An Opera in One Act. Par SHORE DAN. / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Opéra

Par PHILIDOR. La création du Soldat Magicien par Les Monts du Reuil, le 27 janvier 2015, à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, est l?occasion d?un partenariat entre cet ensemble, la BnF, et Les Éditions Buissonnières : la volonté commune de ces acteurs, de faire découvrir des trésors de la musique, permet l?édition inédite du conducteur et du matériel díorchestre, rendant accessible cette musique au plus grand nombre. Le soldat magicien de Louis Anseaume, mis en musique par Philidor met en scène un couple, dont la femme est convoitée pour sa beauté et l?époux pour ses richesses. Et c?est un repas commandé par le procureur Blondineau pour profiter plus longuement de la compagnie de madame qui va tout déclencher... / Date parution : 2015-01-22/ Répertoire / Conducteur d'Orchestre

Par LARUETTE JEAN-LOUIS. D'un petit volume déniché un peu par hasard à la bibliothèque de l'Arsenal a germé, après un jeu de piste passionnant, un opéra-comique : Cendrillon. C'est une ?uvre à tiroir, reflet d'une époque très particulière de la musique française, se glissant entre la fin du baroque flamboyant et le classicisme naissant. Le compositeur mêle des airs célèbres d'opéras (qu'il emprunte à des compositeurs comme Jean-Philippe Rameau, Egidio Duny, les parodiant parfois), à des chants populaires (les vaudevilles qui, par référence au texte original, permettaient le jeu de mot, le double sens) et compose ses propres pièces, qu'il adapte parfaitement au texte du librettiste Louis Anseaume. Rejouée pour la première fois en 2005 en version concert par l'ensemble Les Monts du Reuil à Vincennes, cette Cendrillon de 1759 n'a pas été sans poser beaucoup de questions. Nous tenions à respecter l'esprit d'une interprétation « baroque » attentive, tout en acceptant l'espace de liberté et de création suggéré par le genre. Nos choix s'appuient sur les conseils de musicologues et nous assumons la part évidente d'incertitude inhérente à l'interprétation d'un opéra-comique en vaudevilles de cette période. Soulignons que c'est devant la grande qualité du livret de Louis Anseaume et des airs de Jean-Louis Laruette que nous avons entrepris ce travail : Cendrillon nous dévoile un compositeur sensible qui s'exprime en demi-teintes et nous touche par ses mélodies tendres et délicates./ Répertoire / Conducteur

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Paul KELSEN (Arr. ) / Niveau : Avancé / Opéras, opéras comiques, opérettes / Répertoire / Exemplaire Complet

Edizione critica a cura di Claudio Toscani (testi in italiano e inglese). La fille du régiment, always one of Donizetti?s most popular stage works, was first performed at the Théâtre de l?Opéra-Comique in Paris on 11 February 1840. It was composed by Donizetti, to a libretto by Saint-Georges and Bayard, in 1839, for the French debut of soprano Juliette Bourgeois. Later on, Donizetti prepared an Italian version as well, using a libretto adaptation by Calisto Bassi, and making several alterations to the French version of the score (the premiere of the new version, entitled La figlia del reggimento, took place at La Scala Theatre in Milano on 3 October 1840). The opera enjoyed tremendous success ? at the Opéra-Comique alone, more than one thousand performances were given between 1840 and 1917 ?, and was widely staged in the major European and American opera houses. Owing to the lack of available autograph music sources ? only a few score sketches and fragments survive, kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France ?, the principal source for this edition is the printed score prepared by the Parisian publisher Georges Schonenberger during the spring of 1840. Together with the full score, Schonenberger also engraved and printed the orchestral parts. Previously, the publishing house had printed the piano vocal score of several selected numbers from La fille du régiment, as well as the complete score reduction of the work. The Schonenberger edition constitutes, however, a problematical source. The engravers had to work under great pressure - the score was assembled in less than a month -, and the final product turned out to be of mediocre quality, abounding in imperfections, errors, and inconsistencies affecting both the literary and the musical texts. This critical edition has therefore been realized, first of all, through a careful reconstruction process: the text handed down by tradition was compared with a number of sources (including the manuscript scores of the Italian version) that have enabled the editor to address the multiple problems posed by the principal source. The spoken dialogues, missing in the printed music sources, are derived from the libretto used for the première. The critical edition of La fille du régiment reinstates Tonio?s romance «Pour me rapprocher de Marie» from Act Two, included in the original libretto and actually sung at the première, but expunged from the Schonenberger edition of the score. Donizetti himself cut the romance soon after the première, possibly because of the tenor?s poor performance - as a result, the omission became customary. The appendices to this critical edition present, additionally, two unpublished variants, handed down in form of complete and autograph score: these pieces, crossed out or modified through the compositional process, add fresh new possibilities to current performance practices. The first one is a duet for Marie and Tonio that Donizetti had originally devised for Act Two, but later deleted from the score. The second one is a preliminary draft of the Act Two Finale, later expunged and replaced, in both music and literary text, by the final version.

