Matériel : Octavo
SKU: CA.922000
ISBN 9790007160555. Language: Spanish. Text: Girondo, Oliverio. Text: Oliverio Girondo.
SKU: GH.WC1600041
ISBN 9790661540861. Text: Heinrich Heine.
Robert Schumann's musical setting of sixteen poems from Heine's cyklus has inspired Jennefelt to this work, which however uses totally different means of expression. Instead of the week, lyric mood is here anguish, powerlessnes and irony expressed.
SKU: BR.BES-3090
ISBN 9790004610039. 0 x 0 inches. German.
Duration : full eveningText by the composer after W. StassowTranslation: German (E. Fritzheim), Engl. (E. Joung), French (R. u. M. DHarcourt), Ital. (R. Kufferle) Place and time: Moscow and environment, 1682Characters: Prince Iwan Chowanskij, Leader of the Marksmen (bass) - Prince Andrej Khovanshky (tenor) - Prince Wassilij Golizyn (tenor) - Bojar Schaklowitij (baritone) - Dosifej, The old faithfuls Leader (bass) - Marfa, Young widow (mezzo-soprano) -Scriber (tenor) - Emma, Young Girl (soprano) - Warsonofjew, Golizyns Confidant (bass) - Kusjka, a Marksman (baritone) - 3 Marksmen (2 basses, tenor) - Streschnew, Bojar (tenor) - Susanne, old faithful (soprano) - Persian Dance (Ballet)
SKU: BR.EB-8661
ISBN 9790004179840. 9 x 12 inches. Russian / German / English.
Duration: full evening Text by the composer after W. Stassow Translation: German (E. Fritzheim), Engl. (E. Joung), French (R. u. M. DHarcourt), Ital. (R. Kufferle) Place and time: Moscow and environment, 1682 Characters: Prince Iwan Chowanskij, Leader of the Marksmen (bass) - Prince Andrej Khovanshky (tenor) - Prince Wassilij Golizyn (tenor) - Bojar Schaklowitij (baritone) - Dosifej, The old faithfuls Leader (bass) - Marfa, Young widow (mezzo-soprano) -Scriber (tenor) - Emma, Young Girl (soprano) - Warsonofjew, Golizyns Confidant (bass) - Kusjka, a Marksman (baritone) - 3 Marksmen (2 basses, tenor) - Streschnew, Bojar (tenor) - Susanne, old faithful (soprano) - Persian Dance (Ballet).
SKU: BR.EB-2066
ISBN 9790004160770. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
Text by the composer Translation: engl. (M. E. Browne) Place: Bagdad Characters: Der Kalif (baritone) - Baba Mustapha, ein Kadi (tenor) - Margiana, seine Tochter (soprano) - Bostana, eine Verwandte (alto) - Nureddin (tenor) - Abul Hassan Ali Ebn Bekar, Barbier (bass) - 1. Muezzin (bass) - 2. Muezzin (tenor) - 3. Muezzin (tenor) - Ein Sklave (tenor) - Vier Bewaffnete (2 Tenore, 2 Basse) Corneliuss opera got off to a bad start, to say the least: the scandal provoked at the first performance in Weimar in 1858 led to protests and ultimately to the resignation of Franz Liszt as court opera director. It was not until 1904 that the opera was played again in that city and proved that the scandal had not been caused by the work but by Liszts aesthetic views. The score was long considered as the ideal example of a musical comedy with a far too complicated plot. Today, however, many prominent commentators beg to differ: This is one of the sunniest scores ever written. Music in the spirit of Mozart and Mendelssohn: a highly delicate mixture of classical formal rigor and romantic irony, heightened with just a touch of exquisite sensuality that has just wafted in from the Orient. It is practically incomprehensible how Cornelius could have been regarded as a composer of the Wagner school for practically a century. With its intricate fusing of comedy, lyricism and sentimentality, it is precisely the opera that Schubert, Schumann, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mendelssohn were unable to write. (Hans Zender).
SKU: BR.BES-3089
ISBN 9790004610022. 0 x 0 inches.
Duration: full eveningText by the composer after Alexander Pushkins Dramatic Chronic of Tsars Boris and Grishka Otrepiev and Nikolai Karamsins History of the Russian EmpireTranslation: German (M. Hube), Engl. (D. Lloyd-Jones) Place and time: Moscow and environment, Court of the Novodevichy Monastery, Tshudov Monastery, Roadside Inn near the Lithuanian frontier, Tsar's Chamber in Kremlin, Castle of Sandomir, Kromy Forest, 1598-1605Characte rs: Boris Godunov (baritone) - Feodor and Xenia, his Children (mezzo-soprano, soprano) - Wet Nurse Xenias (alto) - Prince Wassily Ivanovitch Shuisky (tenor) - Andrej Schtschelkalov, Secret Scribe (baritone) - Pimen, Chronic Scribe (bass) - Grigory Otrepiev, later Dmitry (tenor) - Marina Mnischek, Wojewoden von Sandomir's Daughter (mezzo-soprano) - Rangoni, Secret Jew (bass) - Varlaam and Missail, escaped Monks (bass, tenor) -Roadside Inn Landlady (mezzo-soprano) - A Simpleton (tenor) - Nikititsh, Church Advocate (bass) - a Boyar (tenor) - Boyar Chrushtschov (tenor) - Mitjucha, Farmer (baritone) - Lowitzki and Tschernjakowski, Jesuits (basses) The Original version of 1868/69 consists of seven scenes in one prologue and three acts: 1. Courtyard of the Novodevichy monastery - 2. Square in the Kremlin. Coronation scene. - 3. Pimen's cell in the Chudov monastery - 4. Inn scene - 5. A room in the Czar's apartments in the Kremlin - 6. Outside St. Basil's Cathedral - 7. Council of Boyars. Death of Boris.When the work was rejected by St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater Mussorgsky followed the advice of friends and revised the opera. In the Final version of 1871/72 he expanded the fifth scene scrapped the sixth and added three new scenes so that the opera now consisted of nine scenes in one prologue and four acts:1.- 4. see 1868/69 - 5. A room in the Czar's apartments in the Kremlin - 6. Marina's boudoir in Sandomir - 7. Palace park in Sandomir - 8. Council of Boyars. Death of Boris - 9. In the forest of Kromy (Revolution scene)The score published under the supervision of Pavel Lamm in the Complete Edition (1928) and the piano reduction (1931) contain the parts of both versions transmitted in score as well as in the piano reduction all the changes made by Mussorgsky in his piano reduction of 1874. The performance material can thus be used for a production of either the original version or the final version according to need.
