Georg Friedrich Händel: Alexander's Feast K.591: Vocal: Vocal Score

Cantata in two parts-In 1736 Handel composed ?Alexander?s Feast? or ?The Power of Musick? a two-part cantata based on John Dryden?s poem of the same name.In 1790 at the suggestion of Baron Gottfried van Swieten Mozart arranged this work using a German translation of the poem made by Karl Wilhelm Ramler in 1770. As in other arrangements of Handelian works Mozart?s re-instrumentation leads to a change in the sound character of the work placing the composition in the tradition of the Viennese Classic.Urtext of the New Mozart EditionFull score (BA4527-01) vocal score (BA4527-90) available for salePerformance material available for hire (BA4527-72)

Ode for St. Cecilia's Day-Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick HWV 75Ode for St. Cecilia's DayIn 1736 Handel composed ?Alexander?s Feast? or ?The Power of Musick? a two-part cantata based on John Dryden?s poem of the same name.Now in a revised edition. For the new edition of Handel?s ?Alexander?s Feast? the dynamic markings have been thoroughly revised. The three movements which Handel had added are published for the first time in the Vocal score. The readability of the edition has been much improved and the writing of the Piano part has become more idiomatic.- Clear straightforward Piano reduction in the Vocal score- Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition- Full score (BA4001) & Vocal score (BA400192) available for sale- Performance material available for hire

Arrangeur: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Haendel composa en 1736 un poème de John Dryden 'Le Festin d'Alexandre ou la puissance de Musick' sous la forme d'une cantate en deux parties. À la suggestion du baron Gottfried van Swieten, Mozart 1790 édité cette ode en l'honneur de sainte Cécile. Ce traitement était la traduction allemande du poème par Karl Wilhelm PeterRamler base de l'année 1770. Comme dans d'autres travaux d'usinage de Haendel Mozart Uminstrumentierung provoque un changement dans le caractère du son qui représente la composition dans la tradition du classicisme viennois. Handel: Nouvelles notes claires et police (BA 400192, disponible en anglais seulement) Mozart: Piano première disponible dans le commerce (BA 452790) Maintenant, sous une forme révisée: Pour la nouvelle édition de Handel, la version dynamique d'un divulgations de base ont été révisées, ce qui a ajouté trois desAnhangs ensembles, la Handel, dans une réduction pour piano (BA 400192) sont publiées pour la première fois. La lisibilité de la production a été considérablement améliorée./ Répertoire / Piano

from Alexander's Feast-The concluding chorus from Handel's ode Alexander's Feast this jubilant anthem will enhance many concert programs and will offer excellent teaching opportunities for developing baroque style. Duration: ca. 2:45.

Oratorio in three parts-Israel in Egypt HWV 54Oratorio in three partsThe versions of the 1739 and 1756?7 performances The distinguishing feature of our new edition is that it reproduces Israel in Egypt in its complete three-part form: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph Exodus and Moses? Song. It was in this form that the work was given at its London premiere on 4 April 1739. Handel made extensive changes for the second performance. The reason is often said to have been the audience?s dissatisfaction with the work?s unusual design. However he may possibly only have wanted to satisfy the whims of asoprano who felt under-represented with solo material. Israel in Egypt is made up of a series of contrasting and artfully constructed choruses separated only by a few numbers for solo voice. Part 1 is entirely given to the chorus Part 2 largely so and Part 3 while containing most of the solo numbers still gives ample room to the chorus. Handel shortened several choral numbers and may have taken the opportunity to alter the opening of Exodus. He also added five arias and a recitative for the soprano Elisabeth Duparc. These arias had already been written for insertion in other works of the 1730s and two of them had been sung a short while previously in An Oratorio (1738). There is no libretto containing the changes introduced at the second performance. All the insert arias are reproduced in Appendix 1 of Volume I/14 of the complete edition. The next performance of the piece did not occur until 1756. Handel now compiled an entirely new Part 1 containing a balanced proportion of choral and solo numbers by selecting items from Solomon the Occasional Oratorio and the Peace Anthem. The two other parts retained their original form apart from a few cuts in the choruses and the addition in Part 3 of the aria ?Hope hope a pure and lasting treasure? from the second version of Esther (for both 1756 and 1757) and the aria ?Toss?d from thought to thought? from Alexander Balus (for 1757). Our new edition makes it possible for the first time to perform Israel in Egypt in three different versions: that of the premiere

Familiar favorites such as the overtures to Messiah Acis and Galatea Alexander’s Feast Julius Caesar and the so-called Water Musick plus fresh discoveries for keyboard players—all demonstrating Handel’s exciting theatrical sense his technical virtuosity in composition and his dazzling mastery of musical forms. Reprinted from an extremely rare edition originally printed probably in the 1750’s by Handel’s London publisher John Walsh. The edition preserves the original keyboard notation amazingly precise in its elegant execution.

Tolomeo was Handel?s last opera for the Royal Academy of Music in London. Composed between March and 19 April 1728 it was premiered on 30 April. Handel revived the opera several times further: in 1730 in an extensive revision with seven performances and in 1733 with four performances.The historical background is the dispute between Cleopatra III and her younger son Ptolemaio X Alexander I ( Tolomeo ). In 110 BC Cleopatra drove Tolomeo out of Egypt. She died irreconciled to him in 101 BC.The new vocal score is based on the ?Halle Handel Edition?. The main part contains the version from the premiere. The extensiveappendix also enables later versions to be performed.Based on the Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition.Thoroughly revised practical performing vocal score.Italian text with German singing translation.Detailed foreword in two languages (German/English).Also available: full score and performance material to hire.

Nineteen concerti in all. Includes Op. 3 and Op. 6 plus the 'C Major (Alexander's Feast)'. Deutsche Hondelgesellschaft edition.