Sextett

Sextett Prelude. Par STRAUSS RICHARD. Aus 'Capriccio'/ Répertoire / 2 Violons, 2 Altos et 2 Violoncelles

Work for Chamber dating from 1988.The composer writes:MINNEWATER means ‘love water’/‘love lake’ but when I began to compose the work this direct meaning of the title was not very important to me. Rather the word itself had a magical sound. Later on however it occurred to me that the piece was full of mumbling swells and swarming cascades and the sensation of water is perhaps most perceptible towards the end where lots of falling water movements are felt behind the emphasized rhythmic surface. Falls that moreover quite literally at the end sinks into the water. MINNEWATER has a subtitle: THOUSANDS OF CANONS which directly refers to a compostion techniquewhere all layers and elements in the music constantly are imitated; possibly waves imitating each other? The mudded and impalpable beginning of the work takes its starting point in one of my earlier pieces the sextett LES TUCHINS (in fact the first 5 or 6 pages of the two pieces are quite identical but in MINNEWATER it is all ‘blown up’ to a larger ensemble). Quite soon however the thread to LES TUCHINS is cut off and it goes its own way; From the mumbling in the start - through swarming trills and pointilistic staccato movements - to a long section where the trumpet appears as a soloist and in a way conducts the movements of the remaining ensemble right to the rhythmic final section of the piece. MINNEWATER was commissioned by the Danish Radio for the German Ensemble Modern

Flute (or Piccolo), Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn in F / Ensemble A Vent

Sextett für Holzbläser-L?entracte de l?Acte 3 du plus célèbre opéra de Bizet.Part 1 Fl Part 2 Fl Htb Cl. Si♭ Part 3 Cl. Si♭ Part 4 Cl. Si♭ Part 5 Cl. Si♭ Cl. Alto Part 6 Cl. Basse Basson

for String Sextett-For String Sextet (2 Violins 2 Violas 2 Cellos Bass) set of parts.Mozart?s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola K. 364 (320d) is his only complete surviving work in this genre. He wrote it in 1779 after returning from Paris and Mannheim.For two decades it was known only in a few copyists? manuscripts. The first edition did not appear until 1802. The work achieved great popularity that same year particularly the arrangements for Piano four-hands and Piano trio.This arrangement for String Sextet dating from 1808 is interesting not only for its unusual scoring but also for the way the two concertante instrumentsinteract with the other strings.This edition revives this arrangement after almost two centuries drawing primarily on the sole surviving source: the first edition in parts published by the Vienna Stamperia Chimica in 1808.The editor Christopher Hogwood recounts the history of the work and the particulars of the arrangement in a trilingual preface (Eng ./ Ger./ Cz .) and a critical report. Barenreiter's new edition takes into account both the original print and the text from the ?New Mozart Edition?.New edition of a historical transcription for String Sextet (1808)Available in print again after almost two centuriesAlso suitable for Chamber OrchestraDetailed preface and critical report (Eng./Ger./ Cz .)Includes facsimiles