Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffmann

SKU: BT.MUSPB40351

English.

No.35 From the Promenade Series of Piano Music Arranged for 1 Piano-4 Hands.

SKU: PR.11641139S

UPC: 680160682119.

Barca rolles for a Sinking City was inspired by the city of Venice, a place that has long held the fascination of artists, writers and composers, and which I have been lucky enough to visit on several occasions. Sadly it seems that future generations may not be so lucky: in addition to the city's slow sinking and recently discovered tilting, studies predict that if global warming and the resultant rise of ocean levels is unabated, the entire city (as well as many other coastal cities around the globe) will be under water by 2100.   I. Funeral Gondola The late, cryptic piano works of Franz Liszt made a profound impression on me as a young composer, among them two works he entitled La Lugubre Gondola (usually translated as The Funeral Gondola ) which were said to be a premonition of Wagner's death in Venice, his coffin transported through the canals in a black gondola. These late pieces of Liszt acquired even greater significance to me after I spent two summers in Bayreuth under the patronage of Friedelind Wagner, the granddaughter of Wagner and great-granddaughter of Liszt. This movement is a meditation on Wagner, Liszt, Venice and its own evanescence. II. Barcarolle/Quodlibet The Quodlibet (Latin for what pleases) is a musical form dating back to the 15th century where many disparate melodies are juxtaposed. Popular in the Renaissance, sacred and secular melodies were combined, often to comical effect due to the resultant incongruity of the words. The form was considered the ultimate test of a composer's mastery of counterpoint. The most famous Quodlibet is without doubt the final Variation of Bach's Goldberg Variations. As a form the Quodlibet is less common in more recent music, although examples can be found in the works of Kurt Weill and David Del Tredici.   My own Barcarolle/Quodlibet was inspired by the (perhaps apocryphal) story of the funeral where musicians were asked to play a Bach Choral, but due to miscommunication played instead the Bacarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann. Here, the Bach Choral Allen Menschen mussen sterben (All Men Must Die) is heard in the strings pizzicato, with a tempo indication In slow motion. The alto line of the Bach suggests a phrase from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Alle Menchen werden Bruder) heard in the muted trombone. Before long, the famous tune from Offenbach's opera is heard, followed by quotations from iconic Barcarolles by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Faure, as well as two Venetian popular songs and more Beethoven.   III. Barcarola/Ostinato/Carill on An ostinato is a repeated musical figure, and carillon is Italian for music box. This movement references the obsolete genre of salon pieces that imitated music boxes: such works by composers like Liadov and Gretchaninov used to be a mainstay of pianists' encore repertoire. This movement is however much darker in conception than those pleasant trifles. Utilizing the full battery of percussion, the carefully notated temporal slowing of the ostinato becomes overwhelmed by a poignant chorale melody before this box is snapped shut.   IV. Barcarolle Oubliee (Forgotten Barcarolle) Marked limpido (still) the final movement begins with the sound of rain produced by a percussion instrument called (appropriately) a rain stick. Halting phrases in the harp coalesce into the accompaniment for a plangent melody heard in the clarinet. The central Adagio of this movement leads to a shattering climax, before the opening phrases return and dissipate into nothingness.

SKU: PR.11641139L

UPC: 680160682126.

Barca rolles for a Sinking City was inspired by the city of Venice, a place that has long held the fascination of artists, writers and composers, and which I have been lucky enough to visit on several occasions. Sadly it seems that future generations may not be so lucky: in addition to the city's slow sinking and recently discovered tilting, studies predict that if global warming and the resultant rise of ocean levels is unabated, the entire city (as well as many other coastal cities around the globe) will be under water by 2100.   I. Funeral Gondola The late, cryptic piano works of Franz Liszt made a profound impression on me as a young composer, among them two works he entitled La Lugubre Gondola (usually translated as The Funeral Gondola ) which were said to be a premonition of Wagner's death in Venice, his coffin transported through the canals in a black gondola. These late pieces of Liszt acquired even greater significance to me after I spent two summers in Bayreuth under the patronage of Friedelind Wagner, the granddaughter of Wagner and great-granddaughter of Liszt. This movement is a meditation on Wagner, Liszt, Venice and its own evanescence. II. Barcarolle/Quodlibet The Quodlibet (Latin for what pleases) is a musical form dating back to the 15th century where many disparate melodies are juxtaposed. Popular in the Renaissance, sacred and secular melodies were combined, often to comical effect due to the resultant incongruity of the words. The form was considered the ultimate test of a composer's mastery of counterpoint. The most famous Quodlibet is without doubt the final Variation of Bach's Goldberg Variations. As a form the Quodlibet is less common in more recent music, although examples can be found in the works of Kurt Weill and David Del Tredici.   My own Barcarolle/Quodlibet was inspired by the (perhaps apocryphal) story of the funeral where musicians were asked to play a Bach Choral, but due to miscommunication played instead the Bacarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann. Here, the Bach Choral Allen Menschen mussen sterben (All Men Must Die) is heard in the strings pizzicato, with a tempo indication In slow motion. The alto line of the Bach suggests a phrase from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Alle Menchen werden Bruder) heard in the muted trombone. Before long, the famous tune from Offenbach's opera is heard, followed by quotations from iconic Barcarolles by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Faure, as well as two Venetian popular songs and more Beethoven.   III. Barcarola/Ostinato/Carill on An ostinato is a repeated musical figure, and carillon is Italian for music box. This movement references the obsolete genre of salon pieces that imitated music boxes: such works by composers like Liadov and Gretchaninov used to be a mainstay of pianists' encore repertoire. This movement is however much darker in conception than those pleasant trifles. Utilizing the full battery of percussion, the carefully notated temporal slowing of the ostinato becomes overwhelmed by a poignant chorale melody before this box is snapped shut.   IV. Barcarolle Oubliee (Forgotten Barcarolle) Marked limpido (still) the final movement begins with the sound of rain produced by a percussion instrument called (appropriately) a rain stick. Halting phrases in the harp coalesce into the accompaniment for a plangent melody heard in the clarinet. The central Adagio of this movement leads to a shattering climax, before the opening phrases return and dissipate into nothingness.

