Bravura

SKU: BR.EB-8625

Practically no one knows that this bravura piece comes from the opera The Tale of Czar Saltan by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. It did not take long before the Flight of the Bumblebee began showing up in many arrangements for solo instrumen. Romantic period. Score. 10 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8625. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8625).

ISBN 9790004179833. 9 x 12 inches.

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakovs Flight of the Bumblebee is one of those little orchestral interludes from operas, excerpts that have long since become immortal even while denying their origins; in this particular case, practically no one knows that this bravura piece comes from the opera The Tale of Czar Saltan. It did not take long before the Flight of the Bumblebee began showing up in many arrangements for solo instruments.

Pract ically no one knows that this bravura piece comes from the opera The Tale of Czar Saltan by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. It did not take long before the Flight of the Bumblebee began showing up in many arrangements for solo instruments.

SKU: BR.EB-8622

ISBN 9790004179703. 9 x 12 inches.

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakovs Flight of the Bumblebee is one of those little orchestral interludes from operas, excerpts that have long since become immortal even while denying their origins; in this particular case, practically no one knows that this bravura piece comes from the opera The Tale of Czar Saltan. It did not take long before the Flight of the Bumblebee began showing up in many arrangements for solo instruments.

Pract ically no one knows that this bravura piece comes from the opera The Tale of Czar Saltan by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. It did not take long before the Flight of the Bumblebee began showing up in many arrangements for solo instruments.

SKU: BT.EMBZ14711A

English-German-Hungari an.

The content of this volume consists partly of works that have survived in the composer's manuscript and are now published for the first time, and partly of the original versions of pieces that were published during Liszt's lifetime but later reworked. Of the earlier versions connected with Years of Pilgrimage, 2nd Year, Italy, the most noteworthy are the two completed versions of the Dante sonata, which are now appearing in print for the first time. Further important compositions belonging to the Italy cycle are the Petrarch sonnets. The first versions of these that we are publishing were actually published by the composer, and he also included them in his concert repertoire.Another particularly significant piece being published for the first time is the Freischütz fantasia, a characteristic, fine example of the type of opera fantasia Liszt developed at the beginning of the 1840s. Of the waltzes that feature in this volume, in addition to the first version of the concert pieces - the Grande valse di bravura and the Valse mélancolique - we have also included three complete, technically less demanding little pieces that Liszt intended primarily as mementos.

Der Band beinhaltet mehrheitlich die als Autograph erhaltengebliebenen Werke, die hier erstmalig publiziertwerden, und andererseits ursprüngliche Versionen vonWerken Liszts, die noch zu Lebenszeit des Meisters herausgegeben,aber später überarbeitet wurden.Von den früheren, dem Années de p lerinage, 2e année,Italie-Band zugehörigen Versionen verdienen vor allemdie zwei vollendeten der Dante-Sonate besondere Aufmerksamkeit,die erstmals veröffentlicht werden. Dieweiteren bedeutenden Kompositionen des Italien-Zyklussind die Petrarca-Sonette. Die erste Version dieser Werkesind,wurde schon damals von Liszt publiziert und vonihm selbst in sein Repertoire aufgenommen. UnterdenErstausgaben soll auch auf die Freischütz-Fantasie besonderesAugenmerk gelegt werden. Diese ist ein typischerund niveauvoller Vertreter der Anfang der 1840er Jahreerarbeiteten Liszt’schen Ausprägung der Opernfantasie.

SKU: PR.11441345S

UPC: 680160608829. 8.5 x 11 inches.

BACH-SHARDS was commissioned by the Brentano String Quartet as part of their Art of the Fugue companion-piece project. Ran deliberately stays within the realm of Bach-like vocabulary, altering syntax in ways that add up to something slightly different from the anticipated sum of the parts. The work builds up to a climax that makes the entry point into Bach’s Contrapunctus X seem thoroughly natural.
While composing Bach-Shards I found myself gravitating, intuitively and gradually, toward a dual goal.  First, though the tension and dissonance inherent in certain moments of Bach’s own maze-like  contrapuntal structures could quite easily and naturally lead one into a pungent contemporary terrain, I opted not to stray outside the realm of Bach-like materials and harmonic language.  Instead, it was my hope to alter their relationships and context in ways that add up to a something that’s slightly different than the anticipated sum of the parts.  A mildly deconstructed Bach, if you will.  The other important challenge I set for myself was building up the latter, toccata-like portion of Bach-Shards in a way that would make the entry point of the fugue which it precedes, Contrapunctus X, seem thoroughly natural.  It was my intent to have the first fugal entrance feel like a huge and much welcome release of the energy created by my Prelude’s penultimate stretch, with its bravura figurations elaborating on an insistent dominant pedal point.