SKU: BR.EB-9249
ISBN 9790004185490. 9 x 12 inches.
Alma Mahler (1879-1964) ist ohne Zweifel eine der schillerndsten Personlichkeiten ihrer Zeit, die bis heute nichts an ihrer Faszination verloren hat. ,,Sie gehort zu den ganz wenigen Zauberfrauen, die es gibt, sagte der Schriftsteller Franz Werfel, ihr dritter Ehemann nach Gustav Mahler und Walter Gropius. Manner scheinen ihr Lebensinhalt gewesen zu sein: geniale Manner - mit und ohne Trauschein. Sie selbst liess gern durchblicken, wie lang ihre private Eroberungsliste war ... Alma ist und bleibt ein Unikum der Kulturgeschichte, doch aufgrund ihres Rufes als ,,Femme fatale und ihres extravaganten Wesens wird leider allzu oft ausser Acht gelassen, dass sie selbst wunderbare Kompositionen hervorgebracht hat, sehr gebildet war und die Gabe besass, nicht nur Manner zu verzaubern. In einer Zeit, wo Frauen noch keineswegs gleichberechtigt waren, lebte Alma nach dem Motto: ,,Jeder Mensch kann alles - aber er muss auch zu allem bereit sein. Bei der Komposition der Alma Phantasien habe ich mich von der bemerkenswerten Alma inspirieren lassen, mein Ohr in deren Zeit versetzt und das Gehorte in ihre eigene Tonsprache ubersetzt. Dabei habe ich in meine Kompositionen zwei kurze musikalische Zitate aus Alma Mahlers Werken eingeflochten, namlich aus Die stille Stadt und Ich wandle unter Blumen . Der Text stammt aus Alma Mahlers Tagebucheintragungen und handelt von zwei Mannern, die Alma Mahlers Leben pragten: Alexander Zemlinsky und Gustav Mahler. Die Schreibweise Almas wurde dabei beibehalten. (Manuela Kerer).
SKU: PR.UE030425
ISBN 9783702469856. UPC: 803452066965. Text: Gustav Mahler. Gustav Mahler.
SKU: CA.2380203
ISBN M-007-24441-5. German.
Nicholas Kok's newly-created vocal score of the 4th and 5th movements of Mahler's 2nd Symphony is aimed particularly at vocal soloists and choral singers who wish to practice the two vocal movements in this work; it is available on sale, as is the chorus score. To ensure a secure entry at the attacca beginning of the 4th movement, the vocal score begins earlier in the 3rd movement. The rehearsal letters in the prevalently used orchestral materials have been taken into consideration so that the vocal score and chorus score are compatible with all the available music editions. In his 2nd Symphony, premiered in 1895 after a seven-year gestation period, Gustav Mahler combined different work concepts which he had previously tried out in various independent compositions: the 1st movement with the original title Todtenfeier was conceived as a symphonic poem, the 3rd movement is based on the original song for voice and piano St Anthony of Padua's Sermon to the Fishes, the 4th movement is the orchestral song Urlicht for alto, with text, like the 3rd movement, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and the 5th is a setting and elaboration of the Klopstock Ode Die Auferstehung for soprano and alto solo with mixed chorus. Mahler created a work in the vocal-symphonic tradition founded by Beethoven and, despite its challenges in extent and scoring, it remains one of his most popular compositions.
SKU: CA.2380204
ISBN M-007-24442-2. German.
SKU: CA.2380205
ISBN M-007-24973-1. German.
SKU: BR.PB-5663
ISBN 9790004216002. 10.5 x 14 inches.
The first textcritical edition of Mahler's most extensive work is a further milestone in the project, Mahler - The Symphonies. The many sources first consulted here for an edition include, among others, the conducting scores used for early performances by Mahler, Mengelberg and other conductors, as well as the parts of the Vienna Philharmonic used by Mahler, Bruno Walter and many additional great conductors right up to the present. Furthermore, another set of parts from Mahler's personal possession was consulted. These sources, significantly expanding the source base in comparison with that of the 1974 Kritische Gesamtausgabe, guarantee a reliable, scholarly valid music text, shedding at the same time new light on Mahler's complex process of revision. In unprecedented comprehensiveness, the editorial report contains references from Mahler's letters and other authentic documents indispensable for an understanding of the work and its interpretation. The orchestral parts feature as usual optimal readability and practicality. Rounding off the edition is the introductory essay Mahler as Symphonist, together with the knowledgeable preface by Constantin Floros, doyen of Mahler research.
SKU: BR.PB-5633
ISBN 9790004215302. 10.5 x 14 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-9394
ISBN 9790004188682. 9 x 12 inches.
