Par BACH CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL. Of the three oratorios which Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed when he was music director in Hamburg, Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu is particularly intended to create splendor and effect with its use of magnificent-sounding trumpets and timpani. Bach liked this work very much and had it published in 1787, the year before his…

Par BENJAMIN GEORGE. Premiered in 2018, the 90-minute opera Lessons in Love and Violence delves into the dark and turbulent events of Edward II's life and death. George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's third collaboration, it unfolds as a taut slow burning arch of seven tableaux. This work boasts particularly rich string textures, and is coloured by basset horn and cimbalom together with a pair of harp…

Aus ?Letzte Blätter? Von Hermann Von Gilm. Par STRAUSS RICHARD. New practical edition of the “Acht Gedichte” op. 10 by Richard Strauss from “Letzte Blätter” by Austrian poet Hermann von Gilm (1812-1864). Strauss composed these songs in 1885 when he was 21 years old. He often accompanied his wife, the soprano Pauline Strauss-de Ahna, on the piano and worked with her on interpretations of his piano…

Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Just back from a trip to Leipzig in the early autumn of 1950 where he heard Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier at the Bicentennial Bach Competition played by the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva, Shostakovich began his own series of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, based on Bach's model. He composed them quickly, starting on October 10, 1950, and finishing on February 23, 1951…

BR-CPEB D 3 (Wq 240) - Oratorio. Par BACH CARL PHILIPP EMMANUEL. Of the three oratorios which Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed when he was music director in Hamburg, Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu is particularly intended to create splendor and effect with its use of magnificent-sounding trumpets and timpani. Bach liked this work very much and had it published in 1787, the year before his…

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. With a text from Revelations, this oratorio is an awesome musical vision of the fall of Babylon and the new heaven and earth - apocalyptic, incandescent and of an intensity unique in the composer's entire output. His personal favourite among all his choral works, it still packs a powerful punch today.  / Répertoire / Baryton et Ténor

Nos. 11-15 - Pour Guitare-Para Guitarra-For Guitar-Für Gitarre -Per Chitarra. Par BROUWER LEO. A new edition of the 3rd series of Estudios sencillos (Etudes simples) originally published by Editions Max Eschig. The music text has been revised by Frédéric Zigante: with new engravings and a practical, easy-to-follow editorial lay-out, the present edition will be useful for students and performers. /…