Best remembered for his extraordinary advancement of Piano technique, Franz Liszt saw himself in quite a different light: as an innovative composer prepared to move beyond convention into uncharted waters. He and Richard Wagner were allies in Zukunftsmusik, the 'music of the future,' a new approach that was liberated from all prescribed rules of musical form. Liszt invented the tone poem, and this work is his most famous example. Inspired by Goethe's great verse drama, A Faust Symphony premiered in 1857. The three-movement work musically depicts the essence of Faust, Gretchen, and Mephistopheles, the characters who drive Goethe's tale. Brilliantly innovative and endlessly fascinating in its transformations of thematic materials, the work has influenced many major composers, including Strauss and Debussy, and remains frequently studied, performed, and recorded. This affordable edition was reproduced from an authoritative text and features an informative Introduction by a renowned expert on Liszt . / Orchestre

Studienpartitur. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Premièred at the Vienna Hoftheater on 1 May 1786, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart?s and Lorenzo Da Ponte?s Le nozze di Figaro may be safely regarded as one of the greatest operatic successes of all times. Yet its success was not entirely due to Mozart?s music: on the contrary, because of the extraordinary demands it placed on the orchestra (especially the woodwinds), the music even posed an obstacle to the work?s spread outside the German-speaking countries. At least equally responsible for the opera?s success was the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, who managed to transform a topical and socio-critical stage play into an opera libretto as effective as it isamusing. Many of the sources for Mozart?s first opera from the Lorenzo Da Ponte trilogy only became available to scholars again after the ?New Mozart Edition? volume was published. These include the autograph scores of acts 3 and 4, now held at the Biblioteka Jagiello ka in Kraków, significant portions of the original sets of parts and acts 2 to 4 of the conductor?s copy from the first performance of 1786. These original sources, now available again, offer compelling solutions to several previously unresolved questions. Edition based on the Urtext of the ?New Mozart Edition? reflecting the latest musicological research With findings from original sources now available again Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng) Full score (BA4565-01), Vocal score (BA4565-92), study score format 22. 5 x 16. 5cm and Facsimile (BVK1882) available for sale V43 Performance material (BA4565-72) available to hire/ Répertoire / Partition de Poche

Complete Song Cycle in Full Score and Vocal Score-Among Hector Berlioz's best-loved works Les Nuits D'Eté sets six poems by Théophile Gautier to music. Romantic and melancholic these poems include Villanelle - a popular street song LeSpectre De La Rose (The wraith of a rose) and Au cimetière (In the graveyard).This edition of the Orchestral score includes French English and German singing texts as well as the corresponding Piano score which can serve as a rehearsal addendum.

The Magic Flute In Full Score was created at the peak of the Enlightenment Mozart's divine and enduring milestone of Opera is both a light-hearted fairy tale and an epic story of the strugglebetween good and evil.The Magic Flute met instant acclaim at its 1791 premiere and it remains among one of Mozart's most performed and admired works.