SKU: HF.7804
ISBN 9790203458036. 9 x 12 inches.
Rigoletto (G.Verdi), Der Troubadour (G.Verdi), La Traviata (G.Verdi), Ein Maskenball (G.Verdi), Die Macht des Schicksals (G.Verdi), Aida (G.Verdi), Othello (G.Verdi), Falstaff (G.Verdi), Eine Faust-Ouverture (R.Wagner), Rienzi (R.Wagner), Der fliegende Hollander (R.Wagner), Tannhauser (R.Wagner), Lohengrin (R.Wagner), Siegfried-Idyll (R.Wagner), Tristan und Isolde (R.Wagner), Die Meistersinger (R.Wagner), Der Venusberg (R.Wagner), Sinfonien Nr. 7-12 (D.Schostakowitsch), Violinkonzert op. 99 (D.Schostakowitsch),.
SKU: HL.49041606
ISBN 9783795794842. German.
The Richard Wagner Complete Edition presents the composer's entire output for the first time in a reliable form. The conductor Michael Balling, in the early years of the 20th century, attempted to make Wagner's work more accessible for research and performance, but the edition only reached 10 volumes - some with grave shortcomings - and was discontinued after Balling's death in 1925. A further attempt at a complete edition by Otto Strobel was abandoned at the preliminary stages.This third attempt at a complete edition will be the first scholarly, critical edition, based on an evaluation of all the accessible source materials and the latest findings of serious Wagner research. As the edition is also intended for practical performance, the musical text has been kept free of philological insertions; these are listed in the appendices of each volume in the Critical Commentary. Numerous, partly unpublished works - some relatively unknown - and variant versions are published here for the first time. The edition presents authentic texts for Wagner specialists and researchers and critically based performing materials. Contrary to widely held opinions, even the well-known works of Wagner are not necessarily available in reliable editions. The genesis, history and performances directed by Wagner himself are extensively documented so as to present as complete an image as possible of Wagner's compositional intentions.
SKU: HL.49041604
ISBN 9783795794651.
SKU: HL.49041605
ISBN 9783795794859.
SKU: HL.49041610
ISBN 9783795794590. 11.25x15.25x1.347 inches.
SKU: AP.6-217078
ISBN 9780486217079. English. [Richard Wagner] By George Bernard Shaw.
Brilliant criticism of the Ring Cycle, with a provocative interpretation of political and economic theories behind the Ring. 176 pgs.
SKU: HL.49041772
SKU: HL.49021486
ISBN 9783795739225. French.
Siegfried' ist der Zweite Tag in Wagners Tetralogie 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', die Urauffuhrung fand 1876 im Rahmen der Eroffnungsfeierlichkeiten des Festspielhauses in Bayreuth statt. Im Gegensatz zu den anderen Teilen des Gesamtwerks ist 'Siegfried' in seiner ganzen Stimmung lichter, heller gehalten. Wohl wird die Handlung des 'Ring' entscheidend weitergefuhrt und endet mit der Liebe Siegfrieds zu Brunnhilde, aber die zutiefst tragischen Begebenheiten des Zyklus ereignen sich in den drei anderen Werken.
SKU: HF.7806
ISBN 9790203458050. 9 x 12 inches.
Rienzi (R.Wagner), Der fliegende Hollander (R.Wagner), Tannhauser (R.Wagner), Lohengrin (R.Wagner), Tristan und Isolde (R.Wagner), Die Meistersinger (R.Wagner), Symphonien 1-9 (A.Bruckner,)Die verkaufte Braut (F.Smetana), Die Moldau (F.Smetana), Symphonie (A.Borodin), Boris Godunow (M.Mussorgski), Coppelia (L.Delibes), Carmen (G. Bizet),.
SKU: HL.49020155
Ferdinand Leeke.
Ferdinand Leeke (1859-1923) was the creator of a serial of paintings showing scenes from the operas of Richard Wagner.These images provide much more than a simple illustration of Wagner's music dramas. Like no other artist Leeke managed to create the exact atmosphere that Wagner had established by his compositions.The works by Leeke are exhibited in several well-established art-museums, as for example the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth.In 1899 the prominent Bavarian printer Franz Hanfstaengl made copper plates from the original pictures. In a highly complicated procedure Franz Hanfstaengl produced the printing plates to transform Leeke's images into photogravures.These photogravures printed from the original plates are assorted in an exclusive folder that is produced only in a limited edition of 970 pieces worldwide.Every handpulled picture an originalThe art of etching and handcopper prints is regarded as one of the oldest and finestprinting techniques.In case of etching the motif is etched by the artist directly into the copperplate, with heliogravure the image has been engraved by using a complicated and extremly difficult photographic and handicraft procedure.Printing is done on heavy handmade-paper. Today, as 500 years ago, the copperplate is still carefully re-inked by hand and then cleaned with wide-meshed gauze balls, for only when the ink lies deep in the impressions the print will possess the velvety tones and fragile lines so characteristic of old, valuable engravings.The print is produced by pressing the plate under the pressroller with a pressure of around 16 tons. For every single print the entire procedure has to be repeated.To a greater extent than with wooden engravings, the artistic quality of etchings and copper engravings / heliogravures is dependent on the handicraft skills and the aesthetic sensitivity of the printer.This special way of printing has been done by Hanfstaengl publishers since 1833. Through the precise application and remova! of ink, the carefully-considered choice of paper and the use of the hand press, the printing specialists create a precious original with every page.
