SKU: HH.HH091-FSP
ISBN 9790708041788.
Serg ueï Ivanovitch is the Russian Everyman. A whole world is conjured up during this 9 minute accelerando: the village, the city, the factory, the Revolution, the future and the past.
SKU: HH.HH139-FSC
ISBN 9790708041863.
Bayo 's way is really a miniature tuba concerto in one movement. I wanted the soloist to be the provider of pulse, a protagonist, a melodist and a magician. With this in mind, I set out to use the entire vocabulary of the instrument as well as some very unusual electronic extensions.
SKU: HH.HH254-SOL
ISBN 9790708092087.
An important inspiration for this composition was the delightful variety of sound possessed by the flute, a variety that in recent decades has been investigated thoroughly by numerous contemporary composers and flautists, who have exploited it with magical effect, and which is able to realize successfully not only musical but also extra musical ideas.
SKU: HH.HH151-FSP
ISBN 9790708059059.
This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, describes a disappointed lover's repudiation of Cupid. The form is notably concise, having only three movements: two arias enclosing a recitative. The first aria, expressing the lover's unhappiness in love, employs an ostinato bass a speciality of the composer very eloquently, while the second aria playfully, almost flirtatiously, heaps opprobrium on Cupid, even though one suspects that sooner or later the lover will be grateful again for his services.
SKU: HH.HH144-FSP
ISBN 9790708041955.
This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, belongs in spirit to the subgenre known as the lezione amorosa, or 'lesson in love'. The singer represents a lover who, in a homily addressed to his friend Fileno, reproaches his beloved for her doubts about his fidelity, a quality that he then proceeds to extol. As usual, Albinoni does not allow the mood to grow too intense: this is, after all, civilised conversation, not moral philosophy!
SKU: HH.HH010-MIN
ISBN 9790708024293.
Writ ten by Tartini as a young man, this concerto offers the soloist rewarding opportunities to dazzle. In the initial Allegro, polyphonic writing alternates with virtuouso sections full of runs and double stops. After a brief cadenza, an island of calm is created by the short Largo for violin and cello solo. The final Allegro plays enchantingly with the sicilian dance rhythm, and after a final solo cadenza this charming concerto comes to a close.
SKU: HH.HH027-STR
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.HH103-FSP
ISBN 9790708041535.
The cantata's subject, treated with a soupçon of humour and originality (by being combined with the unrelated theme of sleep), is the familiar one of a lover protesting his fidelity to his beloved. The text comprises three arias, each introduced by a short recitative. This ‘RARARA’ structure, common enough in the later seventeenth century, tends to give way to a ‘RARA’ or even ‘ARA’ structure in the eighteenth century and is here a conservative feature.
SKU: HH.HH020-STR
Prepared from all four known sources, this concerto from Tartini's first compositional period emerges as a masterpiece.
SKU: HH.HH053-IPT
ISBN 9790708059127.
This new critical edition includes the alternative slow movement that turns the work into what the standard catalogue of Vivaldi's works by Peter Ryom knows as RV 224a.
SKU: HH.HH026-SOL
ISBN 9790708024736.
Apos troph is solo music of rare intensity.
SKU: HH.HH401-FSC
ISBN 9790708059806.
Pley el was one of the most popular and prolific composers in western Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century. This symphony, composed in 1791, represents a grandiose gesture to his teacher Haydn, since the Adagio second movement and the Finale are clearly related to his music. A dramatic first movement and a surprisingly rich Minuet and Trio complete this striking work, written for London's Professional Concerts society.
SKU: HH.HH092-FSC
ISBN 9790708041221.
SKU: HH.HH016-STR
ISBN 1 904229 28 X.
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.HH033-FSP
ISBN 9790708024897.
This little known sonata by the great opera composer is here published for the first time with keyboard realization and basso part.
SKU: HH.HH181-FSP
ISBN 9790708059493.
The two most tantalising losses for classical clarinettists are the autograph scores of Mozart's Concerto and Quintet, both supposedly lent by the composer to his friend Anton Stadler and subsequently lost. All surviving sources for clarinet misrepresent these pieces by adapting the solo part to the smaller ranger of the modern clarinet (Stadler's instrument had a basset extension to low C).
SKU: HH.HH140-FSP
ISBN 9790708041917.
