SKU: HH.HH035-FSP
ISBN 9790708024941.
The main movements, introitus and gradual, have distinctive central ideas – the manic string crossing chaos of the first and the rather more introspective and mellifluous material of the second. Both movements are, in essence, dramatic and the performance should be as energetic and physical as possible.
SKU: HH.HH007-KBD
ISBN 9790708024248.
A solemn introductory Grave where the solo violin occasionally breaks out from the repeated chords with short cantabile sections, is followed by a fluent Allegro with difficult sounding passage work, excellently written for the violin. An emotive Grave recitative leads into the final Allegro which arrests attention by the simple device of alternating triplets with semiquaver passages. Eminently suited to amateur and school orchestras!
SKU: HH.HH082-FSP
ISBN 9790708041146.
An intimate musical dance for two.
SKU: HH.HH093-FSC
ISBN 9790708041238.
Imag ine a plain canvas on which the brush strokes can be distinguished. A whole life is present there, yet only a single colour. There are no directions--neither a beginning nor an end, it appears. Only the implacable logic of unicity. And on the canvas are placed symbols, like enigmas.
SKU: HH.HH038-FSP
ISBN 9790708024743.
Flui d in texture and tempo hypnotically mercurial variations of timbre and rhythm Each part contains the other 3 instruments printed small, making the co ordination of this complex music a pleasure for the players.
SKU: HH.HH080-FSC
ISBN 9790708041092.
A finely structured web in an entirely original sound world.
SKU: HH.HH016-IPT
ISBN 9790708024644.
Over the beautiful second movement Tartini wrote I know you have no mercy using his secret code With the outer movements this concerto is a first class representative of the 18th century concerto. Carefully edited from Tartini's autograph and checked against the only other known source.
SKU: HH.HH300-SOL
ISBN 9790708092490.
Carl Fasch was notoriously reluctant to have his music made public and even asked that much of it should be destroyed. What remains, however, supports the view of the contemporary writer on music Johann Reichardt that Fasch was the true successor to C. P. E. Bach, with whom he shared keyboard duties for Frederick the Great. In this first volume of his complete keyboard works, the six sonatas, which appeared in print and were well regarded during the composer's lifetime, show him to be a minor master and an eloquent advocate for the eclectic expressive style then current in Berlin.
SKU: HH.HH128-SOL
ISBN 9790708041610.
L'ar gile, la forme, le ravin du monde (Argil, shape, the world’s ravine), can be read Le matériau, la forme, le Tao (Material, shape, Tao). There are but four ingredients: my fetish tone row, a very long melody, a touch of folklore and some small sparks.
SKU: HH.HH153-FSP
ISBN 9790708059073.
This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, takes the form of a lover's plea to Clori, who is proving 'hard to get'. He begs her finally to yield to his love. Even if she does not reciprocate it, she should at least soothe his pain temporarily by glancing in his direction. As so often in Baroque cantatas, the exaggerated emotion seems to be ironised to some extent: Albinoni and his poet simultaneously express and critically observe the lover's feelings. The two arias are nicely contrasted, the first containing a large amount of written in vocal ornamentation and the second, in contrast, conveying a bluff breeziness.
SKU: HH.HH025-IPT
ISBN 9790708024590.
Char acterized by galant expression and remarkably experimental design: sectional movement structures often exhibiting, within the framework of binary form, the tendencies of incipient sonata form, anticipating the classical symphony.
SKU: HH.HH018_19-STR
With the unattributed concerto in F, this concerto is the earliest known 'double' clarinet concerto (i.e., with solo parts exclusively for a pair of clarinets of similar type and range), and among the earliest concertos to feature the instrument in any capacity.
SKU: HH.HH102-FSP
ISBN 9790708041450.
This is an example of a cantata morale – a cantata that, for once, does not explore the pleasures and pains of love among the shepherds and nymphs of Arcadia but offers timeless advice on moral conduct. The message of the text, put simply, is: lack of discrimination and decorum in love leads men to ruin and death.
SKU: HH.HH145-FSP
ISBN 9790708041962.
This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, is on a more serious subject than most. Standing at the deathbed of Lidio, who has undeviatingly loved her without reciprocation all his life, Clori is stricken by remorse at her ingratitude and enjoins others to surrender to Cupid. As usual, Albinoni does not wallow in the lachrymose, but there is an affecting tenderness that suffuses the whole cantata.
