David Well composed X-mas for Three for three young pupils of his who wished to give a Christmas concert. He arranged six well-known Christmas songs for them and their first performance was a great success. This was reason for the composer to adapt the piece for orchestra by adding percussion. The title has stayed the same and the work can still be played by as few as three musicians but as the saying goes: The more the merrier ! X-mas for Three consists of the following parts : 1. Oh du fröhliche 2. Kling Glöckchen kling 3. Gloria in excelsis deo 4. Joy to the world! 5. The first Noel 6. We wish you a MerryChristmas
SKU: BA.BA04059
ISBN 9790006495771. 33.1 x 26 cm inches. Text Language: Italian. Giacomo Rossi.
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SKU: BA.BA04033
ISBN 9790006443406. 33.1 x 26 cm inches. Text Language: Italian. Giacomo Rossi.
This was Handel’s first opera for London, first performed at the theatre in the Haymarket in February 1711. It was strong in both music (including recomposed versions of some movements that Handel had previously written for his operas in Italy) and staging: a contemporary described the opera as ‘filled with Thunder and Lightening, Illuminations and Fireworks’.
SKU: BR.OB-32120-16
ISBN 9790004350485. 10 x 12.5 inches.
This cantata is a composition by Kuhnau for the first of the Christmas holidays [Christmas Day] and one of his most extensive works. It is underlaid with the free poetry of a hitherto anonymous author, not including any Bible or chorale texts. Though the dating has not yet been clarified, the structure - two recitative-aria pairings, framed by two magnificent tutti movements - indicates a genesis period within the last years of the composer's tenure as St. Thomas cantor in Leipzig. Additional indications are the triple use of the da capo form as well as the four-part vocal setting, partly differentiated in solo and tutti, taking the individual parts to the limits of their ambitus as was later customary with Johann Sebastian Bach.Particularly noteworthy are two details of the instrumentation: Firstly, there are three violin parts in the score, the first of which has to master an exceptionally virtuoso solo part. Secondly, in the third movement, Kuhnau expressly notates an obbligato organ solo part, not to be found in any of his other extant compositions. This virtuosic part also already foreshadows the later and far more famous obbligato organ parts in various Bach cantatas.
SKU: BR.EB-32120
ISBN 9790004187272. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004350478. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004215869. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004350461. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004350522. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004350508. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004350492. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004350515. 10 x 12.5 inches.