My lecture of the Winterreise does not demand a new expressive interpretation, but instead systematically exercises the freedom which all interpreters allow themselves intuitively, such as: instrumental dilation i. e. acceleration of the pace, transposition into other keys and elaboration of characteristic color timbres. In addition, there are further ways of reading; the music; jumping around in the text, repeating certain lines, interrupting the continuity, comparing different expressions of the same phrase ... All these new possibilities are subjected to my compositional discipline and form autonomous formal processes which are imposed on Schuberts original. The transformation of the piano tones into a multifaceted orchestra full of resonance is only one of many aspects.(Hans Zender)CDs:Hans Peter Blochwitz (Tenor), Ensemble Modern, Conductor: Hans Zender CD BMG 9026-68067-2 Christoph Pregardien (Tenor), Klangforum Wien, Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling CD Kairos 0012002KAIJulien Pregardien (Tenor), Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Kaiserslautern, Conductor: Robert Reimer2 CD's P.RHEI (2016)Bibliography:Adam-Schmidmeier, Eva-Maria von: Schubert interpretieren. Hans Zender: Schuberts Winterreise. Eine komponierte Interpretation im Unterricht, in: Musik und Unterricht Heft 96 (2009), pp. 50-56.Gruhn, Wilfried: Wider die asthetische Routine. Hans Zenders Version von Schuberts Winterreise, in: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 1/1997.Hebling, Harald: Kompositorische Schubertrezeption im 20. Jahrhundert, Magisterarbeit Universitat Wien 2003, especially pp. 148-157.Nonnenmann, Rainer: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Musikhistorie fur das Musikleben. Zur Kritik aktualisierender Interpretation am Beispiel von Hans Zenders Schuberts ,Winterreise, in: Musik und Asthetik 7, Heft 26 (April 2003), pp. 65-90.ders.: Schuberts ,Winterreise . Komponierte Interpretation von Hans Zender / Ballett von John Neumeier, in: Osterreichische Musikzeitung 60 (2005), Heft 3, p. 42f.ders.: Fremd bin ich eingezogen, fremd zieh ich wieder aus. Versuch zur Rettung der Vergangenheit Schuberts Winterreise. Eine komponierte Interpretation fur Tenor und kleines Orchester (1993) von Hans Zender, in ders.: Winterreisen. Komponierte Wege von und zu Franz Schuberts Liederzyklus aus zwei Jahrhunderten, 2 Bande (= Taschenbucher zur Musikwissenschaft, Band 150/151), Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel 2006, pp. 143-205.Petersen, Birger: Neue Musik. Analysen, Berlin: Simon Verlag fur Bibliothekswissen 2013, pp. 11-24.Revers, Peter: ... Schnee, du weisst von meinem Sehnen. Aspekte der Schubert-Rezeption in Hans Zenders Winterreise (1993), in: Dialekt ohne Erde. Franz Schubert und das 20. Jahrhundert, hrsg. von Otto Kolleritsch, Wien-Graz 1998 (Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Band 34), pp. 98-120.Schafer-Lembeck, Hans-Ulrich: Gegenstrebige Fugungen. Hans Zenders Musik und seine komponierte Interpretation von Schuberts Winterreise, in: Neue Musik vermitteln. Analysen Interpretationen - Unterricht, hrsg. von Hans Bassler, Ortwin Nimczik und Peter W. Schatt, Mainz: Schott, 2004, pp. 295-307.Stahmer, Klaus Hinrich: Bearbeitung als Interpretation - Zur Schubertrezeption Gustav Mahlers, Hans Zenders und Friedhelm Dohls, in: Franz Schubert und Gustav Mahler in der Musik der Gegenwart, Mainz 1998.Zender, Hans: warum wieder die Winterreise? Hartmut Regitz im Gesprach mit dem Komponisten, in: ballet.tanz - international.aktuell, Heft 12 (2001), p. 18.World premiere: Frankfurt am Main, September 21, 1993.
SKU: BR.EB-8951
ISBN 9790004186206. 9 x 12 inches. German.
Of all his symphonies, Mahler gave the Fourth, his favorite and problem child, his most particular attention. The Heavenly Life, a humoresque composed in 1892 for soprano and piano, which he already wanted to use in the final movement of the Third Symphony under the title What the Child Tells Me, ultimately became the nucleus and final movement of the Fourth. Even after publication in 1901, Mahler kept repeatedly refining the orchestration. His maxim not without my retouching led to a whole series of revised reprints. It is probably no coincidence that Mahler performed especially the Fourth Symphony in his last two New York concerts in February 1911, using this opportunity to review once again the score and parts. This performance material with his retouching served as the main source for the new edition. Furthermore, included for the first time were corrections and annotations in conjunction with performances of the Fourth, which Mahler entered into the scores of conductors such as Mengelberg and Wickenhauser. PB 5664 has been awarded the Presto Sheet Music Award 2020.
SKU: CA.2380305
ISBN 9790007254575. German. Text: Nietzsche, Friedrich.
Nicholas Kok's newly-arranged vocal score of the 4th and 5th movements of Mahler's 3rd Symphony is aimed especially at vocal soloists and choral singers who want to practise and perform the two vocal movements in this work. The rehearsal numbers in the current orchestral materials have been included so that the edition is compatible with the existing music editions.
SKU: CA.2380303
ISBN 9790007254551. German. Text: Nietzsche, Friedrich.
SKU: HL.49044341
ISBN 9790001199605. German.
Heinrich Poos is not the first composer inspired by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's poem 'Die Auferstehung', as even Gustav Mahler had already used these verses in the fifth movement of his Second Symphony 'Auferstehung'. Mahler was inspired to use a choral movement at the end of his symphony at the funeral of the conductor Hans von Bulow where a choir sang a chorale based on said text by Klopstock. Heinrich Poos wrote his deeply moving choral piece in remembrance of the organist Hubert Schoonbrodt.