Most probably, this cantata was first performed in Rome at an accademia held at the cardinal's palace. Tarquinia is lauded equally for her beauty and for her virtue. If the first aria is playful in tone, the second strikes a more serious note, since female modesty is not something to take lightly! To this second aria Albinoni appends a very brief, third recitative that opens out into a longer cavata, a fugue like section bringing the cantata to an animated and triumphant close.
SKU: HH.HH098-FSP
ISBN 9790708041405.
In a moment, you will jump. You have but a few seconds to deliberate, to calculate, to concentrate. Just enough time to count to twelve. What if time stopped at that exact moment?
SKU: HH.HH027-IPT
ISBN 9790708024576.
SKU: HH.HH052-STR
This critical edition sheds light on the special qualities linking RV 198 (here published for the first time) to the musicians of the Saxon court, and offers the first detailed comparison between two versions of the concerto. Passages of brilliant figuration and finely spun diminutions characterize the solo episodes in the fast movements. An alternative Adagio is included in each of the various formats (scores, keyboard reduction and parts).
SKU: HH.HH233--FSP
ISBN 9790708059776.
This subtle dialogue in the composer's distinctive language will add colour and originality to any recital.
SKU: HH.HH238-IPT
ISBN 9790708059172.
A new discovery for cellists an attractive and lyrical Barcarolle for solo cello with string orchestra and harp by the famous operetta and ballet composer André Messager. The autograph score recently came to light in the USA and is the composer's own adaptation of a Barcarolle for violin and piano he published in 1897. This is a welcome rediscovery for violinists too, for the original version is also included as part of the new edition. Both cellists and violinists will therefore have a choice of either piano or orchestral accompaniment. Messager's Barcarolle represents a substantial addition to the instrumental legacy of a sadly neglected French master.
SKU: HH.HH122-SOL
ISBN 9790708041467.
The nimble fingers of harpists remind me of spiders weaving their deadly traps! I wrote 'Arachnaphonia' in the Far East as a 16th birthday present for my daughter Hannah, and she gave the first public performance shortly after. It employs some of the extended techniques I had previously experimented with, together with oriental sound colours.
SKU: HH.HH011-IPT
ISBN 9790708024668.
From Tartini's third compositional period, this concerto in three movements has been prepared using the primary source of Tartini's autograph. A beautiful central Larghetto for violins alone is framed by the vivacious opening Presto and the buoyant Allegro assai. An historically important concerto published for the first time.
SKU: HH.HH147-FSP
ISBN 9790708041986.
This cantata, from an important manuscript in Berlin containing 18 Albinoni cantatas for soprano and continuo, is the opening work of the set. A shepherd receives a glance that he believes to be significant from Irene, on whom he has set his affections. Was this glance genuinely meant or only teasing? In two recitatives and two arias, variously playful and reflective, Albinoni explores the possibilities.
SKU: HH.HH109-FSP
ISBN 9790708041825.
The theme of the cantata is the separation of lovers brought on by the enforced departure of the beloved on a sea voyage. The protagonist likens his tears to the waves surrounding the boat and his sighs to the winds that propel it, the two images giving rise to some lively word painting. Both arias are in slow tempo, but the concluding cavata lends a welcome touch of animation to the cantata.
SKU: HH.HH020-KBD
ISBN 9790708024378.
Prep ared from all four known sources, this concerto from Tartini's first compositional period emerges as a masterpiece.
SKU: HH.HH206-FSP
ISBN 9790708059165.
The Little Chinese Cabbage landed in the Western world in the 20th century. It has been sung and rearranged by many Chinese musicians living in the West to express their loneliness and sadness – their homesickness in a foreign culture and an alien world. Like the destiny of China, The Little Chinese Cabbage undergoes transformation in the West. Inevitably, Western musical language and its compositional techniques become integrated in the melody, since it reflects the conditions of life of the creative musician.
SKU: HH.HH309-FSP
ISBN 9790708092582.
Esca pade was written in 2011 at the instigation of Walter Auer, flautist of the Orsolino Wind Quintet, the ensemble to whom the work is dedicated. In musical language chiefly characterized by the transference of small pitch groups between instruments, to striking colouristic effect, the composer takes us on a journey through four short movements leading us towards and away from momentary staging posts en route.