SKU: HH.HH146-FSP
ISBN 9790708041979.
This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, is on the ever popular subject of a timid lover who, in the course of three arias and two recitatives, eventually plucks up the courage to declare his love openly. His progress from confusion via self pity to a growing confidence is charted in the well contrasted arias, which show Albinoni's lyrical gift at its best.
SKU: HH.HH093-IPT
ISBN 9790708041245.
SKU: HH.HH008-KBD
ISBN 9790708024408.
This double concerto displays Valentini's originality in development of musical form and thematic material. The ritornello from the second movement Allegro is appended to the final Presto giving the concerto a satisfying completeness. An important addition to the repertoire of violin double concertos.
SKU: HH.HH027-MIN
ISBN 9790708024552.
This very fine concerto is remarkable for its powerful expression associated with the minor mode, for its active contrapuntal writing, and for its rich chromatic harmony. In the first movement the highly effective solo part makes the most of the resonating properties of the key of A minor, from the ingenious opening variant of the motto to the brilliant capriccio around the open E string that leads to the final Da Capo.
SKU: HH.HH081-SSP
ISBN 9790708041115.
This fascinating work combines Chinese melodic roots with extreme European complexity.
SKU: HH.HH236-SOL
ISBN 9790708059851.
Lord Fitzwilliam championed the performance of Handel’s music in late 18th century England, yet his own compositions – themselves often indebted to and inspired by Handel – have never before appeared in print. Surveying a broad cross section of Fitzwilliam’s works, this edition, prepared by Gerald Gifford, Honorary Keeper of Music at the Museum, is of considerable musicological interest and marks an important addition to the keyboard repertoire of the period.
SKU: HH.HH016-KBD
ISBN 9790708024347.
SKU: HH.HH007-IPT
ISBN 9790708024675.
SKU: HH.HH085-FSP
ISBN 9790708041160.
In this remarkably inventive work, the composer subjects the melody to a series of intervallic expansions and contractions within several diVerent tonal, and sometimes microtonal, contexts that broadly correspond to the work’s various sections. A trail of melodic clues may be traced though these sections, culminating in a quotation of the hymn tune itself towards the end.
SKU: HH.HH190-FSP
ISBN 9790708059677.
In these amplifications of three of Haydn's best known string quartets, Op. 71, Wranitzky expanded the ensemble to nine players by adding flute, oboe, two horns and double bass, making it one of the larger divertimento scorings for the period. First published in 1800, but overlooked by performers ever since, they are now issued here as a 3 volume set in full score with set of parts. The first of the group received its modern premiere on 1 March 2008 in New York's Carnegie Hall.
SKU: HH.HH024-STR
Inventive juxtaposition of wind and strings showing only a minimal use of solo tutti contrast and the traditional Roman concerto grosso disposition of forces on which the composer's earlier instrumental works had relied.
SKU: HH.HH012-STR
ISBN 1 904229 12 3.
An 'operatic' concerto full of drama. Wonderfully violinistic throughout and a delight to play for intermediate and virtuoso alike. The vivid ritornellos and extrovert solo episodes makes this a highly effective work.
SKU: HH.HH022-MIN
ISBN 9790708024057.
Late 20th century chamber music radiating energy, colour and life!
SKU: HH.HH121-SSC
ISBN 9790708041436.
The opening movement begins high up with stylised birdsong and moves down through the registers, through Frye’s Motet, to the depths of a tuba solo. The second movement is a slow processional which revolves around a series of chords and leads, without a break, through a tutti passage in octaves to the third, which opens with a trumpet solo and moving through several fast sometimes, contrapuntal episodes to a triumphal arrival of a quotation from a Mass by Jacob Obrecht.
SKU: HH.HH105-FSP
ISBN 9790708041559.
IThe text for Ingratissima Clori does not appear in Ottoboni’s Trattenimenti poetici, and its authorship is therefore uncertain. However, it exhibits one of Ottoboni’s most consistent stylistic ‘trademarks’ – the use of end rhyme throughout the recitative stanzas (i.e., not merely in a final couplet) – and the worldly wise view of romantic love expressed in it (amounting to: if one love object is unresponsive to you, seek another) is very much in his vein. It should be considered a candidate for his authorship. The text comprises two arias, each introduced by a short recitative. This is the ‘RARA’ layout that dominated the cantata around 1700, before becoming displaced from favour in its turn by the even more condensed ‘ARA’ layout.
