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.14065031
SKU: HL.14065032
SKU: BT.EMBZ12401A
English-German.
The volume includes the famous Weinen, Klagen variations, based on Bach's similarly-titled cantata and motifs from the Crucifixus of his B minor Mass a paraphrase of Gounod's Hymne a Ste Cécile, appearing here for the first time in print, A la Chapelle Sixtine, based on Allegri's Miserere and Mozart's Ave verum Corpus (the part based on a chorus from the Ave verum Corpus can also be performed separately), the Rapsodie espagnole, a fantasia on themes from the incidental music to Beethoven's Die Ruinen von Athen, Liszt's transcription of the Pilgrims' Chorus from Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser, and Les adieux. Reverie sur un motif de l'opéra Roméo et Juliette. The volume isavailable linen-bound (Z.12401A, with critical notes) and also in a cheaper, hard paperbound version that is adequate for practical purposes.
