Opera For Organ

SKU: FZ.700

ISBN 9790230607001. 24.00 x 33.00 cm inches.

This facsimile of an original by Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg is part of our Dominantes collection. Classical music scores - Sheet music - Marpurg - Fughe e capricci pel' clavicembalo o per l'organo Opera primera - Harpsichord organ. Edition : Berlin, (undated = 1777). These fugues and caprices are designed for the keyboard: organ, harpsichord, clavichord. Introduction by Philippe Lescat: I. Edition - II. Hints for performance. Collection supervised by the musicologist Jean Saint-Arroman, professor at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris and at the CEFEDEM Ile de France(Training Centre for Music Teachers). He is the author of the majority of our prefaces and has also been involved in library searches. Facsimile of a copy in the Central Library of Zurich (Suisse). Anne Fuzeau Classique propose period copies of classical music scores.

SKU: ST.H449

ISBN 9790220221286.

A well-known teacher and compiler of Stainer & Bell's Opera Gala series, John Norris has created Wedding Gala with an ear to giving church organists a mix of favourites and exciting discoveries to brighten the routine of music for the service of holy matrimony.

No album would be complete without the traditional wedding music of Mendelssohn and Wagner, and it can be found here in this collection alongside other classics of the wedding repertoire by Jeremiah Clarke, Bach and Handel. But there's also a thoroughly contemporary leavening, with arrangements of Sydney Carter's One More Step and Lord of the Dance, both firm favourites, plus Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Charpentier's Prelude, adding a note of splendour.

But the real bonus is for lovers of English music, with Elgar's Chanson de Matin and 'The Call' from the Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, seldom found in comparable collections. And there's also a rare new discovery: the ravishing Chosen Tune by Herbert Howells, transcribed from his Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 28, and available as an organ piece for the first time.

Each piece is comprehensively registered by the arranger, and the collection as a whole will be welcomed by all organists of intermediate standard as a source of new material not only for liturgical use but also for recitals.

SKU: ST.H332

ISBN 9790220212000.

CONT ENTS
O My Beloved Father (Puccini)
Softly awakes my heart (Saint-Saens)
The Anvil Chorus (Verdi)
The Doll's Song (Offenbach)
Sextet (Donizetti)
In the depths of the Holy Temple (Bizet)
Light as Air (Gounod).

SKU: ST.H331

ISBN 9790220211997.

CONT ENTS
Nessun Dorma (Puccini)
Toreador's Song (Bizet)
Largo (Handel)
Intermezzo (Mascagni)
Quartet (Verdi)
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Verdi)
Drinking Song (Verdi)
The Lament of Orpheus (Gluck).

SKU: CA.5600300

ISBN 9790007188047.

The organ is the instrument on which the young Giacomo Puccini began his career as a musician. Through the rediscovery of a considerable number of hand-written pieces, which he composed after 1870 as part of his duties as organist in the churches of Lucca, several primary sources are now available. These give an insight into the beginnings of his musical activities which have only been known about from anecdotes from his first biographers until now. Puccini's organ repertoire includes works which were typical for liturgical organ music at that time: sonatas for the main sections of the mass, versets which were substituted for Gregorian chant, marches, which were played after the mass (exceptionally even waltzes), and even a pastorale for Christmas time. This music was written with the sound of instruments made in Tuscany in mind. These have just one manual, a 8 foot Principale register and a small pedalboard always coupled to the manual. In addition there were several solo stops divided into bass and soprano.Puccini contributed with originality to the renewal of Italian organ practice, which began in his day to discard its operatic style in favor of a style more suited to the liturgy.