Une collection de neuf airs d'opéra bien connus de compositeurs italiens du XIXe siècle, Donizetti, Puccini, Bellini, Ponchielli, Verdi et Leoncavallo. La série de Schott String Quartet avec les premiers livres de la série portant sur baroque, classique et rom / Quatuor A Cordes

Luc Lévesque. Par PUCCINI GIACOMO. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Mandoline, Mandole et Guitare

Par PUCCINI GIACOMO. / Date parution : 2022-07-28/ Répertoire / Double Quintette à Vents et Contrebasse

Full Score and complete set of Parts for Giacomo Puccini's Crisantemi and three Minuets. Scored for String Orchestra with foreword in English German and Italian.

Giacomo Puccini's outstanding tenor aria Nessun Dorma from his magnificent opera Turandot arranged for String Quartet by Donald Fraser. An easily accessible version for less experienced string players.

The full score for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sørensen (1988) Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Danish Radio Concert Hall 16 November 1988. Parts available: KP00249The composer writes:'Even when I was writing 'Adieu' I knew that I wished to write 'Angel’s Music'. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on 'Angel’s Music' was started in Rome where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at 'The Danish Academy'. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however it is true tosay that in the Roman churches I visited I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance and in the most expressive part of the piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet the distant extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that 'little songs' (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form I felt that not only should the 'little songs' be created played and die out in an echo but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which from the distance is getting closer and

Author and arranger Barrie Carson Turner presents a selection of 8 Famous Opera themes arranged for string quartet. The collection includes: Non più andrai (Mozart), Intermezzo (Mascagni), Toreador Song (Bizet), Oh! mio babbino caro (Puccini), Lascia ch'io pianga (Handel), Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Verdi), Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen (Mozart), and Per poco fra le tenebre (Donizetti).The collection comes with separate part inserts for each instrument. / Quatuor A Cordes

a cura di Danilo Rossi. Par . A collection of the most important solo and ensemble excerpts for viola edited by Danilo Rossi, first viola soloist of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan for over 35 years. The aim of the edition is to make a significant educational, as well as professional, contribution to orchestra work. / Date parution : 2024-01-06/ Recueil / Alto