SKU: HL.49033175

ISBN 9783795756307. 7.5x10.75x0.129 inches. German - English - French.

Here is the long-awaited volume of popular classical melodies in Magolt's successful series. Now recorder players can also enjoy playing through the best known catchy tunes in classical music for themselves with an orchestral accompaniment on CD.

SKU: SU.00220551

This CD Sheet Music™ collection makes available over 200 works for flute with piano accompaniment by over 80 composers from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. Works include: Adam (Hongroise), Anderson (Three Cadenzas for Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2), CPE Bach (5 Sonatas), JCF Bach (Sonata Nos. 1&2), JS Bach (Sonatas, BWV 1030-1035), Barrère (Nocturne), Beethoven (6 Themes with Variations), Bizet (Minuet from L'Arlésienne), Blavet (Les Tendres Badinages), Booth (In the Woods at Evensong), Boulenger (D'un matin de Printemp, Briccialdi (Il Carnevale di Venezia, Bergmüller (Chanson), Busoni (Album Leaf), Caix d'Hervelois (La Bagatelle,Musette), Catherine (Arabesque), Daquin (Rigaudon), Debussy (Le Petit Berger, Rêverie, Arabesque No. 2), Donjon (Adagio Nobile, Invocation, Offertoire), Doppler (Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise), Duvernoy (Intermezzo), Enesco (Cantabile & Presto), Fauré Berceuse, Sicilienne), Foote (3 Pieces for Flute & Piano), Gabriel-Marie (La Cinquantaine), Ganne (Andante & Scherzo), Gluck (Aria from Orphée, Ballet from Armide), Godard (The Idylle), Gossec (Timbourin), Graupner (Sonata Nos. 1&2), Grétry (Air lent), Griffes (Poem), Hahn (Variations on a Theme by Mozart), Handel (Sonata Nos. 1-7, Sonata Nos. 1-3 for Flute & Continuo), Hotteterre (Échos), Hullmandel (Menuet Champêtre), Kirchhoff (Rigaudon), Köhler (Valse Allemande), Krieger (Bourrée), Kuhlau (Divertimento Nos. 1-6, Grand Solo Nos. 1-3), Kuhnau (Gavotte and Bourrée), Latour (Theme in G major), Locatelli (3 Sonatas), Loeillet (Adagio, Gavotte), Lully (20 Pieces for Flute & Keyboard), Maganini (Sérénade), Marais (Les Folies d'Espagne), Marcello (Cantabile, Largo, Massenet (Meditation from Thaïs), Matheson (Sonata Nos. 1-12), Mendelssohn (Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream), Molique (Andante), Moszkowski (Spanish Dances), Mouquet (La Flute de Pan), Mozart (Concerto Nos. 1&2, Sonata Nos. 1-6), Müthel Sonata in D), Offenbach (Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann), Pergolesi (Aria), Pessard )Andalouse), Popp (Birdsong), Quantz (Sonata Nos. 1-6, Concerto in G), Rameau (La Livri), Reger (Burleske, Menuet and Gigue, Romance), Reinecke (Concerto for Flute in D, Sonata in E), Rheinberger (Rhapsodie), Rietz (Sonata), Rimsky-Korsakov (Flight of the Bumblebee), Sacchini (Andantino galante from Dardanus), Saint-Saëns (Romance, Odelette), A. Scarlatti (Minuet), Schers (Sarabande), Schubert (Introduction & Variations on a Theme), Schumann (Humming Song), Tafanel (Andante, Pastoral and Scherzettino, Telemann (Dolce, The Trusty Music Maker, Tosti (Good Bye), Verdi (La Traviata), Vivaldi (Sonata in C), Weber (Adagio), and more. Also includes composer biographies and relevant articles from the 1911 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2000+ pages

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