Gespräche mit Vera Baur. Par GERHAHER CHRISTIAN. Christian Gerhaher ist ein Phänomen. Vom Publikum gefeiert, von der Fachwelt umjubelt und in seinem Rang als Liedsänger oft mit Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau verglichen, bleibt er ein Zweifler, der sich und seine Kunst in Frage stellt. Vielleicht macht ihn dies zu jenem Ausnahmekünstler, der auch Philosophie und Medizin studierte und dessen warme, klare,…

A Must-Have Collection of Well-Known Songs, Including Many Cello Features. If you've been learning to play the cello for a little while, you're probably eager to put those new skills to work and play some familiar songs. The First 50 Songs You Should Play on the Cello includes a wide variety of favorite songs, from pop hits and movie themes, to folk songs and classical melodies, several of which o…

Par WEILL KURT. Kurt Weill developed his creative energies mainly within the world of musical theater, where he proved to be an immensely productive and imaginative innovator, but he also left behind a small body of work for the concert hall. The Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra op. 12 dates from the spring of 1924. Scored for two flutes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, one oboe and trumpet, per…

Six partitas for 2 violins, gamba (violoncello) & b. c. Bach was impressed by Reincken and arranged some of Reinckens themes from HORTUS MUSICUS (1687) for harpsichord (BWV 954, 965). The ensemble Les Cyclopes recorded HORTUS MUSICUS for the label Pierre Verany (PV 796052). Also Reinhardt Goebel recorded this music (Durata each volume: ca. 28?). Series Collection Thierry Mathis Partitas 5 & 6

Par DEBUSSY. La Rhapsodie mauresque de Claude Debussy compte parmi ces oeuvres que l'on connaît plus par l'anecdote que par la musique elle-même. Le premier biographe du compositeur, Léon Vallas, retrace déjà dans son ouvrage 'Claude Debussy et son temps' la genèse de la pièce. Il semble que les quelques lignes qu'il y consacre aient alimenté à ce sujet la plupart des travaux ultérieurs. Alors que…

My Violin Concerto is scored for a Classical-sized orchestra, with the addition of a harp and celeste, and lasts around 17 minutes. Although the work sets out to explore the lyrical characteristics of the solo instrument, it is only gradually that the violin finds its full, lyric voice, and thence, as the work progresses, a more dominant role. This, in one sense, is the 'journey' of the piece.The …

Miguel Alcdzar was born in Mexico City on April 26 1942. He followed a professional career which involved activities in the fields of performance, pedagogy, musicology and composition. He gave the first performances of the Concertino by Blas Galindo, with the composer himself conducting the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, the Concierto of Manuel Ponce, in its original version, the Concerto …

Includes the cycles Briefly It Enters (High Voice edition only), I Will Breathe a Mountain, Let Evening Come (High Voice edition only), Three Donald Hall Songs, Tillinghast Duo, individual songs, and selections from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Medium/Low Voice edition only). With notes on the songs and composer comments. Includes several first editions and first-time transpositions.There…

Par HOLST GUSTAV. Invocation was composed in 1911 and first performed on May 2nd of that year in the Queen's Hall, London, by May Mukle with the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Landon Ronald. The work received several performances with Piano accompaniment before 1914, but with the public success of The Planets, it became one of many works that Holst never had time to revise or publish. A certa…