Barenreiter

SKU: BA.BVK01677

ISBN 9783761816776. 27.5 x 19.8 cm inches. Translation: John Warrack.

The volume contains 122 portraits of Hector Berlioz, including paintings, medals, busts, woodcuts, drawings, lithographs, photographs and caricatures. It also presents several doubtful or spurious portraits.
Each reproduction is accompanied by information on its date, artist and present location. This collection of all known Berlioz portraits sheds entirely new light on the life and surroundings of the great French composer.

The Portraits of Hector Berliozis the first collection of all the portraits made of Berlioz during his lifetime. It ranges from photographs, formal paintings and drawings by way of woodcuts and lithographs to the many caricatures which his striking appearance attracted. Each picture is accompanied by a full description and thorough documentation of its location and history, details of the artist's career and relationship with Berlioz, an explanation of the circumstances of the picture's creation, and much else in the way of relevant comment. This documentation also sheds light on the development of photography and its position in the society of the Second Empire , as well as on the emphasis on caricature in the often satirical journalism of the day. Where they contribute to the appreciation of the picture, the articles which the caricatures illustrate, or extracts from them, are also included in an Appendix. Some of the pictures are published for the first time and many for the first time in colour.

As well as being fascinating and often entertaining, the collection adds to our understanding of Berlioz's life, times and the circumstances in which his music was composed and performed.

SKU: BA.BA01886

ISBN 9790006415014. Friedrich Tochoff.

Two choral songs from the Silesian cycle Stimme der Heimat (1942) (Aus dem Wetterberg der Wolken / Wenn des Sommers Regenwebe).

SKU: BA.BA10971-74

ISBN 9790006542567. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: F-sharp minor.

Urtext from the G. Henle Complete Edition of the Works of Joseph Haydn.

SKU: BA.BA04674-74

ISBN 9790006498826. 32.5 x 25.5 cm inches. Key: E-flat major.

Urtext from the G. Henle Complete Edition of the Works of Joseph Haydn.

SKU: BA.BVK01571

ISBN 9783761815717. 23 x 16 cm inches.

SKU: BA.BA11242-16

ISBN 9790006563517. 15 x 21 cm inches.

SKU: BA.BA11227

ISBN 9790006561087. 30 x 23.1 cm inches. Language: German. Preface: Leinhäuser, Franz.

SKU: BA.BA11071

ISBN 9790006562015. 42 x 29.7 cm inches.

“Now II” is the second part of a triptych of chamber pieces entitled “Profiles of Light”. The first part is written for solo piano (Now I, BA 11073), the second for unaccompanied cello. The two instruments are then combined in the concluding third part, Uriel (BA 11013).

All three pieces were inspired by the Abstract Expressionist paintings of the American artist Barnett Newman. Newman's work has had a formative impact on Matthias Pintscher's artistic philosophy: what does it mean to reduce things to essentials while seeking maximum immediacy of expression? Several of Newman's paintings have a radiant light of uncommon intensity, yet resembling a dark illumination. The same sort of thing is found in the late works of Franz Schubert, where a comparable profundity and retrospective yearning likewise shine through the surface of even the brightest tonalities.

This is a piece about resonances, about the inward and outward givens of existence, about life itself: 'I find the cello a highly suitable instrument for depicting such existential conditions'.