An Introduction to Repertoire. This series of 5 book/audio packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert and Sullivan. Contents: BELLINI: Vaga luna, che inargenti · BONONCINI: Vado ben spesso cangiando loco · CAMPION: Fair, if you expect admiring · DONAUDY: Perche dolce, caro bene · DOWLAND: What if I never speed' DE FALLA: Asturiana · FAURE: Le secret · Seule! · LULLY: Bois epais · MACDOWELL: The Sea · MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour · MOZART: Abendempfindung · In diesen heil'gen Hallen · OBRADORS: La mi sola, Laureola · PUCCINI: Crucifixus · Vecchia zimarra, senti · PURCELL: If music be the food of love · We sing to Him · QUILTER: Come away, death · Now sleeps the crimson petal · weep you no more · RONTANI: Caldi sospiri · SCHUBERT: Der Doppelganger · Meeres Stille · SCHUMANN: Die beiden Grenadiere · Du bist wie eine Blume · RICHARD STRAUSS: Zueignung · SULLIVAN: The Policeman's Song · VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea · The Vagabond

An Introduction to Repertoire. This series of five book/online audio access packs is an introduction to art song in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Each volume has a different song list, and includes 30 selections in appropriate keys. Beyond art song, each collection includes two carefully chosen opera arias, an oratorio aria, and an operetta aria by Gilbert and Sullivan. Each book includes a unique code for access to professionally-recorded pronunciation lessons and piano accompaniments. Contents: ARNE: When daisies pied · DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love · Flow my tears · Weep you no more, sad fountains · PURCELL: If music be the food of love · Nymphs and Shepherds · QUILTER: Fair House of Joy · It was a lover and his lass · Love's Philosophy · VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent Noon · BIZET: Ouvre ton coeur · FAURE: Clair de lune · Mandoline · MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour · BRAHMS: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer · MOZART: Als Luise die Briefe ihres · Ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte · SCHUBERT: An die Nachtigall · SCHUMANN: Du Ring an meinem Finger · RICHARD STRAUSS: Zueignung · BELLINI: Dolente immagine di Fille mia · DONAUDY: O del mio amato ben · SCARLATTI: Cara e dolce · STRADELLA: Se nel ben sempre incostante · DE FALLA: El pano moruno · GRANADOS: La maja dolorosa (2) · MOZART: Voi che sapete · GLUCK: Che faro senza Euridice · SULLIVAN: When Frederic Was a Little Lad · VIVALDI: Qui sedes ad dextram Patris

Opera in three acts. ?Giulio Cesare in Egitto? is by far Handel?s most frequently performed opera owing its success not least to its subject matter, one of the best known love stories in world history. Already during Handel?s lifetime the popular work was often staged and therefore adapted by Handel for each of the performance conditions. The editor Hans Dieter Clausen has succeeded in editorially defining and practically presenting these adaptations ? essentially four versions ? on the basis of a meticulous study of the sources within the framework of the ?Halle Handel Edition?. The new edition allows for a performance of each of the four versions. The version of 1725 is particularly noteworthy because Handel newly devised the role of Sesto for the famous tenor Francesco Borosini. The libretto shows the Roman dictator Cesar in a friendly light. He instructs his enemy, the Egyptian tyrant Tolomeo, how to treat adversaries: he reconciles the widow and son of his enemy Pompeo who was murdered by Tolomeo: he is generous and just, hands on, but also diplomatic, thoughtful, aware of the limits of his power, and susceptible for art and nature. However, the actual protagonist of the opera is Cleopatra. In a masterly way Handel develops her character musically. In his extensive Foreword Hans Dieter Clausen not only decribes the genesis, historical background, reception and the edition of the opera, he also examines the musical and dramaturgical reworking of individual numbers in ?Giulio Cesare?. Handel was such an expert in adapting arias for new purposes and other characters that he did not only meet the needs at hand but often the new version surpassed the original. In this way, the reader gains, in passing, a well-founded insight into Handel?s work methods when designing and redevising his characters. The detailed Critical Commentary includes information on the comprehensive and highly complex source situation as well as on individual editorial decisions.

Ed. critica di M. Talbot - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di A. Frigé-The present volume contains all three settings by Vivaldi of the Marian antiphon Salve Regina that have come down to us. All three are for solo voice: soprano in the case of RV 617 and contralto in that of RV 616 and RV 618. The last two settings are scored for two instrumental cori and introduce woodwind instruments respectively a flute and a pair of oboes whereas the instrumentation of the first is confined to strings disposed in a single coro although a solo violin is employed in three movements. RV 617 preserved in a non-autograph source in Brno belongs to Vivaldi's first period of sacred music composition at the Pietà (1713-1717) while RV 616 and RV 618 are works of his maturity dating from the years around 1730. RV 617 is laid out in four movements RV 616 and 618 in six movements. All three works are noteworthy for the tenderness of their expression and skilful writing for both the voice and the instruments. The Introduction and Critical Commentary for these vocal scores prepared by Antonio Frigé are closely based on those of the Critical Editions by Michael Talbot published in 1998 1990 and 1994.

Une sélection de 40 arias pour chant et piano, accompagnées des synopsis des intrigues ainsi que des traductions en italien et en anglais.

Une sélection de 38 arias pour chant et piano, accompagnées des synopsis des intrigues ainsi que des traductions en italien et en anglais.

Une sélection de 40 arias pour chant et piano, accompagnées des synopsis des intrigues ainsi que des traductions en italien et en anglais.

1924 - Action musicale (oratorio) en trois actes - reduction chant-piano. Texte René Morax