SKU: HL.14025816
Richard Wagner's Polonaise for Piano, edited by Arthur D. Walker.
Editorial note:
This Polonaise and Trio in D major for Piano solo was probably written as an excercise when Wagner was studying under Theodor Weinlig in 1830.
Wagner described to Edward Dannreuther much later in his life the teaching methods of Weinlig (Grove I, iv, 347; Musical Times, January 1973, Page 26) The pencil corrections on the autograph, part of which is reproduced in the above-mentioned issue of The Musical Times, may be in Weinlig's hand. The Polonaise was rejected by Wagner, the Trio transformed into a Piano duet, and a new Polonaise for Piano duetwas composed.
SKU: AP.6-828867
ISBN 9780486828862. English.
The music of Richard Wagner can be daunting to beginning pianists, but this collection offers an accessible approach to the famous nineteenth-century composer's works. The arrangements focus on Wagner's melodies and style, presenting manageable excerpts from the more abstract works in simplified keys and with suggested fingerings. More than 30 pieces consist chiefly of selections from Wagner's operas. Highlights include the thrilling Ride of the Valkyries from Die Valküre, the second of the four Ring Cycle operas. Other pieces from the epic musical series include Siegfried the Hero from Siegfried and Song of the Rhine Daughters from Götterdämmerung. The collection also features pieces from Parsifal,Tannhäuser, The Flying Dutchman,Rienzi, Lohengrin, and Tristan und Isolde, as well as other works. Each selection features a brief Introduction that provides historical context and, in some cases, suggestions for performance.
SKU: CA.265100
ISBN 9790007135492.
8 opera choruses for choir and piano. In addition to the choral highlights The entry of the guests and the Pilgrims' Chorus from Tannhauser, and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, the collection Great Opera Choruses - Richard Wagner presents four choruses from two early, lesser known operas, Die Feen and Rienzi. Moreover, the repertoire of Wagner opera choruses has been expanded with two choral arrangements: Allmachtiger from Die Feen, originally for a mixed ensemble of solo voices and choir, arranged by the editor of this collection, Johannes Knecht, and the famous Rienzi's Prayer from Act 5 of the opera of the same name, transcribed for choir by Clytus Gottwald.
SKU: HL.50605479
ISBN 9781705190395. UPC: 196288126164.
Text in Italian. Can the greatness of one of the most important musicians of the western world justify the most ignominious positions taken? And above all: can he justify ignoring them? The manifestation of these positions unfortunately leaves no doubt: we can read them both in his writing Jewishness in music (1850) and in other texts collected in this book in new translations, as well as in an unpublished text for Italy. But can it be said that the librettos and even the music of Wagner's operas are also anti-Semitic? Wagner's anti-Semitism is at least a controversial topic in the specialist literature: in this book you will find both a critical and a polemical balance, in which the criteria of biographical research, general history, music, musicology, semiology, of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. How to explain it? With the fact that perhaps Wagner himself was a Jew? Many of his contemporaries believed this, as the large collection of caricatures brought together in this work testifies. At the end of a rigorous investigation, it is necessary to ask some disturbing questions: should the execution or representation of Wagner's works perhaps beprohibited? Should Bayreuth be closed down?
SKU: HL.49007911
ISBN 9783795702847. German.
Vorwort - Einleitung und Problemstellung: - a) Definition: Was ist eine deutsche Oper - b) Problemstellugn und Ziel dieser Arbeit - I. Voraussetzungen: - Der Kulturnationalismus in Deutschland - Nation und Volk - Theater und Oper zur Zeit Webers - Die deutsche Oper zur Zeit Webers. Ein Uberblick - Zu Webers Kunst- und Musikanschauung - II. Der Freischutz. Eine deutsche Oper: - Der Freischutz. Ein deutsches Libretto - Die Musik des Freischutz. Deutsche Musik - III. Die Rezeption des Freischutz in der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts: - Die Voraussetzungen der Urauffuhrung in Berlin - Die Rezeption der Urauffuhrung - Erstauffuhrung des Freischutz in anderen deutschen Stadten und deren Rezeption - Zeugnisse fur die Beliebtheit des Freischutz in den 1820er Jahren - IV. Euryanthe und das Problem einer deutschen Opera seria: - Das Libretto - Die Musik - V. Die Weber-Rezeption bis zur Jahrhundertwende: - Zur Entwicklung des Kulturnationalismus in der zweiten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts - Der Freischutz im Opernrepertoire des 19. Jahrhunderts - Die Freischutz-Rezeption ausserhalb des Theaters - Richard Wagners Weber-Rezeption - Das Weber-Denkmal in Dresden - Das Weber-Bild in der Musikschriftstellerei des 19. Jahrhunderts - VI. Anhang: Auffuhrungsstatistiken - Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis - Personenregister.
